Ryan Budde delivered three hits and four RBIs to lead the Salt Lake Bees to a 7-4 win over the Sky Sox on Sunday at Colorado Springs, Colo.

The game was tied 1-1 when Budde launched a two-out, three-run blast over the left-field wall to put the Bees in front. Budde would also double and score in the seventh inning and provide an insurance run with an RBI single in the eighth.

The Bees won their fourth straight game and pulled to within 31/2 games of first-place Colorado Springs with eight games left in the season.

Idaho Falls 13, Orem 0 » The Owlz were unable to come back after the visiting Chukars scored five runs in the bottom of the first, including one off a pitching error and another off a throwing error. Idaho Falls added three runs in the third and fifth innings, as well as two more in the sixth.

Ogden 7, Casper 5 » Casper clean-up man Jared Clark stepped to the plate against Daigoro Rondon with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth with one out. Rondon got Clark to bounce into a 5-4-3 double play and the host Raptors swept the Ghosts.



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