Henning fals to Long Prairie 12-0 in regions to end season

By Chad Koenen

Publisher

The Henning North Stars had another successful season come to an end over the weekend at the hands of Long Prairie by a score of 12-0. However, Sunday’s loss came on the heels of one of the more dramatic wins in the Region 11C tournament so far as the North Stars scored four unearned runs in the top of the ninth inning to come away with a 4-2 win over the Deer Creek Shockers.

The North Stars ended their season with a record of 10-16 overall after once again advancing to the second weekend of the region tournament.

Saturday

Down 2-0 heading into the top of the ninth inning, Henning pulled off a dramatic come-from-behind win over the Deer Creek Shockers by a score of 4-3 on Saturday. 

Carlyle Tumberg reached on an error to lead off the inning, before Eric Fick followed with a single to leave runners on the corners with no one out. Following an Owen Harig fly ball to right field for the first out of the inning, Nick Lindberg grounded into a fielder’s choice to bring Tumberg across the plate for the first run of the game for Henning, but leaving the North Stars down to their final out with the tying run on first base. 

Down to their final strike, Stephen Lindberg connected for a single with two strikes to leave runners on first and second base with two outs. That’s when Joey Lindberg connected with a double to bring Nick Lindberg across the plate to tie the game at 2-2 and leave runners on second and third base with two outs. Garrett Kuhn-Rice put the North Stars in front for good when he connected with what would be the game winning single to give Henning a 3-2 lead, before Colin Koep followed with another RBI single to put Henning up 4-2. 

Owen Lindberg followed with Henning’s fifth straight two out hit, but the runner was thrown out at home by James Seelhammer to end the inning in dramatic fashion.

Deer Creek got the first runner of the bottom of the ninth inning on base, but Nick Lindberg shut the door as the righty went all nine innings and gave up nine hits, just two earned runs and one walk, while striking out 11 hitters. 

Nolan Coyle took the loss for Deer Creek as he went 8 2/3 innings and gave up 11 hits, while surrendering four unearned runs, walking three and striking out six batters. 

Deer Creek’s runs came on an RBI single by Nolan Coyle in the fourth inning and an Ashton Detloff RBI single in the fifth inning. Both runs scored with two outs on the board. 

Henning outhit Deer Creek 12-9 with Stephen Lindberg, Joey Lindberg and Oscar Lindberg all finishing with two, while Coyle and Lyam Schumacher each finished with two hits for Deer Creek. 

The loss ends Deer Creek’s season with a record of 11-10.

Henning AB R H     BI

Eric Fick 5 0 2 0

Owen Harig 5 0 1 0

Nick Lindberg 3 1 0 1

Stephen Lindberg 4 1 2 0

Joey Lindberg 5 1 2 1

Garrett Kuhn-Rice 5 0 1 1

Colin Koep 5 0 1 1

Oscar Lindberg 4 0 2 0

Carlyle Tumberg 4 1 1 0

HITTING- 2B- Joey Lindberg, Owen Harig

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-k)- Nick Lindberg 9-2-2-2-1-11

Deer Creek AB R H     BI

Lyam Schumacher 5 0 2 0

Carson Zeise 4 0 1 0

Colby Schertler 4 1 1 0

Ashton Detloff 4 0 1 1

Travis George 4 1 1 0

Chase Nordlund 3 0 0 0

Nolan Coyle 3 0 2 1

Blake Haverkamp 4 0 1 0

James Seelhamm. 4 0 0 0

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-k)- Nolan Coyle 8 2/3-11-4-0-3-6, Ashton Detloff 1/3-1-0-0-0-0

Sunday

An eight run bottom of the fifth inning proved to be too much for Henning to overcome on Sunday afternoon as the North Stars fell to Long Prairie by a score of 12-0. 

Long Prairie opened the scoring in the bottom of the first inning thanks to an RBI single and a two out, two-run single to put them up by a score of 3-0. Long Prairie broke the game open in the fifth inning with a sacrifice fly, bases loaded walk, an error that brought three runs across the plate, two-run home run and an RBI single. 

The North Stars pitchers gave up 10 hits and 12 runs, but just three of the runs were earned, all-while striking out eight Long Prairie batters.

Garrett Kuhn-Rice started the game for Henning and went three innings and gave up six hits, four runs of which one was earned and struck out five batters. Owen Harig pitched two innings and gave up four hits, eight runs of which two were earned, four walks and struck out two batters. Eric Fick also pitched a scoreless inning of relief for the North Stars. 

With the loss Henning ends its season in the Region 11C tournament. The North Stars finished the season with a record of 10-16 overall.

AB R H     BI

Eric Fick 3 0 1 0

Owen Harig 3 0 1 0

Nick Lindberg 3 0 0 0

Stephen Lindberg 3 0 1 0

Joey Lindberg 3 0 0 0

Garrett Kuhn-Rice 3 0 1 0

Colin Koep 3 0 0 0

Oscar Lindberg 3 0 0 0

Carlyle Tumberg 2 0 0 0

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-k)- Garrett Kuhn Rice 3-6-4-1-0-5, Owen Harig 2-4-8-2-4-2, Eric Fick 1-0-0-0-1-1