Baseball Recap: Bangs Takes a Tough Playoff Loss

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Bangs can now relate to. They came up short against the Hawley Bearcats on Thursday, falling 9-1. The Dragons have struggled against the Bearcats recently, as the game was their fourth consecutive lost meeting.

Bangs saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Connor Bible, who went 2-for-4 with one RBI.

Bangs' loss dropped their record down to 18-9. As for Hawley, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 12-6-1.

While Bangs had to take the loss, they won't have to wait long to give it another shot: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 4:00 p.m. on Friday.