WATERLOO, Iowa - Waterloo put a little chill in the Willmar Stingers hot streak, scoring runs in bunches and halting the Stingers’ six-game winning streak with a 10-1 win in a Northwoods League game on a muggy, 90-degree Sunday.
The Bucks scored three runs in the second inning, then put the game away with a four-run seventh. They scored two more in the eighth.
The Stingers managed seven hits and walked five times off Bucks pitchers Brian Drapeau and Doug Hayes, but the pair stranded 10 Stingers runners.
Willmar fell to 4-1 in the second half of the Northwoods League North Division season and are a game back of the 5-0 St. Cloud Rox.
The Stingers play Waterloo at 7:05 p.m. today before returning home Tuesday to kick off a seven-game homestand against Madison.
Willmar already has clinched a postseason spot by winning the North Division pennant in the first half.
The Stingers are 19-5 since opening the season 8-8, and at 27-13 they still have the Northwoods League’s best overall record.
They won their final two first-half games to wrap up the pennant and showed no fall-off to start the second half, rattling off four straight wins.
