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Lancaster Prevails In Texas, 9-7

Published on August 10, 2012 under Atlantic League (AtL)
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LANCASTER PREVAILS IN TEXAS, 9-7

Thanks to eighteen hits and a close call at second base, the Lancaster Barnstormers held off the Sugar Land Skeeters, 9-7, Friday evening at Constellation Field.

Lancaster has now won eight of its last nine to take a 2 1/2 game lead in the Freedom Division.

A five-run fourth inning catapulted Lancaster into a 6-3 lead. Blake Gailen, who had homered in the first, led off with a single through the right side. Following a fly out to left by Tommy Everidge, Fehlandt Lentini doubled into the left field corner, chasing Gailen to third. Ryan Harvey delivered both runners with a single over the head of third baseman Ofilio Castro to tie the game at 3-3. Harvey scored the lead run when Travis Denker planted the first of his three doubles down the left field line. Emerson Frostad made it 5-3 with a single to center. He would move up to second on Adam Godwin's bunt single and score on a base hit to right center by Gilberto Mejia.

Jason Lane (4-3) settled down and kept the Barnstormers in check the next two innings.

The Barnstormers added two more in the seventh on Mejia's triple to right center, Gailen's double over the head of center fielder Bubba Bell and a sacrifice fly by Lentini. The club loaded the bases on three singles in the eighth but failed to score additional runs. In the ninth, the Barnstormers scored one more on Denker's third double but again left the bases loaded.

That set up a huge rally by the Skeeters. Joe Bateman was summoned to finish off the game but walked two batters and hit another to load the bases with two outs. Lancaster went to Tim Hamulack, and the Barnstormers closer allowed a three-run double to Castro and an infield single on the right side to Bell.

The Bell single brought Josh Pressley, who drove his 13th homer of the season to the opposite field off Ross Peeples in the eighth, to the plate as the winning run. He knocked a ground ball to the hole at short. Kody Kirkland made a backhanded stop and barely got a throw to Mejia in time to get Bell, ending the game.

Dwayne Pollok (10-1) made the start for Lancaster and allowed five hits, all singles, in seven innings while walking one a striking out six. All five hits came with a span of six batters in the third and fourth innings. The right-hander retired the last 12 batters he faced after allowing three Sugar Land runs with two outs in the third and loading the bases in the fourth.

Lancaster will send Alan Johnson (9-5) to the hill on Saturday evening. Fans may tune into 1390-AM, WLAN; 1600-AM, WPDC; 1390wlan.com or the I Heart Radio Network starting at 7:45 EDT.

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