Rogues win season opener against the Mustangs, 5-3

A season in April was uncertain, but the Medford Rogues were able to make it happen and then get the win on opening night.

Ndent league schedule set for this summer -- take me out to the ballgame played and there were even fans there to sing along.

And they got started against a high-caliber local team, the medford mustangs.

Players in the dugout donning masks.

===== the rogues got on the board first when omar ortiz lifts one into right field, over the head of the outfielder and two hops the wall.

Vinnie zavolta scores from first.

===== dylan marsh finally gets out of the inning on a called strike three but not before the rogues tack on two more and take a three-nothing lead into the second inning.

===== logan barrick pitches a clean slate through two innings.

===== but then future oregon duck bennett thompson hits a chopper up the middle in the third.

Two runs come around to score and the mustangs cut into the rogues lead.

===== thompson also got it done from the mound too, sending a rogue batter back to the dugout.

===== later in the sixth inning, after a leadoff triple, ortiz gets his second r-b-i of