Saturday,May 21, 2016

Post Season

The spring sports post season is underway. The Lady Dutchmen softball team, playing at its best the last few weeks, finished their season at 9-11. The team’s season ended in a 1-0 loss to Pierz the playoffs Friday afternoon. Melrose was limited to one hit, but had some solid defensive plays during the game. The Lady Dutchmen played well all-around in its double-header win over ACGC on Monday posting wins of 10-4 and 18-7. Kenzie Meyer and Sandra Sprenger had good outings from the mound. Abby Hinnenkamp, Avri Bitz, Makayla Leraas and Kayla Austing provided some hard-hitting offensive support. Hard hits were also part Melrose’s double-header loss to Sauk Centre on Tuesday. Melrose had six home runs in the two games with Hinnenkamp hitting three of them. Bitz had two and Leeras added another.  The Dutchmen and Lady Dutchmen track and field teams had five people earn all-conference honors Tuesday  the West Central Conference meet. Earning all-conference honors were Cally Roering-100 hurdles, Camryn Brinkman-triple jump and Jesse Middendorf-1600. Honorable mention honors were earned by Roering-100 hurdles, Austin Kalthoff-110 hurdles and 300 hurdles, and Brent Reller 3200.The Dutchmen and Lady Dutchmen golf teams had team members earn all-conference honors after the final rounds of the West Central Conference golf season Thursday. Brooklyn Loxtercamp earned a place on the all-conference girls team. Named to the all-conference boys team were Nate Loxtercamp, Jon Brang and Jacob Dickhaus.The Dutchmen baseball team will begin post-season play this coming week. A win over Sauk Centre would clinch the WCC title for Melrose.  The team had three strong games this past week topping Morris 3-1 on Monday and 6-2 on Thursday. On Tuesday it defeated BOLD 5-1. In all three-games the team has good pitching (Tyler Braegelmann, Colton Meyer and Adam Van Beck all had complete game) and played errorless defense. The team also had various people come through offensively. In Monday’s game Tyler Moscho started rallies and finished with two hits. Tuesday Colton Meyer had two home runs and on Thursday Mitchell Waldvogel circled the bases on two errors to give Melrose a 3-0 lead.  Winning pitcher Adam Van Beck singled twice to drive in two runs.