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Posted Aug 27/11 - Lakers win 2-1 in 14 innings advance to Elite 8

If you like excitement Brownton was the place to be Friday night as the Waconia Lakers defeated the Prior Lake Mudcats 2-1 in 14 innings.

Again Waconia was led by the great pitching of Plato draftee Tony Wischnack (9 innings, 1 unearned run) and Chris Bullis who picked up the win tossing the final 5 innings.

Both teams found themselves with chances to take home the victory as pitching dominated both sides. Prior Lake ended up fanning 15 Laker hitters, giving up 8 hits,  3 walks (2 costly in the 14th) and committed 4 errors, while Laker pitching fanned 13 Mudcat hitters, gave up 8 hits, walked 5, and committed 2 errors.

Prior Lake took an early 1-0 lead in the 2nd, but in the 6th Laker shortstop Ben Smothers ripped a one out double and one out later Bullis copied that driving home the tieing run.

The game was nip and tuck till the 14th when the Prior Lake pitching wheels started to feel the pressure. Bullis led off with only Waconia's 2nd walk of the night, Jeremy Salden sacrificed bunted him to 2nd, Craig LaPlante grounded out to 2nd moving Bullis over to 3rd. Nick Litfin then worked a 3-2 count into ball 4 placing runners on the corners with 2 outs.The Mudcat lefthander had already picked a Laker runner off and as the Waconia bench was instructing Litfin to hang tight to first base the Mudcat lefty threw wildly over and Bullis trotted home with the winning run. Unbelieveable.

The Lakers now move into double elimination and take on the New Prague Orioles, Sunday Aug 28, at 1:30 also in Brownton.

 





 


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