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Amateur Hour: 5/16-18 Results

Baseball

Replace the hot and humid conditions for a cool and wet weekend across central Minnesota. Still plenty of great baseball all round central Minnesota. Including two no-hitters, big strikeout performances, and home runs aplenty!

Here are a few early season storylines to keep an eye on as the season begins.

  • CLASS & REGION REALIGNMENT
    • The Minnesota Baseball Association has issued a reclassification. “Bigger” and “more competetive” teams from Class C will be moved into Class B. The MBA hopes to add more competitive regions and state with three full classes. Here is how it impacts our local teams. Find more info by clicking here.
    • CLASS B
      • District 4 (3 State bids)
      • Victory B League
        • Avon Lakers
        • Buckman Billygoats
        • Foley Lumberjacks
        • Fort Ripley Rebels
        • Nisswa Lightning
        • Sobieski Skis
        • St. Stephen Steves
    • District 5 (2 State bids)
      • HI-10 League
        • Bluffton Braves
      • Northwest Border League
        • Bemidji Blue Ox
      • Resorters League
        • Alexandria Black Sox
        • Carlos Cougars
      • The Red River Amateur Baseball League
        • Ada Athletics
        • Dilworth Raildogs
        • Fergus Falls Hurricanes
        • Sabin Mets
    • Class C
    • Region 4 (2 State bids)
      • Lake and Pine League
        • Midway Snurdbirds
        • Nimrod Gnats
        • Sebeka Stingers
      • Northwest Border League
        • Rainy Lake North Stars
        • Roseau Royals
        • Warroad Muskies
      • The Red River Amateur Baseball League
        • Detroit Lakes Ligers
        • Fosston Trash Pandas
        • Hawley Hawks
    • Region 11 (2 State bids)
      • HI-10 League
        • Clarissa Flyers
        • Deer Creek Shockers
        • Dent DiamondHawks
        • Frazee-Vergas Loons
        • Henning North Stars
        • New York Mills Millers
        • Perham Pirates
      • Resorters League
        • Ashby Athletics
        • Kensington Norsemen
        • Long Prairie Predators
        • Sauk Centre Titans
        • Urbank-Parkers Prairie Bombers

Now that we are all caught up, let’s get to this weekends action:

Friday, May 16
– Midway Snurdbirds @ Dent DiamondHawks
  • Rained out, pushed to Sunday
Saturday, May 17
– Perham Pirates @ Henning North Stars – 1:30 p.m. & 4 p.m. (DH)
  • Game was postponed due to inclement weather
– Kensington Norsemen @ Sauk Centre Titans – 1 p.m.
  • Game was postponed due to inclement weather
– Urbank Bombers – 3 @ Alexandria Black Sox – 1 (Final/11 innings)
  • The elements couldn’t stop the Bombers and the Black Sox from playing on cool Saturday night. And of course it had to go to extra innings too.
  • Hunter Haggenmiller and Alex Koep combined for 16 strikeouts on the day to keep the Black Sox at bay. Levi Arnold led the Bombers with the bats totaling 3 hits including a go-ahead 2-run knock in the 11th inning to put Urbank up for good. An impressive win for Urbank over a Class A squad in Alexandria!
Sunday, May 18
– Midway Snurdbirds – 11 @ Dent DiamondHawks – 0
  • Initially was meant to be a Friday night game but mother nature had other plans. Instead the DiamondHwaks and the Snurdbirds play on a much nicer Sunday afternoon.
  • It was a win for Midway thanks to a no-hitter from Scott Seim! He finished the day game with 15 Ks against Dent hitters.

– NYM Millers – 13 @ Nimrod Gnats – 3

  • The Millers swat the Gnats thanks to a pair of big flies from New York Mills. Bode Roberts hits his first home run n in a Millers’ uniform and Derin Gaudette gets his first homer of the campaign as well.
  • Jonah Johnson on the mound for the Millers goes 7 scoreless IP, collecting 11 punch-outs while allowing just two hits.

– Bluffton Braves @ Vergas Loons

  • While we don’t have official scores for either game of the doubleheader Sunday, we do know that the run differential for Bluffton this season is off to a great start! The Braves outscore the Loons 24-0 in the two games for a Sunday sweep.
  • Josh Dykhoff goes deep to log home run no. 1 in 2025 for Bluffton. Game two featured a combined no-hitter!

– Deer Creek Shockers – 12 @ Urbank Bombers – 1

  • Evan Lunde led the Shocker bats with two hits, including his first Shockers homerun. Deer Creek finished with 13 total hits
  • Gannon George, Chaz Eckhoff, and Evan Lunde combined to only allowing one run and 6 hits on the hill for Deer Creek in the Resorters/Hi-10 matchup

Listen to today’s Amateur Hour here!

Amateur Hour, the bi-weekly town baseball segment covering all of the squads across central Minnesota hosted by CJ Baumgartner, continues to cover local amateur baseball in 2025!

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