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SATURDAY -  MAY 17, 2008

CROOKSTON BOY'S GOLF PREP FOR SUB-SECTION MEET AT ROSEAU

The Crookston Pirate boy's golf team is concluding a week of five meets in five days and also getting in another meet before the Sub-Section meet that is on Tuesday, when they travel to Roseau to participate in the Ram Invitational today.  It started this morning.
 

FRIDAY -  MAY 16, 2008

CROOKSTON SOFTBALL RALLY FALLS SHORT AGAINST DILWORTH-G-F

The Crookston Pirate girl's fast pitch softball scored four runs in the seventh inning and still fell short as they lost to Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 8-6 on Seniors Day at the Donnie Lauf Memorial/Crookston American Legion Softball Diamond.  With the win DGF solidifies the second seed in the sub-section playoffs while Crookston could be anywhere from the third to fourth seed.
DGF broke open a 1-1 tie in the top of the third inning when they took advantage of a couple Pirates errors by scoring three runs to take a 4-1 lead.  Crookston answered with a run on a Jennifer Meyer blast over the left center field fence for her second home run of the season to get the Pirates within a 4-2 score. "Jennifer got her arms out and drove one right out of the park," said Pirate Coach Chad Hitchen, "It was kind of a line drive shot, it was less than 50 feet off the ground.  She's been on a terror the past couple weeks."
DGF scored four more runs in the sixth inning after the Pirates made a pitching change, to jump out to an 8-2 lead, again taking advantage of Pirate defensive miscues.
Crookston didn't go down without a fight as Sydney Epema singled and advanced to second on the left fielders error.  Marlee Wheelhouse doubled, knocking in Epema from second.  Meyer reached on an error, advancing Wheelhouse to third base, then Meyer stole second. Brittany struck out, but the catcher wasn't able to handle the pitch, when the catcher did recover the ball she threw the ball down to first base it went off the firstbaseman's glove and everybody was safe as Wheelhouse came into score on the play getting the Pirates within an 8-4 score.  Erika Wheelhouse grounded out to the pitcher knocking in Meyer from third.  Ashley Jahn walked, Heidi Steinbrink reached on an error on the pitcher as Brittany Jahn came into score the fourth run of the inning to get Crookston within an 8-6 score.  With two out Danielle Persson walked to load the bases.  Coach Chad Hitchen decided to go with a freshman pinch hitter, Brooke Vatthauer, to replace Rachel Buchmeier.  Vatthauer forced a full count before she was caught looking at strike three and DGF wins the game by an 8-6 score.  "We came out flat at first," said Pirate Coach Chad Hitchen, "I was pleased that we battled back, but we can't let things go south, we can't take it all the way to Mexico we just have to pony up and be ready to go after the next pitch.  After all the errors and little miscues that we had, we were still on swing away from winning the game."

The Pirates end the regular season with a 10-6 record and will now be playing in the first round of the Section 8AA tournament, and Crookston will probably be hosting a first round game.
 

Jennifer Meyer is congratulated be her teammates after her home run

   Erika Wheelhouse slides into second base safely for a stolen base

Pitching                          IP    H    R   ER     BB     K
Brittany Jahn - Crox    5.0    6      4     2        0        3
Sydney Epema - Crox  2.0    4      4     3        0        1


     Heidi Steinbrink lays down a solid bunt in the fourth inning
 

For Crookston
Sydney Epema was 3-3 with two runs
Jennifer Meyer was 1-4 with a solo home run and two runs
Marlee Wheelhouse was 1-4 with a double, rbi and a run


