Blue Earth Area’s Adam Schavey starts his slide to home plate in the Bucs’ recent game against Jackson County Central. Schavey was safe at home and the Maroon and Gold defeated the Huskies 22-10. The Bucs have a record of 5-1 through six games this season.

The Blue Earth Area Buccaneers played host to the Redwood Valley Cardinals for a doubleheader on April 20, a day when the weather seemed more suitable for a November football playoff game.

The Cardinals won the first game before the Bucs rallied to win the second game.

RWV 11, BEA 10

The flag located behind center field was blowing straight to the east when the first game got underway. The temperatures were in the high 40s making it hard for players and fans alike to get comfortable.

Both teams made multiple errors and the Cardinals took an early lead only to have the Bucs battle back and make it a close game.

BEA had the tieing run on third base and the winning run on second base in the bottom of the seventh inning when RWV recorded the final out to end the game.

Anders Fering went 3-for-5 with three RBIs. Kean Hicks was 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Keegan O’Brien was 1-for-2 and Parker Meyers was 1-for-3. O’Brien and Meyers each scored two runs.

BEA 20, RWV 19

The wind speed dropped for the second game of the twin bill, but so did the temperature. By the time the game came to an end at 10 p.m., the temperature was in the high 20s.

BEA was the visiting team on the scoreboard for the second game. The Bucs trailed 19-18 heading into the top of the seventh inning but scored two runs to take the lead. The Bucs then held the Cardinals scoreless in the bottom of the seventh to claim a 20-19 victory.

“It was cold. I know I was cold,” BEA mentor Todd Schmidtke said. “I’m sure the weather affected the play of both teams to some degree, but give the guys credit because they played hard to the very end.”

Six different BEA batters had a multiple hit game.

Anders Fering, Luke Mertens and Ryan Madetzke each had three hits. Keegan O’Brien, Logan O’Hara and Hicks each collected two hits.

Fering had four RBIs, Madetzke and Hicks each drove in three runs. Mertens, O’Brien, and O’Hara each tallied two RBIs.

The winning pitcher was Adam Schavey who pitched the final two innings in relief.

BEA 22, JCC 10

The Blue Earth Area baseball team continued to rough up the pitching staffs of their opponents. Their latest victim was the Jackson County Central Huskies.

The Buccaneers torched the Huskies’ pitchers for 22 runs on 22 hits to defeat their Big South Conference opponent 22-10 in six innings. The game was played on Saturday, April 17, in Jackson.

BEA scored two runs in the top of the first inning. Adam Schavey hit a one-out double and scored on a single by Logan O’Hara. Anders Fering doubled to put runners on second and third base.

Luke Mertens hit a ground out to the second baseman to score O’Hara.

The Bucs extended their lead to 5-0 when they added three more runs in the top of the second inning but the Huskies used six walks, two hits and an error to plate seven runners and take a 7-5 lead.

JCC added another run in the bottom of the third inning to go up 8-5.

BEA scored four runs in top of the fourth inning to retake the lead 9-8. However, the Huskies scored once in the bottom of the inning to tie the game at 9-9.

The Maroon and Gold got their bats going again and scored seven runs in the top of the fifth inning and six in the top of the sixth to go up 22-9. JCC had a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth to make the final score 22-10.

Schavey had four hits in six plate appearances, scored five runs and drove in three runs. Keegan O’Brien went 3-for-5 while scoring three runs and driving in two runners.

Fering went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs. Kean Hicks was 3-for-3 with a double and three RBIs.

Mertens went 2-for-2 with two RBIs, two runs scored and two walks. Luke Schonborn also had two hits and two RBIs.

O’Hara picked up the win in relief. He pitched the final four innings and allowed three runs on five hits while striking out five batters and walking three.

BEA 26, LCWM 6

Keegan O’Brien and Luke Mertens each hit three-run home runs for Blue Earth Area and the Bucs went on to defeat Lake Crystal/Wellcome Memorial 26-6.

The Bucs pounded out 21 hits to down the Knights in a non-conference game played in Lake Crystal.

O’Brien and Adam Schavey led BEA’s offensive outburst with four hits each.

The Bucs scored 10 runs in the top of the first inning and added another run in the top of the second to take an 11-0 lead.

The Knights scored six runs in the bottom of the second to cut the Bucs’ lead to 11-6.

BEA added two more runs in the top of the third inning and one in the fourth.

O’Brien and Mertens each hit their blasts in the fifth inning when the Bucs put 12 more runs up on the scoreboard.

In addition to his home run, O’Brien also had two doubles and four RBIs and scored four runs.

Schavey had three RBIs and also scored four runs.

Mertens ended the day going 3-for-4 and crossed the plate four times.

Logan O’Hara, Ryan Madetzke, Parker Meyers and Kean Hicks each had two hits in the game.

Meyers, Anthony Carr and Madetzke shared the pitching duties for the Bucs.