The Wagner Post 11 junior legion squad traveled to Tabor on July 28 and 29 to take part in the Region 4B tournament. This tournament was pool play with the other three teams participating being Tabor, Scotland- Menno-Freeman-Canistota, and Winner.

We played SMFC in the first round and got on top first as Dominic Doom drove in Ed Ulrich with a sac fly. SMFC answered back in the 2nd with five runs, though all five were unearned as we had a costly error with two outs.

The score would hold at 5-1 till the 6th inning when the 79ers added two more. They would add nine more off three pitchers in the 7th inning to claim a 16-1 victory. Dominic Doom took the loss on the mound. He gave up seven runs, two earned, in six innings of work. He allowed five hits while walking three and striking out four. Trasin Dilts, Avery Medicine Bear, and Trey Segura combined to allow nine earned runs on four hits and seven walks in the last inning.

Offensively, Beau Otte had two hits while Doom, Javian Pesicka, and Jamian Medicine Horn each had one.

Immediately after this first game, Wagner was right back out on the field to take on Winner. Things did not go well as Winner scored eight times in the first inning off of starter Ed Ulrich. Three of those eight runs were earned. He allowed three hits, three walks, and hit one batter. Ulrich would come out after that inning and gave way to Pesicka, who pitched one frame, allowing two earned runs on one hit and a walk. Otte, Medicine Horn, and Ulrich (who recovered to throw the final inning) combined to allow 11 runs, nine earned, on ten hits and four walks as Wagner would fall by a final count of 21-1.

Doom and Dilts had the only two hits for Wagner with Dilts scoring the lone run.

Wagner would face the host team Tabor in the final game of the tournament. We only played two innings before the storm came in. After two innings Wagner led 2-1 due to a two-run home run by Doom. Pesicka started the game on the mound and gave up the one run on three hits while striking out three. This was the last game of the tournament, and since SMFC had already gone 3-0, there was really no need to complete this game. So 2-1 was how the game ended. I think we’ll call it a win.

This team, which only finished the season with nine healthy players, ended with a record of 4-11.