St. Cloud Rox

The Minnesota Twins notched a comeback win over Kansas City, and the St. Cloud Rox completed a sweep of Duluth on a Saturday afternoon that was also full of prep post-season action.

The St. Cloud Rox welcomed back fans to Joe Faber Field and earned their first win of the season, the Minnesota Lynx picked up a second straight win, the Twins got stomped by Kansas City, and post-season play continued for central Minnesota prep baseball and softball teams.

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.

The St. Cloud Rox have revealed their 2021 promotions to add to the excitement surrounding the upcoming baseball season.

The St. Cloud Rox will have a new Field Manager when the season returns next year.

ST. CLOUD - The Rox needed a win in their seasons finale game or a Mankato loss to clinch the Northwoods League's Minnesota-Iowa pod championship on Thursday night. Unfortunately for St. Cloud, neither one of those happened as Mankato took care of business and St. Cloud fell to Willmar 9-3 at Joe Faber Field to end their season.

ROCHESTER - The St. Cloud Rox were able to ride a big 5th inning on Tuesday night as they took down the Rochester Honkers 9-3. St. Cloud put the game away in that inning thanks to three bases loaded walks, followed by a 3 run double from Ben Norman.

WILLMAR - The Willmar Stingers were able to load the bases in the 9th inning, but closer Blake Stelzer forced a game ending 4-6-3 double play and the St. Cloud Rox defeated the Stingers 4-3. Starting pitcher Luke Albright was the story of the game for St. Cloud after a terrific performance on the mound. The right hander pitched 5 innings, giving up 2 runs and was one strikeout shy of tying the team record for a single game, finishing with 12 K's.

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.

The St. Cloud Rox took down the Willmar Stingers in the series opener on Saturday.