In the opening round of bracket play, the Otters came out flat and lost to Litchfield. The Otters only managed 3 hits in the game. Hayden Heruth singled and scored in the game and Dexter Felstul and Landon Noon both doubled and scored. The young Otters showed their mettle in the second game. After being down 0-5 after 2 innings, the Otters scored all of their runs in the 3rd inning. Weston Youngberg walked with one out, Noon singled, and Isaac Jenc singled in both Youngberg and Noon. Felstul singled in Noon. Jace Kremeier scored Felstul on a force out to bring the Otters within 1. Chase Johnston followed that with a single and Gus Proudfoot walked which set the table for Hayden Heruth’s booming triple to score them both. Heruth scored on a passed ball to wrap up with scoring. Heruth delivered a masterful pitching performance when he came in to relieve Johnston in the 3rd. Heruth threw 4  shutout innings, while only giving up 3 hits to get the win for the Otters.

With the win, the Otters moved on to the consolation championship. Felstul toed the rubber for the Otters and pitched a gem for the Otters. Felstul went 5 and 2/3rds innings giving up only 1 hit and striking out 10. In the bottom of the first, the Otters scored 2 with Felstul walking and scoring and Johnston singling and scoring. The Otters added 4 more in the 2nd with Cade Johnson walking and Youngberg doubling and they both came in to score on Jenc’s trip. Felstul followed up with another triple to score Jenc and Felstul scored on a passed ball. The Otters tacked on one more in the 3rd with Heruth singling and coming around to score on Beau Schlosser’s fielder’s choice. The Otters wrapped up the scoring in the 4th with Jenc walking and coming around to score on Kremeier’s ground out. After Felstul reached the pitch count limit, Proudfoot slammed the door on the Cowboys by getting a ground out to end the game.

Hitting leaders for the tournament were Felstul with 5 hits (2 2b’s and 2 3b’s), Johnston (2b) and Heruth (3b) with 3 hits, Jenc (2b), Youngberg (2b), and Noon (2b) with 2 hits, and Kremeier and Johnson with 1 hit each.