Faribault Baseball Loses Heartbreaker at Bell Field

Faribault Baseball Loses Heartbreaker at Bell Field

Falcons Coach Shane Gunderson Assists Ayden Qualey on Safe Slide into Third Base in bottom of 7th inning at Bell Field. Photo by Gordy Kosfeld

The Faribault Falcons had a 6-1 lead late in their Big Nine Conference game with Rochester Century at Bell Field tonight, but lost 10-8.

The Panthers had just 3 hits according to the Falcons scorebook while Faribault cranked out 9 hits but it's runs that determine the winner.

Each team had 3 errors.

Faribault jumped out to a 5-0 lead after two innings.  Rochester Century got 3 runs in the 5th inning, 1 in the 6th to make it 6-4 Falcons going into the final inning.

They simple could not hammer down the win.

Senior lefty Hunter Nelson threw 4 and 1/3 innings of no hit ball with 5 strikeouts and 6 walks before giving way to Hudson Dillon and Tim Almendinger.

Nelson threw 90 pitches, 45 strikes.  Dillon tossed 57 pitches, 28 strikes, Almendinger 15 pitches, 8 strikes.

Nelson allowed 1 run.  He also had the only extra base hit for the Falcons, a double among his 2 hits.  Michael Crone smacked 3 hits, Jack Knutson belted a couple of hits for 2 RBI, Brad Sartor had a RBI.

Faribault had 3 stolen bases in the game while the Panthers had 4.

Falcons pitchers allowed a total of 10 walks and hit two batters.  Century pitchers allowed 3 walks with 6 strikeouts.

Faribault hosts Byron 11:00 a.m. Saturday.

Other reported baseball scores from Thursday,

  • NRHEG 17  Kenyon-Wanamingo 7  6 innings
  • Randolph 14  J-W-P 0   5 innings. (2 pitchers combine for 1 hitter Jacob Weckop and Mason Lorenzen, Rockets had 11 hits & only 1 strikeout at the plate)
  • Rochester Lourdes 11  Kasson-Mantorville 0
  • Tri-City United 4  Belle Plaine 3,  TCU 9  B.Plaine 7
  • Rochester Mayo 2  Albert Lea 1
  • Mankato West 6  Red Wing  0
  • Rosemount 1  Lakeville South 0
  • Shakopee 9  Lakeville North 5
  • Eagan 4  Burnsville 1
  • Prior Lake 3  Eastview 2
  • Farmington 8  Apple Valley 1
  • LaCrescent 5  Fillmore Central 1
  • Plainview-Elgin-Millville 7  Dover- Eyota 1
  • Sibley East 10 LeSueur-Henderson 0, SE 12  L-H  5
  • Chanhassen 4  New Prague 3
  • SW Christian 7  Jordan 1
  • St. Charles 5  Wabasha-Kellogg 4

Hopefully the crummy spring weather is close to ending.

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Filed Under: Big Nine Conference Baseball Scores, Burnsville Baseball, Eagan Baseball, Faribault Baseball, Farmington Baseball, Gopher Conference Baseball Scores, Jordan Baseball, Kasson-Mantorville Baseball, Kenyon-Wanamingo Baseball, Lakeville North Baseball, Lakeville South Baseball, Minnesota High School Baseball Scores, New Prague Baseball, NRHEG Baseball, Randolph Baseball, Rochester Century Baseball, Tri-City United Baseball
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