SAL1 Lake County Captains

Captains Split With Greensboro

Published on May 8, 2008 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Lake County Captains News Release


(Greensboro, NC) - The long ball was flying in Greensboro on Thursday night as the Lake County Captains and the Greensboro Grasshoppers split a doubleheader. Greensboro hit five home runs in the first game en route to a 12 -4 win. The Captains won the night cap 5-4 and had two home runs of their own. The Captains record is now 20-13 and the team remains in first place.

Game one saw the Captains and the Grasshoppers complete a game that was started at Classic Park on Friday, May 2nd. The game was picked up in the second inning. The Grasshoppers wasted no time against the Captains Santo Frias scoring three runs in the second inning on a two run home run by Torre Langley followed by a solo home run from Adam Howard. With the 3-0 lead the Grasshoppers added two more runs in the third inning on a two run home run by Danny Garcia to make it 5-0. The Hoppers weren't done there as they scored five more runs in the fourth inning highlighted by a grand slam home run by Garcia. The Captains got to starter Stu Alexander scoring a run in the fourth on an RBI single by Matt Brown and scored three more in the fifth with two runs scoring on a Roman Pena two run single. The Hoppers added two runs in the ninth on Adam Howard's second home run of the game to make it 12-4, a two run blast off reliever Dallas Cawiezell. Kyle Landis pitched 3.1 scoreless innings of relief for the Captains striking out six. Stu Alexander got the win to go to 4-2 and Santo Frias the loss to drop to 1-1.

In Game two the Captains scored five runs in the first inning off of starter Brett Durand, all via the long ball. Roman Pena hit a two run homer and Chris Nash followed with a three run homer and the Captains led 5-0 after a half inning. Durand got the loss and would only last the first inning. Brian Petersen hit a solo home run off Captains starter Joanniel Montero to make it 5-1 after one inning. The Hoppers made it 5-2 when Peterson hit his second solo homer of the game in the fourth inning. Joanniel Montero went four innings and did not factor in the decision. Greensboro added another two runs in the sixth inning off of reliever Josh Judy on RBI's by Peterson and Tom Hickman to make it 5-4. Josh Judy picked the win to go 4-0 and Vinnie Pestano picked up his ninth save pitching a scoreless seventh inning.

The Captains and Grasshoppers play game three of the series on Friday. LHP Kelvin De La Cruz will get the start (1-2, 2.12) against the Grasshoppers RHP Colby Miller (1-5, 6.25). The Captains and Greensboro will play on Saturday and Sunday as well. The games can be heard on AM 1330 WELW, WELW.COM or CAPTAINSBASEBALL.COM.

The Captains return home to Classic Park on Friday, May 16th to face the Lexington Legends. Friday is the second of twenty Fireworks Extravaganzas at Classic Park this season. All Friday and Saturday home games from here on out will be followed by fireworks. Tickets for all Captains home games are on sale at the Classic Park box office, by phone at 440-954-WINS (9467) or at captainsbaseball.com.

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