Bulldogs Run Table, Claim SEC

For over a calendar year, they can claim they are undefeated.  In their first year in the Southeast, Dakotah Rostad’s GMLOK baseball team ran the gamut.  They didn’t lose a league game.  GMLOK (12-0, 15-2) entered the last week of the regular season ahead of Randolph (10-1, 13-1).  An 11-0 win over M-C (five innings) ensured at least a share of the SEC title.  Drew Copley (2-2, HR #4, 3 RBI, R) continued his awesome senior year.  Dylan Lunning (5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K) allowed one base runner (52 pitches).  Nolan Skifter (2-3, two 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R) and Reid Kreugel (2-4, 2 R) helped offensively.  With Randolph winning back-to-back league games, it set up an SEC championship finale between the Rockets (12-1, 15-1) and Bulldogs (13-0, 16-2).  Rostad had the luxury of rolling out ace Copley, who handed the Randolph their sole loss.  The Bulldogs then struck first.  Kruegel led off the game with a double, and later scored on a Copley sac fly.  In the third, Copley stepped to the plate, runners on second and third.  A two-run double, plus a Nick Ramaker sac fly, and it was 4-0 GM.  Copley took it from there.  He pitched a two-hitter.  The Bulldogs scored five in the sixth (3-run double by Skifter).  GMLOK grabbed its (probably first ever) conference title, 9-0.  Copley (7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 K, Win) did his usual double work (3-3, 2B, 3 RBI).  Kruegel (3-4, 3 R), Skifter (2-4, 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R) and Jacob Welch (2-3, RBI) helped.  It was GMLOK’s ninth straight win.  A 10-9 come-back win over Houston started the streak.  Since, GMLOK has surrendered just 12 runs in 52 innings.  The Bulldogs (14-0, 17-2) are 1AA West’s 3-seed and will host 6-seed Z-M (7-12).