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Hills Thunder register season's second victory

By John RittenhouseThe Hills Thunder evened its amateur baseball record at 2-2 with a 9-1 home win over Heron Lake Sunday.Jarud Lang pitched a two-hit complete game and Scott Harnack drove in a pair of runs to lift the hosts to victory.Lang fanned six batters and walked three during his nine-inning stint on the hill. He allowed a single run in the sixth inning.Hills sported a 7-0 lead before Heron Lake broke through against Lang.Harnack singled home a run to highlight a four-run first inning for the Thunder. Two more runs scored on errors, and another on a wild pitch.Harnack capped his two-RBI performance with a sacrifice fly in the second inning to make it a 5-0 game, and Lang singled home a counter and Wade Jellema reached base on an error and scored on a wild pitch to make it 7-0 in the third.Chad Rauk plated a run with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth to counter Heron Lake’s run in the top half of the inning.Cade Lang reached base on a fielder’s choice and scored on a passed ball in the seventh to cap the scoring.Hills hosts Pipestone and Hadley Sunday.Box score AB R H BIJ.Lang 3 1 1 1E.Harnack 1 0 0 1S.Harnack 2 1 1 2Sammons 3 1 1 0Top 3 1 1 1Funke 0 0 0 0Van Maanen 0 0 0 0Jellema 2 1 0 0C.Lang 4 2 0 0Rauk 4 0 0 1Forshey 5 0 0 0

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