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MITCHELL — The most anticipated first round match up of the 89^th annual South Dakota State Amateur Baseball Tournament didn’t disappoint Friday afternoon.

Alexandria got run scoring hits from Jed Schmidt and Aaron Groenweg for a 2-0 win over Canova in a rematch of last year’s Class B championship game.

Schmidt’s run-scoring double in the second inning appeared to be perhaps the only run on the afternoon until Growenweg added some insurance in the eighth with a solo home run over the left field wall.

Schmidt got the start for the Angels and pitched a complete game, giving up just four hits while striking out seven and walking one.

Trey Krier took the loss for The Gang — pitching eight innings, giving up the two runs on nine hits while striking out three.

Alexandria will meet Volga after the Cormorants defeated Crofton 3-2 in the afternoon’s second game.

Volga took an early 2-0 lead after the second inning and added another run in the top of the seventh before Crofton started to mount a comeback with two runs in the bottom of the eighth.

The Cormorants were led by Jake Arlt and Austin Buysse with two hits while Parker Puetz picked up the win — pitching 7 2/3 innings. He gave up two runs on six hits before handing the ball off to Trevor Olson who pitched the final 1 1/3 innings for the save.

Jared Wiebelhaus and Corey Rouch had two hits each to lead the Blue Jays.

Ben Hegge took the loss — pitching six innings, giving up three runs on 10 hits before handing the ball off to Tyler Priest.