{"id":17258,"date":"2026-08-08T22:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/?p=17258"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:21:49","slug":"cats-go-out-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Thunder Bay Border Cats closed out their 2026 schedule Saturday by setting a season high in runs and hits as they hammered the Duluth Huskies 24-5 before 1,173 fans at Wade Stadium.\u00a0 The Cats finished 8-8 over the final 16 road games, which included five doubleheaders, and wound up with an overall record of 27-41.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trailing 2-0, the Cats scored in every inning from the third through the ninth, including three runs in the third and five in the fourth to take a commanding 8-3 lead.\u00a0 The Cats banged out 22 hits with Bennett Crafton (Bradley University) and Jimmy Pelletier (Colorado State University-Pueblo) leading the way with four apiece.\u00a0 Crafton drove in three runs and finished the season with a .346 batting average.\u00a0 Jesus Vasquez (University of Hawaii) had a huge offensive night with three hits and six runs batted in, while Ayden Hadley (Northwest Missouri St. University) went 3-for-6 with two doubles, four RBI, and three runs scored.\u00a0 Jacob Steinberg (Belmont Abbey College) and Thunder Bay native Jack Weiss (Jefferson CC) also collected three hits with Weiss reaching base six times and scoring five runs.\u00a0 Stevie Waters (University of British Columbia) had two hits and knocked in three runs as Thunder Bay managed a split of the two-game series in Duluth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the third time in four games, the Border Cats received a stellar performance from one of their senior pitchers.\u00a0 Vincent Segovia (University of Arkansas-Monticello) tossed four-hit ball over seven innings, giving up three runs, while walking one and striking out five.\u00a0 The lefthander threw 105 pitchers as he evened his record at 2-2.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Claw Marks: The Huskies took the 12-game season series 7-5 to capture the Superior Cup after the Border Cats won the Border Battle trophy the past two years.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thunder Bay Border Cats closed out their 2026 schedule Saturday by setting a season high in runs and hits  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":17259,"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":[57,41,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG - Thunder Bay Border Cats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Thunder Bay Border Cats closed out their 2026 schedule Saturday by setting a season high in runs and hits [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Thunder Bay Border Cats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-09T02:21:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/assets.northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Aug-8-website-final.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2121\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"dylanw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"dylanw\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/\",\"name\":\"CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG - Thunder Bay Border Cats\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/assets.northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Aug-8-website-final.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-09T02:21:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#\/schema\/person\/388630f65e6e3c67b4103305b8d5a1f1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/assets.northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Aug-8-website-final.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/assets.northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Aug-8-website-final.jpg\",\"width\":2121,\"height\":1080},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/\",\"name\":\"Thunder Bay Border Cats\",\"description\":\"All Local - All In!\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#\/schema\/person\/388630f65e6e3c67b4103305b8d5a1f1\",\"name\":\"dylanw\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/270157e35e095628e6b987efccf6294a83115b030d95f38e5154f11e01b3d362?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/270157e35e095628e6b987efccf6294a83115b030d95f38e5154f11e01b3d362?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"dylanw\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/author\/dylanw\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG - Thunder Bay Border Cats","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG","og_description":"The Thunder Bay Border Cats closed out their 2026 schedule Saturday by setting a season high in runs and hits [...]","og_url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/","og_site_name":"Thunder Bay Border Cats","article_published_time":"2026-08-09T02:21:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2121,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/assets.northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Aug-8-website-final.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"dylanw","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"dylanw","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/","url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/","name":"CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG - Thunder Bay Border Cats","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/assets.northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Aug-8-website-final.jpg","datePublished":"2026-08-09T02:21:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#\/schema\/person\/388630f65e6e3c67b4103305b8d5a1f1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/assets.northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Aug-8-website-final.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/assets.northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Aug-8-website-final.jpg","width":2121,"height":1080},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2026\/08\/08\/cats-go-out-with-a-bang\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"CATS GO OUT WITH A BANG"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#website","url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/","name":"Thunder Bay Border Cats","description":"All Local - All In!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#\/schema\/person\/388630f65e6e3c67b4103305b8d5a1f1","name":"dylanw","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/270157e35e095628e6b987efccf6294a83115b030d95f38e5154f11e01b3d362?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/270157e35e095628e6b987efccf6294a83115b030d95f38e5154f11e01b3d362?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"dylanw"},"url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/author\/dylanw\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17260,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions\/17260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}