BORDER CATS SPLIT WITH BUCKS

Thunder Bay, Ont. – The Thunder Bay Border Cats split their series with the Waterloo Bucks Wednesday night at TbayTel Park with a final score of 7-4.

Dan McBryan (Iona College) took the loss for the Cats going three innings allowing two runs on two hits while striking out five. Anthony Brocato (St. John’s) notched his eighth home run as a Border Cat while brining home Shane Shepard (North Carolnia State).

The Border Cats begin their road trip in Rochester Thursday night at 7:05pm CST / 8:05pm 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.