The Flandreau Blue Teal amateur baseball team dropped to 3-4 on the season after dropping two of three games this past week.
Flandreau lost to Canova Gang on Thursday and then split a doubleheader with Salem on Sunday. The Blue Teal will play at Hartford-Humboldt on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

FLANDREAU – A big fifth inning and a big eighth inning allowed the reigning South Dakota Class B Amateur State Champions, Canova, to blow out the Blue Teal on Thursday, 19-3.
Canova went up 1-0 on a ground out in the second inning. They then scored eight runs in the fifth inning.
A two-run home run, a two-run single and a hit batter with the bases loaded made it 6-0. A bases clearing triple then put Canova up 9-0 heading into the bottom of the fifth. Flandreau got on the board in the fifth when Michael Witte stole home. Kolby Peters then scored on a Tristan Peters ground out to make it 9-2 in the sixth.
Canova added three more runs in the seventh. All three runs came from RBI singles and Canova led 12-2. Paul McGlone then hit into a fielder’s choice that scored Witte in the bottom of the inning, making it 12-3 heading into the eighth.
That’s when Canova scored seven runs in the eighth. The first run of the inning came on a bases loaded walk. A two-run single and a run from a ground out made it 16-3. A three-run home run then stretched the lead to 19-3 and Flandreau was unable to score the rest of the way.

Flandreau had six hits in the game. Tanner Christenson went 2-for-4 and McGlone went 1-for-4 with an RBI. Mason Riley went and Witte went 1-for-3 and Ethan Hoffman went 1-for-4.

SALEM - The two teams combined for nine hits but a four-run fifth inning proved to be the difference for Salem to get the win in game one, 5-2, of the doubleheader.
Flandreau scored first in the second inning. G Sharping hit a one-out single and then scored on a wild pitch to make it 1-0.
Salem tied the game on a bases loaded walk in the fourth and then took the lead in the fifth. A two-run double put the Cubs up 3-1 and then a bases loaded walk and a wild pitch made it 5-1 heading into the sixth.
Flandreau got one run back in the top of the sixth. Christenson hit a single with one out and then scored on a Tash Lunday single to make it 5-2. Neither team scored the rest of the way.
The Blue Teal had five hits. Lunday was 1-for-3 with an RBI and Christenson, Sharping and Kolby Peters were each 1-for-3. Tristan Van Wassenhove was 1-for-2.
B Gregory got the start for Flandreau and pitched four innings. He gave up one earned run on one hit with five strikeouts and four walks. Kolby Peters pitched the final two innings and gave up four earned runs on three hits with three strikeouts and two walks.

Ethan Johnson pitched a complete game and gave up one hit while striking out four batters and walking six. That propelled the Blue Teal to a shutout victory over the Cubs in the second half of the doubleheader.

Flandreau scored two runs in the first inning. Christenson and McGlone led off the inning with back-to-back singles and Lunday reached on a fielder’s choice to load the bases up. Riley grounded into a double play but Christenson scored and McGlone scored on one of the throws to make it 2-0.
The Blue Teal added three more runs in the fourth. Lunday hit a single to lead off the inning and then scored on a Riley double. Riley then scored on a Sharping single and he scored on a sacrifice bunt from Tristan Peters, making it 5-0.
The final run of the game came on a Kolby Peters single in the fifth inning.
Flandreau had 11 hits. Kolby Peters was 2-for-2 with an RBI and Riley was 1-for-2 with an RBI. Sharping was 2-for-3 with an RBI and Christenson and Lunday each went 1-for-3. McGlone went 1-for-4 and Sam Gassman went 2-for-3.
This week, the Blue Teal (3-4 overall, 2-4 in Corn Belt League) are at Hartford-Humboldt Gamecocks on Thursday at 7:30 and then at Dell Rapids Mudcats on Sunday in a 5 p.m. contest.