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It may have taken a bit to get the gears working and wheels rolling, but once the machine was in motion, the Minot Honeybee offense could not be stopped. The Bees lit up the scoreboard for 15-10 and 15-5 victories over the La Crosse Steam in the home opener.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Steam were the first to find success with the bats, scoring three runs in the first inning. In the fourth inning, two unearned runs scored against Minot starting pitcher Ashleigh Heiderscheit to extend the lead to 5-0 in favor of La Crosse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heiderscheit would get the help she was looking for from the offense in the fifth inning. The inning began with three consecutive hits from Virginia Mambelli, Reagan Winn and Olivia Hernandez, a sharp turn from being no-hit through four innings. Hernandez\u2019s single score Mambelli and the Bees were on the board. A long while later, Minot generated enough offense to take out La Crosse\u2019s starting pitcher, Elly Eckrich, with one out and four runs in.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The lead would trade hands, still in the fifth inning, on a Mambelli double. Two runs scored on the hit and the Honeybees went up 7-5. The inning wasn\u2019t over yet. Hernandez picked up another RBI hit, as did Winn to complete a nine-run inning.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Honeybees turned into a whole different team after such an inning, a new side of them that would last the rest of the night. After tacking on six more runs in the sixth inning, the Honeybees nailed down the win in game one 15-10.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Play resumed with the first pitch of game two just a half-hour later. Once again, the Steam started hot, using an Avary Makarewicz home run to go up 2-0 right away. La Crosse\u2019s pitching, however, still hadn\u2019t found an answer for the erupting Minot Honeybees. Minot plated two runs in the bottom of the first on a Shayna Myshrall two-run blast, then went for five runs in the second, aided by Cadey Shipman\u2019s two-RBI single.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still, the Steam wouldn\u2019t go away, cutting the deficit to 7-4 in the third innings. Olivia Lenzen responded for Minot, bat flipping her way around the bases on a home run to right field. Even with a comfortable lead, the Honeybees showed no signs of slowing down, adding four runs in the fifth inning and three in the sixth before the run-rule kicked in.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Minot enjoyed two wins on one night against the La Crosse, marking the first time in franchise history that the Bees swept a doubleheader. There is still one game left in the series, a Sunday afternoon affair that begins at 1:05 pm at Corbett Field.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shayna Myshrall was the day\u2019s <\/span>SportClips MVP<\/b> with three hits including a home run. Virginia Mambelli\u2019s two-RBI hit in game one was deserving of the <\/span>First Command Play of the Game<\/b>. Count it as two <\/span>Sky Dancer Casino Big Wins<\/b> for the Bees on Saturday, a doubleheader in which they drew nine <\/span>Buffalo Wild Wings Walks.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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