RED WING -- Austin's amateur baseball teams continued a recent trend and went in different directions in the first round of the 16th Annual Dewey Tauer Tournament Thursday night at Athletic Field in Red Wing.

The Hayfield/Austin Athletics lost their sixth straight game by virtue of a complete-game two-hitter delivered by Tony LePage and eighth-ranked Dundas. The Dukes downed the Athletics 7-1 for the first-round victory.

Austin's Class B team, the Greyhounds, kept its winning streak alive at seven games behind Tate Cummins' one-man show, 8-1.

The Greyhounds (11-4) moved up to fifth on the most recent release of the state rankings, powered by their recent surge. Cummins threw a three-hitter and drove in the game-winning runs with his first home run of the season -- a three-run shot that broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Grant Lunning and John Frein reached with back-to-back one-out hits to bring up the top of the order in Cummins, who deposited an inside fastball over the left-field fence.

"The hits started falling in there, and they are contagious, that's for sure," Cummins said. "Grant's been hitting the ball well lately, and Frein's great to have at nine. He sets the table very well."

Lunning had the Greyhounds' only hit through the first five innings, and he started the seventh-inning rally with a one-out single. Frein followed with a double to the fence, but Lunning was unable to score after making sure the ball was down. Cummins then chased them both home.

"I got a fastball low and inside and I got out in front of it," he said. "That's the best pitch I hit."

Once the floodgates were open, Austin rallied up four unearned runs off reliever Brandon Rassbach in the eighth. Jamie Morrison plated Craig Selk with a double to right-center, and Cummins added another RBI with a single to score Frein.

Austin trailed 1-0 after Bay City went ahead in the fourth. The lead was short-lived as the 'Hounds pieced together a run in the sixth. Nick Rohne led off with a single to right and took second on an error. Mitch Mullenbach sacrificed him to third, and Selk scored him on a single to left.

In addition to a 2-for-5, five RBI day at the plate, Cummins allowed only three hits and struck out 10 in his complete-game victory.

"It's a blast to go out there and help the ballclub because we don't have the pitching," Cummins said. "We come to these tournaments wanting to put on a good showing and win every game, and get ready for the (postseason) tournaments in August."

Rassbach, the designated hitter for Bay City, had two of his team's three hits. The Greyhounds had eight hits and overcame an uncharacteristic three defensive errors. Austin plays Saturday night at 5 p.m. against Dundas.

Dukes drub Athletics

The Dukes scored two runs in the top of the third inning, and that would be surprisingly enough to hold down the Athletics in the tournament opener. LePage tossed a two-hitter, walked one and struck out eight while outdueling Luke Fischer, who struck out 10 and allowed only those two earned runs in the third.

The Hayfield/Austin defense committed six errors -- five of which came after the second outs in the seventh and eighth innings. That was when Dundas rallied for five unearned runs off Fischer, who allowed nine hits and six walks.

Jamie Beck and Todd Walerak had the Athletics' only hits -- both singles. Beck also reached on an error to lead off the bottom of the fifth and scored the team's only run on Walerak's misplayed grounder with two outs.

The A's, having lost six straight, fall to 7-9 overall and the consolation bracket of the Tauer Tournament. They will meet Bay City Saturday morning at 11 a.m.

Schedule:

Dewey Tauer Tournament

At Red Wing

Thursday, June 12

Dundas 7, Hayfield/Austin 1

Austin 8, Bay City, Wisc. 1

Friday, June 13

Red Wing vs. Des Moines, Iowa, 6:15 p.m.

Maple Plaine vs. Richfield, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 14

Winners' bracket semifinals, 5/7:30 p.m.

Consolation semifinals, 11 a.m./1:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 15

Fifth place, 11 a.m.

Third place, 1:30 p.m.

Championship, 4 p.m.

Box Scores:

Game One

Dundas 7Hayfield/Austin 1

abrhbiabrhbi

Theis cf5100Johnson cf4000

Bordas lf3210Holtz dh4000

LePage p5211

Fischer p0000

Pleschourt 2b3121Kunze c3000

Loos ss4022Schmeling lf4000

Larson 1b4011Serratore ss4000

Magrane rf4021Beck 1b3110

Howie 3b5000Thompson rf2000

Brandt c4100Juncker 3b3000

Walerak 2b3010

Totals37796Totals30120

Dundas002000140--793

Hayf/Aus000010000--126

Team LOB--Dundas 10, Hayfield 4. DP--Hayfield 1. 2B--Loos. SB--Theis, Pleschourt, Brandt. S--Thompson.

IPHRERBBSO

Dundas

LePage W921018

Hayfield/Austin

Fischer L9972610

IBB--Bordas (by Fischer). Balk--Fischer.

Game Two

Bay City 1Austin 8

abrhbiabrhbi

Bowe cf3000Cummins p5124

Barry 2b4000

Ripley pr0000

Block ss4000Rohne cf4110

Peterson 3b4110Mullenbach 2b4000

Eaton c3000Selk lf4111

Strain 1b4000

Dixon pr0000

Rassbach dh4021Kaplan 1b1000

Harris p0000Morrison rf4111

Langer lf1000Lunning 3b4120

Celt rf3000Frein ss4210

Totals30131Totals34886

Bay City000100000--134

Austin00000134x--883

Team LOB--BC 6, Austin 7. 2B--Rassbach, Morrison, Frein. HR--Cummins (1). SB--Bowe, Mullenbach, Dixon, Lunning. CS--Langer. S--Langer, Mullenbach.

IPHRERBBSO

Bay City

Harris L764424

Rassbach124021

Austin

Cummins W9311110

WP--Rassbach 1. HBP--Bowe, Eaton (by Cummins).