As Royal Oak thanked all of their supporters on Fan Appreciation Night, the Leprechauns dropped the first game of their series against the Jet Box on Saturday night, 3-1. The loss makes Royal Oak 15-21 on the year, and boosts the Jet Box to 13-22. The difference in the game was that the Leprechauns were...

The day after the Leprechauns won two games against the Sandusky Ice Haulers by a combined score of 5-2, offense became the theme of the day in Royal Oak’s 10-6 win against Sandusky on Friday night. The Leprechauns racked up seventeen hits on the day, piling on all ten of their runs in the first...

In front of a sold-out crowd, Ben Riffe (Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale) saw Stephen Ruhle’s (Michigan State) amazing start in the first game of the doubleheader and handed in his own in game two. The Leprechauns won both games on Thursday night against the Ice Haulers, taking game two 3-1 on the backs of the...

There was a certain electricity on Thursday evening around a packed Lucky Corner at the top of the seventh inning. The Leprechauns held a 2-1 lead, but what everyone cared about was the zero in the hit column for the Ice Haulers. Since it is the first game of a doubleheader, this was to be...

The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League announced their 2023 All Star Team. The North and South Divisions will go head-to-head on Tuesday, July 18th at 7:05 p.m. at Prasco Park in Mason, Ohio. Major League Baseball scouts will be on hand viewing the action that includes five Royal Oak Leprechaun players selected for the North...

Caden Duryea (Northwood) did all he could tonight to keep the Leprechauns’ slim playoff hopes alive, but two home runs were not enough, as Royal Oak fell to the Lima Locos 6-5 on Saturday night. Duryea hit two home runs today, bringing in two runs on each of them and doubling his home run total...

A famous quote within baseball is that hitters should “hit ‘em where they ain’t.” That quote is attributed to Willie Keeler, a man that last played in the MLB 113 years ago. The Keeler spirit was alive at the Lucky Corner tonight, but mostly for one team. The high-powered Muskegon Clippers offense exploded for eleven...

With the threat of being eliminated from playoff contention nearing, the Leprechauns were unable to do much offensively, dropping the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader against the Muskegon Clippers, 6-1. The loss drops Royal Oak to 12-15 on the year. Any combination of five Royal Oak losses and wins by the second-place Lima Locos will...

The Leprechauns were dead. They were scoreless in their last fifteen innings. Facing a 22-3 Muskegon Clippers team, absolutely nothing indicated they had much of a shot to come back from their 2-0 deficit Tuesday night. Going into the sixth, this article was being prepared as if the Leprechauns had gotten shut out again. Alas,...

In the first game of a Tuesday doubleheader against the Muskegon Clippers, the Leprechauns offense was simply overmatched against Muskegon’s pitching staff, failing to put across any runs. The loss drops Royal Oak to 11-14, making their already slim playoff chances even more distant. Muskegon boosts their league-best record to 22-3, growing their lead at...