PANORA — The Coon Rapids-Bayard baseball team stepped back above the .500 mark with a 12-3 non-conference win over host Panorama Tuesday.
CR-B (14-13) scored twice in the first inning and three times in the second to open a 5-0 lead. The Crusaders held an 8-3 lead after five frames before putting the game out of reach with four runs in the top of the sixth.
Colton Lenz yielded three runs on nine hits and a walk while striking out one in picking up the pitching win for CR-B.
Brandon Riley had a single and a triple and Sam Obert drove in four runs to spark CR-B. The Crusaders also received a pair of RBIs from Isaac McCallister and Lenz, with Brady Schlepp joing Obert, McAllister and Lenz with two singles apiece.
Statistical information from Panorama was not made available to the media.