 The nine Pirate Seniors after their final regular season game

CROOKSTON BASEBALL TRAVELS TO ADA

The Crookston Pirates snapped a seven game losing streak by beating the Ada-Borup Cougars 12-10 in Ada.
Ethan Hulst started the scoring for the Pirates as he hit a solo homerun over the left field fence to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead.  In the bottom of the first inning, Ada answered with a run to tie the game at 1-1.
In the third inning Crookston scored again, as Alex Proulx, a freshman, picked up his first varsity hit by hitting a double to center field.  Ben Curran walked before Hulst doubled, knocking in Proulx, followed by an Isaac Edlund single that scored Curran to give the Pirates a 3-1 lead.  Ada-Borup answered with two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to tie the game at 3-3.
In the fourth inning Crookston scored two more runs when Brandon Reierson and Matt Crawford hit back to back singles before Proulx singled to score Reierson.  Brady Langlois hit the Pirates fourth straight single to score Crawford and the Pirates had another two run lead 5-3.  Again, Ada-Borup answered with two more runs to tie the game (for the third time) at 5-5. 
Ada-Borup scored two runs in the fifth inning to take their first lead of the game at 7-5.  The Cougar lead wouldn't last long as the Pirates scored a whopping seven runs in the sixth inning.  Langlois and Curran started off the inning with back to back walks before Hulst hit a triple to score Langlois and Curran.  Hulst later scored on a wildpitch.  Matt Grove started a two out rally when he reached on a fielders choice, Reierson walked and Crawford singled in Grove.  Reierson scored on another wild pitch before Proulx walked followed by a Langlois single that scored Crawford and Proulx.
Ada-Borup scored a run in the in the sixth inning and added two more runs in the seventh inning before Hulst struck out the final batter to pick up the 12-10 win snapping a seven game Pirate losing streak.
Crookston improves to 4-9 on the year.
J.V. - Crookston won 9-4

Pitching                         IP    H    R   ER  BB     K
Matt Grove - Crox      4.2    9     7     5      3       5
Ethan Hulst - Crox      2.1    4      3    1      1       3    

For Crookston
Ethan Hulst was 4-5 with a homerun, triple, two doubles, 4 rbi's and two runs
Brady Langlois was 3-4 with 3 rbi's and a run
Alex Proulx was 2-3 with two runs an rbi and a double
Matt Crawford was 2-4 with two runs and an rbi
Isaac Edlund was 2-5 with an rbi

 

CROOKSTON BOY'S GOLF CONTINUE BUSY WEEK AT THIEF RIVER FALLS

The Crookston Pirate boy's golf team, playing in the fourth of five meets this week, finished tied for fifth out of 16 teams at the Thief River Falls Invitational. Crookston shot a 335 while Roseau won the meet shooting a 317.  It was an important meet for the Pirates, as head coach Steve Kofoed was still looking to fill a couple more spots for their tournament squad by taking the top two scores from the meet at TRF.  The top two Pirate scores were Ty and Ethan Nimens who shot an 81 and 82 respectively.  "Ty and Ethan both came out and played pretty well," said Pirate Coach Steve Kofoed who added, "All of us started out pretty shaky on the first five or six holes.  It seemed like they were all five or six over par so it was kind of anybody's ball game at that point.  After nine holes they were all kind of around the 41 to 43 range."  Coach Kofoed added that he was happy with the meet at Thief River Falls, "It was successful.  Our goal was to get out and find two other players that put up a decent number and two of them did, while the ones that didn't realize they didn't play as well as they could.  Hopefully the ones that didn't make the tournament team can take some of the lessons that they have learned to next year."

The Nimens brothers will join Seth Heppner, Kolton Walker, Ryan Remick and Seth Kalin for the final round of the regular season at Roseau Saturday morning.  
The Subsection meet will be Tuesday, May 20 at the Longbow Golf Course in Walker, with the Section meet at the same course on Tuesday, May 27.
 

THURSDAY -  MAY 15, 2008

CROOKSTON BOY'S TENNIS NUMBER ONE TEAM SEED, BIERMAIER-THOMPSON NUMBER ONE DOUBLES

The Crookston Pirate boy's tennis team was seeded number one by the Section 8A coaches and it earns the Pirates a first round bye in the seven team Section 8A TEAM Tournament that starts on Tuesday.
The Crookston Pirates doubles pair of Luke Biermaier-Jake Thompson were seeded number one in doubles, while Nick Biermaier-Carter Denison were seeded number six.  In singles, Wade Johnston of Crookston was seeded number eight and Josh Prudhomme received the number 12 seed.

