South All-Stars Win 2013 Play Ball! Minnesota High School Baseball All-Star Series

 

 

Game 1: South 4, Metro East 3

 

Sleepy Eye-St. Mary's Sean Mathiowetz knocked a 3-2 fastball into center field, plating Fairmont's Levi Becker with the game-winning run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning in South's 4-3 win over the Metro East.

 

Becker started the ninth-inning rally with a single before stealing second base with one out. Dylan See-Rockers of Albert Lea added a double and a run with Jason Samuelson of Rochester Lourdes and Daniel Pierce of Faribault each finishing with a single and a run scored for South.

 

The Metro East team rallied from a 3-0 hole with solo runs in the fifth, seventh and eighth innings. Travis Nuebeck, the losing pitcher, singled and eventually scored to tie the game at three.  Cooper Maas and Tyler Hanson, both of Burnsville, also scored runs for Metro East.

 

 

Game 2: Metro West 4, North 2

 

Nehwon Norkeh of Robbinsdale Cooper and Michael Fecho of Wayzata each had two hits and a run driven in as Metro West led 4-2 in a shortened contest over North Friday. The game was called due to rain and lightning.

 

St. Michael-Albertville's Jacob Dzubay pitched all three innings, allowing two runs in the second inning, for the win for Metro West. He finished with three strikeouts, giving up both runs on a double off the bat of Class A Player of the Year Mitch Heid of Browerville.

 

Justus Nelson of Robbinsdale Armstrong also had a triple in the win. Nelson scored on Fecho's second hit of the game in the fourth inning. Ryan Fromm of St. Louis Park also had a run-scoring single in the third.

 

 

Game 3: Metro East 2, North 0

 

Rob Mouton of Cretin-Derham Hall lifted Metro East to a 2-0 win in Saturday's opener on a two-run homer in the sixth inning.

 

Stillwater's Connor Johnston started the stanza by reaching base on an error before Mouton, who is headed to Bradley University, hit a full-count pitch over the fence to plate the first and only two runs of the contest.

 

Jordan Jacobson of Lakeville North (four innings) and Cooper Maas of Burnsville (three innings) combined to shutout the North All-Stars. They struck out a combined eight batters with two walks and five hits.

 

Alex Kendall of St. John's Prep and Hayden Willner of Eden Valley-Watkins each had two hits for North.

 

AJ Stockwell of Eastview and Eric Olheiser of Tartan each had singles for Metro East, which just had three hits in the win.

 

 

Game 4: South 2, Metro West 0

 

Three South pitchers combined to hold Metro West to five singles in a 2-0 win Saturday. The South squad scored single tallies in the fourth and seventh innings.

 

Sean Mathiowetz of Sleepy Eye-St. Mary's and Christian Rosenow of Rochester Mayo, who had one of four total hits for the South All-Stars, scored runs off a quarter of Metro West pitchers. The game-winning hit off the bat of Stewartville's Aaron Simmons.

 

Rollie Lacy of Holy Family Catholic and Minnetonka's Max Langheinrich each pitched two innings for Metro West, finishing with one strikeout apiece.Lacy, who didn't allow an earned run all spring, faced just one over the minimum, inducing five fly outs.

 

Langheinrich also faced just seven batters over two innings, allowing a one-out single in the opening stanza.

 

Holy Family Catholic's Keller Knoll and Chaska's Mitch Kirchoff made their tournament debuts and were among Metro West hitters to finish with singles. Kirchoff, starting at third base, was 1-for-3 with a second-inning single and two ground outs. Knoll, playing catcher, was 1-for-2 with a fifth-inning hit.

 

 

Game 5: North 8, South 7

 

Tied at three in the fifth inning, Grand Rapids' Jake Bischoff reached base on an infield single to plate the first of five runs in the stanza in the North All-Stars 8-7 win over the South Saturday. It was the first victory for North in three contests.

 

South rallied late in the game and had the tying run at third base with no outs before Hayden Willner of Eden Valley-Watkins got a pop out, strikeout and ground out to second base to preserve the win.

 

South got a double from Logan Swann of Redwood Valley to score the final run in the seventh inning. Sean Mathiowetz of Sleepy Eye-St. Mary's and Colton Schock of Owatonna also had run-scoring at-bats in the sixth inning.

 

Schock was the losing pitcher for the South All-Stars. Beau Backhus of Alexandria got the win for the North, allowing a run over two innings.

 

Mitch Heid of Browerville also had a three-run homer for the North All-Stars in the third inning.

 

 

Game 6: Metro West 3, Metro East 0

 

Robbinsdale Cooper's Nehwon Norkeh hit a two-run blast in the fourth inning to break open a scoreless game in Metro West's 3-0 win over Metro East in the tournament finale Saturday. Norkeh was 2-for-3 in the win.

 

Four Metro West pitchers - Coon Rapids' Logan Shore, Edina's Matthew Hopfner, Delano's Zach Muckenhirn, and Eden Prairie's Luke Lind - combined to hold Metro East to six singles in the game. Shore, who is headed to Florida, struck out five of seven batters faced.

 

Matthew Smith of Champlin Park and Kent Curran of Eden Prairie also had singles for Metro West, which added an insurance run off Metro East reliever Rob Mouton of Cretin-Derham Hall in the fifth inning for the 3-0 final.

 

Upon completion of the series, Rochester Mayo's Christian Rosenow was selected as the Most Outstanding Performer of the Series.