Timely hitting and taking advantage of Nisswa mistakes led the LAkers to a 6-5 victory friday bight in Hamburg. in the 2nd inning starting with 2 outs both Peter Brown and Jeff Chrest reached onn Lightning errors. That followed with 3 solid singles from Justin Klingelhutz, Ben Smothers, and Eric Aeling to give Waconia a 3-1 head start.

With Brady Gibbs making his first pitching appearance of the year for the Lakers trouble came in the 4th as a hit batter followed by a single and a walk loaded the bases with no outs. Ben Smothers came in to get 2 sacrifice flies which scored 2 for the Lightning tying the score 3-3.

The Lakers came right back in the bottom of the 4th as Smothers reached on an error, Aeling was hit by  a pitch, Tom Lyons drilled a single, Brandon Hebig hit by pitch, loaded the bases and with 2 outs Nick Litfin worked a walk to bring in the 5th run and score was 5-3. The Lakers added their 6th run in the 6rh with a Klingelhutz single ,stolen base, followed by error on a hot hit Eric Aeling grounder.

Smothers finished off the Lightning throwing the final 4 innings in this 7 inning game.