Bandits find nothing but water and misery in Menomonie

The St. Croix River Bandits (2-2, 5-6) dropped another game to Menomonie in Menomonie in what was another rainstorm. In the past 3 outings to Menomonie the Bandits have played a total of 13 innings. The game made it until about the bottom of the third inning before the rain started coming down, and took only another inning for it to come down steady and hard.

The Bandits gave up a leadoff homerun to Stout Junior, Jake Duske - and it did not get much better from there. Duske would finish the day going 3-3 with 2 homeruns and a double in Menomonie's 7-0 rout of the Bandits in 5 innings.

Everything the could go wrong for the Bandits did. Bandits caught stealing, caught advancing extra bases, balls dropping between fielders, and more. The Bandits strengths turned against them Friday night and got worse as the rain started pounding.

Menomonie's team is loaded with some good baseball players, and even their outs were some hard hit knocks. The game could have been closer in score, but the Eagles had this one well in hand before the game ended after the 5th inning.

Trevor Todd took the loss for the Bandits - going 2 2/3.

Gus Koecher hit a double to deep center field for the Bandits, but ended up getting thrown out at third base on a spectacular relay from center to shortstop to third base.