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Scoring all its' nine runs in the first four innings, New Ulm Junior Legion disposed of Rosemount 9-2 in the second championship game of the District 2 American Legion Baseball Tournament.

New Ulm now advances to the state tournament. In the first game Sunday, Rosemount manufactured a 6-4 win to hand Junior Legion its first loss of the playoffs and set up the deciding second game of the final series. For snapshot of each game for the whole tournament, click on Game Tracker. For District 2 Scrapbook of 2010 tournament, click on Scrapbook

Ben Wolf held Rosemount to three hits in the first four innings before giving up three in the sixth when Rosemount scored its second. Both runs came on extra-base hits. In the fourth Trevor Kolden tripled and scored on an errant throw. Mathew Wells doubled in that inning. Morris Valenzuela had a double in the sixth after a couple of singles got the second run.

New Ulm scored a pair in the first with hits by Collin Clyne and Erich Prokosch and a sacrifice fly by Tim Kehren figuring in the scoring.

After a walk, stolen base, walk and fielder's choice scored a run in the fourth, New Ulm ripped four hits and with a walk, hit batsman, two stolen bases and Rosemount error scored six runs.

Clyne and Prokosch had two hits each. Prokosch doubled in the sixth, then came on as the closer for start Ben Wolf and pitched a perfect seventh with two strike-outs.

Rosemount led all the way after taking a 2-1 first inning lead and then scoring three more in the second.
New Ulm crawled up to 5-4 at the end of the fifth.

Rosemount's two in the first scored on a couple of walks and Matt Wells' double. The three in the second were helped by an error, two walks and Morris Valenzuela' single. A wlak, single by Wells and another hit by Zachary Zaboi plated a run in the seventh.

A Collin Clyne double and Matt Bergmann's sac fly got one for New Ulm in the first. Two scored in the third with singles by Matrt Lindscheid and Clyne the big blows. New Ulm came within one in the fifth on a single by Dylan Schreckenberg, stolen base and Lindscheid's single.
First Game Line Score
Rosemount ............. 2 3 0 - 0 0 0 - 1 --- 6 8 2 R-H-E
New Ulm Jr. Legion ... 1 0 2 - 0 1 0 - 0 --- 4 8 1
Mitchell Olson and Reese Richards; Jordan Guggisberg, Patrick Bock and Connor Stark
Second Game Line Score
Rosemount .............. 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -- 2 6 4 6 LOB
New Ulm Jr. Legion .... 2 0 1 6 0 0 x -- 9 7 1 4 LOB
Chris Leske (L), Mathew Wells (4) and Reese Richards; Ben Wolf (W), Erich Prokosch (7) and Connor Stark.

Rosemount (2-1) Saturday survived the elimination bracket by beating Mankato 7-0 and advancing to the VFW 2nd District championship game(s against New Ulm Jr. Legion Sunday. Pairings bracket and tournament scrapbook (under construction) are attached

Jr. Legion goes into the finals 3-0 while either Rosemount or Mankato will have one loss and can't afford another.

Morris Valenzuela threw five innings of shut-out ball and got 13-hit support from his team. Two pitchers held Mankato to six hits, four from two batters.

Earlier Saturday afternoon, Calvin Lehn, a left-hander, scattered five hits and struck out seven in the first four innings to lead the Rosemount 40 a 4-3 over New Ulm Gold in an elimination survival game. That game settled in the first inning when Rosemount's first three players scored runs.

New Ulm Jr. Legion scored in all but one inning in moving past Mankato 8-1 in the semi-finals. (Pairings bracket and Thurs-Fri. scrapbook attached) Jr. Legion moved into the finals where it needs to win one of two games to go to the state. After three, Rosemount was leading New Ulm Gold 4-2 in the second game of the day.

Mankato will have to battle back through the elimination bracket by facing the winner of Saturday's 4 p.m. game between Rosemount and New Ulm Gold. Both have 2-1 records in the double elimination tournament.

MKTO 100 000 0 -- 1 13 3 10 LOB
NUJRL111 302 x -- 8 10 1 6 LOB

NUGLD 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 3 5 1 5 LOB
ROSEM 3 0 1 0 0 0 X - 4 8 0 3 LOB

The eight-team field was pared to four, three of them undefeated, in the District 2 VFW baseball tournament Friday.

Friday night's 7 p.m. games were some hummers, especially for New Ulm Gold which is the only district second place team still in the running. Gold Friday twice scored the winning run with a suicide squeeze play.
Friday night it came in the last of the ninth with the bases loaded with the bunt laid down by a hitter who missed the play moments earlier. Line scores and details will be found in the Game-by-Game Tracker which is directly linked.

New Ulm Junior Legion (2-0) chalked up the first 10-run shortened game with a 13-1 win over Hutchinson while Shakopee (1-1) edged Hastings (0-2) 3-2 in the first elimination game. Mankato held on to squeak by Rosemount 8-7, sending Rosemount to the elimination bracket. New Ulm Gold squeezed in the winning run last inning to eliminate Fairmont 6-5. Two more 7 p.m. contests will close out Friday's tournament action at New Ulm's two baseball parks. All games got completed before lightning started in advance of advertised threatening weather for Friday evening. Forecast showers didn't materialize during the day.

New Ulm Jr. Legion's 3-1 win over Shakopee had opened District 2 VFW tournament baseball play on a dreary day at Johnson Park in New Ulm in Thursday morning's opening contest. Although well drained, the grass was still wet from an early morning rain. Tournament bracket is attached below.

As the skies lightened up, Hutchinson jumped off to a 5-2 lead and ended up with a 6-4 win. Hastings scored twice with a seventh inning rally. And as the temps hit the low 80's and the sky was blue and sunny, Mankato also scored two runs in the seventh inning, with two out, and edged Fairmont 3-2.

Rosemount completed the day with a beautiful evening win over New Ulm Gold 7-3 as all sub-district champions triumphed in the first round of District play against runner-ups from other districts.

Rosemount had a 5-0 lead after two and 7-0 after four before New Ulm got its runs one at a time in the last three innings.

It is a work in progress but the Second District VFW Tournament is being scrapbooked with photos, write-ups and brackets. Click on the attachment to get to the scrapbook which will include Friday games in the updated Saturday version. More details on the Game Tracker above in bold face type.