MWL1 Kane County Cougars

Cougars Sweep Lugnuts

Published on May 11, 2019 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Kane County Cougars News Release


GENEVA, Ill. - Alek Thomas' efforts won't show up as strongly as they should in Saturday's box score. The Cougar outfielder's efforts both on the bases and in the outfield alone created a two-run swing as the Kane County Cougars (21-15) swept the Lansing Lugnuts (14-21) with an 8-2 win at Northwestern Medicine Field.

For the first time in the series, Lansing scored first when Jake Brodt hit a sacrifice fly to score Jordan Groshans in the fourth inning.

It was a short-lived lead as the Cougars tied the game on Blaze Alexander's RBI groundout, which moved Thomas to third. Thomas then disrupted Fitz Stadler (1-4) on the mound by dancing past the third base bag and eventually caused a balk to bring home the go-ahead run.

The Cougars never looked back from there scoring six more unanswered runs. Thomas, Buddy Kennedy and Zac Almond all earned RBI in a four run fourth, before Eddie Hernandez's RBI double and Geraldo Perdomo's run scoring sacrifice fly in the eighth.

Justin Lewis (2-3) worked five innings of one-run baseball along with a season-high seven strikeouts. Ryan Fritze added two and one-third innings of scoreless baseball in his Midwest League debut, before Andy Toelken finished off the ninth.

The Cougars will now enjoy Sunday off before beginning a seven-game road trip to Wisconsin. The Cougars will start with three games against the Timber Rattlers on Monday from Fox Cities Stadium. Right-hander Jackson Goddard (2-1, 1.45) will take the mound for the Cougars against Wisconsin's lefty Scott Sunitsch (2-4, 3.12). First pitch from Appleton is at 6:35 p.m. Pregame coverage on AM 1280 WBIG and kccougars.com begins at 6:20 p.m.

Check out the Kane County Cougars Statistics

Share: Facebook | Twitter/X | LinkedIn | Reddit | Email



Midwest League Stories from May 11, 2019


The opinions expressed in this release are those of the organization issuing it, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of OurSports Central or its staff.

OurSports Central