It took some time, but the Blue Sox finally got to Dave Meyer.

The Blue Sox broke a losing skid to the Greyhound ace by rallying in the eighth inning to take a 3-2 win at Marcusen Park Friday.

Meyer didn’t allow a hit in the first seven and two-thirds innings, but after he walked two in the eighth, Dan Swift and Brian Voigt had back-to-back two-out RBI singles to give the Blue Sox the lead for good.

Voigt knocked a Meyer fastball up the middle to put his team up.

“He’d been pitching fast balls all game. I was just looking first pitch fast ball and he left it over the plate a little bit,” said Voigt. “It’s always good to come in and get some key hits on a new team.”

Swift was relieved to get solid contact when he laced a single into right field. His team was 0-4 against Meyer last season.

“He’s had our number. Last year he took it to us,” he said. “He had gotten me (to strikeout) with a fast ball in my (previous) at bat and I was looking for one in the inner half and luckily enough I got one.”

The eighth inning rally was kept alive by Zach Vlietstra, who beat out a double play by a half a step right before Swift’s knock.

The Hounds (2-2 overall, 0-1 Southern Minny) scored in the fifth when Dan Wiechmann got the game’s first hit and scored on a throwing error by the Blue Sox. Wiechmann doubled in the Hounds other run in the seventh with one out.

The Blue Sox had just two hits on the night.

“To be honest, we probably didn’t deserve to win,” Blue Sox manager Josh Kunze said. “You don’t beat Dave when you don’t hit. Luckily, we’re early enough in the season where Dave maybe fatigued a little bit and we got to him. We’re not going to win too many games doing that.”

The Hounds lost an early scoring chance by hitting into a double play. In the first, Craig Braaten had runners on first and second when he hit a one-out line drive right at Blue Sox second baseman Casey Toops, who caught the hit and tagged first to end the threat.

“Clearly our timings off a little bit and we’re just rusty,” Hounds manager John Frein said. “Defensively we made a couple of blunders.”

Part of that rust came from the Hounds not playing a lot recently, while the Blue Sox had multiple players who just finished their college baseball seasons.

“It’s pretty easy to get back in it and we had a couple of weeks to get refreshed,” said Voigt, who played on Riverland’s region champion baseball team. “Now we come in and it’s like we’re in mid-season form.”

Joe Huffman started for the Blue Sox, but Rapid City natives and Riverland pitchers Mitch Jaeger and Ryan Palmer, who got the win, both came on in relief.

“Our pitching carried us through the night,” Kunze said. “This early in the season all of our guys our on pitch counts, and they did great. We were prepared to go two or three more pitchers if we had to. It was all hands on deck.”

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Hounds 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 2

Blue Sox 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 X 3 2 1

Blue Sox pitching: Joe Huffman, 5 IP, 2 H, 5 BB, 1 R, 0 ER, 5 K; Mitch Jaeger, 2 1/3 IP, 1 H, 2 BB, 1 ER, 3 K; Ryan Palmer (W), 1 2/3 IP, 0 R, 1 K, HBP

Blue Sox hitting: Nate Johnson, 0-for-4; Aaron Port, 0-for-3, BB; Zach Vlietstra, 0-for-2, R, 2 BBs; Dan Swift, 1-for-4, RBI; Brian Voigt, 1-for-3, RBI, R, SB, BB; Duell Higbe, 0-for-4; Brady Toops, 0-for-1; Casey Toops, 0-for-3, SB; Joe Kroc, 0-for-1, R, BB

Hounds pitching: Dave Meyer (L), 7 2/3 IP, 2 H, 6 BB, 3 R, 2 ER, 7 K, 3 HBP

Hounds hitting: Andy Behnke, 0-for-4; Nick Rohne, 0-for-2, 2 BBs; Matt Cano, 0-for-2, 2 BBs; Craig Braaten, 0-for-4; Tyler Leopold, 0-for-3; Matt Raso, 0-for-1, 2 BBs, R; Dan Wiechmann, 2-for-4, double, RBI, R; Nick Bowe, 1-for-3; John Frein, 0-for-2, BB; Dan Zielke, 0-for-1