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10U Bulldogs Finish Undefeated Season

By Joey Geiszler, 07/15/21, 7:30AM CDT

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The OTC Bulldogs 10u blue team finished up their undefeated season winning their tournament that finished on July 13. The team finished with an overall 13-0 record 12-0 in league play. 

They went into the tournament as the number one seed and received a first round bye. They played Perham Grey in the second round and the defense held onto an 8-1 victory with Jack Heeter pitching 3 innings with 5k and 0 runs giving up, Austin Gunphrey pitched two innings with 2ks and 0 runs, Mason Umland closed the game and pitched 1 inning with 1k and 1 run given up. Offensively the Bulldogs strung together 15 hits. Jack Heeter went 2-3 with a run scored, Mason Umland 1-3 with a run scored, Blake Wolden 3-3 with 3 runs scored, Nate Geiszler 2-3 with 1 run scored, Drew Robinson 3-3 with 1 run scored, Isaac Eckhoff 1-2 with 1 run scored, Braxten Drechsel went 2-2, and Coen LaFancois rounded off the hitting going 1-2.

In the semi finals they matched up against the #4 seed OTC Red and came out victorious with a score of 7-2. Defense and pitching showed up again with Mason Umland having a nice catch on a deep pop fly in the first inning. Nate Geiszler pitched the first three innings and struck out 4 and gave up 0 runs.

Casen Leroy pitched the last three and struck out 8 and gave up 2 runs. Offensively they were led by Nate Geiszler going 3-3 and Casen Leroy going 2-3 and both scoring twice and Blake Wolden going 2-3 and scoring once rounding all the bases with one swing. Jackie Heeter went 1-3 with 1 run scored and Mason Umland went 1-2 with 1 run scored. Other hits included Drew Robinson going 1-2, Isaac Eckhoff going 1-2, Coen LaFancois going 1-2, and Austin Gumphrey going 1-2.

The win set up a matchup with the #2 seed Perham Yellow which was a rematch from the opening game of the year which was a 6-5 victory for OTC Blue. 

This game started out as expected being a close battle with perham taking a 1-0 lead in the second. In the bottom of the 4th. Otc Blue tied up the game with Casen Leroy driving in Jack Heeter to tie the game. In the top of the 5th inning a 5-4-3 double play turned by the Bulldogs turned momentum and in the bottom of the 5th the Bulldogs put up 3 runs with Blake Wolden, Drew Robinson, and Mason Umland all scoring consecutively. The Bulldogs had the 4-1 led going into the top of the 6th. The first batter hit a ball back to pitcher Nate Geiszler for a quick first out. The next two batters reached on singles putting people at first and second with the tying run up at the plate with one out. The next batter struck out and Perham was down to their last out but they could have asked for no one better to be up. Their left handed hitter had hit a homerun for perhams run in the second inning and in the fourth inning he hit another deep ball but a great relay Got him thrown out at third base trying to stretch out a triple. Now he was up again being the tying run, only this outcome was different with the Bulldogs getting a strikeout to end the game and to complete their undefeated regular season.

Nate Geiszler pitched 2 innings stricking out 4 and gave up 0 runs, Casen Leroy pitched 1 inning stricking out 1 and giving up 0 runs, Jack Heeter pitched 1 inning stricking out two and giving up 1 run, Austin Gunphrey pitched 1 inning stricking out 2 and 0 runs. Mason Umland pitched an inning giving up 0 runs. 

Offensively Jack Heeter went 1-2 with 1 run scored, Casen Leroy 1-2, Blake Wolden 1-2 with 1 run scored, Drew Robinson 1-2 with one run scored, Mason Umland 1-2 with one run scored, Braxten Drechsel 1-2.

This team played 13 total games 

Scoring 110 runs and giving up 25 runs

Defensive wise 164 outs came from strikeouts 

The team had 3 shut outs during the season and had four games where they gave up one run. 

A perfect game was almost delivered on June 29th against Perham White. Pitchers Nate Geiszler and Casen Leroy combined for 15ks out of the 18 outs with only one batter reaching base.

Offensively the overall team had 407 abs with 203 hits for a team avg of .499

The team had 6 players bat over .500 for the season
Mason Umland .525
Drew Robinson .548
Blake Wolden .595
Casen Leroy .600
Jack Heeter .659
Nate Geiszler .721