Doc Spiders Take Title by a Run
It was a hard-fought battle in the winner-take-all Game 3 of the Summer Collegiate World Series, but the Fond du Lac Doc Spiders prevailed over the Duluth Huskies 4-3 to secure the franchise’s first championship.
Fond Du Lac got on the board first in the fourth inning when Cole Zabowski (Ole Miss) drove in Zac Taylor (Illinois) from second base to put the Doc Spiders on top 1-0.
Duluth would battle back quickly when Chris Gilbody (Georgetown College) brought in both Nicholas Sogard (Loyola-Marymount) and Carlos Moseley (Cumberland) to give the Huskies the 2-1 advantage after four innings.
The game would be tied in the top of the sixth inning when Andrew Bullock (Western Carolina) scored Alex Henwood (Nebraska) to even the title fight at two apiece.
After a costly Fond du Lac error in the bottom of the inning with two outs, the Huskies capitalized when Sean Watkins (Cal-State Los Angeles) hit a sharp single back up the middle that scored Carlos Mosely.
Duluth went into the seventh inning with a 3-2 lead, but the Doc Spiders came back and took the lead for good after Alex Henwood singled into left field and produced two runs to give Fond du Lac the 4-3 lead they would not relinquish.
The Huskies came up just short despite the team’s best season in franchise history where they won 50 games and scored 501 runs, a Northwoods League record.
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The Duluth Huskies are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Now in its 25th anniversary season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 190 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist (CHC) and Brandon Crawford (SFG) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET) and Curtis Granderson (TOR). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League portal. For more information, visit www.duluthhuskies.com or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Huskies as your favorite team.
