For most of Sunday afternoon on the green field of the Wintercrest West baseball yard in Coon Rapids, Anoka-Ramsey sophomore third baseman Haven Williams fought a demon in the field.

In fact, the usually steady and stocky glove man on the corner had committed an uncharacteristic and shocking total of four errors through the first three innings of the sub-Region 13 rubber game in the best-of-three series with Minnesota State-Fergus Falls (M-State). The result of this quartet of errors left Anoka-Ramsey facing a 4-0 deficit and what surely appeared would be the end to a fine season of baseball instead of a trip to the Region 13's  tournament of eight in St. Cloud.

But the one affectionately known as Juice Box did not let the four misplays get him down. And they did not affect his teammates either as the collective force of the Anoka-Ramsey lineup came firing back to wrest the lead from M-State with a major last-of-the-fourth-inning rally.

Actually, the comeback from the depths started with a fourth-inning solo home run by catcher Justin Reeves who instantaneously made it a 4-1 game with a decisive swing of his bat. Then in the fourth, Anoka-Ramsey erupted like a volcano and scored five times on six hits to take a 6-4 advantage.

M-State tied the game by scoring two runs in the top of the fifth, but relief pitcher Zack Waalen, who had replaced stellar starterJared Vance, came on to slam the door. The bulldog Waalen pitched scoreless baseball through the eighth (extra innings of this scheduled 7-inning playoff contest).

Waalen, however, was helped out by a reinvigorated and rejuvenated Juice Box over at third base.

First, the beleaguered Anoka-Ramsey third baseman cast out his early inning demons by getting a key tag out on a messed up M-State suicide squeeze bunt attempt. Then — in the top of the eighth — Juice Box started an around the horn double play to end another threat and an inning.

But it was Williams the batter — the Juice Box with the Haiwaiian Punch — who became the biggest difference-maker in the game to decide which team was moving on to St. Cloud.

Leading off the bottom of the eighth inning, Williams drove the ball to the base of the left field fence some 370 feet away. When the M-State left fielder had trouble getting to the ball's location,

then more trouble when attempting to pick it up, the short, but speedy Williams rolled around second base and slid into third with a triple.

The next two batters were intentionally walked to load the bases with no outs to set up a force play, but there was no miracle defensive finish for M-State. Shortly after the two free passes were issued to Jordan Langness and Waalen, lead-off hitter Brent Tholen lofted a fly ball to center field, deep enough to allow Williams to tag up and easily beat an ensuing throw to the plate with the game-ending run.

The walk-off win ended a wild and crazy weekend of baseball for Anoka-Ramsey, which behind lefty Joe Lewis won the first game 5-2 of the best-of-three sub-region series against M-State 24 hours earlier. Lewis struck out six and gave up five hits in collecting the win. Anoka-Ramsey took charge of this game by scoring single runs in the second and fifth innings and three in the third.

The second game of the series followed later in the day and was dominated by M-State pitcher Brady Yanish, who gave up just four hits in a 3-1 game. Anoka-Ramsey's lone run was scored in the fourth inning thanks to an RBI single by Mike Zimbeck. This win by M-State subsequently set up the Sunday rubber game and the dramatic finish by Williams and Company in what was a successful season home finale on the Wintercrest yard.