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Minster's Caleb Couse slides home on a wild pitch as New Bremen's Gavin Quellhorst waits for the throw during Tuesday's MAC baseball game at New Bremen.
NEW BREMEN - For the first five innings, Minster and New Bremen engaged in a classic Midwest Athletic Conference baseball pitchers' duel.
Louis Magoto kept New Bremen off-balanced and finished with a complete-game two-hitter as the Wildcats picked up the 6-0 victory at New Bremen High School on Tuesday.
At the start, Magoto and New Bremen starter Gavin Quellhorst were set to match zeroes as much as possible. Quellhorst got out of a two-on, no-out jam in the top of the first thanks to a pair of strikeouts, then went 1-2-3 in the second inning. Magoto retired the first eight Cardinals in order before Garrett Tinnerman reached on a two-out single in the third.
"It was a good pitchers' duel," said Minster coach Mike Wiss. "We had a couple of opportunities."
In the top of the third, Caleb Couse led off for Minster by drawing a walk. Quellhorst quickly got Dylan Heitkamp to fly out to center. Magoto grounded to short, but the throw to get Couse at third was just late, which proved big as a wild pitch brought Couse home for the first run of the game.
Quellhorst worked out of a jam in the fourth before giving up two runs in the fifth thanks in part to Rylan Edwards driving home a run with a single.
"Gavin pitched well today," said New Bremen coach Chad Wells. "He kept us in the game and battled the entire time. Can't fault his effort today."
Louis Magoto pitched a two-hitter and had two hits at the plate to help Minster defeat New Bremen 6-0.
The Wildcats chased Quellhorst in the sixth. Couse executed a perfect squeeze to score Noah Schwieterman, then with no one covering first or second, took second without a throw. Magoto helped his own cause with a shot just inside the line in right field, sprinting around for a triple to score Couse, then later coming home on a wild pitch after Jack Sailer came on in relief.
"There were mistakes on both sides, maybe with the wind (blowing in for much of the game)," said Wiss, a nod to the teams' five combined errors.
Meanwhile, Magoto was in full control, limiting New Bremen to just three baserunners over the final four innings. Dylan Wente singled in the fourth inning and Bennett Tinnerman reached on an error in the fifth, but was out at second after Garrett Tinnerman grounded into a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.
In the seventh, Brady Keller reached on a one-out walk, the lone walk Magoto allowed, but Sailer popped up to Noah Schwieterman, who flipped the ball to first for the double play to end the game.
New Bremen's Jack Sailer throws to first to try and get Minster's Dylan Heitkamp.
"I think except for one inning, Louis got the first man out," said Wiss. "Louis threw the ball pretty darn well."
"We made a couple mistakes, and good teams capitalize on that," said Wells. "That's what (Minster) did today."
Both teams return to conference play on Thursday with road trips. Minster makes the short trek to New Knoxville while New Bremen heads north on state route 66 to take on Delphos St. John's.
