NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

Lake Monsters Win Stedler Division Championship

Published on September 4, 2011 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


BURLINGTON, VT --- The Vermont Lake Monsters closed out the 2011 regular-season with an 11-7 victory over the Tri-City ValleyCats in New York-Penn League action Sunday afternoon at historic Centennial Field to keep their playoff hopes alive, then had to wait around 80 minutes for Connecticut to lose in 16 innings to Lowell and give the Lake Monsters the Stedler Division title.

Vermont, which won its first division title since back-to-back McNamara Division championships in 1995 and 1996, will host the Auburn Doubledays in the first game of a best-of-three semifinal series at Centennial on Tuesday starting at 7:05 pm.

Sunday started poorly for the Lake Monsters as starter Tyler Vail and reliever Eric Potter stuggled with their control in the second inning as Tri-City scored five runs on just one hit to take a 5-0 lead. Vail walked the first three batters and then hit Ryan McCurdy to force the game's first run, then Potter allowed two runs to score on wild pitches and allowed a two-run single to Jordan Scott.

But the Lake Monsters quickly tied the game with five runs in the bottom of the second on a Jacob Tanis two-out two-run single and a three-run homer from Sean Jamieson off Tri-City starter Kyle Hallock. It was the third home run of the season for Jamieson and his second in as many days.

Vermont took the lead in the third on a Dusty Robinson RBI single after a Bobby Crocker one-out double, while Jamieson gave the Lake Monsters a 7-5 lead with an RBI single in the fourth. The ValleyCats were able to tie the game at seven off reliever Drew Bailey on a Scott RBI triple and Andrew Muren RBI single.

Michael Fabiaschi led off the seventh for Vermont with a single and moved to third on a one-out Bobby Crocker single before B.A. Vollmuth lined a two-out two-run triple to rightcenter giving Vermont a 9-7 lead. In just four games with Vermont, Vollmuth went 7-for-14 with eight runs, four doubles, one triple and six RBI.

The Lake Monsters added another run in the seventh on an error and another in the eighth on a Nick Rickles squeeze bunt before Tanner Peters closed out the season with a 1-2-3 ninth inning with two strikeouts. Jeff Urlaub (3-1) had come into the game in relief of Bailey for the last out of the sixth and retired all seven batters he faced for the win.

Scott was 2-for-3 with three RBI and reliever Travis Blankenship (1-2) allowed three runs (two earned) in the seventh to take the loss for Tri-City (33-42). Crocker went 3-for-5 with three runs, while Jamieson was 2-for-4 with four RBI for Vermont (39-35), which swept its first three-game series of the year and ended the regular-season on a four-game winning streak. 

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