Thanks to rain in Great Falls Friday and Saturday, the Pioneer League Championship Series Game Two scheduled for Saturday night was unable to be played, forcing a potential doubleheader to decide the crown Sunday.It took longer than expected, but the Ogden Raptors bounced back from a blowout loss in the

In the first and fifth, it was Rylan Bannon. In between, Luis Paz. Late in the game, a host of relievers.Key players abounded Thursday night as the Ogden Raptors took Game One of the Pioneer League Championship Series over the Great Falls Voyagers, 7-4. The win was the team's 28th

Donovan Casey stroked three hits, Luis Paz and Brayan Morales drove in three apiece and the Ogden Raptors used three runs in the first and four in the second to cruise to a 9-4 win over the Orem Owlz Sunday evening in Game One of the Pioneer League South division

The Ogden Raptors, having clinched the Pioneer League South division's second-half crown and playoff spot, were looking to fine-tune aspects of their game before facing the Orem Owlz in the divisional playoffs.The visiting Idaho Falls Chukars, long eliminated from playoff contention, obliged by refusing to play dead. They put up

A day after scoring 11 runs in clinching their playoff spot, the Ogden Raptors took it easy on the Grand Junction Rockies.Until the ninth.Ogden, trailing by four runs, plated five in the bottom of the ninth to win, 8-7, and sweep the two-game series.The winning run came on a fly

For two days in Grand Junction, the Ogden Raptors took leads in attempting to clinch a playoff spot, but each time they have disappeared in a barrage of Rockies home runs.Wednesday night in Ogden, the Raptors finally kept Grand Junction from staving off elimination, scoring six runs in the second

The Ogden Raptors went into Grand Junction needing two wins in a three-game series to clinch a playoff spot.They won the first but saw Grand Junction come back to spoil the second game. Tuesday night the same happened, with the host Rockies plating seven runs from the sixth through eighth

Early celebration turned into a dragging deficit, but in the end the Ogden Raptors prevailed against the Grand Junction Rockies to inch closer to clinching a playoff spot.Shortly after a first-inning home run to break the Pioneer League's single-season team mark, the Raptors found themselves trailing by seven. Ogden didn't

The Ogden Raptors, on the verge of both the franchise and Pioneer League single-season home run records, passed the team mark quickly Thursday night.That was the extent of the damage against the Orem Owlz, however, and the Raptors ended up allowing seven unearned runs in an 11-5 loss at Lindquist

After following up Luis Paz's homer with his own, Rylan Bannon was caught off guard when Ogden's dugout erupted again to celebrate a long ball by Mitchell Hansen. The Dodgers prospects launched back-to-back-to-back home runs in the first inning of Rookie-level Ogden's 11-5 loss to Orem on Thursday night. 

The Ogden Raptors entered Tuesday night with a chance to sweep the Idaho Falls Chukars after two straight wins. They had fallen short of a four-game road sweep in Idaho, and after the top of the third it appeared a second shot would fall by the wayside.The Chukars jumped on

The Ogden Raptors, on the verge of completing a four-game road sweep, lost at Idaho Falls Saturday night. Sunday, they put the memory of that four-run output in the past, scoring multiple runs in four separate innings in a 17-6 victory over the Chukars at Lindquist Field.The Raptors remain alone

An error in the third inning led to two Idaho Falls runs, and the Ogden Raptors were unable to comeback in a 6-4 loss Saturday night. The Raptors had a chance for a rare, four-game road sweep, but three Chukars runs in the first and two following an error in

Entrenched in a heated battle with the Pioneer League South's last-place team, the division-leading Ogden Raptors fell behind going into the ninth but tied the score to send the game to extra innings. With two out in the tenth, Ogden put together a rally capped by Luis Paz's 13th home

After taking three of four from the Orem Owlz over the weekend, the Ogden Raptors entered play Wednesday in a dead heat with the Owlz and just one game up on the Grand Junction Rockies for the Pioneer League South division second-half crown.While the Rockies took care of the Owlz

Friday and Saturday in Orem, the Ogden Raptors carried large leads into the bottom of the ninth, watched the Owlz stage a comeback and put the potential tying run on base, and finally closed out the victories with clutch pitching. The story repeated itself Tuesday night at Lindquist Field. Ogden

Despite two early home runs and a late five-run rally, the Ogden Raptors fell to the visiting Orem Owlz Monday night, 11-10.The loss put Orem a game ahead of Ogden in the Pioneer League South division second-half standings after the Raptors had pulled into a tie by sweeping two games

After a seven-run Ogden Raptors second inning, it seemed the outcome wasn't in doubt.In the bottom of the ninth, that feeling changed as the Orem Owlz brought the tying run to the plate.However, Raptors starting first baseman Luis Paz took the mound for the second day in a row and

The Ogden Raptors completed their seven-game homestand Thursday night by falling to the Great Falls Voyagers, 19-2.Ogden took the first five of the seven games in their final stretch against Pioneer League North division teams before two losses to Great Falls.The visitors went on the board first with seven runs

Luis Paz hit his 12th home run of the season, but the three-run blast didn't keep the Ogden Raptors from dropping their first game overall in a week and first at home in nearly a month.Paz blasted his 454-foot shot to right-center field in the third. It pulled Ogden within

The Ogden Raptors bats had been quietly efficient for three weeks, scoring enough to win most games but not obliterating the opponent as they did so many times early in the season.That changed Saturday night, as the Raptors broke out for a 15-6 victory over the Billings Mustangs in the

It had been nearly a month since Luis Paz hit a round tripper. The fifth inning on Wednesday against Great Falls was an opportune time to break his drought. Paz launched a solo blast to tie the game in the middle innings, his 11th of the year, and later doubled

A three-run first inning wasn't enough for the Ogden Raptors as the host Great Falls Voyagers powered their way back via the home run for a 6-5 win Tuesday night at Centene Stadium.With Ogden leading, 4-1, in the bottom of the fourth, Voyagers second baseman Tate Blackman hit a three-run

Despite taking the first lead, the contest deteriorated quickly for the Ogden Raptors Monday night in Great Falls.The Raptors scored twice in the third inning but were quickly overwhelmed, as the Great Falls Voyagers plated four in the bottom half, three in the fifth and seven in the sixth to