Hopkins Legion Baseball

Our magical run comes to a close at the hands of Fargo, ND in the Regional Championship game. 3,500 legion teams across the country and we finish in the final 16. Unbelievably proud of this group, the bar for this program has been raised. Once a Flyer always a Flyer. #FlyersFly

The Flyers advance to the winners bracket final with an 8-1 win over Hamel! Abu Kalokoh ‘25 and Reid Oertli ‘25 combined to give up just 3 hits in the win. Eli Charney ‘25 paced the offense with two doubles. Flyers play Hutch tomorrow with a state bid on the line! #FlyersFly

Substate schedule for Post 320 today: Flyers (1-0) vs Hamel (1-0) 7:00 PM | Hamel Legion Field Millers (2-0) vs Eden Prairie (2-0) 7:00 PM | Big Willow Park

Millers took a 6-2 win over Bloomington today and move on to face EP tomorrow! Chase Radel threw a gem today. CG, 1 ER, 6 Ks. Big game tomorrow night at 7pm at Big Willow!

The Millers play game 2 of Substate today at 2p vs Bloomington! The fellas got a 5-2 win on Tuesday in game 1 of Substate vs Wayzata Gold. Frodermann and Dalle combined for 7 IP, 2 ER and 5 Ks.

The Millers closed out the regular season tonight with a 9-3 win over Eden Prairie. Frank Huibregtse was electric and finished with 6 IP, 2 H, 0 ER and 4 Ks. Millers finish 24-13-2 and 19-5 in their last 24. They will head into substate as the #2 seed at the Big Willow site.

Excited and grateful for one more! @CoachKeeran07 @Monroe_MWSU

Minnesota American Legion Substate 4 seeding, schedule docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… #LegionBaseball100

The Flyers are the 1 seed in Substate 4 and will open playoffs Wednesday at 4pm in Hamel against Dassel/Cokato! Full seed list: 1. Hopkins 2. Excelsior 3. Hutchinson 4. Waconia 5. Hamel 6. Chaska 7. Orono/Maple Plain 8. Dassel/Cokato

A rough 3rd inning kills the Flyers in a one run loss to Excelsior. Liam Dalle ‘26 had a triple and Ethan Sawatsky ‘25 was 3/3 at the plate. Parker Runquist ‘25 was great out of the pen. Edina tomorrow at BW to wrap the regular season #FlyersFly

The Millers get a 5-4 win vs a good Bloomington team. They get it done behind another CG from Liam Cowley. Frodermann, Johnston and Huibregtse each collected 2 hits in the win.

A huge Substate DH sweep for the Flyers tonight, 12-3 and 8-4 over Waconia! Abu Kalokoh ‘25 had 10 Ks in 5ip in game 1 and Liam Dalle ‘26 and Grant Goss ‘26 combined to get the job done in game 2. Lot of hits to go around in both #FlyersFly

Fun Excelsior tournament this weekend. Team played really good going 4-0 Felt good in the box .545 avg (6/11) 2 doubles 4 singles 2 walks 4 RBI 5 runs Outfield assist from center to home @hopkinspost320 @CoachZachElder @ryderlane27 @HopkinsBaseball

The Millers won the Excelsior tournament this weekend by going 4-0! Frank Huibregtse, Alex Blee and Liam Cowley all threw CGs and gave up a combined 4 ER over 19 Innings. Millers are 14-4 in their last 18 games. One more week of games leading up to the playoffs!

Congrats to Bennington, NE for winning the Hopkins site at the Gopher Classic! Thanks to all teams for coming. One of the deepest sites we’ve ever had! Final standings: Bennington, NE 4-1 Hopkins 3-2 Omaha Central 2-3 Sioux Falls West 2-3 Forest Lake 2-3 Grand Rapids 2-3

A Joe Schaefer ‘25 walk off single in the 8th gave the Flyers a 4-3 win over Forest Lake to finish off the Gopher Classic! Baylor Paul ‘26, Liam Dalle ‘26, and Reid Oertli ‘25 combined to give up just 2 ER from the hill and Wyatt Peterson ‘25 had 3 hits. #FlyersFly

A line out with the bases loaded ended another tight loss for the Flyers today to Omaha Central 6-5. Liam Dalle ‘26 had three hits while Jay Mound ‘27 and Eli Charney ‘25 had 2 each to lead the offense.

Omaha Central takes down Grand Rapids 11-7 off an 8th inning grand slam. Game 2 Grand Rapids and Bennington will start at noon!

Hopkins standings through 2 days. A lot to play for still! Bennington, NE 3-1 Grand Rapids 2-1 Forest Lake 2-1 Hopkins 2-1 Sioux Falls West, SD 1-3 Omaha Central, NE 0-3

The Flyers started the game with 6 straight hits en route to a 9-0 win over Grand Rapids. Jay Mound ‘27 gave up just 2 hits in the CG shutout. #FlyersFly

Scores from the day so far in Hopkins! Forest Lake 3 Bennington 2 Bennington 8 Sioux Falls West 0 Grand Rapids 3 Forest Lake 2