ALEXANDRIA, MN  A day after suffering a painful walk-off loss, Dane Dunning and JD Moore made sure the Waterloo Bucks wouldn't lose consecutive games. Dunning allowed just one run on four hits over seven innings, while Moore picked up the final five outs to notch the save in an 8-3 win over the Alexandria Blue Anchors at Knute Nelson Memorial Field on Sunday evening.

The Bucks scored five runs in the top of the first inning to provide all the run support that was needed. David Kerian had a RBI double while Connor McClain, Zack Soria, Steven Goldstein and Jake Riffice all had two-out RBI singles.

After Alexandria got a run back in the bottom of the first, the Bucks came back to in the second to take a 6-1 lead on another RBI single by McClain.

The 6-1 lead would hold up throughout as Dunning was excellent, including retiring 14 straight batters at one point. He would be tested in the seventh as Alexandria would get runners at second and third with no outs but pitched out of the jam.

Alexandria would make things interesting in the eighth off reliever TJ Peterson as the Blue Anchors would load the bases with none out. Peterson would induce a shallow fly out to center for one out, but allowed a two-run double and walked another and exited with the bases loaded, one away and a 6-3 lead in jeopardy.

That's when Moore came in and with the tying run at first and go ahead run up to bat and struck out Brody Miller and Dalton Leuschke to end the threat.

Waterloo picked up some insurance in the ninth as Kerian led off with a double and scored on a Will Sparks single. Sparks later came around on Soria's second RBI single of the game and the Bucks finished the scoring up 8-3.

McClain and Soria led the team with two hits and two RBI each. Kerian finished with two doubles. Every Buck in the line-up had at least one hit as the team finished with 14.