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Bees Beat Beloit For Third Straight Win

June 1, 2005 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Burlington Bees News Release


Burlington, IA (June 1, 2005) - The Burlington Bees (25-27) beat the Beloit Snappers (25-28) for the team's third straight win to match its longest winning streak of the season. The Bees also improved to 5-1 on this home stand and moved a half game in front of the Snappers in the Midwest League's Western Division standings into fifth place.

The Bees got off to a fast start with four runs in the bottom of the first inning. Irving Falu drew a leadoff walk and advanced all the way to third when 1B Chris Brown fielded a ground ball by Geraldo Valentin and threw the ball into left field for an error. Mario Lisson made the mistake hurt even worse with a three-run homer to left. It was his third homer of the year, but his first since May 1st against Clinton. Rusty Brown would double but was thrown out as Alan Moye reached on a fielder's choice. Eddie Solis drove in Moye with a two-out single to extend the lead to 4-0. The Bees added two more runs against starter David Shinskie (0-2) in the third inning. Lisson singled and scored on another double by Brown. Brown later scored on a passed ball. Evan Meek took over for Shinskie in the fourth and allowed two more runs. Kenard Springer doubled and scored on a balk. Meek walked three and Brown knocked in another run with a single up the middle. John Williams pitched the final two innings for Beloit and gave up the Bees final run in the bottom of the eighth. With two outs, Falu tripled down the left field line and scored on a single by Valentin.

Bees' starter Matt Campbell hasn't had a lot of run support this year, but got a different dose of bad luck this time out. After loading the bases with nobody out in the second, he got out of the jam and allowed just one run. The Snappers added another run in the third on an RBI single by Dwayne White, but left two more men on base. In the top of the fifth, Brown led off with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Paul Rutgers that made it 8-3. Campbell was one out away from qualifying for his second straight win, but had to come out after he turned an ankle heading to back up home plate on the sacrifice fly. Kyle Crist (4-0) came on to finish the inning and allowed just one hit in 3.1 scoreless innings of relief for his team-leading fourth win. Rusty Begnaud allowed a run in the top of the ninth and finished the game.

Falu scored three times to match the team-high for the year. Rusty Brown extended his hitting streak to seven in a row. Ed Lucas was 0-4 to snap his eight-game hitting streak.

The Bees will try for their fourth straight win tomorrow night at 7:00 against the Snappers at Community Field. RH Billy Buckner (3-6, 3.93) will start for the Bees against LH Jose Mijares (NR) making his Midwest League debut. The gates will open at 6:00 for a Fat Tuesdays Thirsty Thursday featuring 2-for-$3 specials on all 20oz. bottles of Pepsi products and 12oz. cans of beer. The game will be broadcast live on KBUR AM 1490 and KBKB AM 1360 with the pre-game show starting at 6:40.

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