Pierre would score a total of 22 runs on 24 hits in two games winning 11-1 and 11-0 over Spearfish at home on Wednesday.
Charlie Simpson would have an RBI double in the first to get the Eights off and running as Carter Schiefelbein would return to the lineup going 2-4 in game one with three RBIs making it 2-0 in the second and George Stalley adding an RBI in the third to take a 3-0 lead. Pierre added three runs in the fourth with Trevor Rounds also returning to the lineup going 2-2 in game one with two RBIs. Everybody in the Post 8 lineup would record a hit with Dawson Getz going 4-4 as Pierre scored five runs in the fifth and another run in the sixth to win it 11-1 in six innings. Nolan Petersen would go 3-4 with the game ending RBI hit as the Eights pounded out 17. Miles Doyle would get the run support to go four innings for the win giving up two hits, a run on three walks and six punch outs. Rounds pitched the final two innings without allowing a base runner.
In game two, a throwing error with two outs in the first would score Petersen for Pierre to lead 1-0. But in the fourth, Pierre would score 10 runs with RBI hits from JJ Bucholz, Shiefelbein and Bridger Babcock. Petersen and Grayson Hunsley each drove in two runs on their hits in the fourth and Bucholz would get a bases loaded walk to get a second RBI in the inning and Schiefelbein had another two RBI single driving in a total of six runs in two games as Cooper Terwilliger would throw a two hit shutout going one batter over the minimum drawing two double plays in five innings.
Pierre is now 4-18 and 3-10 in South Dakota games. The Eights will have the weekend off with Sioux Falls East coming to town on Tuesday. First pitch of the doubleheader will be at 3:00 on KCCR and on YouTube at KCCR Sports.
