{KXLG – Watertown, SD}\u00a0Following the conclusion of its baseball season, Watertown Post 17 has announced its postseason team award winners.<\/p>\n
The honorees include: Hunter Halajian, who received the Most Improved Award; Jonathan Lake, the Iron Man Award; Jackson McClemans, the Pitching Ace Award; Carter Buisker, the Gold Glove Award for Infield; Jaxon Falak, the Gold Glove Award for Outfield; and Markus Pitkin, who was named Offensive MVP.<\/p>\n
These players played key roles in Post 17\u2019s postseason run, which saw the team finish tied for third at the Class A American Legion State Tournament.<\/p>\n
After entering the tournament as the No. 10 seed, Watertown opened with a loss to top-seeded Rapid City Post 22 before fighting through the elimination bracket. The Arrows defeated Brandon Valley in a comeback victory and then shut out Rapid City Post 320, 7-0, to reach the final four.<\/p>\n
McClemans was particularly strong on the mound during the tournament, including a seven-inning shutout against Post 320. His performance capped a standout season in which he posted a 1.22 ERA, breaking the Watertown Baseball record of 1.26 set by Spencer Waite in 1996.<\/p>\n
Watertown\u2019s season came to an end with an 8-0 loss to Sioux Falls West. Post 17 finished the season with a 23-17 record and tied for third at the state tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"{KXLG – Watertown, SD}\u00a0Following the conclusion of its baseball season, Watertown Post 17 has announced its postseason team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2314,2317,2313,95192,95189,95191,95193,95190,2426,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,95194,4,2305,2303,2415,2419,90098,34118,90099,1039],"class_list":["post-770751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-carter-buisker","tag-hunter-halajian","tag-jackson-mcclemans","tag-jaxon-falak","tag-jonathan-lake","tag-kxlg","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-markus-pitkin","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-south-dakota","tag-watertown","tag-watertown-baseball-association","tag-watertown-post-17","tag-wba","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}