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Ogden Raptors split series in Boise after two weekend losses

Northridge High alum makes debut with Billings

By BRETT HEIN - Standard-Examiner | Jun 8, 2025

Karl Mondon, Bay Area News Group

The Ogden Raptors watch from the dugout during the season opener against the Oakland Ballers on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at Raimondi Park in Oakland, Calif.

The Boise Hawks got off the mat to earn a 3-3 split with the Raptors in a series that concluded Sunday afternoon at Boise’s Memorial Stadium.

At 8-10, the Raptors sit on the bottom end of the 12-team league’s middle third as they return home for six games. Ogden hosts Great Falls (2-16) for games Tuesday through Thursday, and welcomes the Oakland Ballers (12-6) to Lindquist Field for the first time with a Friday-through-Sunday weekend series.

Rocky Mountain and Idaho Falls continue to pace the Pioneer League at the top of the standings, now both holding 14-3 records.

Elsewhere, Northridge High alum Bodee Wright made his professional debut Sunday with Billings in a 10-9 win at Northern Colorado. Wright threw the sixth inning, allowing two earned runs on three hits.

SUN: HAWKS 18, RAPTORS 9

Miguel Hernandez walked six Hawks in 1 1/3 innings to start Sunday’s matinee, setting the table for a Raptors disaster/Boise blowout in the series finale.

Maxfield Jung-Goldberg’s two-run homer helped Boise to a 5-0 lead after one inning that also saw Hernandez walk home a run and balk in another.

Hernandez walked Jung-Goldberg to open the second inning and Taylor Darden homered to make it 7-0. Brett Erwin took over for Hernandez, allowed four hits including a Jaylon Lee triple, and the Hawks led 11-0 after two frames.

Ogden did start hitting the baseball but couldn’t climb out of the hole.

Carmine Lane hit a solo homer in the fifth to get the Raptors on the board. True Fontenot’s two-RBI single in the seventh cut Ogden’s deficit to 15-4. Dylan Wilkinson’s two-run double and a two-RBI single from Chris Sargent trimmed the score to 16-8 in the eighth.

Boise snuffed the faint hope of a huge comeback in the bottom of the eighth when Jung-Goldberg and Darden each homered again, tagging Christian Griffin with solo shots to make it 18-8.

For Ogden, Wilkinson hit 2 for 4, finishing his three-RBI day with a sacrifice fly in the ninth. Jung-Goldberg and Ethan Underwood each drove in four for Boise.

SAT: HAWKS 4, RAPTORS 2

Graham Edwards led a dominant pitching performance for the home team Saturday, allowing two hits in seven shutout innings while striking out eight and walking two to get the Hawks back in the win column.

That outshone a solid-enough debut from Ogden’s Rolando Gutierrez Rosario, who allowed three runs on seven hits over five innings, striking out two and walking one. Those three runs proved to be all Boise needed, with RBI singles from Jake Hjelle in the third and Taylor Darden and Paul Myro IV in the fifth.

With Edwards out of the game, the Raptors did threaten but couldn’t fully convert. Ogden loaded the bases with one out in the eighth (on two walks and a hit-by-pitch); Elliott Good scored Kenny Oyama on a sacrifice fly before Chris Sargent popped out to first base, ending the inning.

Against former Raptors reliever Quinn Waterhouse, True Fontenot singled and Charlie Updegrave doubled with out one, doubling Ogden’s hit total to four; Fontenot scored on a Carmine Lane sac fly before Oyama grounded out to shortstop, ending the game.

Fontenot finished 2 for 4. Shawn Triplett tossed two scoreless innings, allowing one hit, in the sixth and seventh.

FRI: RAPTORS 8, HAWKS 6

Four Raptors relievers allowed just five baserunners in six innings of work, preserving an early surge of runs for an Ogden win Friday.

All totaled, Ogden’s relief pitchers (Nico Saltaformaggio, Jestin Jones, Christian Ciuffetelli, Cameron Edmondson) struck out 12, walked one, and allowed three hits in the final six innings.

Cole Jordan’s first-inning double and newcomer Dylan Wilkinson’s solo homer in the second were the only extra-basers in a six-hit game for Ogden’s offense, which prevailed despite Boise’s 11 hits. Wilkinson finished 2 for 4 with three RBIs and Jordan 2 for 5 with two RBIs.

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