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Badlands answered with one run in the second and another in the third, but Mankato responded in the bottom of the third to maintain a 3-2 advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Big Sticks put together their biggest inning of the night in the fourth, scoring three runs to jump ahead 5-3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mankato answered in the sixth. The MoonDogs plated three runs in the inning behind RBI contributions from Max Senesac (Golden West), Justin Rompre (Iowa Western Community College) and Anthony Avalos (Houston Christian University) to reclaim a 6-5 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cayden Hansen (Newberry College) earned the win in relief, tossing 3 2\/3 scoreless innings while striking out five and allowing just one hit. Wyatt Thornbury (Fresno State University) closed out the final two innings to secure his first save of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the plate, Senesac and Kaleb Wilkey (University of Evansville) each recorded two hits. Wilkey also drove in a run, while Charlie Buckles (Florida State University) added a double.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MoonDogs pitching staff combined for 13 strikeouts in the victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mankato improves its momentum heading into its next matchup as the MoonDogs face the La Crosse Loggers on Thursday in La Crosse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Northwoods League is the proven leader in developing elite college baseball players. Having completed its\u2019 32nd season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in history with 26 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 410 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time All-Star and 2016 Roberto Clemente Award winner Curtis Granderson, three-time Cy Young Award winner and two-time World Series Champion Max Scherzer (TOR), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist and Brandon Crawford and World Series Champion Chris Sale (ATL). As well as 2019 Rookie of the Year and 2019\/2021 Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso (NYM) and 2023 World Series Champion, MLB All-Star, MLB Gold Glove and Silver Slugger winner and two-time All-MLB first team shortstop Marcus Semien (NYM).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANKATO, MINN. \u2014 The Mankato MoonDogs bounced back on Tuesday night, defeating the Badlands Big Sticks 6-5 at ISG Field  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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