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Walks, errors doom Knights in home finale

Staff photo by Travis Rosenau Martin Luther College second baseman Alex Ritter prepares to throw to first for an out as relief pitcher Bobby Larsen (29) looks on in a college baseball game with the University of Wisconsin-Superior on Wednesday in New Ulm.

NEW ULM — In baseball, a walk can be considered as good as a hit.

If that is the case, the University of Wisconsin-Superior had 20 hits instead of 10 in their Upper Midwest Athletic Conference game against the Martin Luther College Knights Wednesday afternoon.

MLC pitchers issued 10 walks in the game and were guilty of three errors that allowed four unearned runs to score as the Yellowjackets downed MLC 13-1.

The Knights committed five errors total in the game, which was the home season finale.

Bryce Flanagan got the win for Superior (16-15, 12-4). He went seven innings and allowed one run on four hits.

Reagan Moore took the loss for the Knights (3-21, 3-12). He allowed six runs, two earned, in five innings.

The Knights’ lone run in the game came on a Jonas Lindemann home run in the second inning.

Otherwise it was all Superior with help from the Knights’ pitchers.

Three walks helped lead to two runs for the Yellowjackets in the first before two more walks, two hit batters and two throwing errors added two more runs in the second inning for a 4-0 lead.

Lindemann’s solo blast over the fence in right breathed some life into the Knights.

But Superior scored two more runs in the fifth on no hits thanks to a leadoff walk, an error and a wild pitch.

The Yellowjackets added three more runs in the eighth on only one hit and then closed out the game with four runs in the top of the ninth, led by a two-run homer by Gunner Johnson.

MLC has a triple-header Thursday at Morris.

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