MINNESOTA LAKE – Two of them were close, but the Glenville-Emmons American Legion baseball team dropped two of three games in the Minnesota Lake Invitational last weekend.

Tuesday, June 19, 2001

MINNESOTA LAKE – Two of them were close, but the Glenville-Emmons American Legion baseball team dropped two of three games in the Minnesota Lake Invitational last weekend.

After opening with a 9-3 loss to LeSueur on Saturday, Glenville-Emmons played a pair of one-run games on Sunday, falling 2-1 to the host team but bouncing back to beat the Mapleton VFW 6-5.

Mitch Meier was the leader in the opener, going 3-for-4. Chase Rayman was 2-for-4. Rich Mathis, Matt Learn, Jay Wadding and Dustin Peterson each had one hit. Meier pitched the first 4 2/3 innings and took the loss; Wadding went the final 1 1/3 inning.

Learn doubled for the only hit against Minnesota Lake. Mathis did not allow an earned run in seven innings, striking out five and walking two; he gave up five hits.

Glenville-Emmons was outhit 6-4 by Mapleton but took advantage of four errors. Rayman, Mathis, Wadding and Learn had one hit apiece. Learn scattered six hits over seven innings; he struck out eight and walked seven.

Glenville-Emmons, 2-4, travels to Blooming Prairie today for a 6 p.m. game.

LeSueur 9, Glenville-Emmons 2

G-E 000 102 0 -3 9 2

LS 212 040 x -9 13 1

LP – Meier

Minn. Lk. 2, Glenville-Emmons 1

Minn. Lake 200 000 0 -2 5 2

G-E 001 000 0 -1 1 4

LP – Mathis

Glenville-Emmons 6, Mapleton 5

G-E 012 300 0 -6 4 2

Mapleton 031 001 0 -5 6 4

WP – Learn