Sleepy Eye ended a three-game skid after downing Maple River 8-2 and then ended the night with a 4-2 win over St. James.

Sleepy Eye (5-3) got a strong mound showing from starting pitcher Caleb Oscarson against Maple River as the righty struck out 13 in a complete-game effort. Oscarson walked six and allowed four hits but limited the damage to just two runs.

Meanwhile, his defense behind him stayed sharp without any errors while the Sleepy Eye bats gave him an early boost as they took a 4-0 lead in the second inning.

Oscarson gave up a leadoff hit to Chase Urban to start the game, but he got a groundout, strikeout and another groundout to end the inning. He didn’t allow another hit until the fifth inning after that.

Staff photo by Travis Rosenau Sleepy Eye VFW pitcher Caleb Oscarson pitches during a baseball game against Maple River Junior Legion on Wednesday at Sleepy Eye Ballpark. Oscarson fanned 13 in a complete-game win.

Jaxon Saenz and Shea Evers each went 2 for 3 to lead Sleepy Eye against Maple River, with Saenz driving in a run also. Adam Braulick was 2 for 4 with an RBI also for Sleepy Eye, while Derek Wales was 1 for 3 with three RBIs.

Javen Byram took the loss in five innings for Maple River, allowing seven hits and six walks for eight earned runs while striking out six.

In Sleepy Eye’s four-run second inning, T Sellner took a one-out walk before Evers singled and Heath Eckstein walked to load the bases. A single by Wales scored two and an error from right field allowed the third run to score to make it 3-0. Wales took second on the error.

Saenz then singled in Wales for a quick 4-0 lead.

Four more Sleepy Eye runs scored in the fourth, led by an RBI single by Braulick.

An Emery Stevens RBI single brought in the first Maple River run of the game in the fifth and an RBI single from Nolan Vait in the sixth made the final score.

Sleepy Eye got another strong pitching performance in the night cap, this time from Wales, who struck out 11 in a complete-game effort of his own. He allowed four hits and no walks for two unearned runs.

Evers was 2 for 2 with an RBI, while Jared Portner was 2 for 3 with an RBI to lead Sleepy Eye at the plate. Brecken Hulke, Kyle Nelson and Saenz each had a double in the win over St. James also.

Alex Alden took the loss in six innings for St. James, allowing eight hits and two walks for four runs, three earned, while striking out four. Sawyer Olson had a hit and an RBI for St. James, which came in the first inning for a 1-0 St. James lead.

Sleepy Eye tied it in the bottom of the inning when an error allowed Wales to score. St. James took a 2-1 lead in the third, which held until the bottom of the fifth when Sleepy Eye had one-out doubles from Nelson and Hulke. A strikeout saw two outs in the inning, but Portner singled in the tying run, Evers singled in the go-ahead run and Sleepy Eye held on after that.

Sleepy Eye will take on Marshall in Leavenworth at 5 p.m. Monday.