Jim Hempel

Father to Megan, Brandon and Colin, Varsity Head Baseball Coach at Gross Catholic, Sports Enthusiast, Attorney

[Gross Catholic Baseball @GrossHSBaseball]

Outstanding summer from our Junior Legion team! #duxesto

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Junior Area Bracket

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Cardiac Cougars score 3 in the bottom of the seventh for the 8-7 walk-off State Championship win!

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Come out to Brown Park on Wednesday at 5:30PM to cheer on the Reserves to a State Championship! #duxesto

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Reserve State Tourney

SprinklerTek 5
Ashland Reserves 0

Sprinklertek plays in the semifinals on Monday at 8:00pm at Brown Park.

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Peitzmeier Juniors capture third tourney title of the summer!

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Juniors

Peitzmeier Demolition 8
Sandhills Publishing 4

‘29 Colin Hempel CG 6H 3ER 2K
‘28 Gordon Blunck 2H 2B 3B 4 RBI

Advance to semifinals of Capital City Clash. Move to 30-6 on summer

Reserves State Tourney
SprinklerTek 9
Channel Seed 1

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Rapid City Firecracker Tourney

Peitzmeier Demolition 3
Missoula, MT 2

@CPovBasebal WP 5ip 3H 1ER 3K
@MVilla1700 SV 2ip 0H 0R
@andrew_johanek7 H 3B RBI
Logan Legner H 2B RBI

Peitzmeier finished 5th place with 3-3 tourney record.

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Rapid City Fire Cracker Day 2

[Jim Hempel @jhemp12]

@Sean_Callahan Bryan football produced a highlights tape that they sold to students at the end of the year. My buddy had the tape and pulled it from it.

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Program success this summer! #duxesto

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@Sean_Callahan @montejchristo Found it

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Dynamic mover around 1B with advanced feel for the game who consistently finds the barrel.

[Andrew Johanek @andrew_johanek7]

Highlights from May/June 2026

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2 RBI Triple

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Juniors

Peitzmeier Demolition - 16
Griffs Post 216 - 2

‘29 Colin Hempel WP 5ip 5H 5Ks 0ER
‘29 Evan Povondra 3H 3R 2B 2SB
‘28 Gavin Roman 2H 💣 3RBI 2R
‘28 Teddy Peters H 3B RBI R

Cougars move to 18-0.

[Suiting Up Varsity🟧 @SuitUpVarsity]

New retro NebPreps shirts popping up all the time--->

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