The Section 8A Tournament has first round matches on Tuesday, May 20th:
Crookston receives a bye
Wadena-Deer Creek plays at Thief River Falls
Detroit Lakes plays at Park Rapids     
Perham plays at East Grand Forks  

Semi-Finals and Final will be in Crookston on Wednesday, May 21st:
11:00 AM -   winner of Detroit Lakes or Park Rapids   vs  Crookston
11:00 AM -   winner of TRF/WDC  vs winner of  Perham or EGF
1:00 PM -    Section 8A Championship  (winner advances to the State Team Tournament)

The Section 8A Individual Tournament will have first round matches on Wednesday, May 21st in Crookston after the Team Championship or about 3:00 PM.

FOR THE SINGLES SEEDS AND MATCHES, CLICK HERE

FOR THE DOUBLES SEEDS AND MATCHES, CLICK HERE

The finals of the Individual Tournament will start at 1:00 PM in Crookston, with the top two singles players and top two doubles teams advancing to the State Individual Tournament.

CROOKSTON PIRATE SOFTBALL WINS SIXTH IN A ROW

The Crookston Pirate Softball team extended their winning streak to six games, defeating Bagley 7-3 in a game played in Bagley.
After a scoreless first inning Crookston scored two runs on one hit capitalizing on Bagley errors to take a 2-0 lead. Crookston added another run in the third inning as Jennifer Meyer tripled and scored on a Brittany Jahn sacrificed fly.  Bagley added a run of their own in the bottom of the third inning to cut the Pirate lead to 3-1. The Pirates would put the game out of reach in the fifth inning when Marlee singled and advanced to second on a error before Jennifer Meyer knocked her in with a RBI double.  Meyer, Brittany Jahn, Erika Wheelhouse, and Ashley Jahn all would come around to score to give the Pirates a commanding 7-1 lead, and would go on to defeat Bagley 7-3. "It's always important to get out to an early lead and that is exactly what we did today," said Crookston head coach Chad Hitchen, "We came out a little flat tonight but we stayed with it and we were able to score some runs and had a big inning in the fifth as we used timely hitting and capitalized on their mistakes. Brittany Jahn pitched a great game for us and Sydney Epema came in to wrap it up. We need to have a good game tomorrow against Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton, if we can win and get some help we could get a two seed for the section tournament."
The Pirates finish the regular season tomorrow when they host Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton which is senior day, game time is set for 4:30 pm.  The game could be for the #2 seed in the Section Tournament, which starts on Tuesday, May 20.
Crookston improves to 10-5 on the year.

Pitching                          IP    H    R     ER     BB     K
Brittany Jahn-Crox      6.0    1     2        1        1       2
Sydney Epema-Crox    1.0    2     1        0        0       3

For Crookston
Jennifer Meyer went 3-4 with a triple, double, 2 runs scored, and a RBI
Danielle Persson was 2-3
Brittany Jahn was 1-3 with a RBI
Erika Wheelhouse went 1-4 with 2 runs scored, 2 stolen bases, and a RBI

PIRATE BOY'S GOLF FINISH 4TH AT DETROIT LAKES INVITE

The Crookston Pirate Boys Golf team shot a 320 finishing fourth out of 14 teams at the Detroit Lakes Invitational at the D.L. Country Club.  The Pirates were led by Seth Heppner who shot a 75 and Kolton Walker also finished with a sub 80 round with a 79.  Detroit Lakes won their own invite with a blistering 293 and had the top two individuals shooting a 70 and 71.  “The course was in great shape and the greens were rolling,” said Pirate Coach Steve Kofoed, “Seth (Heppner) and Kolton (Walker) shot pretty well for us shooting in the 70’s and (Ryan) Remick played well too.” 
Seth Heppner finished in a tie for fifth place with his 75, while Ryan Kuehne of Detroit Lakes shot a one under par 70.

The last regular season invites of the year will be on Friday at Thief River Falls and Saturday at Roseau.  A couple of the Pirates will have their last chance Friday to make the section team as Coach Kofoed will decide after he gets the players scores at Thief River Falls. 
The subsection meet will be Tuesday, May 20 at the Longbow Golf Course in Walker.

