It was Tony Wischnack and the Plato Blue Jays vs. Chris Bullis and the Waconia Lakers going head to head. When the fans saw the matchup they knew they were in for a great game. They weren't diappointed.

Both Tony and Chris were honored on the All State Tournament Team after the way they led the Lakers to 2nd in last years 2011 State Tournament. Tony had been picked up as an additional pitcher in the draft after Plato was eliminated in the Regional Tournament.

If it was Yogi Berra who said " Good pitching beats good hitting.. and vice versa." he definitely would have repeated it following this game.

Wischnack had a perfect game going into the 6th inning till Eric Aeling drew a walk. Ben Smothers then laid down a bunt single to stop the potential of a no-hitter. Bullis gave up 5 hits and 5 walks
( 1 intentional)  plus hit a batter compared to Wischnack's 4 hits and 1 walk. DIfference was that Chris came through with 9 strikeouts, many at clutch time, while Tony was only able to get 1 Laker batter.

The Laker run came in the bottom of the 8th when Kevin Bullis again came up with a big lead off single. Justin Klingelhutz came into to run for him. After missed attemts to move him over with a bunt Peter Brown hit into a fielders choice now taking over at first base. A pop up later made it 2 outs with Ben Smothers at the plate. Brown stoled second and Smothers followed ripping a double off the fence.

Great pitching from both pitchers. Great time for another shot form Ben.

While the Lakers only had 4 hits and 5 total baserunners on the night, 2 hits from Smothers (bunt single and double), Chris Bullis (double),  Kevin Bullis (single), and Aeling (walk) they made good use of them.