After an opening night victory over Sartell and a pair of defeats on Saturday, Ely's American Legion baseball team rebounded Sunday with a 5-1 win over Hibbing, salvaging a 2-2 split in the 24th annual DQ Grill and Chill Classic.
Trevor Bernsdorf tossed a five-hitter, struck out seven and stranded five runners in the final two frames to earn the pitching victory, his first in an Ely uniform.
Sean Fisher helped kickstart the Ely offense with a pair of bunt singles and a double. He scored twice for Post 248 while teammates Nick Mathews and Greg Helget knocked in two runs apiece.
A Wes Snyder triple in the fifth inning was his second hit of the game and led to a squeeze bunt by Helget.
Aaron Donais also had two hits for Ely, which placed third among six teams in the tournament and improved to 6-3 overall.
In action on Saturday, Snyder was the hard-luck losing pitcher in Ely's 3-0 loss to tournament champion Minnetonka. The visitors from the Twin Cities scratched out two unearned runs in the fifth and another in the seventh against the Ely lefty, who allowed only five hits.
But Minnetonka's Neil Kos shut down the Ely hitters, firing a one-hitter with 11 strikeouts. No Ely player advanced past second based.
Proctor scored three runs in the fourth and eight in the fifth, erasing a 6-5 lead and going on to a 16-9 win in Saturday's finale.
The loss spoiled a big day at the plate for Mathews, who went three-for-four and launched a third-inning grand slam, which put Ely ahead 6-5. Both Alex Koschak and Louie Gerzin had two hits.
Helget started and got the loss for Post 248, which used four pitchers.
Minnetonka, which downed Proctor 9-4 on Sunday, finished 4-0 and won the DQ Classic for the second time in three years. Deer River clinched second place with its 4-3 win over Sartell and won three of four games. Ely and Sartell both finished 2-2, Proctor was 1-3 and Hibbing was winless in four games.
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