Red River Adult Baseball League

SHREVEPORT, La. – The Red River Rats led the regular season, the semifinal and the final from wire to wire to earn back-to-back Red River Adult Baseball     League World Series Championships. The Rats finished the 2025 campaign with an 11-3 record after dispatching the Redbirds, 11-2, in the finals.

Newcomer Blake Morgan served as a one-man wrecking crew, tossing a complete game from the mound while also going 5-for-5 at the plate. The southpaw shut down his opponent by hurling 152 pitches, allowing only four hits and striking out seven over his eight innings of work. He served as the offensive catalyst for the Rats by collecting three singles, a double and a triple while scoring three runs from the leadoff spot in the lineup.

The Rats jumped out early with four runs in the top of the first inning on four hits and a catcher’s interference. After a single run in the second inning, Red River surged again for another four runs in the third inning behind an inning-opening double from Carlos Rosario and then four consecutive two-out hits from Murphy Shelton, Matt Helms, Morgan, and Jerome Murphy. They would go on to add runs in the fourth and fifth innings to round out their scoring.

The Redbirds struggled to solve the Rats’ flamethrower, only scratching out a pair of hits and a walk through the first four innings. They got on the board in the fifth inning after a double from Seth Winterer, a wild pitch and an RBI ground out by Brent Rawls. The Redbirds managed only one more run on the evening, which came on an RBI groundout from Steve Mathews that plated Turner Brasher in the eighth inning.

In addition to Morgan, other Rats standouts included Rosario, Helms, Murphy and Joe Lockhart who all tallied two hits in the victory. Murphy added three RBI. Morgan and Cedric Magee finished with two RBI apiece. Winterer paced the Redbirds, going 2-for-2 with a walk to go with his run scored.

During the trophy presentation, Rats skipper Zane Nipper announced Murphy and Rafael LeBron as co-MVPs for the season.

The RRABL title is the tenth overall for the Rats franchise who began as the Astros in 2001 and took on their current moniker in 2005. They are the most tenured club in the 30+ Division and are rivaled in years only by the Rangers (originally the Cubs) in the 18+ Division.