PAGE 1 TAKE A GANDER! | Mayo Field - 403 E. Center St. Rochester, MN 55904 Jordan Lank, Director of Media Relations - (507)-289-1170 ROCHESTER HONKERS (5-22) vs MANKATO MOONDOGS (16-11) Game #28 — Saturday, August 8, 2020 — Mayo Field — 6:05 p.m. CST RHP Jeremy Klick (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. RHP Jake McMahill (0-1, 5.14 ERA)

ABOUT LAST NIGHT... /IOWA POD STANDINGS After a night in which the Honkers’ bats couldn’t be stopped, the Rox pitching staff stepped up and absolutely stymied TEAM W L PCT GB STR L10 Rochester’s offensive efforts. The Team in Teal was no-hit Waterloo 21 11 .656 -- L1 7-3 through 7.2 innings of play before Jacob Shaver lifted a single into shallow right field to break up the no-no. St. Cloud right- St. Cloud 17 11 .607 2.0 W1 8-2 hander Luke Albright dazzled, blowing through Rochester’s Willmar 18 12 .600 2.0 L2 4-6 lineup for five no-hit innings, striking out 10 Honkers hitters Mankato 13 18 .419 7.5 W1 4-9 in 18 batters faced. Albright issued two baserunners, both on walks, before being pulled after 82 pitches. Rochester 5 22 .185 13.5 L1 1-9 TOP-10 TALENT While it was St. Cloud’s staff who headlined for the victory, Robert Moore has been sensational at the plate for Rochester this year, Rochester’s pitching was no slouch either. MacGregor Hines and it’s shown in the Minnesota-Iowa Pod leaderboard, where he consis- matched Albright pitch-for-pitch, also turning in five strong tently places top-10 in major offensive categories. Moore is fifth among innings of two-hit, shutout ball. Hines walked four and struck active players in hits (31), tenth in on-base percentage (.397), ninth out three, and turned things over to Chris Stefl in the sixth. in OPS (.847) and leads the pod in stolen bases with 16, and has been The St. John’s product was equally as good in his two innings, caught just three times. striking out four and walking two en route to a no decision. CORE-IO PART OF THE OFFENSE The game was scoreless until the eighth inning, when St. While infielder Taison Corio did not extended his on-base streak to 18 Cloud broke the tie with a safety squeeze to push across the games last night, thus ending the longest on-base streak of the season first run of the night. The Rox tacked on one more in the ninth for any Honkers player, he has still been an important piece for Rochester. on a Rochester wild pitch, and they would hold that 2-0 cush- Corio has now reached in 19 of the 21 games he’s appeared in this season. ion in the bottom of the half of the inning to wrap up the win. WOUNDING THE KRAGEN NEW KIDZ ON THE HONK Thursday night against St. Cloud marked the first time this season that The Honkers will send right-hander Jeremy Klick to the hill relief pitcher Kragen Kechely allowed multiple hits in back-to-back ap- tonight for his first appearance in a Rochester uniform. The pearances. The junkballer had been nearly unstoppable all season before rising sopohomore out of the University of St. Thomas in St. Monday night, when Willmar tallied four hits and hung two runs on the Paul pitched just two thirds of an inning this season for the DBU product. Last night, St. Cloud got to Kechely and put up four runs on Tommies, striking out both batters he faced in a 14-2 win four hits, the most damage any team has done against the right-hander against Park University in March. all season. PREVIOUSLY AGAINST THE MOONDOGS... Rochester’s success against Mankato ran dry the last time JACK’S STREAKS ENDING these two teams met on July 26. It