Post 400, Dickinson split Legion baseball doubleheader

FARGO — The Fargo Post 400 Stars and the Dickinson Roughriders split an American Legion baseball doubleheader on Monday at Starion Field.

Post 400’s Colby Hanson and Chase Lura got the better of a pitchers’ duel against Dickinson’s Jeremiah Jilek in a 2-0 win. But Jilek exacted his revenge at the plate in game two, collecting three hits and driving in four runs in the Roughriders’ 10-3 victory.

In the first game, Hanson and Jilek battled through three scoreless innings but Post 400 broke through with two runs in the bottom of the fourth.

Fargo’s Gus Pankratz led off with a line-drive double to left field. Caleb Christianson followed with a ground ball that the Roughriders booted, allowing Christianson to reach and Pankratz to score the game’s first run.

Gus Werremeyer then moved Christianson to second with a sacrifice bunt and Gunnar Majerus lined a single to left to score Christianson.

Hanson and Lura did the rest, retiring nine of the last 10 Dickinson batters, with Lura allowing only a two-out walk in the sixth before recording a strikeout to end the inning.

Hanson allowed just two hits and two walks with eight strikeouts in five innings to get the win. Lura finished off the last two innings to get the save.

Majerus was 2-for-3 and Hanson, Pankratz and Kane Mathiason had Post 400’s other hits.

Jilek went all six innings, allowing one earned run on five hits. He walked two and struck out three.

In the second game, the Roughriders put the Stars in a hole early, taking a 6-0 lead with three runs in both the first and second innings. Post 400 got two runs back in the third but any momentum the Stars may have built evaporated when Dickinson got those two back in the top of the fourth. The Roughriders scored two more in the sixth.

Jilek was 3-for-4 with a double and he drove in four runs and scored twice. Kyler Kudrna was 2-for-4 with a double and a triple and two RBIs. Jack Price was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Cameron Wolf was 3-for-3 with an RBI.

Jace Kovash got the win, allowing two earned runs on seven hits in six innings. He didn’t issue a walk and struck out four. Post 400 loaded the bases on three straight singles in the bottom of the seventh but the Roughriders’ Jack Price relieved and got the final three outs.

The Stars’ Hudson Stein tripled twice in three trips and drove in two runs. Mathiason had a hit and an RBI and Cayden Neuharth had a triple and a double and scored two runs.

The Stars fell to 6-7 overall and they play next at the Jr. Jay College World Series Classic on June 19-22 in Omaha, Neb. Dickinson is 5-3 overall.

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