The Marshall A’s closed out the 2024 regular season on Sunday, July 21, losing 11-4 to Corn Belt League champion, Bird Island, 11-4.
Bird Island held a 3-2 lead in the fourth inning before scoring seven runs with two outs to fourth to blow the game open.
Trailing 1-0 in the first, the A’s took the lead in the home half of the inning with Ryan VanMoer hitting a single and moving to third on a single by Wes Sarsland. Cody Wichmann tied the game with a sac fly before Peyton Grant smashed an RBI double to put the A’s in front 2-1.
The Bullfrogs took advantage of a walk and hit by pitch to tie the game in the second and then used a home run home run in the third to build a 3-2 advantage. Bird Island then put together the big two-out rally off A’s starting pitcher, Logan Tomasek, scoring seven runs and collecting six hits with two outs.
Marshall pushed across a run in the sixth with Braxton Koster dropping in an RBI single to score Wichmann, while in the eighth, Koster was hit by a pitch and later scored on a sac fly by AJ Toulouse.
VanMoer had two hits, while Chase Douglas, Sarsland, Grant, Koster and Talan Plante each had one hit.
Tomasek started and pitched 3 2/3 innings, allowing 10 runs on 10 hits with three strikeouts. Charlie Jacobson pitched 1 1/3 and allowed one run on two hits with two walks. Karon Rowe fired a strong three shutout innings allowing just two hits, while Owen Kesteloot worked a scoreless ninth inning.
Marshall closes the regular season with an 11-10 record overall and finished fourth in the eight-team CBL with a 7-7 mark. The A’s now turn their attention to the nine-team double elimination Region 4C Tournament starting Aug. 3-4 in Willmar. The tournament continues on Aug. 9-11 in Willmar with the top three teams advancing to the state tournament. The A’s will for sure play one game on Aug. 3 and one game on Aug. 4. The opening game opponent and game times will be announced the weekend of July 27-28. #StraightAs
BIRD ISLAND BULLFROG AB R H BI MARSHALL ATHLETICS AB R H BI
Braeden Tersteeg 6 2 3 3 Chase Douglas 5 0 1 0
Trent Athmann 6 2 3 1 Ryan VanMoer 3 1 2 0
Jordan Sagedahl 4 2 2 3 Liam Kruse 1 0 0 0
Aiden Elfering 5 1 1 1 Wesley Sarsland 2 1 1 0
Dylan Gass 5 1 1 0 Coby Brownlee 2 0 0 0
Shawn Dollerschell 2 2 1 0 Cody Wichmann 3 1 0 1
Dylan Weber 1 0 0 0 Peyton Grant 1 0 1 1
Zeke Walton 5 0 3 2 Andrew Stelter 3 0 0 0
Riley Dikken 3 0 0 0 Connor Neubeck 1 0 0 0
Nic Taylor 5 1 0 0 Braxton Koster 2 1 1 1
Logan Tomasek 2 0 0 0
Andrew Cowden 1 0 0 0
Talan Plante 2 0 1 0
Dillon Loft 1 0 0 0
AJ Toulouse 4 0 0 1
TOTALS 42 11 14 10 TOTALS 33 4 7 4
BIRD ISLAND BULLFROGS 111 710 000 -- 11
MARSHALL ATHLETICS 200 001 010 -- 4
LOB--BIRD ISLAND BULLFROGS 9, MARSHALL ATHLETICS 8.
ERR--Riley Dikken, Shawn Dollerschell (2), Andrew Stelter.
2B--Trent Athmann, Braeden Tersteeg, Aiden Elfering, Peyton
Grant. HR--Jordan Sagedahl (2), Braeden Tersteeg. HBP--Riley
Dikken, Braxton Koster. SACF--Cody Wichmann. SB--Cody
Wichmann.
BIRD ISLAND BULLFROGS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Dylan Gass (W) 7.00 7 3 2 2 6 0
Braeden Tersteeg 2.00 0 1 1 2 2 0
MARSHALL ATHLETICS
Logan Tomasek (L) 3.67 10 10 10 2 3 3
Charlie Jacobson 1.33 2 1 1 2 0 0
Karson Rowe 3.00 2 0 0 0 0 0
Owen Kesteloot 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0