SPRINGFIELD — The Sleepy Eye Junior Legion baseball team started the Southwest Sub-State Junior Legion Baseball Tournament on Sunday with an 8-6 win over the host team Springfield before falling 5-3 to Luverne to end the night and fall into the elimination bracket.

Sleepy Eye will next play Slayton in a 4 p.m. game Monday back at Springfield in a win-or-go-home game. A win in that game moves the winner on to a 7 p.m. game with Luverne at 7 p.m. that same night. If Luverne loses its 7 p.m. Monday game, another 7 p.m. win-or-go-home game will be played Tuesday night.

In Sleepy Eye’s win over Springfield, Tyler Mathiowetz was 3 for 3 with a homer and two RBIs to lead Sleepy Eye, while Kayden Klein was 3 for 4 with a double and an RBI and Cole Eckstein tripled and added an RBI. Kessler Severson went four innings on the mound for the win, allowing one hit and four walks for no earned runs while striking out seven.

Aiden Moriarty was 1 for 2 with a triple and two RBIs to lead Springfield, while Kadyn Anderson doubled and had an RBI. Noah Mueller took the loss in 5 2/3 innings, allowing nine hits and four walks for three earned runs while striking out four.

In the loss to Luverne, Sleepy Eye was led by Gavin Strong, who went 2 for 3 at the plate with a double, while Severson added a double. Damian Sanchez went all seven innings on the mound for Sleepy Eye, allowing nine hits and no walks for three earned runs while striking out one.