The Spirit Lake Baseball team suffered its fourth conference loss of the season, Wednesday night, as the Indians were beaten, 4-3, by Estherville-Lincoln Central. ELC led 2-1 heading into the bottom of the third, when Matt Burrell belted a towering two-run home run over the left field fence, to extend the Midget lead to 4-1. That’s how the score remained until the top of the seventh when Midget starting pitcher Billy Snyder walked two out of Spirit Lakes first three batters, only to be replaced on the mound by Matt Burrell. Burrell then game up a single to Paul Brown, and the bases were loaded with one out and Nick Amundson at the plate. Amundson flew out to right field, but as the base runners tagged up, the Midgets would commit two errors and Spirit Lake scored two runs. Burrell then pitched a strike out for the third out of the inning, as the Midgets improve to 8-11. They’re on the road against Central Lyon, tonight. The Indians, who are now 12-4, are home against Storm Lake, tomorrow. Spirit Lake beat the Tornadoes, 7-6, on June 10 in Storm Lake.
The Estherville-Lincoln Central Softball team beat Spirit Lake, 9-3, last night. The Indians are on the road, today, at Clay Central-Everly. The Midgets are home, today, against Emmetsburg, a game you can hear on Y100.1 tonight around 7pm.
The E-Hawks girls defeated Cherokee on the road Wednesday 12-2 in 5 innings. The E-Hawk baseball team fell to the Braves 6-0. The boys play at E-LC on Friday.
LeMars beat Spencer 8-1 last night in softball. The Tigers are at Caroll tonight. On the baseball side, the Tigers fell 3-2 to LeMars last night. They play at Western Christian Friday.
The Sioux Central Softball team beat Storm Lake St. Mary’s 4-3. The Rebels host Harris-Lake Park tonight. Harris-Lake Park baseball is at home against North Iowa tonight.
Hartley-Melvin Sanborn fell to Remsen St. Mary’s in a home double header last night. The softball team fell 9-4. Six of St. Mary’s runs came off homers. The baseball team fell 6-3. They both host Remsen Union tonight in Hartley.
Okoboji’s teams were off Wednesday night. The softball team hosts Newell-Fonda tonight. The baseball team travels to Manson-Northwest Webster.
