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Biscuits finish season with 6-1 win

September 4, 2006 - Southern League (SL1)
Montgomery Biscuits News Release


PEARL, Miss. -- The Montgomery Biscuits finished the 2006 regular season Monday afternoon with a 6-1 win over the Mississippi Braves at Trustmark Park.

With the win, the Biscuits finished the second half at 41-29 and the season at 77-62, both bests in the Biscuits' three-year history. The Biscuits also won the South Division by three games and will begin their first-ever postseason Thursday night.

Jason Cromer pitched his third straight scoreless outing, limiting the Braves to just two hits over five innings. The lefty has not allowed a run in 16 consecutive innings.

The Biscuits got him the win by plating a run in the first and a run in the fourth for him. In the first, Francisco Leandro hit a leadoff double and scored on a Johnny Raburn Sacrifice fly. In the fourth, Jeremy Owens dumped a single into center field to score Gabriel Martinez from second base. They were the only runs Montgomery scored against Braves starter Francisely Bueno, who departed after six innings, allowing five hits and two runs (one earned) and striking out eight.

The Braves tallied their only score in the sixth inning against Montgomery reliever Jeremy Flanagan, when Josh Burrus singled into left field to score Yunel Escobar. Flanagan would recover to retire the side on four pitches in the seventh inning.

Josh Kranawetter and Jean Machi each threw a scoreless inning of relief.

Montgomery poured on more offense in the late innings against Mississippi's bullpen. The Biscuits made it 3-1 in the seventh inning when Leandro scored on a groundout by Jason Pridie. Then Michael Coleman hit a solo homer in the eighth and Patrick Breen and Owens hit back-to-back two-out doubles to score another. Coleman finished the season as the club's home run leader with 17.

Shortstop Reid Brignac finished the Biscuits' attack in the ninth, crushing his third Biscuits homer over the right field fence.

The Biscuits take two days off before starting their best-of-five Southern League Divisional Playoff Series in Jacksonville against the first-half champion Suns. Biscuits righty Jeff Niemann will start the 6:05 p.m. game against Suns righty Spike Lundberg, who led the league in ERA and tied Montgomery's Andy Sonnanstine for the league lead in wins.

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