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July 11, 2014 - Frontier League (FL)
Lake Erie Crushers News Release


EVANSVILLE, Ind. - The Lake Erie Crushers were held to just a trio of singles at Bosse Field on Friday night, as they were shutout in the series opener against the Evansville Otters, in a 4-0 loss.

The Crushers (26-23) have now been shutout five times this season, while the victory for the Otters (29-18) was their fourth in their last five games.

Lake Erie was never able to figure out Evansville starting pitcher Trevor Walch (2-0) who went the distance to score the victory with a complete game, three-hit shutout. The Crushers had three base runners over the first three innings of the contest, but Walch caught fire and sat down 18 in a row from the third inning on, until surrendering a one out single to Emmanuel Quiles in the top of the ninth.

Evansville plated its first run in the bottom of the first inning. John Schultz started the inning with a single, and made his way to third on Josh Allen's double down the left field line. Zac Treece (2-2) struck out the next batter, before Nik Balog brought Schultz home on a groundout to give the Otters a 1-0 lead.

Evansville's 1-0 lead held until they used the long ball to add to it in the bottom of the third. Allen started the third inning with a double off the wall in center, and Shayne Houck followed with a two-run bomb over the wall in left center.

The Otters used a little two-out thunder to plate their final run of the game in the bottom of the fifth. Chris Sweeney reached on a two out single, and Chris Elder kept the inning alive with a two-out walk. JR Higley followed with a run scoring single to center, plating the final run of the game.

Walch threw just over 110 pitches and fanned nine in the winning effort, while Treece took the loss after allowing four runs on seven hits over 4.2 innings of work and struck out eight. The Lake Erie bullpen allowed just one hit and struck out five over 3.1 innings of relief.

The Crushers will continue their three-game series with the Evansville Otters at Historic Bosse Field on Saturday night. Righty Mickey Jannis (2-3, 4.66) will throw for the Crushers and the Otters will counter with left-hander Zach Fowler (0-1, 9.00). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:35 PM.

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