Faribault Lakers Baseball

Maybe the week long sabbatical the Faribault Lakers got due to postponements was just what they needed. The Lakers have now won two in a row after defeating the New Prague Orioles on Sunday after a complete game shutout, 3-0.  In a repeat from Friday night's win over Prior Lake, the Lakers got on the board first. With one out Zander FItzsimmons singled, Aiden Tobin followed with a bunt single. With runners on the corners with two outs, Austin Rendler reached on an infield single to score Fitzsimmons.  The Lakers added a run in the third. Tobin reached on an infield single, stole second and later scored when with two outs a fly ball was dropped in left field. A final run was added by the Lakers without a ball leaving the infield. Tucker Alstead led off the inning with a walk, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Jordan Nawrocki and scored via pair of wild pitches.  Jamie's Deliverymen of the Game 1. Egan Bonde- Faribault. To paraphrase Bonde's former classmate at Buen...

It's a good news, bad news scenario schedule wise for the Faribault Lakers. After a postponement against St. Benedict last Saturday and a rainout at New Market on Wednesday, the Lakers were a well rested team going into the game  Friday night at Bell Field. But, they will play four out of six days before the Independence Day break. They got on the right track scoring four runs late to turn a 3-2 into a 6-3 win over the Prior Lake Mudcats. It was the Lakers getting on the board first in the second inning. Austin Rendler doubled to lead off the inning and after that it was a pair of  Mudcat miscues that aided the Lakers to a 2-0 lead. A Dylan O'Neil sacrifice bunt was thrown away allowing Rendler to score. After a Mason Conrad walk, Tucker Alstead grounded a ball to first baseman Ben Morrison. Morrison's momentum took him away from first. A flip to Ben Kelsey covering first was dropped allowing Alstead to reach and load the bases. Jack Jandro followed with a fielder's cho...

You have to give the Lakers credit, they've played the stronger teams well in 2025. They were tied 4-4 in the seventh but the Bulldogs scratch a run across in the seventh and add another in the eighth on a Conrad Masberg pinch hit home run to take down the Lakers 6-4 at Bell Field on Friday night.  Union Hill started out as hot as the weather on a steamy Friday night at Bell Field scoring three runs. Tomas Lee singled and scored on a Nate Lee double. Henry Novak drove in a run on an infield single, while Lee scored on the back end of a double steal. The Bulldogs bit again in the second inning. Jack Becker singled, advanced to third on a Tyler Giesen double and scored on a Jake Hemann sacrifice fly.  The Lakers got in the run column in the fourth inning. Mason Conrad tripled to the right center field gap and scored on a Tucker Alstead sacrifice fly. Joe Grote went deep to left field, a two run shot to get the Lakers to within a run in the fifth inning.  The Lakers knotted ...

Webster came to Faribault and defeated the Lakers with a workmen's like effort scoring five in the first five innings to pick up the win at Bell Field on Wednesday night.   Webster got on the board right away. Kutter Herzig singled and eventually scored after an errant throw on a Peter Grassl steal attempt. Will Wareham followed with a double that plated Grassl, but Wareham was thrown out trying to stretch it to a triple.  In the second inning Jordan Huwe singled to lead off and scored three batters later on a sacrifice fly to make it a 3-0 game.  The Sox got back on the attack in the fourth inning. Ryan Joyner led off with a walk, stole second and advanced to third on a throwing error. Herzig plated Joyner on a sacrifice fly to make it a 4-0 lead.  The first four batters reached for the Sox in the fifth with Jake Belille doubling and scoring on a bases loaded walk to Huwe. But a line out double play and a ground out ended what was looking like a major threat....

