Rudder dropped to 9-14 on Wednesday, ending the team's three-game streak of wins at home. They fell just short of the College Station Cougars by a score of 4-3. Unfortunately, that's the second time they've come up short against the Cougars this season, as they also lost their prior matchup 4-3 back in February.
Rudder saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Anthony Menchaca, who went 1-for-2 with one stolen base, one run, and one RBI.
As for College Station, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games. That's provided a nice bump to their 7-10-1 record this season. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest win they have posted since February 20th.
On College Station's side, they got a great performance from Jake Boggan as he didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only two hits while striking out ten over 4.2 innings pitched. Those ten strikeouts gave Boggan a new career-high.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Blaise Sanger, who got on base in three of his five plate appearances with two runs and one stolen base. College Station is 4-0-1 when Sanger posts two or more runs, but 3-10 otherwise.
While Rudder 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 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
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