MinnDak Millers Finish Fourth at Eau Claire Classic

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Received: 6/25/07 8:12:45 PM 
From:  "Brett Bresnahan" <breshz(at)minnesotafastpitch.com> 



Subject:  MinnDak Millers Finish Fourth at Eau Claire Classic
 
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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

http://www.minnesotafastpitch.com

 

 

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