SAL1 Lake County Captains

Captains Topple Intimidators 7-5

Published on April 25, 2008 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Lake County Captains News Release


(Kannapolis, NC) - Santo Frias picked up his first win of the season going a Captains season high seven innings as the Captains defeated the Kannapolis Intimidators 7-5 on Friday. Karexon Sanchez led the Captains offense with three RBI's including his second homerun of the year. The Captains remain in first place with the win.

The Captains scored first in the third inning off Intimidators starter Jason Rice when Adam White walked and went to third on a single by Lucas Montero and scored on a sacrifice fly by Sanchez. The Intimidators took a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning on RBI's by Jose Martinez and Jim Gallagher. The Captains recaptured the lead in the fifth inning on Sanchez's second home run of the year, a two run shot making it 3-2. The Intimidators tied it up in the sixth on an RBI double from Christian Marrero. The Captains regained the lead in the seventh. After Mark Thompson walked, he would score when Adam White's sacrifice bunt was fielded by Intimidators pitcher Steve Spurgeon and he over threw first base and Thompson came all the way around to score and the Captains lead 4-3. White would be sacrificed over to second and three batters later Matt Brown drove him home with a double to up the lead to 5-4. The Intimidators scored a run off Frias in the seventh on Logan Johnson's second homerun of the year and the lead was cut to 5-4.

The Captains added two insurance runs in the ninth inning on RBI's by Roman Pena and Chris Nash to push the lead out to 7-4. The Intimidators made it interesting in the ninth inning scoring one unearned run and leaving the bases loaded against closer Vinnie Pestano. Pestano racked up his sixth save.

The Captains play game three of the four game series on Saturday with game time at 7:05 PM. LHP Kelvin De La Cruz (1-1, 2.75) gets the start for the Captains against the Intimidators RHP Anthony Carter (3-0, 1.96). The game can be heard on AM 1330 WELW, WELW.COM or CAPTAINSBASEBALL.COM.

The Captains return home on Tuesday, April 29 for an eight game home stand with four games each against Greensboro and Kannapolis. The News-Herald High School Home Run Derby debuts after the game on the 29th. The contest goes on after every Tuesday Captains home game with the finals following the game on July 8th. 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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