Waterloo, Iowa – An eight-run sixth inning and four and one-third innings of scoreless relief from Jack Ghufran (San Jose State) led the visiting La Crosse Loggers to a 9-4 victory over the host Waterloo Bucks on Wednesday night at Riverfront Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Bucks jumped out early in this one, scoring twice off of Loggers starter Cristien Banda (Long Beach State) in the second inning to take a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
La Crosse responded with one of their own in the top of third thanks to a one-out single off the bat of Jackson Cobb (Georgia Gwinnett) who stole second and then came around to score on a RBI-single from Carson Ohland (Grand Canyon) to cut the deficit to 2-1.<\/p>\n
Waterloo extended their lead to 3-1 in the fourth when a one-out double plate another run and chased Banda from the game after 3.2 innings pitched.<\/p>\n
That’s when Ghufran entered the game and shut the Bucks offense down over the next 4.1 innings to setup the scoring frenzy that would ensue in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n
After a first pitch ground out, the Loggers would go on to send eight runners across home plate on seven hits, one walk and one Waterloo miscue to take a commanding 9-3 lead.<\/p>\n
Jack Mount (Texas State) would come on to pitch the ninth for the Loggers, surrendering one run, but preserved the 9-4 victory for the Lumbermen.<\/p>\n
The Loggers pounded out 12 hits on the night with eight different players collecting at least one hit.\u00a0 Ohland led the way with a 3-for-5 night that included one run scored and one RBI.\u00a0 Cobb and Eli Small (Florida Atlantic) each collected two hits as well.<\/p>\n
With the win the Loggers improved to 15-20 in the second half and 37-31 overall.<\/p>\n
The same two teams will conclude this two-game set on Thursday night back at Riverfront Stading with a 6:35 p.m. affair.<\/p>\n