BURLINGTON, VT --- Ronnie LaBrie went 2-for-3 with three RBI, including a two-run triple, and three Lake Monster pitchers combined on a four-hit shutout as Vermont beat the Staten Island Yankees 7-0 in New York-Penn League action Saturday evening at historic Centennial Field.Vermont scored four runs on three hits in the second inning to take a 4-0 lead. David Freitas led off the inning with a line drive single to center to extend his hitting streak to 14 games, tying him with Matt Watson (1999) for the fourth longest hitting streak in Lake Monsters history.
Freitas advanced to third on a two-base throwing error by Yankee starter Nic Turley and scored as Justin Miller reached on a fielding error by shortstop Jose Mojica. After a strikeout and walk, LaBrie lined a hit just out of the reach of a diving Eduardo Sosa in center for the two-run triple. LaBrie later scored on a two-out RBI single from Chad Mozingo for the 4-0 lead.
Vermont got an insurance run in the fifth on a Blake Kelso RBI single and added two more runs in the sixth. After Miller tripled to center and scored on a wild pitch, Wade Moore singled and stole second before scoring on a LaBrie RBI single to rightfield.
Chad Jenkins (2-3) gave up just one hit, a single on the first pitch of the game to Sosa, over five scoreless innings for the win. Jenkins struckout five and struggled a bit with his control, walking two and hitting four batters including three in the third inning.
After the leadoff single in the first, the Yankees did not have another hit until a Garrison Lassiter infield single in the seventh inning off reliever Cameron Selik. Nick McCoy followed with another single, but those were the only hits allowed by Selik in two innings, while Dustin Crane allowed one hit in the final two innings.
Turley (0-1) was charged with all seven runs (four earned) on six hits over 5 1/3 innings to take the loss for Staten Island (15-12), which has dropped four of its last five games.
Vermont (21-8) moves 13 games over .500 for the second time this season and move six games in front of Connecticut for first-place in the Stedler Division. The Lake Monsters will host Staten Island on Sunday beginning at 1:05 pm on "Pretty In Pink" Breast Cancer Awareness day at Centennial.
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