was tonight’s starter, Jake Jack Zalasky has been one of the more dominant arms out of the Roches- McMahill, that dealt against the Honkers the last time out, ter bullpen in 2020. His 10th outing of the year, Wednesday afternoon was striking our six and walking five through five innings pitched. the first appearance in which the Sac State righty did not tally a strikeout. McMahill allowed the only two hits that Rochester would mus- Zalasky’s streak of 10.1 scoreless innings was broken by a Peyton Williams TONIGHT’S UMPIRES ter that night at Franklin Rogers Park, throwing 102 pitches be- walk-off homer. fore receiving a no decision. The Honkers lit up the hit column HP: Bryce Brewer in the previous game against Mankato, tallying three runs on 1B: David Saball 11 hits in an eventual 6-3 loss on July 25. 3B: Andrew Girard (CC) COMING UP THIS WEEK... WATCH THE HONKERS portal.stretchinternet.com/nwlhonkers @RochHonkers 8/9 @ MAN Kindreich (1-0, 1.80) vs. TBA LISTEN TO THE HONKERS @honkersbaseball 8/12 @ WAT Ferro (0-2, 9.37) vs. TBA mixlr.com/honkersbroadcast 8/13 vs. WAT Cunha (0-2, 7.24) vs. TBA FOLLOW THE HONKERS Rochester Honkers 8/14 vs. WAT TBA vs. TBA rochesterhonkers.com PAGE 2 ABOUT TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER TODAY’S HONKERS HURLER UNIV. OF ST. THOMAS Pitched only two thirds of an inning in his collegiate career thus far... struck out two batters in his college debut against Park University (AZ) on March 2, his lone performance of the season to help preserve an 11-2 lead 33 JEREMY KLICK PERSONAL Lists his major highlight of his time at St. Thom- RHP | SO. | UNIV. OF ST. THOMAS as as being able to talk to his teammate, Chan- dler Shaefbauer... chose St. Thomas because 6-2 | 165 | MAPLE GROVE, MN of its string business and baseball programs... Majoring in Entrepreneurship... Aspires to own REPERTOIRE: 2SFB, SL, CH his own business one day... Son to Wade and Deb Klick... Jeremy’s father, Wade, wrestled colle- giately at Augsburg 2020 WITH ROCHESTER ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER KLICK BAIT 0.00 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 Klick lists and gold as two things he BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA does to get himself ready to pitch. Normally, he 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 .000 plays either sport with friends the day before he takes the mound to loosen up. 2020 GAME-BY-GAME The right-hander out of St. Thomas has been DATE OPP RES DEC IP H R-ER BB SO BF-P-S listening to the same pre-game playlist since FIRST APPEARANCE WITH HONKERS he was in high school. Klick says the playlist BOLD INDICATES GAME STARTED isn’t long, but the genres on it are broad — any- where from classic Green Day to Juice WRLD to country, Klick’s pre-game tunes get him ready to 2020 WITH ST. THOMAS pitch. ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER 0.00 0-0 1-0 0 0-0 0 0.2 0 0 0 Klick will appear as the eighth Honkers pitcher to start a game this season, and will likely assume BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA a role in the rotation for the remainder of the 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 .000 2020 season. DAY-BY-DAY RESULTS ABOUT LAST NIGHT: GAME RECAP DATE OPP RESULT RECORD WIN LOSS SAVE TIME Despite Result, Pitchers Duel Delights Mayo Field Crowd 7-2-20 @ STC L, 7-6 (11) 0-1 Stelzer (1-0) Churby (0-1) -- 4:00 ROCHESTER, MN — Unable to recapture last night’s magic, the Rochester Honkers 7-3-20 vs. STC L, 13-2 0-2 Myhre (1-0) Kellg.Clrk. (0-1) -- 3:21 7-4-20 (1) @ WIL W, 11-4 1-2 Kindreich (1-0) Wilkinson (0-1) -- 2:47 (5-22), were challenged in each inning by St. Cloud Rox (16-11) pitching staff, only 7-4-20 (2) @ WIL L, 13-2 1-3 Barnum (1-0) Stefl (0-1) -- 3:17 mustering five baserunners on the night while striking out 13 times in the 2-0 7-5-20 @ WIL L, 10-4 1-4 Scott (1-0) Hines (0-1) -- 2:58 loss at home. 7-6-20 @ MAN W, 5-4 2-4 Zalasky (1-0) Theriot (0-1) Kechely (1) 3:12 7-GAME HIATUS DUE TO SUSPENSION Rox starter Luke Albright was rolling through four innings, retiring the Honkers in 7-14-20 @ WIL L, 7-4 2-5 Gorrell (2-0) Campbell (0-1) Scott (2) 2:55 order each time up. Were it not for a leadoff walk by Tanner Tweedt (Sacramento 7-15-20 @ WIL L, 5-1 2-6 Zigan (1-0) Cunha (0-1) -- 2:22 7-16-20 vs. MAN W, 7-6 (10) 3-6 Kechely (1-0) Taylor (0-2) -- 3:48 City) in the Fifth, each of the five frames Albright tossed would have gone down 7-17-20 vs. MAN L, 13-5 3-7 Pender (1-0) Hines (0-2) -- 3:42 as 1-2-3 innings. 7-18-20 @ STC W, 8-6 4-7 Zalasky (2-0) Peterson (0-2) Churby (1) 3:20 7-19-20 @ STC L, 9-4 4-8 Stock (1-0) Gray (0-1) -- 3:09 The Flock finally knocked Albright out in the Sixth, though, when Jacob Shaver 7-22-20 vs. WAT L, 10-6 4-9 Corsentino (1-0) Cunha (0-2) -- 3:08 (Arizona) worked a four-pitch walk. Shaver’s night at the plate was quietly one of 7-23-20 vs. WAT L, 7-3 4-10 Olson (1-0) Harrison (0-1) Button (2) 3:03 his better performances of the season. Going one-for-two with a walk and a stolen 7-24-20 @ MAN L, 6-5 4-11 Granillo (1-0) Mickelson (0-1) -- 3:42 7-25-20 vs. MAN L, 6-3 4-12 Gray (2-2) Stefl (0-2) Eckberg (2) 2:47 base — only his second stolen bag of the 2020 campaign — Shaver bounced back 7-26-20 @ MAN L, 5-1 4-13 Pender (2-0) Kellg.Clrk. (0-2) -- 2:44 from a five-game skid where he had not appeared on base. 7-27-20 @ WAT L, 6-0 4-14 Schramm (1-1) Ferro (0-1) -- 2:39 7-28-20 vs. WAT L, 8-7 4-15 Graf (1-0) Campbell (0-2) Button (3) 3:26 Following Shaver in the eighth inning was Kyle Huckstorf (Iowa Western), who 7-29-20 @ STC L, 2-1 4-16 Mills (1-0) Mickelson (0-2) Mhyre (1) 2:09 connected on a 1-2 fastball and blooped a single to center. It marked the first time 7-30-20 @ STC L, 4-2 4-17 Albright (1-1) Hines (0-3) Stelzer (4) 3:02 in the game that the Honkers could get baserunners on back-to-back. “Huck” has 8-2-20 vs. WIL L, 14-4 4-18 Webb (2-1) Stefl (0-3) -- 3:32 8-3-20 vs. WIL L, 2-1 4-19 Romo (1-0) Kechely (1-1) Newman (2) 2:44 now tallied hits in consecutive games following his four-for-four night last night. 8-4-20 vs. WAT L, 8-1 4-20 Lizik (3-0) Ferro (0-2) -- 2:33 8-5-20 @ WAT L, 4-3 4-21 Huertas (2-0) Zalasky (2-1) -- 1:55 We would be remiss not to mention the pitching effort on the Honkers’ end. Start- 8-6-20 vs. STC W, 10-8 5-21 Harrison (1-1) DeSalvo (0-2) Churby (2) 2:55 er MacGregor Hines (Houston) and reliever Chris Stefl (St. John’s) put together 8-7-20 vs. STC L, 2-0 5-22 Kelly (2-0) Gray (0-2) Stelzer (6) 2:58 their best performances of the season, going seven combined innings of shutout 8-8-20 vs. MAN ------ball. Hines, making his second start against the Rox, steadied himself versus 8-9-20 @ MAN ------8-12-20 @ WAT ------a lineup who had his number coming into tonight: the Rox hit Hines at a 14/33 8-13-20 vs. WAT ------mark this season, good for a .424 batting average. The righty would add three 8-14-20 vs. WAT ------strikeouts to his season total of 15 (tied for fifth on the team with Stone Churby 8-15-20 @ WAT ------(Sacramento State). 