The ticker

Baseball playoffs

Tuesday, May 28

Section 7A

South Ridge-24

Floodwood-3 (Floodwood eliminated)

Cherry-16

Wrenshall-4 (Wrenshall eliminated)

South Ridge-9

Cherry-0

Carlton-4

Silver Bay-3 (Silver Bay eliminated)

Section 7AA

Duluth Marshall-18

Two Harbors-0 (Two Harbors eliminated)

Moose Lake/Willow River-12

Crosby-Ironton-6 (C-I eliminated)

Duluth Marshall-19

Moose Lake/Willow River -1 (ML-WR eliminated)

Eveleth-Gilbert-5

International Falls-4 (International Falls eliminated)

Greenway-2

Proctor-1 (Proctor eliminated)

Greenway-8

Eveleth-Gilbert-0

Aitkin-10

Mesabi East-3 (Mesabi East eliminated)

Virginia-10

Barnum-0 (Barnum eliminated)

Aitkin-10

Virginia-0

Esko-14

Rush City-2 (Rush City eliminated)

Hunter Sunde got the win on the mound for the Eskomos. Dustin Hoffman and Jaustin Piepho both had two hits and three RBIs for the Eskomos and Peyton Koskela tripled and had three RBIs and Josh Bolgrean scored a pair of runs.

Mora-7

Pine City -1 (Pine City eliminated)

Mora-7

Esko-5

The Eskomos struggled to solve the pitching of Mustang pitcher Caleb Koch who gave up only five hits in five innings of work. Noah Furcht had a pair of hits with an RBI, Peyton Koskela, Josh Bolgrean and Jaustin Piepho all had two hits in the loss for the Eskomos.

Section 7AAA

Hermantown-11

Cloquet-4

Grand Rapids-12

Hibbing-2

Duluth Denfeld-1

Princeton-0

Chisago Lakes-7

North Branch-6

Softball playoffs

Tuesday, May 21

Section 7A

Barnum-8

Cromwell/Wright-1

Mendota Castonguay out dueled Elisabeth Kachinske to pick up the pitching win for the Bombers. Castonguay allowed just five hits while striking out seven Cards hitters. Izabell Carlson had a pair of doubles to go along with four RBIs and two runs scored to help lead the Bombers attack. Jessica Stevens added three hits and an RBI, Anna Wikstrom had two hits and a pair of runs scored and Lacie O'Leary went 2-for-4 with two runs scored.

Carlton-11

Floodwood-0 (5 innings)

Brynne Mickle allowed two hits, struck out five and picked up the five inning pitching victory for the Bulldogs, the top seed in the section. Abby Mickle had a double and homer for her two hits to go along with three RBIs, Taylor Nelson scored three runs and Bella Anderson double for the Bulldogs.

South Ridge-10

Wrenshall-0 (5 innings)

Malania Madill gave up only one hit on the mound for the Panthers and she struck out nine Wren batters in picking up the pitching victory. Haley Chandler went 2 for 2 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored and Rylee Young finished with two runs scored an an RBI for the Panthers.

Silver Bay-13

Cook County-3 (5 innings)

Tuesday, May 21

Moose Lake/Willow River-11

Pine City-3

Lilli Skelton did not allow an earned run and she allowed just four hits in pitching the Rebels to the first round victory. Natalie Mikrot had a huge day at the plate as she picked up a double, triple and a home run to go along with two RBIs and three runs scored for the Rebels. Dallis Kukuk added two hits for ML-WR, Ashley Grutkoski had a double among her two hits to go along with two runs scored, Kaitlin Ballentine bashed out a pair of hits including a home run to go along with three RBIs and two runs scored and both Sarah Christy and Maci Kukuk had doubles for the winners.

Duluth Marshall-6

Greenway-5

Proctor-13

Mesabi East-0 (5 innings)

Virginia-14

Two Harbors-1 (5 innings)

Wednesday, May 22

Due to the rain, all local games were postponed until Thursday.