Ryan Kraft (Kalamazoo Growlers)

Northwoods Insider: Indiana’s Kraft shoulders large load in Kalamazoo title run

See also: Home state summer tune-up for UK’s Hindle

For the second time in three years the Kalamazoo Growlers won the Northwoods League championship, defeating the La Crosse Loggers by a score of 8-7 in a contest that took 14 innings to complete and included a two-hour rain delay. The Growlers’ strength was their pitching staff boasting the second-best cumulative ERA (4.15) of any Northwoods League team during the regular season.

The crown jewel of their staff was the league’s Pitcher of the Year, Indiana lefthander Ryan Kraft, who paced the NWL with 89 strikeouts and overall went 7-2, 1.40 in[…]