Town Team Enters Playoffs On Two Game Skid

Posted July 31, 2017


Town Team Enters Playoffs On Two Game Skid

The St. Peter amateur baseball club finished the regular season over the weekend with a pair of league losses, settling for the No. 2 seed entering this week’s River Valley League playoffs. The Saints lost a hard-fought home game, 3-2, against top seed Jordan on Friday, and then dropped an otherwise meaningless road game, 12-9, at Belle Plaine on Sunday. As the league’s No. 2 seed, St. Peter will host No. 7 Fairfax at 7:30 p.m. Friday and then host either the winner or loser of Henderson and Le Sueur at 6 p.m. Sunday. If the Saints win both games over the weekend, they would secure their fourth-straight state tournament appearance.

Jordan 3, St. Peter 2

Jesse Anderson pitched his best game of the season Friday night at Veterans Field, going the distance and not allowing an earned run, but a two-out error in the eighth led to three Jordan runs, which proved to be the difference.

The Saints led 1-0 in the first inning as Steven Nessler led off with a hit-by-pitch, Jayme Munsterman laid down a sac bunt, and Jovan Rodriguez followed with an RBI single. Anderson and the Saints defense stranded six Brewer runners on base through seven frames, but the costly error in the eighth was followed by a walk, single, and double for three runs.

St. Peter answered in the bottom half as Rodriguez singled, stole second and reached third on an error. He then scored on a Ryan Kapsner single, but the home team was unable to tie the score and suffered the one-run loss in front of a large crowd that earlier celebrated the number retirement of former players Mike Enz and Andy Kruger.

Anderson suffered the complete game loss after allowing zero earned runs on nine hits and three strikeouts. Rodriguez led the team at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a run, RBI, stolen base, and a walk.

Belle Plaine 12, St. Peter 9

Having already secured the No. 2 seed, the Saints had nothing to play for Sunday and took a 12-9 loss. Pitching troubles in the first two innings gave the Tigers an early 6-0 lead, which was too much of a deficit for the Saints to dig out of. St. Peter put together rallies with three runs each in the third and ninth innings, but wasn’t able to complete the comeback.  

Alex Hoehn put in four quality innings of relief on the mound, allowing three runs on five hits. Ty Kaus (2-5, 3 R, RBI), Jayme Munsterman (2-5, 2 R, 2B, RBI), Jordan Wilmes (2-4, 2 2B, 3 RBI, SAC), and CJ Siewert (2-4, R) each had two hits.

St. Peter finishes the regular season 16-11-1 overall and 10-4 in the RVL.  




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