FL Lake Erie Crushers

Lake Erie Crushers Defeats Normal

Published on July 31, 2017 under Frontier League (FL)
Lake Erie Crushers News Release


AVON, Ohio -- The Lake Erie Crushers, presented by Mercy, completed their second sweep of the season, as they came away with a 3-2 victory over the Normal Cornbelters at Sprenger Health Care Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

The win for the Crushers (31-34) marked their second series sweep of the year, and ties their longest winning streak of the season at five games, while the loss for the Cornbelters (31-35) marked their fifth straight.

Normal fired the first shot, plating the game's first run in the top of the second. Jesus Solarzano started the inning with a double to center. Diego Cedeno followed with a single through the left side to score Solarzano and give the Cornbelters a 1-0 lead.

Lake Erie used the long ball to answer in the bottom of the second. The first two batters of the inning were retired quickly, before Josh McAdams smashed Edgar De La Rosa's (2-4) 2-2 pitch over the wall in left for his sixth homer of the season, tying the game at 1-1.

Normal regained the lead in the top of the sixth. Cedeno reached on a one out single to center, and went from first to third on Craig Lepre's single to left field. The next batter, Ty Morris, drove Cedeno home on a sacrifice fly-out to center.

Lake Erie used a clutch, two-out extra base hit to take the lead in the bottom of the sixth. Jordan Dean and Sean Hurley both reached on free passes, and Connor Oliver drove them both home with a two-out double off the wall in right to give the Crushers their first lead of the game.

Payton Lobdell (5-6) turned in a gutsy performance, battling his way through six innings to score the victory. He allowed just a pair of runs on eight hits while striking out three. Austin Sweet tossed two scoreless innings of relief, and Chandler Jagodzinski (14) worked a 1-2-3 ninth inning to grab the save. De La Rosa took the loss after allowing three runs on five hits while striking out six over 5.2 innings of work.

On a day where hits were tough to come by for the Crushers, Kalawaia led the way with a pair of base hits, going 2-for-4.

The Crushers are off on Monday, but will begin a three-game series with the Schaumburg Boomers in Schaumburg, Ill., on Tuesday night. The pitching matchup has not been announced. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:35 PM

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