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R.J. Martinez suffered his first loss of the season on Friday night as the St. Cloud Rox lost 8-2 against Willmar in St. Cloud. Martinez gave up 6 runs, 5 of them earned, in 7 innings and notched 5 strikeouts.

The St. Cloud Rox scored 3 times in the 9th in Willmar on Thursday to score a 5-3 victory over the Stingers. Parker Smejkal hit a go ahead home run to open the inning and St. Cloud took advantage of sloppy defense to add 2 more insurance runs. The win improves the Rox to 20-7 in the second half of their season, 40-22 overall.

The Rox won big Wednesday night with a 11-2 victory over Waterloo at Joe Faber Field.

Smith talks about growing up on a cattle ranch, playing in the Little League World Series, how he ended up in St. Cloud and more.

The Rox lost 2-1 at home against Waterloo Tuesday night. Brandon Vial shutdown the Rox for 6 2/3 innings with 7 hits and 1 earned run allowed to get the win. Garrett Delano was the tough-luck loser for the Rox.

The Rox won game two Monday night with a 7-1 victory over Mankato at Franklin Rogers Field in Mankato.

St. Cloud -- St. Cloud fell behind 7-1 early and it ended being too much to overcome and the Rox fall 8-7 in Game 1 Monday. Rhyse Dee went five innings giving up eight runs with one strikeout to take the loss for the Rox. Jordan Barth and Ben Carew each hit home runs in and drove in a pair for the Rox on offense...

The St. Cloud Rox had their game rained out against Thunder Bay Sunday. They will make the game up August 10 when St. Cloud plays at Thunder Bay.

The Saint Cloud Rox won 4-3 over Thunder Bay Saturday, also winning their fourth game in a row.

The Rox blanked the Bismarck Larks 6-0 Friday night for their 3rd straight win to improve to 16-5 in the 2nd half of the season and increase their lead in the Great Plains West division to 3 1/2 games over 2nd place Mankato.