"It was really a good game," said coach Aaron Hamann. "We couldn't have asked for any more than Jordan gave us. A couple mistakes in base-running hurt us, but as a whole, the guys played really well. Sumner-Fredericksburg was probably as good a match-up as we could get in a first game."
The Vikings rapped out nine hits in the contest, with Jacob Kluesner going 3-for-3 (double), Dalton Handke 2-for-3, (RBI, double) and Nick Dugan (double), Eric Conner (RBI), Michael Kelchen and Jordan Sommers all getting hits.
"Sumner scored two runs in the first inning, getting two hits to drop just outside the infield and just short of the outfield," said Hamann. "But we got one back in the bottom of the inning and scored again in the sixth. But we came up just short."
The Vikings stranded base runners "too often," said Hamann. "A couple of times we had bases loaded or runners on second and third and couldn't get the hits we needed to get them in. That kind of hurt us."