The Crusaders capped off their regular season in exciting fashion, beating St. Michael-Albertville 3-2 in nine innings on Thursday night.

Cathedral took an early 1-0 advantage in the home half of the first inning. Phil Imholte led off the game reaching safely on an error. He advanced to third on a Steve Rindelaub single and scored on a Nate Schmidt sacrifice fly. St. Michalel-Albertville tied the game at one on a two out wild pitch by Cathedral starter Josh Janzen in the fourth inning. St. Michael-Albertville would take the lead in the seventh inning thanks in part to a leadoff walk issued by reliever, Nick Maiers. In the bottom of the seventh, trailing 2-1, Tom Spaniol singled, but was followed by two consecutive outs. Imholte followed with a walk before Rindelaub’s single to right tied the game. Both teams were held scoreless in the eight inning and St. Michael-Albertville failed to score a run in their half off the ninth inning. Maiers led off the Cathedral ninth with a single, but was picked off. This was followed by singles by Josh Janzen, Imholte and Rindelaub to load the bases with one out. Nate Schmidt hit a sharp grounder to second, but beat out the relay throw for the double play, which scored Janzen, giving the Crusaders the 3-2 victory.

Janzen pitched five solid innings for Cathedral, allowing just one earned run on two hits and two walks while striking out three. Maiers earned the win, pitching four innings in which he gave up one run on three hits and one walk with three strikeouts.

Spaniol and Rindelaub each reached base three times for the Crusaders.

Steve Rindelaub scored a run and reached base 3 times in the victory.

Thanks to MaxPreps, a leading website in high school sports, you will now be able to follow season stats online of the Cathedral Baseball team. On the site, you will be able to look at individual stats, as well as team stats from the season.

By clicking on the link below, it will bring you to the Cathedral Baseball page on MaxPreps. From there, click on "Team Stats" on the red task bar to look at the individual statistics.

Cathedral Baseball on Max Preps

A link will be added to the left column of the page as well.