Lawson Berg's 'Maddux' keeps Duluth Marshall at bay in Bemidji victory
May 18—BEMIDJI — By the sixth inning of the Bemidji High School baseball team's game against Duluth Marshall, Lawson Berg was pitching lights-out. To that point, he had given up three hits and hadn't let a Hilltopper past second base. But Duluth Marshall's arms were keeping BHS batters at bay.
After giving up two runs in the first inning, Mason Park and Evan Lammi held Bemidji without a run to keep the game within reach. With the Jacks ahead 2-0 in the bottom of the sixth, Berg needed a better cushion for his final inning on the mound. Who better to do that than himself?
After Gunner Ganske hit a leadoff triple, Berg hit a line drive that hugged the first base line to score Ganske, an RBI double to extend the BHS lead to 3-0. The Jacks weren't done, either. Heaton Brodina hit a towering two-run home run to right field to truly give Bemidji the cushion it needed, leading 5-0 by inning's end.
Berg was sent back to the mound in the seventh inning to finish off the Hilltoppers. After giving up a leadoff single, he produced a double play and a fly out to close the Lumberjacks' 5-0 victory Monday evening at the BSU ballfield. Berg gave up only four hits, one walk and struck out four in seven innings pitched.
Oh, and he was 3-for-3 with an RBI at the plate. "Just a fabulous job by Lawson Berg," head coach Jim Grimm said. "He was bordering on a Maddux game.
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