CROOKSTON GIRL'S GOLF THIRD AT WARROAD INVITATIONAL

The Crookston Pirates girl's golf team finished third out of five teams at the Warroad Invitational on a warm sunny day in Warroad. Lindsay Morgan was the medalist with a 91, two strokes better than runner up Emily Hallie of Roseau.  Morgan was the only Pirate to have a round under 100 as the conditions were very wet.  "It was a great day, but the course was so wet after all the rain they had," said Pirate Coach Jeff Perreault, "As soon as the ball hit the ground it would stick and not roll at all, so the scores the girls turned in were pretty good."  Lindsay Morgan was medalist with her 91, and coach Perreault talking about Morgan said, "She played very well, again the conditions weren't great and to shoot a 91 was a very good score." 
Coach Perreault said that Monica Wold's back is doing better, not 100 percent, but is doing better and she should be ready to go on Tuesday.
Crookston will be in the Sub-Section Meet at Wildflower Golf Course near Detroit Lakes next Tuesday.
 

PIRATE TRACK TEAMS FINISH 5TH AND AT THE ADA-BORUP MEET

The Crookston Pirate track teams participated at the Ada-Borup meet, the site of the Sub-Section meet on Thursday, May 22 and the Boys finished 5th out of 13 teams and the girls placed 3rd out of 12 teams.  Hawley-Ulen-Hitterdahl won the girls division with 114 points while Ada-Borup won the boys division with 107 points, one point better than Hawley-Ulen-Hitterdahl.
The Pirate boys had three first place finishes as Mike Shoeneberger won the 110 hurdles (Mike also finished second in the 300 hurdles), Javier Portillo finished first in the 1600 run, while brother Marian finished first in the 3200 run.
The Pirate girls had two first place finishes with Danielle Larson in the 100 hurdles and Shelby Folkers in the discus.
The Pirates will be at the East Grand Forks Invitational on Monday May 19 before they compete in the subsection 30A meet in Ada.

Hayley Epema in the long jump and Mike Schoeneberger wins the 110 hurdles
                (Pictures by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire Photography)

Chelsea Hesby in the pole vault and Leann Wagner in the 100 hurdles
              (Pictures by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire Photography)

FOR THE COMPLETE BOYS RESULTS CLICK HERE

FOR THE COMPLETE GIRLS RESULTS CLICK HERE

PIRATE BASEBALL LOSES SEVENTH STRAIGHT GAME IN 7-2 LOSS AT GREENBUSH

The Crookston Pirate Baseball team suffered their seventh straight defeat as they lost to Badger-Greenbush-Middle River (BGMR) 7-2 in a game played in Greenbush. 
BGMR started the scoring as they scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning to take a 2-0 lead.  Crookston answered in the top of the third when Brady Langlois reached on a fielders choice, then stole second base.  Ben Curran followed with a single knocking Langlois to third to give the Pirates runners on the corners.  Ethan Hulst singled knocking in Langlois from third for the Pirates first run, while Curran advanced to third.  Noah Prudhomme followed with a sacrifice fly to the centerfielder knocking in Curran from third to tie the game at 2-2. 
BGMR answered with three runs in the bottom of the third inning as the Gators took advantage of three hits and an error in the inning.  BGMR would add two insurance runs in the fourth inning to take a 7-2 lead and hold on to it the rest of the game.  "The whole season this has been the way it has been," said Pirate Coach Brian Follette, "We are in the game, staying close and all of the sudden we have a bad inning and we just can't seem to muster up enough offense to get back in it to get ahead."
Crookston only had two hits in the final four innings, both hits were by Isaac Edlund, who has increased his batting average to a solid .429 on the year.  "He's been doing a really nice job," said Coach Follette talking about Edlund adding, "He's getting hits and he has good speed."  Andrew Anderson suffered the loss for the Pirates, while Elliot Hulst pitched two innings of hitless relief for Crookston.  "When Ethan got in he pretty much shut them down in order," said Coach Follette, "He did a really nice job.  We knew that he had the capability of doing that."
Crookston drops to 3-9 on the year and will be at Ada-Borup on Friday at 5:00 p.m.

