Senior Legion falls to St. James

The Luverne Post 123 Senior American Legion baseball team lost a close 3-2 game to St. James Friday in the sub-state tournament.
As the hosts of the Minnesota American Legion Baseball Division II State Tournament, Luverne will still compete in this weekend’s tournament (see related story).
Jackson won the Southwest Sub-state tournament and will also compete at this weekend’s state tournament.
Post 123, with a 13-7 record entering the state tournament, will play Wadena Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at Redbird Field.
On Friday in St. James, the hosts took an early 3-0 lead after the first inning.
Luverne scored its only two runs of the game in the fifth inning.
Elliot Domagala led off the inning with a solo homerun. Later in the same inning, Kaden Anderson hit an RBI double that scored Ethan Beyer.
Luverne had an opportunity to tie or take the lead in the seventh inning but was unable to do so.
Braydon Ripka led off the inning with a walk.
Two batters later with one out, Kaden Anderson hit a triple, but Ripka was called out at the home plate for the second out of the inning.
Anderson was stranded at third base and unable to score before the third out that ended the inning.
Anderson led the offense for Post 123 with three hits and one RBI.
Will Serie, with a double in the sixth inning, also had one hit for Luverne.
Beyer pitched the complete six innings. He gave up three runs on seven hits, walked one and struck out eight St. James batters.
 
Luverne          0 0 0 0 2 0 0     2
St James        3 0 0 0 0 0 x     3
 
                          AB    R    H     BI
B Ripka              3     0     0     0
E Beyer              2     1     0     0
K Anderson       4     0     3     1
Casey Sehr        4     0     0     0
R Sneller            3     0     0     0
W Serie              2     0     1     0
C Overgaard      2     0     0     0
E Domagala       3     1     1     1
Carter Sehr        3     0     0     0