In the first game, the Otters struck first in the bottom of the 2nd when Jacob Jenc lead off the inning with a triple and came around to score on Josh Horgen’s ground out. The Otters nudged the lead to 2-0 in the bottom of the 3rd when John Abrahams walked and came around to score on Caleb Fronning’s single. The Spuds came roaring back in the top of the fourth by scoring 4 runs to put the visitors up 4-2. The Otters showed their resiliency by scoring 5 times in the bottom of the fourth. Nolan Felstul lead off the inning and was plunked with a pitch and came around to score, Brody Krein singled and scored, Jenc doubled and scored, Kellen Funkhouser reached on an error, stole second, and scored, and Kadyn Zender tripled and scored on Hunter Welle’s ground out. The Spuds came back with 2 more in the top of the fifth to cut the deficit to one (7-6) but the Otters scored 4 more in the bottom of the fifth when Logan Schoon walked and scored, Fronning singled and scored, Benett Thielke walked and scored, and Krein reached on an error and scored.

In the second game, the Otters were the visitors and scored twice in the first inning with Felstul singling and coming around to score on Krein’s double, and Jenc sending Krein home with a single. The Otters scored 5 more in the 3rd to seal with win. In the inning, Abrahams, Thielke, Felstul, and Jenc all singled and scored and Krein came around to score on a fielder’s choice. The Otters ended the scoring in the 5th with Thielke scoring on Felstul’s sacrifice fly.

Jenc played a great two games for the Otters collecting 5 hits (3b and 2b) and earning the save by setting the Spuds down in order in the bottom of the 6th.  Hitting leaders for the doubleheader were Jenc with 5 hits, Fronning, Felstul, Krein, Zender, Abrahams with 2 hits each, and Thielke, Horgen, Schoon, with 1 hit each.

With the wins, the Otters improve to 19-5. The Otters have one regular season game left against Wahpeton on July 15 at Delagoon before traveling to Sartell for the MSF state tournament on July 23-25.