Post 15 improves to 6-11 overall

By Chad Koenen

Publisher

Above: Scott Seim connects with a pitch during Thursday’s Legion baseball game against Otter Tail Central in Henning. Post 15 split a doubleheader with the Bulldogs on Thursday.

Frazee Post 15 improved to 6-11 after splitting a pair of doubleheaders with Pelican Rapids and Otter Tail Central last week.  

In addition to the doubleheaders, Frazee fell to New York Mills by a score of 6-0. 

Frazee wrapped up their regular season on Monday with a doubleheader against Norman County East/Ulen-Hitterdal. 

Tuesday

Post 15 split a doubleheader with Pelican Rapids on Tuesday night as Frazee won the first game by a score of 7-4, before dropping the nightcap by a score of 7-2.

In the first game of the night, Frazee made the most of 9 team hits as they jumped out to an early 5-1 lead after the bottom of the second inning. 

After Pelican Rapids scored a run on a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the first inning, Frazee was able to get the bases loaded with no outs before Mark Jaroszewski hit a 2-run single to bring Caden Frank and Zach Longfors home to score. Kale Ovsak followed with a 1-run double to bring Scott Seim across the plate and make the score 3-1. 

In the bottom of the second inning, Seim hit a 2-run single with two outs to give Post 15 a 5-1 lead. 

Pelican Rapids was able to close the gap a bit in the top of the third inning as they scored a pair of runs and mace the score 5-4 in the top half of the fifth inning on an error.

The score remained 5-4 until the bottom of the sixth inning when Frazee gave itself a bit of breathing room when Asher Blaine hit a sacrifice fly to center field and Ovsak was hit with the bases loaded to bring a pair of runs across the plate. 

Ovsak led the way offensively with 3 hits and a pair of RBIs in the win. 

Seim picked up the win on the mound as he went 5 innings and gave up just 4 earned runs. He struck out an impressive 12 hitters.

In the second game of the night, Frazee scored a pair of runs in the top of the third inning to take a 2-1 lead, but couldn’t hold on as Pelican Rapids scored 3 runs in both the bottom of the third and fourth innings to come away with a 7-2 win. 

The lone runs in the contest for Post 15 came in the top of the third inning when Frank hit a 2-run double with one out to bring Gage Post and Longfors across the plate. 

Game one AB R H     BI

Zach Longfors 2 3 0 0

Caden Frank 3 2 2 0

Scott Seim 2 0 1 2

Asher Blaine 1 0 0 0

Mark Jaroszewski 2 0 1 2

Kale Ovsak 3 0 3 2

Derek Zitzow 4 0 0 0

Logan Breckke 3 0 1 0

Gage Post 3 1 1 0

Drew Mekalson 2 0 0 0

Cael Pausch 0 1 0 0

HITTING- 2B- Kale Ovsak

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-k)- Scott Seim 5-4-4-3-5-12, Asher Blaine 2-0-0-0-1-2

Game two AB R H     BI

Zach Longfors 3 1 1 0

Caden Frank 2 0 2 2

Scott Seim 3 0 0 0

Mark Jaroszewski 3 0 0 0

Kale Ovsak 2 0 0 0

Derek Zitzow 2 0 1 0

Asher Blaine 1 0 0 0

Gage Post 2 1 1 0

Drew Mekalson 1 0 0 0

HITTING- 2B- Caden Frank

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-k)- Derek Zitzow 2-4-4-4-4-2, Drew Mekalson 2-1-3-1-1-2

Wednesday

Asher Blaine struck out 9 hitters in 4 innings, but 5 timely New York Mills hits proved to be the difference in a 6-0 loss on Wednesday night. 

NY Mills broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the third inning on an RBI single and added4 more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, as well as a single run in the bottom of the fifth inning to come away with the win. 

Caden Frank and Gage Post were the lone Post 15 players to get a hit in the game for Frazee.

AB R H     BI

Zach Longfors 2 0 0 0

Caden Frank 2 0 1 0

Scott Seim 2 0 0 0

Kale Ovsak 3 0 0 0

Derek Zitzow 3 0 0 0

Asher Blaine 2 0 0 0

Cael Pausch 1 0 0 0

Logan Breckke 2 0 0 0

Nathan Longfors 1 0 0 0

Gage Post 2 0 1 0

Drew Mekalson 2 0 0 0

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-k)- Asher Blaine 4-5-5-4-1-9, Cael Pausch 2-2-1-1-2-1

Thursday

A busy stretch of five games in three days came to an end on Thursday as Frazee split a doubleheader with Otter Tail Central on Thursday night. 

After dropped the opening game of the night by a score of 11-1, Frazee bound back with a 4-2 win. 

Most of Frazee’s damage came in the top of the third inning when Zach Longfors scored on a two out single by Caden Frank. Following back-to-back hit batters to load the bases up, Frazee scored a pair of runs on a wild pitch to make the game 3-0. 

Frazee added another run in the top of the fifth inning on a Scott Seim sacrifice fly to make the game 4-0 in favor of Post 15. OTC was able to chip away at Frazee’s lead a bit in the bottom half of the fifth inning with a pair of runs, but would get no closer as Brandon Nguyen picked up the complete game with by giving up just 7 hits and a pair of runs. 

In the opening game of the night OTC was able to jump out to a commanding 8-0 lead after the third inning thanks to 12 hits and 3 Frazee errors in the game. OTC added 3 more runs in the fifth inning to end the game by the 10-run rule. 

Derek Zitzow throws a pitch during Thursday’s game against Otter Tail Central. Zitzow struck out 3 hitters in relief of Drew Mekalson. 

Game one AB R H     BI

Brandon Nguyen 2 1 1 0

Zach Longfors 2 0 1 0

Caden Frank 2 0 0 1

Scott Seim 2 0 0 0

Kale Ovsak 2 0 0 0

Derek Zitzow 2 0 0 0

Gage Post 2 0 0 0

Logan Breckke 2 0 1 0

Drew Mekalson 2 0 0 0

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-k)- Drew Mekalson 1 2/3-7-6-2-0-0, Derek Zitzow 3-5-5-5-3-3

Game two AB R H     BI

Brandon Nguyen 4 0 0 0

Zach Longfors 2 2 1 0

Caden Frank 4 1 2 1

Scott Seim 1 1 0 1

Kale Ovsak 2 0 0 0

Derek Zitzow 3 0 1 0

Gage Post 3 0 0 0

Cael Pausch 3 0 0 0

Drew Mekalson 3 0 0 0

HITTING- 2B- Zach Longfors, Derek Zitzow

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-k)- Brandon Nguyen 7-7-2-2-0-2