Bandits Blank Beloit in Series-Opener

Beloit, Wisconsin – The Quad Cities River Bandits completed their second shutout win of the season Tuesday, as they opened a six-game series against the Beloit Sky Carp with a 4-0 victory Tuesday at ABC Supply Stadium.

Just as he did in Bandits’ first shutout of 2025, right-hander Felix Arronde set the tone with his start, tossing 5.0-scoreless innings and navigating around five base runners with the help of three strikeouts. The effort lowered Quad Cities’ starting rotation’s ERA to 2.42 over a league-high 48.1 innings to open the season.

Mauricio Veliz took over for Arronde and worked around a hit batsman and a walk to strand two Sky Carp in scoring position in the sixth, before tossing a perfect seventh.

Beloit’s staff also completed a scoreless seven innings, as Emmett Olson—who struck out four, but worked just 2.2 innings in an abbreviated start—Xavier Meachem (1.1 IP), and Will Schomberg held the Bandits to just five hits through the game’s first 21 outs.

An error on Echedry Vargas gifted Quad Cities a one-out baserunner in the eighth. After Canyon Brown stole second, Daniel Vazquez fisted a two-out single into right field to bring in the game’s first tally and a 1-0 Quad Cities advantage.

Justin Strom helped Schomberg complete the eighth, but ran into trouble of his own in the ninth, when two more Sky Carp errors helped Trevor Werner’s one-out walk score and Callan Moss launched a two-run, opposite-field home run for his first of the season.

Right-hander A.J. Causey, who started his night with a clean bottom of the eighth, remained on the mound for the ninth and retired the side in order for a six-out save—his first in the professional ranks.

Veliz (1-0) earned his first High-A win in the effort, recording a pair of strikeouts over 2.0 innings of relief, while Schomberg (0-2) struck out a game-high six River Bandits in a 3.2-inning piggyback start, but allowed the unearned, go-ahead run.

Quad Cities returns to ABC Supply Stadium for game two of the series tomorrow morning and sends left-hander Frank Mozzicato (1-0, 2.53) to the mound against fellow top 30 organizational prospect, Noble Meyer (0-0, 0.00). First pitch is scheduled for 11:10 a.m.