{"id":736757,"date":"2026-06-27T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/736757\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:49:02","slug":"river-bandits-sweep-in-twinbill-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/736757\/","title":{"rendered":"River Bandits sweep in twinbill | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOKOMO, Ind. \u2014 The Napoleon Legion Post #300 River Bandits extended their win streak to eight straight wins after they bested Post 502 Blaze 3-1 in the first game and battled for an 8-6 victory over Kokomo Post 6 for a twinbill sweep on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game, the River Bandits held the Blaze to just one run while they scored three en route to the win.<\/p>\n<p>Camden Bukowski (Bryan) helped lead the River Bandits (16-5) as he smacked a single with an RBI and run while Cade Carlin (Bryan) hit a triple and scored a run.<\/p>\n<p>Tripp Langenderfer (Archbold), Elijah Arend (Fairview) and Maddox Baker (Edgerton) all singled to make up Napoleon\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Singer (Fairview) earned the complete-game win for the Bandits as he totaled four strikeouts, one unearned run and seven hits with no walks.<\/p>\n<p>In the nightcap, the Bandits racked up six runs in the seventh to help claim the win over Kokomo Post 6.<\/p>\n<p>Bukowski helped front the Bandits at the plate as he smacked a single with two RBIs and one run.<\/p>\n<p>Singer (single), Baker (two runs), Kenneth Smeltzer (run) and Jackson Poynter from North Central (run, RBI) also helped make up the Bandits\u2019 offense.<\/p>\n<p>Arend earned the win in relief as he tallied three strikeouts, two walks, three runs (two earned) and one hit in one inning.<\/p>\n<p>The River Bandits are back in action today against Kokomo Post 6.<\/p>\n<p>River Bandits 10, Adrian 0<\/p>\n<p>DEFIANCE \u2014 The River Bandits scored in each of the first four innings of Wednesday\u2019s game against Adrian Post #275 and four pitchers combined to to throw a one-hit shutout to lift Post #300 to a 10-0 eight-inning win at Defiance High School.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Stein set the tone on the bump for the Bandits, firing three scoreless, not-hit frames with one walk and seven strikeouts. Baker followed with two perfect innings, Zack Boecker (Holgate) struck out one in a perfect inning and Langenderfer (Archbold) allowed one hit with two walks and two strikeouts in a pair of scoreless innings to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>At the plate, Post #300 scored 10 runs on 18 hits, as 11 players tallied at least one hit.<\/p>\n<p>Singer and Malachi Smeltzer fronted the Bandits with three hits and an RBI apiece, while Stein (2 RBI), Kenneth Smeltzer (1B, 2B, RBI) Cade Carlin (RBI) each had a pair of hits. Parker Hancock (RBI) and Owen Reynolds both doubled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KOKOMO, Ind. \u2014 The Napoleon Legion Post #300 River Bandits extended their win streak to eight straight wins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2314,2317,2313,2413,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,90674,2327,1039],"class_list":["post-736757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-napoleon","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116821214074587016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}