CATS SHUT OUT WILLMAR

Thunder Bay, Ont. – The Border Cats picked up another win at TbayTel Park Saturday night against the Willmar Stingers.

After scoring two runs in the first inning Thunder Bay managed to hold the lead and not allow any runs to win the game 2-0.  Starting pitcher Cameron Churchill (Nova Southeaster) notched his second win of the season going 5.2 scoreless innings allowing only three hits while striking out seven. Vinny Santarsiero also managed to pick up his third save of the season going 1.1 innings not allowing any hits.

Andy Weber (Virginia) and Bobby Honeyman (Stony Brook) were the two to put the Cats on the board while Joe Gellenbeck (Xavier) was the one to bring them in adding two RBI to his stats.

The Border Cats close out their homestand against Willmar Sunday  at 5:05pm at TbayTel Park.

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The Thunder Bay Border Cats are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Playing its 23rd season of summer collegiate baseball, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 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 150 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Lucas Duda (NYM) and Ben Zobrist (CHC). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League portal. For more information, visitwww.bordercatsbaseball.com or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store and set the Border Cats as your favourite team.