Mankato Moon Dogs

The St. Cloud Rox won their 2nd straight game 9-5 over the Mankato Moon Dogs Tuesday night in St. Cloud. The Rox scored 3 1st inning runs and never trailed from there.

The St. Cloud Rox snapped a 3-game losing streak with a 4-0 win at Mankato Monday night. Kolten Smith threw 7 1/3 innings with 5 hits and no runs allowed with 10 strikeouts to get the win.

The St. Cloud Rox improved to 6-2 after posting a 5-3 win at Mankato against the Moon Dogs Monday night. The Rox scored 1 run in the 1st inning, a run in the 6th inning and erupted for 3 runs in the 7th inning. Mankato outhit the Rox 12-10.

The St. Cloud Rox lost 6-0 at Mankato Sunday. The Moon Dogs scored 3 runs in the 3rd inning, 1 in the 4th, 6th and 7th innings. The Rox managed 6 hits compared to 7 for Mankato. St. Cloud committed 2 errors.

The St. Cloud Rox lost 5-1 at Mankato Monday night. The Moon Dogs went out to a 4-0 lead before the Rox scored their lone run in the 8th inning. Charlie Condon went 1-2 with a RBI and Brice Mathews, Ike Mezzenga and Garrett Pennington each had a double for the Rox.

The Rox completed a 2-game sweep of the Mankato Moon Dogs with a 9-2 win in Game 2 in St. Cloud Monday night. The Rox led 3-2 going into the 7th inning when they broke the game wide open with a 6-run 7th. Caleb Ricketts had a 1 hit, 2 RBIs and a run scored, Otto Kemp went 2-3 with 2 runs scored and a RBI, Brice Mathews had 2 RBIs and Jordan Barth had 2 hits and a run scored.

The St. Cloud Rox opened the playoffs with a 10-0 win at Mankato against the Moon Dogs in Game 1 of their best of 3 first round series. St. Cloud scored 2 runs in the 3rd inning, 5 in the 5th and 3 more runs in the 7th inning.

The Rox rallied from down 7-0 to tie the game at 7 apiece in the 4th inning only to see the Moon Dogs break the tie with 3 runs in the 7th inning and then added 1 run in the 8th inning and 1 run in the 9th inning.

The Mankato Moon Dogs completed a 2-game sweep of the St. Cloud Rox with a 2-1 walk off win Thursday night in Mankato. James Shimashita singled in Mathew Higgins in the 9th inning to lift the Moon Dogs to the 2-1 win. Mankato scored the first run of the game 4th inning before St. Cloud tied the game in the 8th inning with a Nate Swarts RBI single scoring Justin Kirby.

Justin Kelly pitched great for the Rox on Tuesday night, but suffered a tough luck loss in Mankato as St. Cloud lost to the Moon Dogs 1-0. Kelly allowed just the single run in 6 innings of work. Trevor Koenig also pitched well, shutting down the Moon Dogs over 2 innings.