Waterloo Bucks (36-23, 13-12) starter Cameron Hagan gave the team everything he had in his final outing of the summer, dicing the Willmar Stingers (28-32, 12-12) over 6.0 innings of five-hit baseball in a 4-3 Wednesday night victory. Hagan allowed just one earned and walked only three while striking out three. He worked at a 64.3% first-pitch strike rate with 13 whiffs on 101 pitches and induced grounders at a 59.1% clip.

Tristan Gomes (0-for-2, 2 BB, R) and Luke Fennelly (1-for-4, R) drew back-to-back leadoff walks trailing by a run in the second, then Chris Seng (1-for-1, 3 BB, R, RBI, 2 SB) took ball four with one away to fill the bases. Jalen Smith (0-for-2, HBP, RBI, SF, SB) plated Gomes with a sacrifice fly to tie things at one, then a wild pitch scored Fennelly.

Willmar scored one in the third and added another in the fifth. Seng opened the home half of five with a walk, stole second and scampered to third on a Smith flyout before scoring the tying run on a Josh Kasevich (1-for-3, BB, 2B, RBI) double blasted into left-center.

One frame later, Seng drew a bases-loaded walk to plate Mike Campagna (1-for-3, BB, R) and give Waterloo their decisive 4-3 lead.

Keaton Parker struck out one in the seventh and Ben Beutel punched out two in the eighth, handing the ball to Curren Larson with a pair of scoreless frames. Larson picked up the save by striking out one and working around a walk in the ninth.

Waterloo opens a two-game home series against the Mankato MoonDogs on Thursday at 6:35 p.m. CST.