Sports Wrap: ROCORI and Sauk Rapids-Rice Advance to 8AAA Softball Semifinal

(KNSI) –

Thursday, May 25th

Softball

6AA Sectionals

(1) Pierz 1, (5) Cathedral 0: The Pioneers plated the game’s only run with a two-out rally in the bottom of the third. Alyssa Sadlovsky tripled to left-center and came home on an RBI single by Kenna Otte. Both starters, Pierz’s Frankie Seelen and Cathedral’s Ella Voit, reached double figures in strikeouts.

(3) Pequot Lakes 6, (2) Albany 5

Tuesday’s slate includes (1) Pierz v. (3) Pequot Lakes. In the elimination bracket it is (2) Albany v. (4) Kimball and (5) Cathedral v. (6) Melrose. The winners of those games play at 7:00 p.m.

8AAA Sectionals

(1) ROCORI 5, (4) Alexandria 1
(2) Sauk Rapids-Rice 3, (3) Little Falls 2

ROCORI and Sauk Rapids-Rice meet in the semifinal Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in Cold Spring. Alexandria and Little Falls play in the elimination bracket at noon. The loser of the semifinal plays the winner of the elimination bracket game at 2:00 p.m. The championship round is Thursday at St. Ben’s.

8AAAA Sectionals

(2) Brainerd 3, (6) St. Cloud Crush 0

(7) Sartell 3, (3) Rogers 1: The Sabres stay alive in the elimination bracket beating Rogers on the road.

On Tuesday, the (6) Crush play (5) Moorhead and (7) Sartell battles (4) Elk River. Both games start at 4:00 p.m. in Elk River. The teams must win or the season is over. Another elimination game is scheduled for 6:00 p.m.

Baseball

Central Lakes Conference

ROCORI 14, Willmar 4: The Spartans win it in just six innings. ROCORI got six runs in both the first and third and tacked on lone runs in the second and fifth innings.

St. Cloud Crush 16, Sauk Rapids-Rice 8

Granite Ridge Conference

Becker 7, Cathedral 3
Zimmerman 7, Milaca 4
Albany 6, Annandale 5
Pierz 12, Osakis 8

Central Minnesota Conference

Royalton 11, Staples-Motley 3
Litchfield 4, Maple Lake 2

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