First Inter-Division Series Of Season Starts Tonight

Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.-The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters (4-3) return home to Witter Field tonight to start a two-game series against the Thunder Bay Border Cats (0-8). The Cats enter tonight’s game still searching for their first win of the season after a rough start. Meanwhile, the Rafters just finished a series against the first place Madison Mallards in which they split the four games and handed the Mallards their first two losses of the 2016 campaign.

Gareth Stroh (NR, Coffeyville CC) will seek to protect the Rafters two-game winning streak and keep the Border Cats winless. In Stroh’s first start of the year he went 7 innings, while allowing just 1 run on 3 hits and striking out 7 in a win.

Thunder Bay will send out Gunnar Kay (NR, Jefferson College) for his third start of the season. Kay has struggled in his first two starts, managing just 4.2 innings of work combined.

First pitch for tonight’s game is set for 7:05 PM, with gates opening at 6:05 PM.

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The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Playing its 23rd season of summer collegiate baseball in 2016, 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 Website.  For more information, visit www.raftersbaseball.com.