THUNDER BAY, ON- The Waterloo Bucks (19-7) won their third straight game after defeating the Thunder Bay Border Cats (9-18) 6-1 on Sunday, June 25. The Bucks widen their Northwoods League North Division lead to 1.5 games.

The Bucks scored first again on an RBI sacrifice fly by Drew Greenwood in the top of the fourth and Cole McDevitt followed it up by driving in a run on a flare down the right field line.

Tyler Stover made it 3-0 Bucks in the top of the fifth on an RBI single. Thunder Bay answered in the bottom of the sxith to make the game competetive on an error but the Bucks worked out of several jams. Kade Kryzsko (0-2) wasn't as lucky even though he pitched well he didn't have the run support. Anthony Ruden (2-0) for Waterloo pitched six innings only allowing four hits and struck out six batters.

Stover wasn't done yet and cranked out a solo homer to left in the top of the eighth to answer the lone Border Cat run of the ball game.

Zach Malis belted his fourth homer of the season on a two-run blast to right field putting the game out of reach 6-1.

Waterloo wraps up the four game road swing tomorrow, June 26 at Thunder Bay at 7:05 p.m. (ET).

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The Waterloo Bucks are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The 23-year-old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 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 160 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champion Ben Zobrist (CHC) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM) and Lucas Duda (NYM).  All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League portal. For more information, visit www.waterloobucks.com or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Bucks as your favorite team.