Cougars Use More Late Offense for Win

Published on July 10, 2010 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Kane County Cougars News Release

GENEVA, Ill. - For the third night in a row, the Kane County Cougars' offense used a late rally to grab a victory. They had rallied in the ninth on Thursday and Friday to win in Peoria, and Saturday night the Cougars scored six runs in the seventh inning to come back and beat the Clinton LumberKings, 9-4, in front of 8,758 at Elfstrom Stadium. The Cougars have won seven of their last night nine games.

The Cougars trailed, 4-3, entering the bottom of the seventh. Conner Crumbliss singled, and Tyreace House walked against Ryan Moorer (0-1). Then Anthony Aliotti poked an RBI single to tie it off Brandon Josselyn, and Mike Gilmartin reached on a run-scoring fielder's choice to make it 5-4. After Jose Crisotomo delivered an RBI infield single for a 6-4 game, two runs scored on a pair of Clinton errors and Leonardo Gil singled home Jason Christian for the 9-4 score. The Cougars had five of their 11 hits of the game in that inning, and 10 batters came to the plate.

Clinton scored twice in the first inning against Rob Gilliam, but the Cougars countered with three in the first against Taylor Stanton on RBIs from Gilmartin, Crisotomo and Juan Nunez. The 3-2 lead remained until Clinton tied it in the fifth and took the lead in the seventh. Gilliam gave up three runs over 4 1/3 innings in a no-decision, Connor Hoehn (5-3) yielded one run in 2 2/3 innings and Jose Pina tossed two scoreless innings.

The Cougars (9-7, 41-44) and LumberKings (8-7, 45-39) continue the three-game series Sunday afternoon at 1 CT. Dan Straily (6-5, 4.57) will Jimmy Gillheeney (6-6, 3.14). The game will be broadcast on WBIG 1280-AM and online at www.kccougars.com with pre-game coverage starting at 12:45 p.m.

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