North Dakota Preps

LaMoure (27-9) now moves on to the Midwest Regional in Milbank, S.D., Aug. 6-10. They open the regional against tournament-host Milbank at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6 According the Valley City Times

letsrap wrote:LaMoure (27-9) now moves on to the Midwest Regional in Milbank, S.D., Aug. 6-10. They open the regional against tournament-host Milbank at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6 According the Valley City Times

I don't think you can get a better draw than the host team.

scc wrote:Having attended a couple of these before, I will respectfully disagree. The home crowd and field certainly help. I think the last time Milbank hosted, they finished in the top three.

Of course, I don't know how good Milbank was this year.

I never thought of if that way. I just assume they are the worst team. Now if they're like 51-4 and got upset, this could be horrible draw.

Milbank has a good program and usually produces some good teams. I believe LaMoure played them last year in a tournament and won 1-0. Im sure it will be a close game but think LaMoure can compete with anyone when Watkins or Dunn are on the mound will be interesting to see how they do.

Does the winner of this tournament advance to another or is this the end the road.

LaMoure 6 Milbank 5

Ben Holen pitched 5 and two thirds Watkins came in and saved the game. LaMoure plays ottawa ks tomorrow at 3 15. Ottawa is undeated on the season at 44-0.

GoYotes23 wrote:Does the winner of this tournament advance to another or is this the end the road.

Then its the legion baseball championship IN FARGO! its the weekend of the 15th i believe.

legionball4life wrote:

GoYotes23 wrote:Does the winner of this tournament advance to another or is this the end the road.

Then its the legion baseball championship IN FARGO! its the weekend of the 15th i believe.

That is just for Class A or Division I level teams. All class B programs have the option of declaring they would like to be Class A before the season if they want to compete at that level to reach the World Series.

Thanks for the info.

letsrap wrote:Ben Holen pitched 5 and two thirds Watkins came in and saved the game. LaMoure plays ottawa ks tomorrow at 3 15. Ottawa is undeated on the season at 44-0.

Lamoure beat Ottawa 5-2 according to Valley News Live.

Stats for the tourney:

http://www.dakstats.com/WebSync/Pages/T ... A&tour=274

Ottawa went 43-0 in the regular season. They outscored their opponents 43-8 in the state tournament. The fact that LaMoure beat them has to be the biggest upset of that whole tournament, because now LaMoure is one win away from the championship game.

LaMoure 9 Faith Luthernan NV 3

Lamoure plays tonight against Ripon WI win or lose tonight they are in the championship tomorrow

Faith Lutheran defeated Ottawa 15-7 to advance to Sunday.

LaMoure plays at 7:30pm tonight against Ripon. If they defeat Ripon they must be defeated twice Sunday.

LaMoure lost 10-0 to RIpon WI in 6 innings. Rippon will play Faith Lutheran NV to see who will play LaMoure in the championship tomorrow.

Valley New Live says Lamoure beat Faith-Las Vegas, NV 9-3. I'm confused as to what is going on.

When is the last time a team from north dakota was in the finals or won the regional?

Faith-Nevada is up 8-5 in the 7th inning against Ripon

letsrap wrote:When is the last time a team from north dakota was in the finals or won the regional?

IIRC Minot made it to the finals in 2001 w/Phil Shirek. Its maybe happened since then. Class B teams never advanced past the state tournaments except maybe the last 5-7(?) years.

WalkingStick wrote:Faith-Nevada is up 8-5 in the 7th inning against Ripon

LaMoure is playing Faith-Nevada for the title right now and losing 8-2 in the 5th inning

Lamoure lost big to Faith-Nevada in the Championship

Congrats to LaMoure on a great run and representing the state well. Watch out for Mr Dunn again next year LaMoure could be back in the state championship for the fifth year in a row.

Flip wrote:

letsrap wrote:When is the last time a team from north dakota was in the finals or won the regional?

IIRC Minot made it to the finals in 2001 w/Phil Shirek. Its maybe happened since then. Class B teams never advanced past the state tournaments except maybe the last 5-7(?) years.

No one has gotten farther then Minot since. Dickinson got the closest this year making it to the final 4 of the Regional.

The champion and runner up from Class B used to challenge into the State Class A tournament in the early 90's. Munich with Justin Fletschock and Marty McDonald, etc... made a run winning their first 2 games in the Class A state. Not sure the exact year it started but Class B teams then attended the DII regional until 1996 when the state champion Grafton had an incident that got the ND champion banned from attending again for a few years. I believe it was in 2004 when Hope/Page won their first title and advanced the first year ND was reinstated.

Its too bad because there were some teams during that time that could have made some big noise like Lamoure this year. 1998 Hope/Page with Justin Burchill and Kory Klubben had great offense and pitching. 2000 Midway-Minto with Brett Narloch, David Skogen, David Schneck, and Ezra Branvold beat state runner up Munich 6 times during the season. 2002 Thompson had a loaded team with Dusty Robinson, Matt Chandler, and Travis Boespflug. Just a couple of examples off the top of my head.

Flip wrote:

letsrap wrote:When is the last time a team from north dakota was in the finals or won the regional?

IIRC Minot made it to the finals in 2001 w/Phil Shirek. Its maybe happened since then. Class B teams never advanced past the state tournaments except maybe the last 5-7(?) years.

Also... The Class A and B Regionals are two completely different things. Only the Class A advances to the World Series. The Regional for Class B is the end of the road.