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Red Lake County Baseball beats Sacred Heart, advances to Section 8A championship

The Red Lake County Rebels scored seven runs in the first two innings and held on to beat the Sacred Heart Eagles 8-5 to advance to the Section 8A Baseball Championship on Thursday at Bemidji State.

FIRST INNING-
Sacred Heart’s leadoff batter walked before he got picked off at first base and the next two batters struck out to retire the Eagles.
Red Lake County’s Will Gieseke singled and moved to second on an error and moved to third base on a wild pitch. Gunnar Halverson walked and Ben Gullingsrud grounded out to score a run for a 1-0 lead. After a strikeout, Kegan Schmitz singled to score a run for a 2-0 Rebel lead.

SECOND INNING-
Sacred Heart looked to answer in the second inning when Jake Satterlund walked and Nick Satterlund and David Larson were hit by pitches to load the bases. Red Lake County’s Will Gieseke struck out the next three batters to get out of the jam.
Red Lake County used the momentum in the bottom of the inning as Colin Taggart walked with one out, Dawson Erickson doubled to score a run. Gieseke and Halverson walked and Ben Gullingsrud reached on a fielder’s choice when he hit the ball back to the pitcher and the Eagle player’s throw to home went over the catchers head to the backstop allowing a run to score. Nobody covered home and that allowed another run to score and the Rebels led 5-0. Brock Seeger followed with a triple down the rightfield line to score two more runs for a 7-0 lead.

THIRD INNING –
Sacred Heart answered in the third inning when Isaac Sundby reached on an error and later scored on an error to get within a 7-1 deficit. Jake Satterlund was hit by a pitch, Nick Satterlund singled and David Larson blasted a line drive to the left field fence for a two-run double to get Sacred Heart within a 7-3 deficit.
Red Lake County answered in the bottom of the inning when Taggart reached on a fielder’s choice. After the second out of the inning, Gieseke singled to score a run for an 8-3 lead.

FOURTH INNING-
Sacred Heart was retired in 1-2-3 fashion with three groundouts.
Red Lake County was retired in 1-2-3 fashion with two strikeouts and a ground out.

FIFTH INNING-
Sacred Heart’s Arntson led off with a single before the next three batters were retired.
Red Lake County was retired in 1-2-3 fashion with a strikeout, a flyout, and a groundout.

SIXTH INNING-
Sacred Heart’s Liam Larson singled with one out before the next two batters were retired.
Red Lake County’s Halverson singled with one out before the next two batters struck out and Red Lake County took an 8-3 lead into the seventh inning.

SEVENTH INNING-
Sacred Heart’s first two batters grounded out to second base. Jake Satterlund walked and Nick Satterlund singled. A run scored on an error and another run scored on a David Larson single to bring the Eagles within an 8-5 deficit. The next batter struck out and Red Lake County won the game 8-5.

Red Lake County improves to 21-5 on the year and will play Win-E-Mac on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the Section 8A Championship at Bemidji State University. You can hear the game on KROX Radio with the RiverView Health pre-game show at 1:30 p.m.
Sacred Heart ends the season with a 16-7 record and says goodbye to eight seniors.

Click above to listen to Will Gieseke’s postgame comments
Click above to listen to RLC Coach Mike Gullingsrud’s comments
Click above to listen to SH Coach Paul Bethkie’s comments
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 OFFENSIVE LEADERS –

Red Lake County-
Gunnar Halvorson – 2 for 2, 2 walks, 2 runs
Will Gieseke – 2 for 3, 2 runs, rbi
Kegan Schmitz – 1 for 3, rbi
Dawson Erickson – 1 for 3, rbi, run
Brock Seeger – 1 for 4, 2 rbi, triple

Sacred Heart –
David Larson – 2 for 3, 3 rbi
Nick Satterlund – 2 for 3, 2 runs, hit by pitch
Liam Larson – 1 for 3
Brock Seeger – 1 for 4

PitchingIPHRERBB/HBPK
Nick Satterlund-SH1.135232
Parker Erickson-SH4.243329
Will Gieseke – RLC6.244066
Ben Gullingsrud-RLC0.121001
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