The opener against Little Falls was a thriller with Little Falls jumping on top early with a 3-run 1st.  The Otters got right back in it in the bottom of the 1st with a Kade Johnson walk and Chase Johnston's 2 out blast to right.  The Bats were held in check by great Little Falls pitching as they built a 5-2 lead headed to the bottom of the 4th.  Owen Johnson and Hayden Heruth drew walks with Owen scoring on a wild pitch to draw within 2 runs.  Owen pitched a clean 5th to set up the late inning heroics.  Landon Noon started the inning getting robbed of a hit by the Flyer 3rd Baseman.  With 2 outs and the bases empty Jude Moline drilled a double to left, Kade followed with a walk to set the table for Isaac Jenc-who roped a double to the left field wall to tie the game.  Dexter Felstul then lined a walk off single up the middle to send the Otters bench into Pandemonium.  Kade Johnson started and battled through 3-2/3 innings.  Owen Johnson came on to record the final 4 big outs. 

Game two against Long Prairie started as a pitchers duel, Gus Proudfoot took the hill for the Otters.  He pitched 3 strong innings giving up 2 runs in the first then settling in with 7 K’s.  The Long Prairie pitching held the Otters down forcing them to work for every run.  K. Johnson and Felstul both singled and scored in the 1st on a pair of wild pitches.  The Otters didn’t score again until the 4th when Felstul again singled and scored on a wild pitch.  Chase Johnston came on to slam the door on LP with two no hit innings.  The Otters tacked on two insurance runs in the 5th when Frank Schierer(2b) and Owen Johnson(1b) had hits, an RBI ground out and another wild pitch put the Otters up 5-2.

Game 3 featured some timely hitting and a pitching Gem by Felstul who went the distance piling up 10k’s while only giving up 2 hits.  The Otters jumped on top early with a pair of runs by Felstul (HBP) and Johnston (FC) and never looked back.  In the 3rd the Otters Broke the game open with Noon(bb), Weston Youngberg(1b) and K. Johnson(1b) scoring.  The Otters defense played great in this game with Jenc, K. Johnson and Cade Johnson turning in an impressive 6-3-5 double play. 

With the Victories the Otters claimed 1st place in the tourney and improved to 20-5-1 on the season.  They next play Thursday with a doubleheader against Rothsay. 

Hit totals for the day:
4-Felstul, 3-K. Johnson, 2-Jenc, Johnston, Schierer, O. Johnson, 1-C. Johnson, Youngberg, Moline