 If you didn't get to Bell Field for first pitch, you missed some scoring. First batter of the game, Pat Lloyd connected for a home run to left field, just missing the Advertising Monster in left field. From there it was all zeros on the scoreboard until the top of the sixth. Cole Pint walked to lead off the inning. Pint scored on a Matt Smith double, with Smith being retired trying to advance to third base.  In the eighth inning, Lloyd reached on a walk and was brought home on a Ryan Iverson home run to make it a 4-0 lead for the Mallards.  Faribault got on the board in the eighth inning. Dylan O'Neil doubled to lead off the inning and scored two batters later on a Zander Fitzsimmons single, but the Lakers could not tack any more runs on.  The Mallard picked up an insurance run as Devin Whiteis pinch hitting, was hit by a pitch and scored three batters later on a single by Iverson, his third RBI in the last two innings. Jamie's Deliverymen of the Game 1. Nolan Readm...

The rough road in DRS Baseball continued on Friday night at Bell Field for the Faribault Lakers where they fell to the St. Benedict Saints 6-1 It was the Saints that got on the board first. Nolan Eischens singled, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Mitchell Martin single.  In the third the Saints took advantage of two Lakers errors to score Martin who plate Martin who had singled again in his second at bat. The Lakers did get one back in third. A two out double by Drew Conrad was plated after an infield single by Aiden Tobin advanced Conrad to third and a fielder's choice scored Conrad. Joe Grote hit a hot smash that caused the fielder to fall. He attempted a force out at second but was unsuccessful. Jeremy Heitkamp, Eischens and Joe Pesta all singled to load the bases in the top of the of the fourth. The Lakers attempted to pick off Heitkamp. The ball sailed into center field allowing two runs to score to stretch the lead to 4-1. The Saints added a run in the sixth...

Dundas is known as the Town of Baseball. Rightfully so. The pedigree and tradition of Dukes baseball in Dundas is known and respected by all those in the amateur baseball community. On Wednesday night however, the Town of Baseball become Upset City as the Faribault Lakers knocked off the Dukes scoring a run in the eighth to take the lead and holding on to win 9-8 Grant Koch, fresh off of his high school career, got his first start on the mound as a Laker. The Dukes nicked him for a run in the first inning. Tate Journell walked, stole second base and scored on a one out single from Kyle Hrncir. The Lakers bounced back in the second innings. Mason Conrad led off with a single and advanced to third on a Dylan O'Neil double. Back to back singles by Koch and Zander Fitzsimmons gave the Lakers a 2-1 lead.  In the last of the third, the Dukes took the lead back. Journell reached again, on a single. In a rare baseball feat, back to back triples by Hrncir and Austin Koep put the Dukes back ...

 After the big extra inning victory in New Prague on Wednesday night, the Lakers once again were on the road in Montgomery. The road wasn't so kind as the Mallards get a pair of runs in four of the seven innings and five in the sixth to defeat the Lakers 13-3 Fariabult got on the board in the first inning as Jack Jandro and Aiden Tobin both singled. Jandro eventually scored on an Austin Rendler sacrifice fly. The Mallards were not in any mood to play gracious hosts. Ryan Iverson and Johnny Krocak both homered to give the Mallards a 2-1 lead after an inning. Two more runs were added on in the last of the second, both unearned. Nolan Readmond singled to drive in a run. That was followed by a grounder off the bat of Iverson that Faribault could not turn a double play on, allowing another run to score. The Lakers got back to within one as two hit by pitches were driven in by a double by bat from Tucker Alstead.  Montgomery bumped it to a two run lead. Nick Worm singled, advanced t...

 In the top of the third, the Warriors got on the board as a two out Kyle Carlberg proved costly to the Lakers. Riley Schaeffer followed with a fly ball down the right field line. Drew Conrad made a diving attempt to catch the ball with the ball deflecting of him into foul territory allowing Carlberg to score.  Veseli tacked another run on in the fourth. Sam Friedges singled and advanced to third on a throwing error. Nick Geis followed with a single to score Friedges.  In the fifth, it was another earned run for Veseli. Carlberg reached on a fielding error and scored two batters later on a Same Friedges single. But the Lakers found some two out magic in their half of the inning. With two outs, Mason Conrad singled and scored two batters later on an Aiden Tobin single to make it a 3-1 game.  Veseli scored twice in the seventh. Carlberg singled and scored on a Nick Geis walk. Sam Friedges singled and scored with two outs on a Lakers fielding error.  The Lakers got...