When you win a bid to host the state tournament, teams need to put an extraordinary amount of time into prepping their parks.
That tournament takes place one year from now, so we need to have all players that can pitch in show up for this work day.
We'll have two in September. We'll probably need the entire afternoon to get some work done, so even if you can't show up until 1 or 2 p.m., please make plans to help out.
We have some players at college, so I really need the guys who are still around to pick up the slack, even our high school guys. If someone can't make it, let me know. We need our players to contribute more than just on-field production. Thank you for your efforts to give us everything you can off the field, as well.
The Brewers lost two close games in the final weekend of the region, 4-3 to Loretto and 5-3 to Young America.
The Larks of Loretto won the No. 1 seed and drafted Adam Gregg or Maple Plain.
Young America drafted Billy Soule of Maple Plain. Soule is a Wayzata native who pitches out of the bullpen for the University of Minnesota.
Gregg is a former pitcher of the year in his days playing for St. Boni in the Crow River Valley League.
Both teams open the state tourney with games on Saturday in Bird Island.
The Brewers finish their season 18-15 having achieved the No. 1 seed in the North heading into the region, batting .314 as a team in league play and scoring an immense amount of runs. Ryan Grams will be a candidate for pitcher of the year in the league, and a few hitters in the lineup have statistics that will get them mentioned in the discuss for MVP of the league.
The Brewers continue to plan for the upcoming 2011 amateur baseball state tournament which will be held in Glencoe and Brownton. With a little better luck and play next year, the Brewers could find themselves in the state tournament again on familiar turf, Vollmer or Tadsen Field in Glencoe or Brownton.
Ryam Grams threw a brilliant shutout on the mound for the Brewers on Saturday, Aug. 7th in Cologne. Grams out-dueled Andrew Fredericksen, the draftee pitcher from Hamburg who threw a complete game for the Bruins.
Josh Monahan doubled in two runs early in the game that held up for a 2-0 win over the Crow River Valley (CRVL) South opponent, Brownton. Brownton sported a 14-4 regular season record in league play, the best record of any Class C team in the entire CRVL (north or south).
From the second inning through the 8th, the Brewers did not allow a Bruin runner to reach second base. Draftee catch, Nic Haller, from the Mayer Blazers, called a great game behind the plate and contributed significantly to the shutout.
The win for Glencoe gave them their 10th win in their past 12 games, and it makes two consecutive shutouts for Grams.
Up next is the Loretto Larks who defeated Young America 7-0 to advance to Friday night's matchup in Norwood with the Brewers. Chris Lenton threw a complete game shutout over the YA Cards in the victory,
despite Nik Franck saying the ball looked as "big as a pumpkin" coming
out of Lenton's hand. The Larks' Lenton is a draftee pitcher from the Albertville Villains, the prize pick when Loretto surprised Maple Plain by beating them twice in the seeding game to take the No. 1 seed from the Northstar East Division. Lenton plays with local Plato Bluejay rivals Matt Odegaard and Tyler Lang for the Minnesota State Mankato Mavericks.