Springfield Finishes Eighth in Tournament

6/8/08

It was a new day, but the results were the same, as the Tigers faced the Omann Invitational Tournament co-host, Sartell Muskies, at their home field. Springfield continued to hit the ball hard, but it just wasn't their weekend for the balls to drop, as they were shutout, 8-0.

Jake Miesen took the hill for Springfield and was roughed up, walking four and allowing five hits in two plus innings. After walking the lead-off hitter in the top of the third, he was lifted for Jesse Berg. Berg did a nice job, scattering seven hits during the final five innings. The Muskies put together two hits and a walk to load the bases in their half of the fifth. A single drove in two runs, giving them their total of eight runs on the day.

Matt Baier smashed two singles for the total of the Tiger offense. Three batters reached on errors and Chris Moritz drew a walk, but the Tigers hit into two double plays to quickly end potential rallies.

The Springfield offense struggled during the entire tournament, only getting more than one hit in an inning twice. Once in the first game when they scored their only run and once during the second game when Brady Schwab was thrown out at the plate.

Jake Miesen was the losing pitcher, evening his record on the season at 2-2. The Tigers would like to thank the St. Stephen Steves and the Sartell Muskies for the invitation to the tournament and the great hog roast after the game on Saturday. It was good to play at a couple different ballparks against some different opponents.

Springfield returns to league play on Wednesday night. They'll look to apply the lessons of the weekend, and break their four-game losing skid, when they travel to Redwood Falls to take on the Redbirds at 8pm. Go Tigers!

Linescore

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E LOB
Sartell 3 3 0 0 2 0 0 8 12 3 9
Springfield 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3

Springfield Box

AB R H RBI BB SO
Wilhelmi, CF 3 0 0 0 0 1
Baier, 3B 3 0 2 0 0 1
Schwab, SS 3 0 0 0 0 0
R. Sturm, 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0
Tews, 2B 3 0 0 0 0 1
C. Sturm, RF 1 0 0 0 0 0
   C. Moritz, RF 0 0 0 0 1 0
   Brandl, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0
A. Moritz, C 2 0 0 0 0 0
Miesen, P - - - - - -
   Berg, P 2 0 0 0 0 2
Krebs, LF 2 0 0 0 0 1
23 0 2 0 1 6
IP H R ER BB SO
Miesen (L, 2-2) 2    5 6 6 4 1
Berg 5    7 2 2 2 3

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