Falcon Baseball Wins Season Opener
The Faribault Falcon baseball team opened defense of their Big Nine Co-Championship with an impressive 9-2 win over Rochester John Marshall on the road Thursday night. Senior Nate Emge was very good on the hill, going the distance. Emge allowed 6 hits in 7 innings of work and allowed just one earned run while striking out five and walking just one batter. Faribault had 7 hits in the game. The contest was tied at 2 heading into the sixth inning before the Falcons cranked out the majority of their 7 hits. Jake Scheffler had two RBI's and Tyler Becker had two hits for the Falcons playiing at John Adams Middle School in Rochester.
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Faribault 9 7 2
John Marshall 2 6 4