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Prep Softball: Minot North plates 32 runs, collects 29 hits in sweep

Turtle Mountain scored the first run to open a doubleheader against Minot North.

The Sentinels proceeded to score 32 of the next 38 runs over the final 10 innings for a sweep of the Braves on Tuesday, April 28, at Scheels South Hill Complex. Minot North won the opener, 13-3, in six innings and closed out the doubleheader with a 19-4 victory in five innings. The 19 runs tied a season high.

Minot North (8-6 overall, 6-6 WDA) collected 13 hits in the opener. Cole Kotaska and Eliese McCann both finished 3-for-4. Kotaska tripled and drove in three runs. Aven Kelly also tripled, driving in a pair of runs and scoring twice. Kate Coleman went 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored.

Eight of nine Sentinels recorded a hit and scored a run. All nine reached base safely at least once.

Winter Day led the Braves (1-14, 0-12) with three hits, doubling and tripling and driving in two runs.

Kinzy Welstad picked up the win in the circle, allowing three runs on six hits over six innings. She struck out six and didn’t walk a batter.

The Sentinels plated at least three runs in each of their four at-bats in the nightcap. They scored three in the first, five in the second, four in the third and seven in the fourth.

Welstad, Coleman and Tiecyn Hertz all went 3-for-3, combining for nine RBIs and nine runs scored. Kotaska, Welstad and Hertz all tripled and Kelly, Kambry Burckhard and Mya Bagwell each doubled. All nine Sentinels collected hits. Eight scored runs and six recorded RBIs.

Minot North has scored 10-plus runs in six games this season.

Harley Bercier finished 3-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored for Turtle Mountain.

Hertz pitched all five innings to earn the win for the Majettes. She allowed four runs on nine hits, striking out three and walking two.

Minot North hosts Jamestown on Thursday, April 30, at South Hills Complex beginning at 4:30 p.m.

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