MWL1 Lake County Captains

Chiefs Walk Off In 10, 6-5 Win Over Captains

Published on July 15, 2011 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Lake County Captains News Release


(Peoria, IL)- Elloit Soto's RBI single up the middle in the bottom of the tenth inning lifted Peoria over Lake County on Friday night at O'Brien Field. The Chiefs took two of three games from the Captains.

Jesus Aguilar gave Lake County an earlier lead in the first inning, with an RBI double scoring Jordan Casas to make it 1-0; it was the 60th RBI of the season for Aguilar.

Down 3-1 in the third inning the Captains battled back to retake the lead 4-3. Moises Montero crushed a ball to leftfield for his first of the season to make it 3-2. Ronny Rodriguez put Lake County in front with a two-out two run single to left with the bases loaded.

Richard Jones hit his 17th homerun of the season for Peoria in the sixth inning; the two run shot gave the Chiefs a 5-4 lead.

The Captains tied the game in the eighth inning; Nick Bartolone's RBI groundout scored Giovanny Urshela evening the score at five.

Yohan Gonzalez (4-3) picked up the win allowing a run on two hits working the final three innings for the Chiefs. Joey Mahalic (0-3) took the loss allowing a run on two hits in just a third of inning in the tenth.

Lake County will continue the road trip in Burlington on Saturday night at 7:30PM. The Captains will send LHP Mike Rayl (5-3) to the mound against RHP Nate Long (5-3) for the Bees. Catch all the action on AM1330 WELW or online at captainsbaseball.com.

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