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Cotter began the day with a 2-0 Hiawatha Valley League win at Triton. The Ramblers then set off on a caravan of players, coaches and parents to Kasson-Mantorville to complete a suspended game for an 8-1 win and push their winning streak to three.
Cotter sophomore Jordan Ossefoort set the tone for a strong day of pitching for the Ramblers with a complete-game, five-hit shutout against Triton.
Ossefoort had eight strikeouts and one walk and made sure Cotter’s 2-0 first-inning lead held up.
“Jordan was awesome,” Cotter coach Mat O’Brien said. “Complete command. We pretty much rode him the entire game.”
Matt Wolfe and Joe Coron drove in the Ramblers’ runs with RBI singles in the first and the Ramblers played error-free baseball behind Ossefoort the rest of the way.
Cotter picked up where it left off in more ways than one against K-M.
The game commenced in a scoreless tie with no outs in the bottom of the second and a K-M base runner on second.
The KoMets took a short-lived 1-0 lead, but the Ramblers quickly responded with more quality pitching, hitting and defense.
Cotter (7-8, 5-6) tied the game 1-1 in the top of the third, then exploded for six runs in the top of the fourth to take a 7-1 lead.
Wolfe stole home with two outs and the bases loaded for the second run in Cotter’s six-run fourth. The Ramblers went on to tack on four more two-out runs.
Wolfe pitched a complete game and struck out five in front of another error-free Cotter defense.
Cotter’s Scott Ryan went 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs, Kris Murphy went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs and David Miller went 2-for-4.
“Our pitchers did a great job,” O’Brien said. “Defense as well. To come off a win Saturday and get two wins today was big for us.”
Boys golf
Lake City Invitational
LAKE CITY, Minn. — WSHS finished in second place out of nine teams, shooting 333 while Cotter finished fifth, shooting 348.
Justin Ewert finished sixth, shooting 79, William Leaf shot 82 to finish 10th, Frank Wychram shot 83 and Zach Erickson shot 87 for the Winhawks.
“I thought we shot well today. 333 was a good score in the conditions,” WSHS coach Jon Hogenson said.
Aaron Theis led the way for Cotter, shooting 79 and finishing fifth. Andrew Fricke shot 84, Garrett Welle shot 90 and Brian Keane shot 95 to round out scoring for the Ramblers.
“It was very windy today. Anything under 80 was a great score,” Cotter coach Jason Yusten said. “I felt we could’ve played better. If we shave off a few strokes here and there, we would’ve been in it because it was so tight.”
Rochester Lourdes finished first, shooting 327 and Tanner Ticton of Lourdes took medalist honors.
Boys tennis
Cotter 4, Lake City 3
LAKE CITY, Minn. — In singles action, Ross Heymans (7-5, 6-1) and Jake Demarais (6-2, 5-7, 6-3) took home wins for Cotter.
In doubles, Joey Nadeau and Sam Werle (6-1, 6-0) and Connor Ferris and Ludi Leser (6-4, 3-6, 6-2) prevailed for the Ramblers.
Track and Field
HVL meet
BYRON, Minn. — Cotter came away with several high finishers.
Donny Wasinger won the 800-meter dash with a time of 1 minute, 58.60 seconds and he won the 1600 as well in 4:26.
Lexi Burnikel won the long jump with a distance of 16 feet, 3 inches and finished second in the high jump (5-2).
Patrick Bowlin finished second in the long jump (20-2) and the 400 (53.46), respectively.
