This past weekend the BOLD Mudhens confidently defended their home turf by sweeping three straight games at Lions Memorial Park to earn the right to move on to the Central Sub-State Final Four.  The Pod4 championship marked the 8th straight year that the Mudhens have advanced to either the District 7, or for the past two seasons, the Central Sub-State Final Four. 

The four team Pod4 double elimination tournament began for the Warriors on Wednesday, July 17th with a 5-0 victory over Redwood Falls. Matt Moorse threw a complete game one hitter and Jordan Sagedahl hit two doubles and three RBI's.  That set up a matchup on Saturday of two tough pitchers, Josh Kingery of Tritown and Sagedahl.  The BOLD junior sparkled in 6 innings of shutout ball surrendering just 1 hit, 3 walks, while striking out 8.  Jack Peppel and Aidan Elfering finished up the 7th inning in a 5-1 victory.  Luke Ryan and John Burman each had 2 of the Mudhens 8 hits in the game.  Tritown defeated Redwood Falls to earn another shot at BOLD but would have to win twice in order to advance.  In the championship game Peppel worked all 7 innings in a 7-2 victory.  The BOLD bats pounded out 13 hits in the game.  Ryan led the offense from his lead off spot with three hits.  Peppel, Braeden Tersteeg, and Elfering each had two hits.

The Mudhens now will face Central Sub-State Pod3 Champion Paynesville in a best two of three series which begins at 7:00pm Tuesday, July 23rd, at Lions Memorial Park in Bird Island.  The series concludes at Paynesville two days later with the first of a possible two games beginning at 6:00pm.  The winner of this series will move on the the sub-state final best of three series at the home of the champion of the northern two pods on Saturday, and possibly Sunday, July 27-28.