The La Crosse Loggers took game one of the double header at Copeland Park by a score of 6-3 over the Waterloo Bucks. Wednesday night starter Kodey Simon (Winona State) took the mound again on Thursday and earned the win throwing 7.0 innings of two run baseball. The Loggers had three players with multi-hit games and were led by All-Star third basemen Mike Marjama (Sacramento City CC) who had three hits. Leadoff batter Tony Mueller (Winona State) had a full stat line with a hit, one steal, a walk, a run scored and two RBI. Waterloo right fielder Phil Keppler (Iowa) had three hits in the loss; two of those hits were doubles.

The Mankato MoonDogs jumped out to a four run lead and took the game 6-4 from the Brainerd Lakes Area Lunkers. The MoonDogs starter, Blake Schwartz (Minnesota State Mankato), threw 7.0 innings while only giving up two runs. Tim Fangman earned the save throwing the final 1.0 inning. Jordan Steranka (Penn State) had three RBI while second basemen Sam Lind had three hits and two runs scored. Chadd Kristi (California Berkeley) had three hits in the loss.

The Duluth Huskies beat the Rochester Honkers by a score of 9-5 at Mayo Field on Tuesday night. The Huskies used a three run third inning and four in the fifth to take an 8-0 lead and never looked back. Austin Gaines led the Huskies at the plate with a 3-for-4 day with three runs scored and three RBI. The Honkers Davy Wright (TCU) was 3-for-4 in the loss with two RBI.

The Thunder Bay Border Cats put up nine runs on fourteen hits against the Alexandria Beetles on Monday night. Thunder Bay’s Jeff Deblieux (South Alabama) and Ryan Court (Illinois State) each had three hits on the night to pace the offense. Border Cats designated hitter Ben Scheffer (Florida Tech) hit a two run homer to add to the run total. Thunder Bay and Alexandria both sit at 2-2 during the second half of the NWL season.