Two St. Cloud Rox players and 2 Gopher baseball players have been taken in the MLB draft. The former Rox players include infielder Brice Mathews who was taken by the Houston Astros with the 28th overall pick.
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 Rox lose 4-2 to the Bismarck Larks at Joe Faber Field Sunday. The Larks scored 1 run in the 1st inning, 2 in the 3rd inning and 1 run in the 4th inning. The Rox scored their 2 runs in the 9th inning.
Andy Rennecke is a sports reporter for St. Cloud LIVE. He focuses on writing in-depth high school and college features for the St. Cloud metro area, including Sartell, Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud, Waite Park and St. Joseph. Rennecke has been a professional sports writer since 2003 when he got his start at the Mitchell (South Dakota) Daily Republic. He covered Central Minnesota college and high school sports and the St. Cloud Rox for the St. Cloud Times from 2008-2015. He's a Cosmos, Minnesota, native and graduated from Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City High School in 1998. He's a 2003 St. Cloud State graduate with a major in mass communications/print journalism. Andy lives in St. Joseph with his wife, Jessica, and their kids, Matthew and Quinn. He also has a dog named Dash, who has basically become his third child. Andy's interests include collecting baseball bobbleheads, listening to Weezer and The Killers and rewatching "Scrubs" and "Ted Lasso" whenever possible
The St. Cloud Rox lost in Willmar 8-6 Wednesday night to settle for a split in the 2-game series. The Rox opened up a 6-3 lead in the 4th inning after posting 5 runs in the inning.