The Southland baseball team stayed alive to play at least one more day.

Tuesday, May 30, 2000

The Southland baseball team stayed alive to play at least one more day. After falling behind 5-1 to Kenyon-Wanamingo due to some shoddy fielding, the Rebels got a boost with their bats, scoring a half dozen runs in both the fourth and fifth to cruise to a 14-6 win at Marcusen Park Monday.

"We got off to a bad start," Southland’s Cyle Erie. "We were anxious at the start. Then we got the bats going."

The rain-prolonged Class A, Section 1, West Sub-Section tourney continues on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at Marcusen Park. The Rebels will play Randolph. The winner then battles Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander for second place at 6 p.m. That winner advances to the Section 1A tourney that begins Saturday in Rochester.

With the score 5-3 Knights, Erie came up with the bases loaded with one out in the fourth. He pounded a pitch to the left field wall. Three runs scored and he ended up at third.

"It was a fast ball right in my zone," Erie said about the pitch he hit.

Southland pitcher Syd Schramm then brought Erie home on a ground out.

That would be all the runs Schramm would need, but Erie and the Rebels hitters weren’t done yet. In the fifth, Erie stroked a double to score two more runs. Mark Mauer and Schramm also doubled in the inning, plating a run. Kevin Snyder also had a big day at the plate. He was 2-for-4 with a double and three runs scored.

Schramm’s pitching line was three earned runs, five hits, four walks, one hit batter, and seven strikeouts.