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By JIM LUTGENS
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From the first inning on, it was an uphill battle for the NRHEG softball team.
The Panthers, who saw United South Central take a 3-0 advantage, never could catch up and lost 8-0 at Wells last Thursday.
The Rebels, who totaled 11 hits and one error, added single runs in the fourth and sixth and three in the fifth while holding the Panthers to two hits.
Izley Boerner and Faith Nielsen singled for the Panthers, who com- mitted five fielding errors.
The Rebels doubled and hit a home run. Nielsen pitched for the Panthers, allowing three earned runs while walking two and striking out one.
M. Anderson, the winning pitcher, struck out 12 and walked none while going the distance.
The Panthers kept it close through five innings Friday against Blooming Prairie, but fell 5-2 at Legion Field in New Richland.
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All things considered, last week was not a bad one for the NRHEG High School baseball team. Especially when you consider the Panthers have a first-year head coach and a squad with no seniors.
That didn't seem to matter last Tuesday as the Panthers traveled to Blue Earth Area and toughed out a 4-3 victory.
"The last couple of days of base- ball could not be any more fun and exciting!" said NRHEG coach Shawn Larson. "We were walked off yesterday in extra innings, and today we were able to close out a one-run game in the seventh inning."
It was close most of the day. The Panthers led 3-0 after the top of the sixth inning, but the Bucs scored three in their at-bat to tie it.
The Panthers scored the winning run in the top of the seventh, when Carter Martens delivered a clutch two-out single to drive in Alden Dobberstein.
Martens, Dobberstein and Devon Parpart collected one hit apiece as the Panthers capitalized on seven Blue Earth Area fielding miscues. Dobberstein had two RBIs, Martens and Brooks Gilliland one apiece. Parpart stole three bases, one more than Dobberstein and Jared Lee.
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Will Tuttle was in midseason form and the rest of the NRHEG High School boys' track and field team followed suit.
Tuttle, a senior and a returning state entrant, swept the hurdle races as the NRHEG boys opened the season with a third-plac finish in the Hayfield Invitational last week.
Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Southland finished first with 201 points. Following were Pine Island with 184.5, NRHEG 100, Blooming Prairie 56, Lyle/Austin Pacelli 43.5, Medford 33.5, Kenyon-Wanamingo 32.5, Hayfield 18 and Ranolph 13.
Tuttlle took two of the Panthers' three firsts, winning the 110-meter high hurdles in 16.04 seconds and the 300 intermediate hurdles in 41.69.
The other NRHEG gold went to Jacob Karl, who won the 3200 in 11:38.79.
Other Panther places: Levin Kitzer, second, 110 hurdles, 17.02 and sixth, 300 hurdles, 47.58; Charlie Fuller, second, triple jump, 37-9; Owen Bartlett, third, triple jump, 37-4; Lavon Jewison, third, high jump, 5-6; Kitzer, Harbor Cromwell, Tuttle, Jaylin Raab, third, 4x100 relay, 46.59; Cromwell, Raab, Gavin Sletten, Wyatt Tuttle, third, 4x400, 4:00.01; Raab, fourth, long jump, 18-11 and fifth, 100, 12.3; Cromwell, fourth, pole vault, 9-0; Parker Bunn, fifth, 300 hurdles, 46.76 and seventh, 100 hurdles, 19.71; Gavin Lewison, fifth, high jump, 5-4; Kitzer, sixth, 300, 47.58; Sletten, eighth, 800, 2:37.29.
"The boys looked good tonight to take home a third-place finish," said Panthers coach Duey Ferber. "Will looked in midseason form. Some of the younger guys stepped up and scored points for us tonight."
The Panthers compete in the Maple River Invitational Thursday, April 18 at 4:30 p.m.