Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms baseball downed 9-4 by WEM Thursday

The Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms baseball team was on the road in Waterville Thursday for a Gopher Conference matchup against Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Thursday, and it was the Buccaneers downing the Blossoms 9-4.

Dylan Johnson tallied two of Blooming Prairie’s nine hits in the game in four trips to the plate, Luke Larkoski was 1 for 4 and led the Blossoms in RBI’s with two, Alex Miller was 1 for 2 and scored two of BP’s runs in the game, plus he drew a pair of walks, Drew Kittleson was 1 for 3 with a run knocked in and Joe Pirkl, Chris Naatz, Charlie Heimerman and Mitchell Fiebiger all added a hit apiece for Blooming Prairie, who fell to 0-3 on the season with the loss.

The Blossoms are back in action Saturday morning as they play host to St. Clair/Loyola, with first pitch scheduled for 11:00 a.m.