DICKINSON, ND – The Badlands Big Sticks (23-23 overall, 5-7 second half) fell to the Bismarck Larks (21-25 overall, 5-7 second half) on Wednesday night after Bismarck derailed a 4-1 lead entering the 9th inning with a walk-off home run to split the series.<\/p>\n
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A scoreless first four innings came from dominant starts by Collin Maloney (Arkansas State) for the Big Sticks and Tate Alexander for the Larks.<\/p>\n
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In the top of the 5th inning, both John Youens (Baylor) and Cougar Cooke (Arkansas State) walked, which allowed them to score on a single by Dylon Myrow (Nebraska) with an error that allowed Youens to touch home.<\/p>\n
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Dakota Howard (Southeastern) continued the scoring with a double that plated Myrow. The scoring was finished by Crew Secrist (Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) who hit a sacrifice fly that scored Howard that put Badlands\u2019 out in front 4-0. Ultimately, this was the only inning that the Badlands\u2019 offense was able to score.<\/p>\n
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The Larks responded in the bottom half of the 5th with a Luke Stulga solo home run.<\/p>\n
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Two scoreless innings followed the 5th which kept the score at 4-1, but then Bismarck scored a lone run in the bottom of the 8th on a single from Keegan Landis that scored Logan Murphy, cutting the lead to 4-2.<\/p>\n
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In the bottom of the 9th, back to back singles from Stulga and Murphy with two outs brought up Joey Canzoni, who hit the walk-off home run to defeat the Big Sticks 5-4.<\/p>\n
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Badlands will make their way back home to take on the St. Cloud Rox on Thursday evening with first pitch scheduled for 5:35 p.m. MST, which will start their eight game homestand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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