Gophers, Bulldogs Go Back-and-Forth

The final score was a 3-run Gopher win over GMLOK baseball.  But the Chatfield trailed big at one point in a game that featured multiple lead changes and ties.  Dakotah Rostad’s Bulldogs posted the first big inning, a four-run fourth (Drew Copley two-run double).  In the fourth, Chatfield put up four runs via an error and four straight singles.  GMLOK looked primed to immediately answer, loading the bases in the fifth with no outs.  But Gopher relief pitcher Max Aug then struck out three straight.  Aug then had an RBI in a 2-run Gopher fifth that made it 6-4 team Brian Baum.   Copley authored a second 2-RBI hit a ½ inning later to tie the game at 6-6.  In Chatfield’s sixth, Lincoln Salisbury singled with the bases loaded to put Chatfield ahead again, 7-6.  The Gophers added two more in the inning and prevailed 9-6.  Aug (3-4, 4 RBI, R, 3 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 6 K, 2 BB, Win), Salisbury (2-3, GW-RBI, R), and Paul Griffen (1-3, 2B, R) led Chatfield.  Lead-off man Seth Allen scored three times without a hit. Henry Gathje drove in two runs.  One-thru-three hitters Drew Copley (3-4, 2B, 4 RBI, R), Reid Kruegel (2-3, 2B, 2 R), and Dustin Copley (1-3, RBI, 2 R) had six of seven Bulldog hits.  Chatfield improved to 0-1, 2-1.