HAYS — Sylvan Grove’s Legion baseball team rallied for a 5-4 victory over Ellinwood on Colin Obermueller’s game-winning single in Wednesday’s AA Russell Zone baseball tournament. The game was moved to Hays from Russell because of a unplayable field.
Ellinwood (9-10) plays Thursday against the Marysville-Smith Center loser.
Ellinwood led 4-1 after 41/2 innings. Sylvan Grove led 1-0 when Dylan Fry scored a first-inning run.
Ellinwood’s Levi Swenson scored a second-inning run on a double steal with Evan Johanning. Brady Stephenson singled home David Hammeke and Kyler Doll for a 3-1 lead after three innings. Stephenson’s fifth-inning single scored Hammeke, but Doll was thrown out at home on a throw by Kyle Shipley — the game’s most critical play.
Sylvan Grove’s Fry scored on a fifth-inning balk and Drew Biggs tripled home Tyler Stanley for a 4-3 score. in the seventh inning, Tyler Stanley’s triple scored Fry and Colin Obermueller’s RBI single scored Stanley with the game-ending run off losing pitcher Levi Swenson.

Ellinwood 012 010 0 — 4 5 3
Sylvan Grove 100 020 2 — 5 7 3
Knop, Swenson (5) and Stephenson. O’Hare, Fry (7) and Stanley. W–Fry. L–Swenson. 3B–SG--Stanley, Biggs

RUSSELL ZONE (2 qualifiers)—TUESDAY—Smith Center 10, Russell 9, 10 innings; Sylvan Grove 5, Ellinwood 4; WEDNESDAY—Marysville 21-6 vs. Smith Center 7-10, 6 p.m.; Concordia 9-4 vs. Sylvan Grove 7-5, 8 p.m.; THURSDAY—Ellinwood 9-10 vs. Marysville-Smith Center loser, 6; Russell 15-11 vs. Concordia-Sylvan Grove loser, 8