CATS SPLIT SERIES WITH WILLMAR

Thunder Bay, Ont. – The Cats fell 6-5 n the final game of a four-day series to the Willmar Stingers Sunday evening.

Anthony Brocato (St. John’s) hit his fifth home run of the season in the bottom of the ninth to shrink Willmar’s lead to only one run. Andy Weber (Virginia) also put up two runs on two hits with one RBI while Jesse Lee (Rhode Island) notched two runs off his three hits Sunday night.

The Border Cats start a four day road trip in Mankato against the Moondogs Monday night at 6:05pm CST / 7:05 EST.  

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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.