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Here's to another great season!

Bill Nelson (current manager of the Dundas Dukes) has been selected for the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame.  The induction ceremony will be on Saturday September 15 at the St. Cloud Civic Center.  Social hour is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. with dinner at 5:30 and the induction of Nelson, Mike Gagnon, Al Mueller, and Bob Van Hee to immediately follow. 

 

Nelson began his amateur career in 1971 at Hayward, MN and then played two years for Dick’s Place in Columbia Heights.  In 1975 he joined the Dundas Dukes and the rest, as they say, is history.   While at Dundas he has played on two State Amateur Class “B” champions in 1982 and 1988.  He became the manager in 1989 and managed the Dukes until 1999 which coincided with their back to back State Amateur Championships in ‘98 and ’99.  He then retired, only to return to managing in 2005 after Don Freeman stepped down as manager after the 2004 season.

The Dukes finished second in 1975, ’80, ’81, and ’96 while Nelson was with them.  In 1983 and ’84 Nelson played with the Burnsville Bobcats for two years finishing second in the state in ’84. 

When he returned to Dundas in 1985 Nelson was key in starting the yearly program that the team produces.  He also led movements to renovate every area of Memorial Park.  Lights were installed.  A new concession stand was built along with dugouts, grandstand, scoreboard, sprinkling system, and a new public address system. 

 

After losing to Rochester 5-1 on Friday night the Dukes bounced back big time and beat Hampton 16-4 in seven innings on Sunday in Hampton.  The first seven starters had at least two hits each with Rich Bordas, Javy Guevara and Tyler Jones all collecting three hits apiece. Guevara also knocked in four runs starting with Maus and Bordas in the first inning. Dundas scored one more in the third to go ahead 3-2 on a Tyler Jones triple and a Loos groundout to second.  After scoring three in the sixth, the Dukes batted around in the seventh scoring ten runs on eight hits, two walks and two hit batters. 

Matt Neuger pitched the first six innings for the Dukes and gave up four runs on six hits striking out eight and walking two for the win.  Jon Engeswick pitched a one, two, three seventh.  This win brings the Dukes CCVL record to 8-5 with two games left.  The Dukes play Randolph on Tuesday and Red Wing on Sunday the 22nd of June.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Dundas	2	0	0	1	0	3	10	-	-	16	18	3
Hampton	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	-	-	4	6	0

Winner--Neuger    Loser--Wagner

The Dundas Dukes swept the league games they played on Saturday and Sunday winning 13-0 over Bay City and 1-0 over Hastings.  The Dukes didn't make an error in either game and young pitchers did a great job holding the opponents scoreless. 

Against Bay City Chris Purcell gained his first win as a Duke and on Sunday Matt Neuger tossed a five-hitter holding Hastings scoreless.  Purcell recorded four strikeouts and no walks as his teammates piled up fifteen hits and thirteen runs.  The game was ended after seven innings because of the ten run rule.  Maus, McDermott, Magrane, Brandt and Moore all had two hits for Dundas.

On Sunday the Dukes scored one run in the fourth inning and held on for the win.  In the top of the fourth Hastings shortstop Pfeiffer tried to score on a double by Jake Gaub but was cut down at the plate on good throws by Robin Moore and Josh Maus.  Javy Guevara started the Dukes fourth inning rally by singling and stealing second.  He went to third on a grounder to first base by Carson Jones and scored when Doug Sylvester grounded out to second.  The Dukes had bases loaded in the sixth and eighth but couldn't push across another run.  Neuger got stronger as the game went on facing four batters in the sixth and seventh but taking Hastings one, two, three in the fifth, eighth and ninth.  He finished the game by striking out the last two hitters.  He had five strikeouts and three walks.  Guevara finished the day three for four with a double.  No other Duke has more than one hit.

This brings the Dukes league record to 5-5 with five league games left. 

Bay City    000 000 0  0-3-1

Dundas     610 402-   13-15-0

Winner--Purcell    Loser--Lange

Hastings  000 000 000   0-5-2

Dundas   000 100 00-    1-6-0

Winner--Neuger    Loser--Barta

Next game is the Fourth of July game against Northfield at Dundas.  Game time is 2:00 P.M.

The Dukes travelled to Miesville Sunday and gave the Mudhens a good game, but fell short when two bases loaded innings ended up for naught.  Miesville opened the scoring by scoring one in the second and two in the third.  The Dukes came right back and scored two in the top of the fourth when MIke Ludwig singled in Javy Guevara and Carson Jones.  That would be all the scoring for the Dukes even though they loaded the bases in the sixth and seventh.  Strikeouts ended both innings.  Miesville scored three runs in the sixth on a two out rally.  Otto doubled and Scott Werner singled off the infield umpire to leave runners at first and second.  On the next pitch, Matt Vanderbosch hit a three run HR over the right field fence.  Deuth took the loss for the Dukes pitching seven innings giving up all six runs while walking four and striking out five.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Dundas	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	-	2	8	0
Miesville	0	1	2	0	0	3	0	0	-	6	8	0

 Winner--Olean     Loser--Deuth

The Dukes next game is Wed night vs Savage at Dundas.  7:30 P.M. start.

The Dukes let one slip through their fingers Friday night at Memorial Park.  After taking a 4-1 lead in the first inning the Dukes would score only one more run the rest of the way.  Josh Maus led the first off with a triple and scored on Rich Bordas' sac fly to center.  Carson Jones singled, Javy Guevara singled, Doug Sylvester singled in Jones and Mike Ludwig doubled in Guevara.  Sylvester scored by an error by the Angels third baseman for the final run in the first. 

In the top of the fifth the Angels scored three runs to tie the score off of the Dukes' starter Andy Dimick.  The Dukes came back in the bottom of the inning on a Guevara single and Ludwig RBI double.  Then the Angels scored two more in the eighth off Chris Purcell to end the scoring for the night.  Dundas had a chance in the bottom of the eighth, however, Carson Jones grounded out to Shortstop with the bases loaded to end the threat.  Ludwig and Sylvester each had three hits on the night and finished with two.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Mpls Angels	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	6	12	2
Dundas	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	10	2

Winner - M. Hronski     Loser - Purcell

The Dukes' next game is against the Miesville Mudhens on Sundas at Miesville.  Game time is 2:00 P.M.