Pitching                                 IP    H    R   ER     BB     K
Andrew Anderson - CHS     4.0   11    7     5        0        0
Ethan Hulst - CHS               2.0    0     0     0        0        2
J. Holm - BGMR                 7.0    7     2     2        0       10

For Crookston
Isaac Edlund  was 2-3
Ben Curran was 1-2 with a run
Ethan Hulst was 1-2 with an rbi
Matt Crawford was 1-2

WEDNESDAY - MAY 14,  2008

PIRATE BOYS GOLF TEAM  6TH AT  FERTILE AND RED LAKE FALLS INVITE

The Crookston Pirate Boys Golf team traveled to the Fertile and Red Lake Falls golf courses to play nine holes on each course in the Fertile-Red Lake Falls Invite.  The Pirates, using a different squad, as coach Steve Kofoed continues to look for what he will use for the Sub-Section Tournament next week, finished sixth out of 19 teams.
The Pirates used the invite as the first cut for the Subsection team.  "We took the second six to try to eliminate a few and kind of get our spots for the final section team," said Pirate Coach Kofoed, "I told them at the start I was looking for 85's or better as all the guys are capable of doing that.  We had three guys that played pretty well and they will come with us Friday to Thief River Falls and we will hopefully be able to set all six of the section players in stone come Friday." The Pirates Chris Larson showed he was a possibility for the tournament squad, shooting an 82 this afternoon.
Nine Pirates will be fighting for the final six spots and they are Seth Heppner, Seth Kalin, Ryan Remick, Kolton Walker, Ty Nimens, Zach Cymbaluk, Chris Larson, Matt Greg and Ethan Nimens.  The final three made the first cut at the Fertile/RLF invite.  The Sub-section boys golf meet will be Tuesday May 20 in Walker.
 

TUESDAY -  MAY 13, 2008

WARROAD'S THIRD INNING LEADS WARRIORS TO 7-1 WIN IN CROOKSTON

After a couple inches of rain overnight, the baseball field in Warroad was not able to host a game between the Crookston Pirates and the Warroad Warriors, so the two schools decided that since Crookston's Jim Karn Field in playable, let's do it in Crookston.  It was worth the trip for Warroad, as they scored four runs on four of their six hits in the third inning and that was more then enough for the Warrior pitcher, Brett Hebel as Warroad defeated the Crookston Pirates 7-1.
Warroad scored a run in the first without the aid of a hit, but getting a couple walks and a hit batter as Chris Follette, the Pirate pitcher had control problems to start the game, and actually could of easily been out of the inning without any runs, but a dropped ball in the infield with bases loaded, did turn into a force out, but scored the first run.
The Warriors added another run in the second as Hebel, who got to second base by a Pirate error, went to third on a ground out and scored on Nick Capenter's sacrifice fly.
It was the third inning that Warroad had two thirds of their hits, with Brent Cole's double bringing in a run, speedster Jeremy Hahn single brought in another and Carpenter again, the Warriors number nine hitter drove in two runs with a single to left field and Warroad was up 6-0. "That has been our problem all year," said Crookston head coach Brian Follette, "but look at those innings, we had a chance to get out of it, but a dropped ball we probably should of had and misplaying a line drive and we are just about there to make the play, but didn't do it. Maybe some more time and more experience and practice, we will make those plays."
Crookston would scored their only run in the fourth inning, with one out, Isaac Edlund singled, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on Follette's triple down the right field line. The Pirates were unable to get Follette home from third, even though there was only one out, something they also did in the sixth inning. "That has been a problem for us this year," said Coach Follette, "we are hoping the kids can come through with a hit in that situation and unable to do it, so we might have to look at doing some other things in those situations, maybe squeezes and bunting the ball." Warroad scored another run in the fifth without a hit and took advantage of three Crookston errors.
Crookston is now 3-8 on the season and will travel to Greenbush on Thursday to play Badger-Greenbush-Middle River in a single conference game at 5:00 PM. "We are close," said Brian Follette, "and we'll get there, which will be the key thing and we'll have to just keep improving."
Warroad improves to 12-2 on the year and the two teams will see other a week from Thursday, when Crookston now will travel to Warroad.

Chris Follette swings at a pitch and gets the first Pirate base hit of the game