Amateur Hour is a new bi-weekly town baseball segment covering all of the squads across central Minnesota hosted by CJ Baumgartner!

Mondays we recap scores, highlights and standings. Fridays we preview the games through the weekend. If you are a coach, player, or fan – we want your help! Call 218-631-1804 and leave a message on our voicemail with your team’s score and/or any notable achievements for a chance to be featured in the segment.

Listen to today’s Amateur Hour here!

Friday, July 14

Deer Creek – 4 @ New York Mills – 8

• Millers slug their way to victory with 4 home runs, 2 of which came from Derin Gaudette

Nimrod – 11 @ Clarissa – 1 (F/8)

Urbank – 13 @ Alexandria Black Sox – 0

• All 9 Bombers reach base in the rout of Alexandria

Saturday, July 15

Vergas – 0 @ Midway – 9 (Forfeit)

Perham – 14 @ Wolf Lake – 0 (F/7)

• Maddux Kovash throws 7 shutout innings for the Prates while allowing no runs, no walks, and strikes out 10. Chas Melvin collects 4 hits and 4 RBIs on the afternoon while Tanner Knutson collects 3 hits and scores twice.

Bluffton – 2 @ Nimrod – 11

• Nolan Coyle leads the Gnats over the Braves with a dominate performance on the mound. He threw 8 innings while only allowing one run. Coyle at the plate also added 4 hits. Jackson Wenigar also had 4 hits.

Clarissa – 7 @ Staples – 3

• Kole Wieshalla pitches 7 innings to lead the Flyers to a win while only allowing 2 ER

Sunday, July 16

Perham – 3 @ Bluffton – 6

• Braves hand the Pirates their first loss of the season as Payton Rondestvedt goes 6 innings while only allowing 3 runs

Perham – 8 @ Bluffton – 2

• Pirates bounce back to beat the Braves and split the doubleheader. Carter Mulcahy goes the distance pitching 7 innings while striking out three and allowing just 2 runs. That’s not all, at the plate Mulcahy collected 3 hits including a solo home run. Gabe Pankonin added a 3-run home run for Perham as well.

Deer Creek – 9 @ Vergas – 7

Sebeka – 5 @ Park Rapids – 4

• Park Kiser hits a go-ahead RBI with 2 outs in the 9th inning to lift the Stingers to a win

Wolf Lake – 2 @ Midway – 12 (Game One)

Wolf Lake – 1 @ Midway – 13 (Game Two)

With just a couple weeks until the Region 14C Playoffs, here are the updated standings:

2023 League Standings

HI-10
​                                                    14C          Hi10            RS         RA
​Perham Pirates                        13-1           7-1                107        39​​​​​​​​​
​Bluffton  Braves                       11-4           7-3               97          34
​​NY Mills Millers                      10-4          7-2               100        44
​Deer Creek Shockers              7-8            4-6               99          92
Clarissa Flyers                         4-10          2-8              52           101
Vergas Loons                           1-12           1-8              42           101

LAKE & PINE
​                                                       14C          L&P             RS         RA
Midway Snurdbirds                  10-4          8-2                117        72
​​​​​​​​​Nimrod Gnats                            8-5            6-3                101        59​​​
​​Park Rapids ESox                     8-6             5-3                103       74
​Sebeka Stingers                         7-7             6-4                85         69
​​Wolf Lake Wolf Pack               4-9             3-6                61          118
​​Staples Lumberbats                 1-14            1-9                42         176