Honkers Walk-Off the Loggers
Published on June 13, 2018 under Northwoods League (Northwoods)
Rochester Honkers News Release
(Rochester, Minn.) - Ninth inning heroics by Ryan Casper (Point Loma Nazarene) sent all Honkers fans home happy as he hit a walk-off single to left to lead the Rochester Honkers (9-7) past the La Crosse Loggers 4-3 on Wednesday at Mayo Field. It was the first walk-off win for the Honkers as they are now 3-2 in one run games.
Casper finished the night going 2-for-5 and extending his on-base streak to six games. Michael Michalak (Illinois) finished with two hits and hit his first home run of the year. Griffin Schneider (Century) added another two hit game for Rochester.
Honker's starter Darin Kilfoyl (St. Johns River State) turned in another scoreless performance. He threw three innings tonight without giving up a hit and has now thrown 9 1/3 shutout innings and has struck out 15. Ryan Dorney (St. Martin's) came in relief and allowed three runs on four hits in three innings. Casper came in to shutdown the Loggers offense throwing two no-hit innings. Josh Ibarra (Concordia-Irvine) threw a scoreless ninth to get the win tonight out of the bullpen and improve his record to 1-1.
The Honkers got on the board in the second as Michalak came around to score on a wild pitch.
The Loggers (9-6) put up two runs in the fifth as Zion Pettigrew (Iowa) doubled to bring home a run. Jacob Blas (Arizona) brought Pettigrew home with a single up the middle. La Crosse put up another in the sixth on a RBI single of the bat of Bryce Blaum (Texas A&M).
The Honkers came back to tie the game in the sixth as Michalak launched his first home run of the year. Schneider then doubled to the left center gap to bring home the equalizing run.
Loggers relief pitcher Jon Meyerring (Miami) got tagged with his first loss of the year after surrendering two runs on three hits.
The Honkers are back at Mayo Field on Thursday at 7:05 p.m. to begin a 2-game series with the Bismarck Larks. Thursday is Incredibles 2 Night presented by Cinemagic Theatres. The first 250 fans will receive free movie tickets.
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