Monday, May 11, 2015

Melrose Dutchmen Baseball

The Dutchmen scored on an Anthony Welle home run in the first inning and on a wild pitch in the fifth to defeat Sauk Centre 2-1 this afternoon at Melrose.
Welle's lead off home run was the only hit Melrose had in the game.  They scored the winning pitch after three walks were issued and a wild pitch thrown in the fifth inning. Melrose has won nine straight games with this win.
Melrose Lady Dutchmen Softball
The game with Albany was rained out. It was not a complete game and will not be made up. Albany was leading 7-5 in the third inning when the game was called.

Friday, May 8, 2015

Check out stories on these game in the May 13 issue of the Melrose Beacon.
Dutchmen Baseball
The Dutchmen remained red hot scoring an 8-4 win over Foley this afternoon.
Dutchmen Golf
The Dutchmen golfers had every member score 50 or below in the 18-hole New London-Spicer Invitational.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Melrose Dutchmen Baseball
The Dutchmen baseball team scored in the bottom of the 10th inning to defeat ACGC 5-4 this afternoon at Melrose. Hunter Rademacher had the game winning hit in the 10th inning.
Melrose Track
Lydia Butkowski's first place finish in the triple jump helped Melrose to a seventh place finish in the 16-team Dave Sieben Invite.
Rodrigo Milla's second place finish in the 200 was the best on the day for the Dutchmen track team. Melrose finished 11th as a team.
Top Melrose Finishes by event
Girls
100: 11-Cassie Klaphake 14.14
200: 11-Klaphake 29.45
400: 12-Vanessa Van Beck 1:08.58
3200: 14-Ashley Herdering 14:29.37
100 Hurdles: Cally Roering 17.79
300 Hurdles: Roering 52:00
4X100: 4-59.93
4X200: 7-2:03.10
4X400: 7-4:41.84
Long Jump: 5-Lydia Butkowski 15-1.25
Triple Jump: 1-Butkowski 34-8.
Shot Put: Mashaye Tschida 23-4.75
Discus: 11-Kayla Herdering 88-5
High Jump:  12-Terese Dehmer 4-2.
Boys
100: 3-Rodrigo Milla 11.76

200: 2-Milla 24.27

400: 19-Antonio Ortiz 58.64800: 12-Brian Thielen 2:19.48
1600: 3-Jesse Middendorf 4:48.55
3200: 9-Matt Keller 11.12.76
110 Hurdles: 7-Austin Kalthoff 18.53
300 Hurdles: 15-Kalthoff 49.92
4X100: 9th
4X200: 8-1:41.25
4X400: 8-3:54.70
4X800: 7-9:11.36
Long Jump: 11-Cesar Cervantes 17-9.5
Triple Jump: 11-Paul Pundsack 33-1.5
Shot Put: 22-Jimmy Thomas 35-1.5
Discus: 33-Logan Hinnenkamp 81-8
High Jump: 9-Bailey Feldewerd and Kalthoff 5-2
Pole Vault: 19-Pundsack 7-6
Melrose Lady Dutchmen Softball

The Lady Dutchmen fell 13-3 in five innings at Atwater.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Melrose Dutchmen Baseball

The Dutchmen swept a double-header today topping Minnewaska 5-2 and 5-4.

In the first game home runs by Tyler Braegelmann and Colton Meyer broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning and provided the winning margin.

In the second game Adam Austing doubled in the bottom of the 10th inning to drive in the game winning run. Anthony Welle, who drove in two runs in the game, was the winning pitcher.

Melrose Lady Dutchmen Softball

Melrose rallies fell short in the double header loss to Minnewaska this afternoon.  In the first 6-3 loss in the first game Melrose had eight hits, but allowed five unearned runs.  Justine Revermann tripled and Sandra Sprenger doubled in the game. In the second game, a 15-9 loss, Melrose had 14 hits.  Abby Hinnenkamp finished the game going 3-3. She, Holly Hellermann and Whitney Austing doubled.  Melrose rallied for seven runs to tie the game in the fifth inning, but was outscored 8-2 in the next two innings. 

Monday, May 4, 2015

For more on these games see the May 13 issue of the Melrose Beacon.
Melrose Dutchmen Golf
The Dutchmen finished sixth at Paynesville today and second at Atwater in the second part of the WCC double header. Nick Olberding finished tied for second in the Atwater round.
Melrose Lady Dutchmen Golf
Melrose rebounded from an ninth place finish at Atwater to take eighth at Paynesville in a WCC double header. Brooklyn Loxtercamp led the Melrose team in both contests.
Melrose Lady Dutchmen Softball
Melrose had 12 hits in its 11-2 win over LPGE this afternoon at Long Prairie. Sandra Sprenger, the winning pitcher, had three hits. So too did Holly Hellermann. Sprenger and Revermann tripled in the game. Hellermann doubled.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

For more on these games see the May 6 issue of the Melrose Beacon

Dutchmen Baseball

The Dutchmen both games they played in their tournament today at Freeport. Melrose used 14 hits and benefited from five Upsala-Swanville Area errors in the 7-2 win in the first game.  All four Melrose runs in the fourth were unearned. Anthony Welle had three hits for Melrose and scored twice. Tyler Braegelmann reached on two hits and Alex Hinnenkamp doubled. Adam Van Beck, who had two hits with two RBI was the winning pitcher allowing two hits in five innings, but striking out four. Adam Austing closed the game for Melrose.

Patriot pitcher Tyler Evans struck out eight in four innings.

The Dutchmen finished the tournament defeating Littlefork-Big Falls 9-2 later int the afternoon in the third game. Melrose jumped to a 7-0 first inning lead.  Mitch Waldvogel had four hits for Melrose. The team had triples from Hunter Rademacher, Ben Heller and Bailey Van Beck.  Zak Luetmer pitched the complete game victory.
In the other game of that day USA defeated Littlefork-Big Falls.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Read more of these games in the May 5 issue of the Beacon.
Lady Dutchmen Softball

The Lady Dutchmen rallied from a 3-0 first inning defict to take a 14-4 five inning win over Wadena-Deer Creek this afternoon.  Melrose had 16 hits in the game with Sandra Sprenger belting out three hits and Justine Revermann, Holly Hellermann and Sprenger hitting doubles Sprenger had two doubles in the game. 

Melrose's defense backed up the pitching of Kenzie Meyer, who was the winning pitcher. In the third inning it turned an infield to second double play. In the fourth it turned a short to second double play and in the fifth inning it executed a perfect centerfield-shortstop-catcher relay to put out a runner at the place.