Big Rapids' bats stayed hot on Tuesday afternoon, putting up 31 runs in a dominant outing at Tri-County.

The Cardinals strung together 13 runs in the top of the sixth inning to solidfy the win in game one. Big Rapids led game two 12-1 in the bottom part of the second inning until the game was postponed due to darkness. The game has been ruled incomplete and is slated to be finished later in the season.

"Defense struggled tonight," Head coach J.T. Scarpelli said. "We need to see improvement fast. We were without our All Region CF Vennix who is day to day, which hurt us a lot. Pitchers gave up too many free bases."

Jonathan Losinski led the Cardinals with four hits in 8 appearences, including 3 doubles, 4 runs and 3 RBIs. Nick Teceno added 3 hits and 3 RBIs while Ty Gielczyk and Philip Wilbur each added 4 RBIs in the night's action. Gielczyk took the win in game 1 on the mound with 3 2/3 innings pitched, seven strikeouts, and only 3 hits allowed. Cole Haist relieved the junior in 2 1/3 innings with 6 strikeouts and only 1 earned run. 

"Our offense got in rhythm & executed solid approaches to create a decent amount of runs," Scarpelli said. "Losinski, Zocco, Ososki, Teceno, Gielczyk, Wilber and McNeilly all were fantastic. Special thanks to head coach Shawn Nelson & Tri County for hosting us. That field is a very nice baseball surface to play on."

Big Rapids will be back in action on Friday at home against rival Reed City at 4:00 and 6:00 P.M.