Rapid City Post 320 swipes two wins off of Palace City Legion
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Jun. 21—MITCHELL — Three runs was the total margin of a Saturday night doubleheader, though twice the final scales tipped away from the Palace City Post 18 American Legion baseball team.
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A late rally in the first game came up just short, as Post 18 fell to Rapid City Post 320 by scores of 5-4 and 10-8 at Drake Field.
Palace City and Post 320 were originally scheduled to play a three-game weekend series, with one game on Saturday night and a doubleheader on Sunday. Due to rain in the forecast, the doubleheader was moved up to Saturday evening, and the Sunday slate was canceled.
Trailing 5-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning, PCB loaded the bases with no outs. But following a Post 320 pitching change, the rally was halted. Jaxson Hartman delivered an RBI groundout to bring the score to 5-4 while putting the tying run at third base and the winning run at second with two outs. From there, a groundout ended the Post 18 threat and the game.
PCB was held to five hits in the contest, as Kaiden Allen had one hit and two runs batted in, and Canon Moller added another hit and scored twice. Carter McCormick worked two walks.
Ian Weber was tagged with the pitching loss, finishing with three strikeouts against two walks and five runs (three earned) allowed across 5 2/3 innings.
Max Speed and Anders Lockhart each had three hits for Post 320, which totaled 11 hits as a team. Burke Eschmeyer was the winning pitcher in a six-inning start.
A six-run fifth inning for the visitors proved pivotal in the second contest, as the Stars turned a 6-4 deficit into a 10-6 lead. PCB scratched across two runs in the sixth, but couldn't get any closer as Cole Jansen polished off a winning pitching effort in relief for Post 320.
McCormick, Hartman and Weber all notched two hits for Post 18, and the latter pair was joined by Moller with two RBIs apiece. McCormick came around to score three runs.
Jacob Ebert was credited with the pitching loss in a 4 2/3-inning start, though just two of the 10 runs scored against him were earned, as PCB was undone by three errors. Quinton Wilson provided 2 1/3 scoreless innings of relief.
Four Stars had multiple hits, led by Speed with two hits, including a home run, and two RBIs to add to his total. Laken Uttecht also had two hits and two RBIs.
Palace City Post 18 (9-10) is on the road Tuesday to take on Harrisburg Gold in a doubleheader.