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North Branch St. Francis

Vikings

Fighting Saints

The St. Francis (MN) varsity baseball team won Friday's home conference game against North Branch (MN) by a score of 5-4.

Game Details: North Branch Area HS, Varsity Field Game 2 of DH

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
North Branch	0	0	3	1	0	-	-	4	4	0
St. Francis	4	1	0	0	-	-	-	5	7	1

Final score provided by S. Christensen.

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Game Stats

North Branch (20-21)

North Branch

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B	3B
	Team Totals	.211	25	19	5	4	3	1	1
3	Jordan Axberg (Sr)	.000	3	1	1	0
4	Nathan Skiba (Jr)	.500	2	2	1	1
5	Cole Palmer (Sr)	.500	2	2		1		1
8	Nathan Franklin (Jr)				1
13	I. Scarborough (Jr)	.000	3	3		0
14	Bryce Skiba (Sr)		3	2			1
21	Adam Richards (Sr)		3	2
22	G. Jensen-Schneider (Sr)		3	2
23	Andrew Orf (Fr)	.667	3	3	2	2	2		1
24	Reed Jacobsen (Jr)		3	2

North Branch

#	Athlete Name	SH/B	BB	K	HBP	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	4	8	1	.375	.368	.743
3	Jordan Axberg (Sr)		2	1		.667	.000	.667
4	Nathan Skiba (Jr)					.500	.500	1.000
5	Cole Palmer (Sr)					.500	1.000	1.500
13	I. Scarborough (Jr)			1		.000	.000	.000
14	Bryce Skiba (Sr)		1	1		.333	.000	.333
21	Adam Richards (Sr)	1		2		.000	.000	.000
22	G. Jensen-Schneider (Sr)			2	1	.333	.000	.333
23	Andrew Orf (Fr)			1		.667	1.333	2.000
24	Reed Jacobsen (Jr)		1			.333	.000	.333

North Branch

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A
	Team Totals	1.000	19	12	7
3	Jordan Axberg (Sr)	1.000	4	0	4
4	Nathan Skiba (Jr)	1.000	5	4	1
5	Cole Palmer (Sr)	1.000	2	1	1
14	Bryce Skiba (Sr)	1.000	2	1	1
21	Adam Richards (Sr)	1.000	1	1	0
23	Andrew Orf (Fr)	1.000	1	1	0
24	Reed Jacobsen (Jr)	1.000	4	4	0

North Branch

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	L	W%	APP	GS
	Team Totals	8.75	1	.000	2	1
14	Bryce Skiba (Sr)	17.50	1	.000	1	1
23	Andrew Orf (Fr)	0.00			1

North Branch

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	2B	HR	BF	AB
	Team Totals	4	7	5	5	2	3	1	1	18	15
14	Bryce Skiba (Sr)	2	6	5	5	1	2	1	1	12	10
23	Andrew Orf (Fr)	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	6	5

North Branch

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	HBP	#P
	Team Totals	.467	.556	1	76
14	Bryce Skiba (Sr)	.600	.667	1	48
23	Andrew Orf (Fr)	.200	.333	0	28

St. Francis (20-21)

St. Francis has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

Minnesota High School Baseball - North Branch can't hold off St. Francis

May 28, 2021: St. Francis, MN 55070

In Friday's league game, the host St. Francis Fighting Saints baseball team scored a tight 5-4 victory over the North Branch Vikings.

Rankings & Records

North Branch (20-21)

MN	Class
62	11

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
16-9	7-7	8-5	6-3	2-1	.640	.500	154	91

St. Francis (20-21)

MN	Class
70	37

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
5-7	3-6	2-4	3-3	.417	.333	45	51

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
North Branch	1.0	.8	1.2	.9	1.1	.9	.9	6.2	7.9	1.7
St. Francis	1.6	.6	.6	0	.6	.4	.5	3.8	6.0	1.6

Head-to-Head

St. Francis won on 5/28/2021

5/28 @ 2p 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

St. Francis 1 0 3 0 1 - - 5 8 -
North Branch 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 2 2

The St. Francis (MN) varsity baseball team won Friday's away conference game against North Branch (MN) by a score of 5-0.
Box score
St. Francis won on 5/28/2021

5/28 @ 4p 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

North Branch 0 0 3 1 0 - - 4 4 0
St. Francis 4 1 0 0 - - - 5 7 1

The North Branch (MN) varsity baseball team lost Friday's away conference game against St. Francis (MN) by a score of 5-4.
Box score

5/28 @ 2p	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
St. Francis	1	0	3	0	1	-	-	5	8	-
North Branch	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	2	2

Team Stat Comparison

North Branch		St. Francis
.310	Batting Average	-
.434	On Base Percentage	-
.410	Slugging Percentage	-
.944	Fielding Percentage	-
.640	Win Loss Percentage	-

Team Leaders

North Branch		St. Francis	National Avg.
#23 Andrew Orf.466	Batting Average	-	.253
#23 Andrew Orf.556	On Base Percentage	-	.378
#23 Andrew Orf.726	Slugging Percentage	-	.318
#11 Sam Robillard1.000	Fielding Percentage	-	.860
#23 Andrew Orf1.000	Win Loss Percentage	-	.543

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
North Branch	8-6		St. Francis	2-6

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
4/15/21	Cambridge-Isanti	North Branch	(W) 11-1	4/20/21	St. Francis	Cambridge-Isanti
5/6/21	North Branch	Cambridge-Isanti	(W) 7-1	5/7/21	Cambridge-Isanti	St. Francis
4/16/21	Big Lake	North Branch	(W) 5-1	4/15/21	Big Lake	St. Francis	(L) 4-1
5/13/21	North Branch	Big Lake	(L) 4-3	5/6/21	St. Francis	Big Lake	(W) 6-4
				6/7/21	St. Francis	Big Lake	(W) 3-0
4/20/21	Chisago Lakes Area	North Branch	(L) 10-1	4/23/21	Chisago Lakes Area	St. Francis	(L) 10-0
5/18/21	North Branch	Chisago Lakes Area	(W) 4-2	5/13/21	St. Francis	Chisago Lakes Area	(L) 7-6
6/8/21	Chisago Lakes Area	North Branch	(L) 2-1
4/22/21	North Branch	Monticello	(L) 11-8	4/13/21	Monticello	St. Francis	(L) 3-1
5/11/21	Monticello	North Branch	(W) 13-3	5/4/21	St. Francis	Monticello
5/4/21	North Branch	Becker	(W) 12-0	4/27/21	Becker	St. Francis	(L) 8-3
5/4/21	Becker	North Branch	(L) 7-2	5/25/21	St. Francis	Becker	(L) 3-2
5/10/21	Princeton	North Branch	(L) 5-4	4/22/21	St. Francis	Princeton
5/25/21	North Branch	Princeton	(W) 4-1	4/22/21	St. Francis	Princeton
6/8/21	Princeton	North Branch	(W) 2-1	5/11/21	Princeton	St. Francis
				5/11/21	Princeton	St. Francis

Record Breakdown

North Branch (20-21)		St. Francis (20-21)
16-9	Overall	5-7
7-7	League	3-6
6-0	Non-League	1-1
0-2	Head to Head	2-0
8-6	Common Opponent	2-6
8-5	Home	2-4
6-3	Away	3-3
2-1	Neutral	0-0
3-2	Playoff	1-0
16-9	In-State	5-7
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0