Big Rapids' bats stayed hot on Tuesday afternoon, putting up 31 runs in a dominant outing at Tri-County.
The Cardinals strung together 13 runs in the top of the sixth inning to solidfy the win in game one. Big Rapids led game two 12-1 in the bottom part of the second inning until the game was postponed due to darkness. The game has been ruled incomplete and is slated to be finished later in the season.
"Defense struggled tonight," Head coach J.T. Scarpelli said. "We need to see improvement fast. We were without our All Region CF Vennix who is day to day, which hurt us a lot. Pitchers gave up too many free bases."
Jack Losinski led the Cardinals with four hits in 8 appearences, including four runs and thre RBIs. Nick Teceno added three hits and three RBIs while Ty Gielczyk and Phillip Wilbur each added four RBIs in the night's action. Gielczyk took the win in game one on the mound with 3 2/3 innings pitched, seven strikeouts, and only three hi