By John RittenhouseThe Adrian baseball team put together an impressive five-day stretch by winning three straight games since last Thursday.The Dragons topped Southwest United by four runs in Heron Lake Thursday before rolling to a 12-run win over Murray County Central in Slayton Friday. The Dragons played Windom in Adrian Monday, posting a 10-run win in six innings.Adrian, 7-3 overall, hosts Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin in an important Red Rock Conference clash today. The Dragons play in Minneota Tuesday.Adrian 13, Windom 3Adrian plated 13 unanswered runs to best the Eagles by 10 runs in a non-conference game that ended by the 10-run rule in the sixth inning.Windom drew first blood by plating three runs in the top of the second inning, but the Dragons countered with seven runs in the bottom of the second and they never looked back the rest of the way.Brandon Wolf reached base on an error and Will Lutmer walked before Tyler Wolf opened the scoring for AHS in the second with an RBI double.After Brandon Diekmann drew a walk to load the bases, Tony Sauer was hit by a pitch to force home a run, David Hoffer produced a sacrifice fly, and Levi Bullerman and Brandon Wolf slapped two-run doubles to cap the seven-run outburst.The Dragons added single runs in the fourth and sixth innings before adding four runs in the fifth to win the game handily.Bullerman delivered an RBI double in the fourth inning to make it an 8-3 game in the fourth.Brandon Wolf and Cody Kontz singled home runs, Hoffer doubled home a run and another runner scored on an error when the Dragons increased their lead to 12-3 in the fifth.Brent Tjepkes singled and scored the 13th run in the sixth on a wild pitch.Brandon Wolf tossed all six innings to get the win. He allowed one earned run, eight hits and one walk.Brandon and Tyler Wolf, Bullerman, Kontz and Hoffer registered two hits each.Adrian 14, MCC 2A big game from senior Tyler Wolf carried the Dragons to an important conference win over the Rebels in Slayton Friday.Wolf became the first AHS player to homer twice in the same game during a two-hit, five-RBI performance at the plate.The AHS leader also pitched all six innings on the hill to earn the win. Wolf limited MCC to a pair of unearned runs. He yielded eight hits, two walks and fanned three batters.The win was a big one for Adrian, who remained one game in back of conference-leading ML-B-O in the league standings. Both MCC and AHS had one league loss entering Friday’s tilt.Wolf gave AHS a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning when he homered off the scoreboard in center field, but MCC tied the game at one in the bottom of the inning.Adrian, however, moved in front to stay by scoring five runs in the top of the third.Bullerman led the frame off with a solo homer.Brandon Wolf singled and Will Lutmer walked before Tyler Wolf drilled a three-run homer over the scoreboard in center field to make it a 5-1 game.Tjepkes singled and scored on an error to cap the third-inning rally.MCC scored its final run in the bottom of the third before Adrian scored twice in the fourth inning and six runs in the sixth to win the game by the 10-run rule.Bullerman doubled and scored on Glen Kruger’s RBI single in the fourth. Brandon Wolf walked and scored the second run of the inning on a passed ball.Brandon Wolf and Lutmer walked and Kruger singled to load the bases in the sixth. Tyler Wolf drew a walk to force home the first run of the inning. Tjepkes added a two-run single and David Hoffer doubled home three runs before the inning was complete.Tyler Wolf, Bullerman, Kruger and Hoffer all slapped two hits for the winners.Adrian 6, SWU 2A fifth-inning rally lifted the Dragons to a four-run victory over Southwest United Thursday in Heron Lake.SWU battled back from a 2-0 deficit to knot the score at two after scoring twice in the bottom of the fourth inning, but the Dragons countered with a four-run fifth to settle the issue.Bullerman singled and scored the go-ahead run in the fifth after Glen Kruger delivered an RBI single.Lutmer slapped an RBI single, Tyler Wolf received an RBI for a fielder’s choice and another run scored on an error as the rally continued.The Dragons plated single runs in the third and fourth innings to open the scoring.Kontz walked and scored on a single by Brandon Wolf in the third.Alex Suedkamp walked and scored on a single by Tjepkes in the fourth.Hoffer pitched seven innings of three-hit ball to pick up the win. He allowed three walks and two unearned runs during a four-strikeout effort.Tyler Wolf slapped two hits to lead the Dragons offensively.