8-16-20 vs. WAT ------8-17-20 @ WAT ------As for Stefl, the Red Storm lefty was making his final appearance of the 2020 8-18-20 vs. STC ------8-19-20 vs. STC ------Northwoods League season, and he gave it his all. The command on the offspeed pitches were there, which he utilized via the curve and slider to strikeout four of the seven batters he faced. HONKERS ROSTER UPDATED: AUGUST 8, 2020 # PITCHERS POS YEAR B/T HT WT SCHOOL HOMETOWN 8 Sal Ferro LHP R-SO L/L 5-8 200 Long Island University Middle Village, NY 9 MacGregor Hines RHP R-SR R/R 6-0 205 Univ. of Houston College Station, TX 14 Charles Harrison RHP SO R/R 6-1 175 UCLA Canyon Country, CA 19 Garrett Kellogg-Clarke RHP JR R/R 6-3 190 University of Nevada Cypress Woods, TX 21 Tanner Cunha LHP JR L/L 5-10 175 University of Nevada Sacramento, CA 22 Kragen Kechely RHP SR R/R 6-0 220 Dallas Baptist University Austin, TX 23 Jack Zalasky RHP JR R/R 6-1 186 Sacramento State University Elk Grove, CA 24 Evan Gray RHP SO R/R 6-4 195 University of Arkansas Swansea, IL 25 Larson Kindreich LHP JR L/L 6-4 210 Biola University Central Point, OR 26 Stone Churby RHP SR R/R 6-3 190 Sacramento State University Brentwood, CA 27 T. Palmer Mickelson RHP SO R/R 5-11 180 Rochester Comm. & Technical Coll. Rochester, MN. 29 Ben Byom RHP SO R/R 5-10 195 U. Wisconsin-La Crosse Holmen, WI 33 Jeremy Klick RHP SO R/R 6-2 165 University of St. Thomas Maple Grove, MN -- Ben Strassman RHP SO R/R 6-0 175 Rochester Comm. & Technical Coll Golden Valley, MN -- Dallas Miller RHP SR. R/R 6-6 -- College of St. Scholastica Big Lake, MN -- Damon Rademacher RHP JR. R/R 6-2 205 Gustavus Adolphus College Princeton, MN # CATCHERS POS YEAR B/T HT WT SCHOOL HOMETOWN 6 Ryan Wrobleski C/OF R-JR R/R 6-1 195 Dallas Baptist University Eden Prairie, MN 11 Tanner Tweedt C JR R/R 6-0 195 Sacramento City College Red Bluff, CA 35 Ty Hamilton C JR. -- 5-10 195 U. Wisconsin-La Crosse Sun Prairie, WI # INFIELDERS POS YEAR B/T HT WT SCHOOL HOMETOWN 1 Robert Moore SS SO S/R 5-9 168 University of Arkansas Leawood, KS 2 Bryce Begell IF R-FR R/R 6-1 190 Sacramento City College Vacaville, CA 4 Jacob Shaver IF/C SO R/R 5-9 185 University of Arizona Riverton, UT 7 Taison Corio IF SO S/R 5-11 180 Cal Poly State University Concord, CA 17 Bryce Matthews 1B/OF SO L/R 6-3 190 University of Arkansas Parker, CO 28 Steven Moretto IF SR R/R 6-1 225 Sacramento State University Coquitlam, BC, CAN 37 AJ Campbell IF/RHP SO R/R 6-2 215 Frostburg State University Absecon, NJ # OUTFIELDERS POS YEAR B/T HT WT SCHOOL HOMETOWN 5 Kyle Huckstorf OF JR R/R 5-8 170 Iowa Western CC Milwaukee, WI 12 Logan Sanders OF/IF SO R/R 6-0 175 Pima Community College Tucson, AZ 20 Aaron Simmons OF JR L/R 5-8 190 U. Wisconsin-Stevens Point Franklin, WI 31 Josh Thorp OF SR R/R 6-0 195 University of St. Thomas Plymouth, MN 36 Pearce Howard OF/1B JR L/R 6-2 205 University of New Orleans Silver Spring, MD -- Mitch Olson OF JR R/R 5-10 -- College of St. Scholastica Eden Prairie, MN # COACHES SCHOOL PRO-NUN-SEE-AY-SHINS FIELD MANAGER PRONUNCIATION GUIDE 13 Deskaheh Bomberry Sacramento City College 2 Bryce bug-ELL 23 Jack Zuh-LASS-key “duh-SKAAH-hey BOM-berry” 6 Ryan roe-BLESS-key 25 Larson KIN-drick ASST. COACHES 7 “Tyson” CORE-ee-oh 27 Yes, his name is T. That’s it. 15 Marc Mumper Abeline Christian University 8 Sal “Pharaoh” 34 Chris stef-uhl 16 Austin Spainhour Sacramento City College 21 Tanner COON-yuh 22 Krayg-en KEK-lee PAGE 4 HONKERS COACHES 13 DESKAHEH BOMBERRY MGR Deskaheh “Bomber” Bomberry is in his first season as the Field Manager for the Rochester Honkers. Bomber will embark on his 19th season as a Sacramento City College assistant coach in the spring of 2021, serving as the Panthers’ pitching coach and recruiting coor- dinator. Since moving to SCC, 49 pitchers have transferred to NCAA Division 1 universities, 17 have signed professional contracts, and four have reached the Major Leagues.

