MinnDak Millers Fourth at Eau Claire Classic
Fargo, North Dakota
The MinnDak Millers closed out the first month of the season by going 2-2 and finishing fourth at the Eau Classic Classic at Carson Park in Eau Claire, Wisconsin this past weekend. The Millers season record now stands at 12-2.
The Millers played the weekend without Chad Boom, Gregg Cascaes, Lucas Goring, Travis Price, John Tschida and Steve Baumgartner. The absences were felt most in the batting order for both of MinnDak's losses.
The Millers would like to send a big congratulations to Gregg, Lucas and Travis and the rest of Team USA for their silver medal finish at the ISF World Cup held in Prague, The Czech Republic over the past 10 days.
Below are summaries for each game.
Three-Game Guarantee Format
Friday
#6 MinnDak Millers 8 #25 Thomson Area Merchants (Thomson, Ill) 0, 5 innings
MinnDak and Thomson squared off for the third time this season and the Millers came away with the win for the third time.
BJ Boom led off the bottom of the first with a double that was followed by a Zach Goring single that moved Boom to third.
Tony Kunka reached on a fielder's choice and Roman Foore hit a sac fly that scored Boom and moved Zach Goring to third.
Goring would score on Ward Gosse's ground out.
MinnDak would add three more runs in the fourth. Gosse led off the inning with a single, Jason Wandler walked and Tim Tweiten singled to plate Gosse. A wild pitch advanced both Wandler and Tweiten a base.
Wandler scored on Bob Fleming's single with Tweiten scoring on a Boom sacrifice fly to center.
The fifth inning saw Foore double with one out. Ward Gosse singled to score Foore.
Two batters later, Tweiten ended the game with a two-run homer.
TAM 000 00-0 2 0
MDM 200 33-8 9 1
WP-Rick Lang (3-0)
LP-Steve Manson
HR-Tim Tweiten (1), MinnDak
Steve Manson and Casey Eden
Rick Lang and Lamar Noriega
Roman Foore, 1-2, 2B, 1 RBI, 1 R
Ward Gosse, 2-3, 2 RBI, 2 R
Tim Tweiten, 2-3, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R
Bob Fleming, 2-2, 2B, RBI
Rick Lang, 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 4 K, 1 BB
Saturday
#11 Townline (Green Bay, Wisc) 7 #6 MinnDak Millers 0, 5 innings
The Millers squared off against Townline for the third time in 2007 and came away with their first loss on the season.
While Townline's bats were alive and well, MinnDak's bats were unable to generate a hit as they left 8 runners on base over the first three innings before being sent down in order the last two frames.
MDM 000 00-0 0 1
TL 012 13-7 12 0
WP-James Darby
LP-Gerald Muizelaar (3-1)
HR-Nick Shailes, Wayne Laulu, Aaron Nemia, Gustavo Guerrinieri, Townline
Gerald Muizelaar, Ward Gosse (4) and BJ Boom
James Darby and Aaron Nemia
Gerald Muizelaar, 3 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 6 K, 3 BB
Ward Gosse, 1.1 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 K, 1 BB
#6 MinnDak Millers 9 #25 Thomson Area Merchants (Thomson, Ill) 0, 5 innings, Thomson eliminated
Facing elimination, the Millers found themselves facing Thomson once again.
The MinnDak bats came alive once again. BJ Boom led off the MinnDak first with a single.
Zach Goring bunted Boom to second and he advanced to third on a wild pitch.
Tony Kunka reached on an error that scored Boom. Roman Foore hit a homer that scored Kunka to put MinnDak up 3-0.
The next inning, MinnDak added four more runs to go up 7-0.
With one out, Bob Fleming singled. Two batters later, with two out, Zach Goring singled to move Fleming to second. Fleming and Goring moved up on a passed ball. They would each move up another base on a wild pitch, with Fleming scoring.
Kunka worked a walk before Foore hit a three-run homer.
The Millers added a pair of runs in the fourth.
Goring led off with a walk and was forced out on Nick Winecke's fielder's choice. Winecke moved to second on a passed ball.
Roman Foore walked. Ward Gosse's ground out moved Winecke and Foore up a base and both would score on Jason Wandler's single to round out the MinnDak scoring.
TAM 000 00-0 2 1
MDM 340 2x-9 8 0
WP-Ward Gosse (2-0)
LP-Rory Miller
HR-Roman Foore (3, 4), MinnDak
Rory Miller and Casey Eden
Ward Gosse and Lamar Noriega
Roman Foore, 2-2, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 2 R
Jason Wandler, 3-3, 2B, 2 RBI
Ward Gosse, 5 IP, 2 H, 8 K, 1 BB
Sunday
#12 Albaugh, Inc. (Elkhart, Iowa) 7 #6 MinnDak Millers 2, MinnDak eliminated
The Millers bats went quite once again as they were eliminated from the tournament Sunday morning.
Down 7-0 entering the bottom of the seventh, MinnDak attempted a late-game rally with Ward Gosse and Jason Wandler hitting back-to-back homers to lead of the bottom of the seventh, but the Millers would get no closer.
Alb 003 111 1-7 10 0
MDM 000 000 2-2 5 3
WP-Karl Gollan
LP-Rick Lang (3-1)
HR-Ben Fjelland, Albaugh
Karl Gollan and Justin Davis
Rick Lang, Gerald Muizelaar (4) and BJ Boom
Tony Kunka, 2-3, 2B
Ward Gosse, 1-3, HR, RBI, R
Jason Wandler, 1-3, HR, RBI, R
Rick Lang, 3 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 0 ER, 3 K, 1 BB
Gerald Muizelaar, 2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 5 K, 0 BB
The Millers would like to extend huge thank yous to Nick Winecke for playing the past two weekends and Gerald Muizelaar for helping us out for the first month of our season.
MinnDak is off this coming weekend before returning to action at the Boys of Summer and Circle Tap July 6-8.
Brett Bresnahan
breshz(at)minnesotafastpitch.com
http://www.millers.minnesotafastpitch.com
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