The Britton U10 Junior Jacks baseball team won two of six contests in a busy week.
The local nine took the opener with the fourth grade Aberdeen Smittys travel team 13-1 on Monday but dropped the nightcap 7-2, was swept by Sisseton on Thursday 10-7 and 8-6, and split with Webster Blue last week Tuesday, losing the opener 2-1 but winning the second game 5-3.
Britton 13-2
Aberdeen 1-7
Britton scored 13 runs in the first three innings to roll past Aberdeen in game one. Gage Beck laced three singles and Tatum Deutsch had a pair of safeties and three RBI’s to lead the way. Kandrick Jones, Gannon Peters, Oliver Suther, and Isaac O’Brien each singled. Deutsch was the winning pitcher and fanned seven batters in two innings, not allowing a hit.
In game two Aberdeen scored five runs in the third to take control. Britton out-hit the visitors 4-3 with singles by Jones, Deutsch, Suther, and Corven Schmieg. Four Britton pitchers combined for 10 strikeouts.
Sisseton 10-8
Britton 7-6
Britton jumped out to a 7-0 lead in game one but Sisseton responded with back-to-back five-run rallies for the comeback win and turned the same trick in the nightcap, rallying from a 6-3 deficit with five tallies in the third.
Deutsch, Beck, Jones, and O’Brien laced singles in game one and Deutch fanned six batters in two innings of work. In game two Jones doubled and Deutsch, Suther, and Brek Stelzer singled. Beck struck out six batters in two innings of relief.
Britton 1-5
Webster 2-3
Webster grabbed a 2-1 lead after one inning and both teams went scoreless the rest of the way as Webster picked up the opening win.
In the second contest the Britton nine jumped out to a 5-0 lead and held on for the win.
James Raabe managed the only Britton hit in the first contest and Jones and Peters each pitched two innings and combined for 10 strikeouts.
In game two Peters laced two singles and had two RBI’s, Suther tripled and knocked in a pair of runs, and Jones, Raabe, Deutsch, Richter, O’Brien, Schmieg, and Zach Vrchota singled. Four Britton pitchers combined for nine strikeouts.
