Alden-Conger can’t overcome big innings

Published 8:59 am Friday, May 13, 2016

Lucas VanEngelenburg did his best to help Alden-Conger to a victory, but it wasn’t enough to beat Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial Thursday.

The Knights dropped a 13-3 decision in a matchup of Knights.

LC-WM got two runs in the second inning and never looked back. It added three runs in both the fourth and fifth inning, then piled on four in the seventh inning.

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Alden-Conger got one run in the fifth inning and two in the sixth, but it wasn’t enough.

Dillan Lein got the start for Alden-Conger and pitched four innings, but left the game to pitchers Michael Thorson and VanEngelenburg, and that’s when LC-WM started to pull away.

Alden-Conger finished the game with six hits, two of them coming courtesy of VanEngelenburg.