KOKOMO, IN— The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders (15-13) hang on to a nail-biter against the Kokomo Jackrabbits. They sweep the series and now hit the road back home.
It was Ryan Bader’s (Northwestern) turn to pitch and it was another outing of one run baseball. He went six innings and shut down the Jackrabbits and kept the Dock Spiders in the game.
Aaron Anderson (Flagler) came up big tonight with three RBI. He drove in the first one to take an early third inning lead.
The Jackrabbits would answer in the bottom of the inning. It was Anderson again in the fifth with another RBI single.
Anderson in the seventh drove in another run on a double to make it 3-1. Then two errors in the bottom of the seventh brought the tying runs across.
The Dock Spiders would answer quickly on a dropped fly ball by the Jackrabbits in the eighth. In the ninth the Dock Spiders would load the bases and manage to get two runs across and take a 6-3 lead in the bottom of the ninth.
Max Cioffi (Mississippi) closed it out and sent the Dock Spiders home with two wins. The Dock Spiders head home for a six game homestand.
First pitch tomorrow night 6:35 PM against the Kalamazoo Growlers.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The 25-year old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 22 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, over 200 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 (MIA). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League portal. For more information, visit www.dockspiders.com or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Dock Spiders as your favorite team.