In 2000, Deskaheh was an assistant coach for the Chatham Athletics of the Cape Cod League. Eight players from that team went on to play in the Major Leagues. Deskaheh has spent the last three summers assisting USA Baseball with the selection of the 18U national team. Deskaheh began his collegiate coaching career in 1996 at Eastern Kentucky University. At EKU, Bomber was responsible for the development of the pitching staff and coordinated their recruiting efforts. In his playing career, Bomber played two seasons at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. Following his CRC career, he transferred to Sonoma State and played two seasons for SSU. Bomber received his Bachelor of Arts from Sonoma State in Business Administration and a Master’s Degree in Physical Education from Eastern Kentucky University. Bomber is also a full-time instructor at SCC. Deskaheh and his wife Rosanne live in East Sacramento with their daughter, Ryan. 15 MARC MUMPER ASST. COACH Marc Mumper is in his first season as a Rochester Honkers assistant coach, serving as the team’s first base and infield coach. Mumper joined the Metropolitan State-Denver baseball program as an assis- tant coach in August 2019 and will join Abeline Christian in the fall.

He joined the Roadrunners after completing his playing career at NCAA Division I Grand Canyon, where he was a three-year starter and hit .269 with a .395 on-base percentage as a senior. The Antelopes won back-to-back Western Athletic Conference championships in 2017 and 2018. Mumper, a Colorado native and former 37th-round pick in the 2015 MLB draft by the , works with team’s infielders, as well as assisting with hitting and baserunning. Primarily a shortstop, Mumper posted a strong career .955 fielding percentage at Grand Canyon, committing just three errors while fielding at a .972 clip as a senior. Mumper’s father, Dave, coached high school baseball in Colorado for 32 years, and is in the Colorado Dugout Club Hall of Fame.

Prior to joining Abeline Christian and MSU Denver, Mumper worked as an assistant coach with the Canyon Thunder baseball organization in Arizona. Mumper graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology from Missouri. 16 AUSTIN SPAINHOUR ASST. COACH Austin Spainhour is in his first season as a Rochester Honkers as- sistant coach, serving as the team’s third base and catching coach. “Spain” will enter his third season as an assistant coach at Sacramen- to City College in the spring of 2021, where his role includes coaching the catchers and assisting with the hitters. After playing for the Pan- thers in 2014 and 2015, he received a scholarship to play at California State University, Monterey Bay. Austin spent two seasons playing for the Otters before returning to coach at Sac City.

Austin received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business from California State University, Monterey Bay and is currently working towards his Master’s Degree from the United States Sports Academy. Outside of Rochester and Sac City, Austin is the Director of Baseball Operations at Downtown Baseball, a development-based baseball academy in Sacramento.