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Paynesville Press - June 26, 2002

Legion baseball teams lose to start summer

By Michael Jacobson

The Paynesville American Legion team opened its summer season with an 8-7 loss at Holdingford on Monday, June 17.

Aaron Nietfeld pitched four innings for Paynesville, allowing only one earned runs, and Chad Stang had three hits for Paynesville, including a bases-clearing triple in the seventh inning.

Paynesville scored five runs in the seventh inning, but could not tie the score.

Paynesville will play next at St. Joseph on Thursday.

Paynesville-- 100 100 5 - 77 2
Holdingford-- 012 005 x - 8 8 3

Roscoe starts season winless
Roscoe's American Legion team started off their season with three losses. They lost their first game of the season to Farming on Tuesday, June 11.

Russ Leyendecker pitched the first five innings for Roscoe and fanned eight batters in five innings. Jeremy Leyendecker finished up pitching, allowing three hits while striking out six in two innings.

Russ Leyendecker hit an RBI triple for Roscoe in the third inning, and Andy Higgins had an RBI single in the fourth.

Farming scored seven runs in the last five innings to win.

Roscoe lost 17-11 to Meire Grove on Tuesday, June 18. This crazy game saw 28 runs, 24 hits, and 12 errors. Roscoe scored six runs in the sixth inning, finished by a bases-clearing double by Russ Leyendecker.

Roscoe lost to New Munich 13-5 on Thursday, June 20. Roscoe had one hit, but managed to score five runs with batters reaching on errors and Jake Kierstead driving in two runs with a single. The game was called in the sixth inning because of darkness.

Roscoe played Tuesday at Richmond. They will play at Spring Hill, on Thursday, June 27, and at home against Greenwald on Tuesday, July 2.

Roscoe-- 101 100 0 - 36 3
Farming-- 002 211 1 - 7 8 1

Roscoe - Batting: Jeremy Leyendecker 2-4; Russ Leyendecker 2-4; Pitching: (ip-h-r-er-bb-k) Russ Leyendecker (L) (5-5-5-2-4-8); Jeremy Leyendecker (2-3-2-2-1-6).

Roscoe-- 210 016 1 - 1110 8
Meire Grove-- 250 063 1 - 17 14 4

Roscoe - Batting: Jeremy Leyendecker 2-5; Drew Nathan 3-3; Cory Christenson 2-4; Pitching: (ip-h-r-er-bb-k) Jeremy Leyendecker (1-1-4-3-4-1); Russ Leyendecker (2-5-3-2-1-2); Casey Kussatz (1.1-3-5-5-3-0); Justin Schlangen (2.2-5-5-2-3-3).
Meire Grove - Batting: Ryan Klaphake 3-3 HR; Ryan Morris 3-4.

Roscoe-- 000 302 x - 51 5
New Munich-- 125 23x x - 13 7 4

Roscoe - Batting: Jake Kierstead 1-3 RBI-2; Pitching: (ip-h-r-er-bb-k) Russ Leyendecker (1.1-0-3-2-3-2); Jeremy Leyendecker (2.2-6-7-1-1-2); Casey Kussatz (1-1-3-0-2-2).



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