June 24, 2018
Thunder Bay, Canada – St. Cloud (14-12) picked up its first shutout win of the season, 6-0 against (6-20) Thunder Bay. Zach Lauzon (Concordia St. Paul) pitched six strong inning to earn his first victory of the season.
Chad Bible (San Diego State) got the Rox on the board in the top of the second inning as he scored from third base on a wild pitch.
The scoring would continue in a big way in the third inning, as St. Cloud loaded the bases with no outs. They would score three runs on a walk, a hit by pitch, and a sac-fly from Noah Hill (BYU), who made his season debut. He caught the entire game.
St. Cloud would score a run in the seventh inning on an error and then on a Ryan Weisenberg (Georgetown) RBI in the top of the ninth.
Thunder Bay had a scoring chance in the bottom of the seventh inning but couldn’t push any runs across with the bases loaded.
After Lauzon tossed six innings, Erik Martinez (UC-Berkeley) pitched the seventh and eighth innings. Bobby Gauvreau (Minnesota State-Mankato) closed the game in the ninth inning.
St. Cloud goes to Mankato tomorrow with a 7:05 first pitch time. The Rox then return home Tuesday and will be at the Rock Pile through Saturday.
The St. Cloud Rox 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.stcloudrox.com or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Rox as your favorite team.
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