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Bees Win 3rd Straight and 4 Out of 5 by One Run

June 30, 2006 - Midwest League (MWL1)
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Peoria, IL - Carlos Arroyo's RBI single through a drawn-in infield in the top of the ninth inning gave the Burlington Bees (4-5, 39-37) a 2-1 win over the Peoria Chiefs (4-5, 45-33) at O'Brien Field tonight. The Bees have won three in a row and four of their last five with all four games coming by just one run. The Bees lead this series 2-0 and are 14-10 in one-run games overall this year.

Tonight's game featured great starting pitching. Chiefs' starter Scott Taylor worked three scoreless innings before the Bees got on the board on a solo home run by Mario Lisson in the top of the fourth inning. It was Lisson's sixth homer of the year, and his first in exactly one month. His last home run came against Wisconsin on May 30th. Taylor retired the next 14 batters to keep the Bees to just one run through eight innings.

Bees' starter Chris Nicoll allowed just two hits and matched his season-high with eight strikeouts through five innings. In the bottom of the sixth, Jesus Valdez and Ryan Norwood opened the inning with back-to-back singles, but Nicoll got the next two batters to popout on the infield. Nicoll was one pitch away from getting out of the jam, but Alberto Garcia muscled a 2-2 pitch on his hands into short right field to drive in Valdez and tie the game. Nicoll ended the inning by striking out Dylan Johnston. His nine strikeouts tie Matt Kniginyzky for the team-high this year and is one shy of his career-high. Cody Harkcom allowed a hit in each of the seventh and eighth innings, but kept the Chiefs off the scoreboard.

Taylor came back out to start the top of the ninth and Jose Duarte led off by lining a double to the wall in deep left-center. Josh Johnson moved him to third with his second sacrifice bunt of the game before Arroyo ripped his base hit just past the second baseman. After a walk to Lisson, Taylor (3-4) gave way to Matt Avery. Miguel Vega lined a single to load the bases, but Avery struck out the next two batters to end the inning.

Gilbert De La Vara entered for the bottom of the ninth inning and allowed a two-out single to Robinson Chirinos before getting Mark Reed to ground out to third to end the game for his second save in as many days and his team-leading ninth of the year. Harkcom (3-1) earned his second win in three games.

This series will shift to Community Field for the final two games on Saturday and Sunday. RH David Henninger (1-4, 5.52) will start for the Bees against RH Todd Blackford (7-2, 3.64) for the Chiefs. The game will start at 7:00 and there will be fireworks after the game sponsored by SEIBUS, KBUR, The Ticket 1360 KBKB, The Mix, and The Bull, and J&M Displays. The gates will open at 6:00 and 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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