Padres hammer Cubs; Mavs & Pirates Win

The Portage Padres just keep on rolling. with an 11-4 win over the Neepawa Cubs. The Padres now sit at 8-1-1 with 5 games to go. Neepawa drops to 5-3-1 and slide into 3rd place after Plumas picked up a 5-1 win over Austin. Plumas moves up to 7-3, meanwhile Austin drops to 4-7. Minnedosa out slugged Carberry 25-11as the Mavericks move out of the basement into 5th place at 3-8. Carberry drops to 3-8 as well, but lost the season series to the Mavericks. 

In Minnedosa, Andrew Richards went 4-4 with 2 HR, including a Grand Slam, 4R and 7RBI to pace the Mavericks to their 2nd straight victory. Liam Bachewich had a night going 4-5 with 3 RBI and 6 runs scored. Devin Foord also went 4-5 with 4 runs scored. Austin Taylor threw a complete game victory for the Mavericks, striking out 7 and only walking one.Taylor also scored 4 runs to help his cause.  Carberry had the hungry 9, and managed to blast 3 homeruns, including Cory Billeart, Kolby Wiebe, and Trey Dickson. Dickson went 4-5 with 2 runs scored for Carberry. Billeart took the loss throwing 4 innings. He was 2-4 with a walk at the plate. 

In Austin, Riley McBride was a star defensively and offensively for Plumas.He threw a complete game 5 hitter while striking out 9. Offensively, McBride helped himself going 2-4 with a single and double and 2 runs scored. Zac Yandeau was good going 3-4 with a single, double, 2 RBI and 1 run scored.