Kernel baseball comes up short against Rapid City Stevens in three-game playoff series

Kernel baseball comes up short against Rapid City Stevens in three-game playoff series

RAPID CITY — A trip to the Class A high school state baseball tournament wound up just beyond the grasp of the Mitchell High School baseball team on Saturday afternoon. After dropping Game 1 to eighth-seeded Rapid City Stevens on Friday night, the ninth-seeded Kernels battled back to earn a 5-4 win in the eighth inning of Game 2 and force a winner-take-all third game of the regional series. But in the decisive Game 3, a big second inning from th…