AtL Lancaster Stormers

Barnstormers Edge Camden To Close Homestand

Published on September 5, 2010 under Atlantic League (AtL)
Lancaster Stormers News Release


A homestand full of photo finishes concluded with another on Sunday evening as the Lancaster Barnstormers nipped the Camden Riversharks, 6-5, in front of 7,739 at Clipper Magazine Stadium.

The win kept the Barnstormers within four games of the division leading Somerset Patriots.

Lancaster grabbed a quick 3-0 lead in the first inning, building off early wildness on the part of Camden starter Mike Madsen. Madsen hit Lloyd Turner with his first pitch of the night then walked L.J. Biernbaum. Bryant Nelson hit a liner to right which sailed over the head of Richie Robnett for an RBI single. Aaron Herr was also hit by a pitch to load the bases. A liner to right by Reggie Taylor resulted in a sacrifice fly, and, after another walk, Adam Witter hit the second sac fly of the inning to produce the third run.

Ross Peeples was nicked by a run in the top of the second. Chris Malec reached on a single off Nelson's glove as the shortstop darted to his left. Malec moved up two bags on a pair of wild pitches during a walk to Raul Padron. Sean Smith got the run across with a force play grounder to short.

Nelson extended the lead to 5-1 with a two-run single in the bottom of the fourth, and Peeples carried the lead into the sixth when he gave way to Pat Overholt with two outs and a runner at first. Overholt (4-4) allowed the first three batters he faced to reach base, allowing two runs to score on a bouncer up the middle by Josh Horn that sliced the lead to 5-3.

Malec tied the game with a two-out, two-run homer in the seventh, his second in two nights.

Former Barnstormer Eddy Camacho (6-1) came on in the seventh and got the first two outs in a hurry. Witter kept the inning alive with a line drive double into the right center field alley and scored when Octavio Martinez doubled over Smith's head in left.

Smith led off the eighth with a bloop double that barely eluded Biernbaum's grasp in shallow left center. Lloyd Turner saved the tying run, making a diving stop in the hole on a grounder by Juan Francia. After a suicice squeeze attempt resulted in a foul ball, Horn rapped a quick one-hopper back to Tim McNab, who caught Smith in a rundown. Smith tried to duck around Herr's tag in front of third base, but third base umpire Mark Facto saw a brush with the glove and registered the second out of the inning. Matt Ceriani followed with a single up the middle, and Lancaster turned to closer Tim Hamulack. The lefty retired all four batters that he faced, two on strikes, to record his 10th save.

The Barnstormers are off the next two days before opening a three-game series in Bridgeport with a doubleheader on Wednesday.

NOTES: Lancaster closed the homestand with a 3-4 record...All seven games were decided by one or two runs...Nelson has 11 hits in his last 15 at bats with 11 RBI...He has 82 RBI for the season, tied for the fifth best mark in Lancaster history...Twenty-two of those RBI have come at Camden's expense...Lancaster finished the season series against Camden with a 12-8 record...On the homestand, Hamulack retired all 18 batters he faced, 12 on strikes.

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