Amateur Baseball

The St. Cloud area will be well represented in the State Amateur Baseball Tournament this week. In Class C, the Sartell Muskies will play Sunday at 11am in Cold Spring, Kimball will play Ada at 11am Sunday in Watkins, Watkins will play at 11am Saturday Saturday in Watkins.

The Cold Spring Springers defeated Red Wing 6-5 Sunday in the Class B Super Sections. Cold Spring scored 4 runs in the 5th inning to propel themselves to the win. Cold Spring will play the Austin Hounds at 5pm at Dick Putz Field in St. Cloud in the Class B State Tournament.

The Sartell Muskies downed Clear Lake 11-0 in 7 innings Sunday to capture the Region 1C championship. Brian Schellinger went 2-4 with 2 RBIs for Sartell. Clear Lake defeated Mora 7-6 in 10 innings earlier in the day. Brett Stinogel had a solo homerun in the 10th inning to lift Clear Lake.

The Sartell Muskies defeated Hinckley 1-0 in the Region 1C playoffs. Sartell is 20-8. Clear Lake will play Mora in Hinckley at 7pm tonight.

The Cold Spring Springers have advanced to the Super Regionals by guaranteeing no worse than a 2nd place finish in the Region 7B playoffs. The Springers defeated the Marshall A's 9-2 Sunday. Ryan Morse was the complete-game winner on the mound for the Springers. Cold Spring is 31-10.

The Granite City Greys lost 7-3 to the Brainerd Bees 7-3 Thursday night in the first round of the Section 7B Amateur Baseball tournament. Austin Bosch threw the complete game to take the loss for the Greys. Brainerd advances to play 2nd seeded Cold Spring in Cold Spring at 11am Saturday.

Amateur Baseball: Sauk Rapids Cyclones 5, Cold Spring Springers 4 (Nate Swan and Tom Wippler each had 2 RBIs for the Cyclones) Granite City Greys 6, Sartell Stone Ponies 3; Sartell Muskies 14, Brainerd Bees 6;

Nisswa 4, Cold Spring Springers 3 (exhibition); Sartell 7, St. Augusta 0;

Clear Lake 3, Ultimate Snappers 1; Sartell Muskies 15, St. Joseph 0; Sauk Rapids Cyclones 7, Brainerd 1 (Jeff Hille went 3-4 with the Cyclones) St. Stephen 15, St. Wendel 8;

Sauk Rapids Cyclones 5, Cold Spring Springers 3 (12 Innings); Sartell Stone Ponies 14, Sauk Rapids Jimmys 9; Ultimate Snappers 6, St. Joseph 0;