One day after blowing a 10-ruin lead in the 7th at Randall and losing 13-12 to the Cubs, the St. Wendel Saints rebounded to beat the visiting Pierz Bulldogs 9-4 on Sunday. Tyler Huls, Brandon Dickmann and Rolando Ramos had 2 hits each for the Saints while Craig Luberts had a 3-hit game for the Bulldogs. Aiden Micholski pitched into the 7th to get the Win for the Saints, striking out 7 against his former team.
The game was scoreless until the bottom of the 3rd when St. Wendel scored twice. Tanner Reid led off with a single, followed by an Aiden Micholski sacrifice bunt. Rolando Ramos then singled to center to score Reis and make it 1-0. Another sacrifice bunt, this time by Tyler Huls, moved Ramos to 3rd. Logan Harren then brought in Ramos with s single to left to make it a 2-0 game.
In the top of the 4th, the Bulldogs made it 2-1 when Cody Weiss singled and went to 2nd on an error. A sacrifice bunt by Teddy Dehler moved Weiss to 3rd and another Saints error allowed Dehler to safely reach 2nd. Weiss then stole home to make it 2-1, followed by a strikeout of Keegan Frisbie for the 1st out. Brian Kiel then popped out to shortstop and Aeden Janson grounded out back to the mound to end the inning.
In the bottom of the 4th, Connor Breth led off by taking a walk from Bulldogs starter Link Toops. Breth however was forced out at 2nd by Jake Ethen. Tanner Reis then grounded out, but Ethen advanced all the way to 3rd on the play. He then scored on a passed ball to make it 3-1, followed by an Aiden Micholski walk. After Micholski stole 2nd, Rolando Ramos reached on an error with Micholski moving to 3rd. Ramos then swiped 2nd and a Tyler Huls single drove in both Micholski and Ramos to make it 5-1 after 4 innings.
The Bulldogs closed the gap in the top of the 5th when Deegan Beck opened with a single, then advanced on a passed ball. Michael Yanta then grounded out, sending Beck to 3rd with 1 out. Craig Luberts then grounded to 3rd and reached on a fielders choice, keeping Beck at 3rd base with 1 out. Craig Luberts moved to 2nd on a passed ball followed by a strikeout of Link Toops. Cody Weiss then doubled to center to bring in both Beck and Luberts and make it 5-3.
In the bottom of the 6th, St. Wendel got a 2-out triple from Rolando Ramos, then a run-scoring infield single by Tyler Huls to make it 6-3 after 6 innings.
The Saints added another 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th when Jake Ethen singled to drive in Austin Dickmann to make it 7-3.Tanner Reis then drove in Brandon Dickmann ground out to make it 8-3.
In the top of the 8th, the Bulldogs scored on a double steal with Teddy Dehler taking home as Brian Kiel swiped 2nd to make it 8-4.
St. Wendel put the final run on the board in the bottom of the 8th on a Jacob Worlie ground out scoring Logan Harren to make it 9-4.
In the 9th, pinch-hitter William Dehler walked and Craig Luberts picked up his 3rd hit with a single, but Saints reliever Chase Lyon then got a strikeout, a pop up to 2nd and a game-ending fly out to right as the Saints improved to 6-1.
Pierz Bulldogs 4 7 2 – 4
St. Wendel 9 10 3 – 9
WP: Aiden Micholski 6.1IP 3 runs 6 hits 7k 2bb
Chase Lyon 2.2IP 1 run 1 hit 5k 3bb
LP: Link Toops 5IP 5 runs 6 hits 5k 3bb
Keegan Frisbie 3IP 4 runs 4 hits 0k 4bb 1hp
Saints:
Tyler Huls 2-4 sac, 2 sb, 3 rbi
Logan Harren 1-4 bb, 2 sb, rbi, run
Austin Dickmann 1-2 2bb, hp, sb, run
Brandon Dickmann 2-5 run
Connor Breth 0-2 2bb
– Jacob Worlie 0-1 rbi
Jake Ethen 1-5 rbi, run
Tanner Reis 1-4 rbi, run
Aiden Micholski 0-1 bb, sac, sb, run
– Chase Lyon 0-2
Rolando Ramos 2-3 3B, bb, 2 sb, rbi, 3 runs
Bulldogs:
Craig Luberts 3-4 2B, bb, run
Link Toops 0-4 sac
Cody Weiss 2-5 2B, sb, 2 rbi, run
Teddy Dehler 0-3 bb, sac, sb, run
Keegan Frisbie 0-3 bb
Brian Kiel 1-3 bb
Aeden Janson 0-4
Deegan Beck 1-4 run
Michael Yanta 0-3
– William Dehler 0-0 bb