May Powers Looks Past Stars

Published on July 8, 2009 under Southern League (SL1)
Huntsville Stars News Release


Lucas May drove in five runs and a five-run eighth inning broke open a close game and carried Chattanooga to an 11-5 win over Huntsville Wednesday night in the opener of a four-game set at AT&T Field. The Lookouts evened their second half record at 8-8, while the Stars matched a season-high with their sixth straight loss to fall to 7-10 in the second half and 45-41 overall. The Stars have allowed 45 runs on 58 hits in the last five games.

May put the home team on the board in the first inning with a sacrifice fly before the Stars came right back in the top of the second to tie the game on a double by Taylor Green that scored Kevin Melillo, who had led off with a double. Green finished with three hits and has now collected six hits in 11 at-bats in three games since returning to the lineup.

Jonathan Lucroy doubled with two outs in the third and came into score on a Drew Anderson single to give the Stars their first lead of the night. Chattanooga answered back with two in the bottom half of the inning on a double by May that scored James Tomlin and Josh Bell, both of whom had walked. Stars starter Josh Wahpepah was lifted after three innings, giving up three runs, two earned, on two hits, while walking three and fanning four.

The Stars battled back to tie the game in the top half of the fourth when Vinny Rottino led off with a double and scored on a single by Green, who was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. Mike McClendon took over on the hill in the bottom half of the fourth and gave up the go-ahead run after Tommy Giles led off with a double and scored on Tomlin's two-out, two-base hit.

Adam Stern broke a 14 at-bat hitless drought with a one-out triple in the fifth and scored on a wild pitch to get the game tied at four. Casey Baron started on the mound in the bottom of the sixth for the Stars and retired the first two hitters before Russ Mitchell belted a home run to put the home team back on top at 5-4. The teams traded runs in the seventh inning, as Huntsville tied the score again on a run-scoring hit by Anderson before the Looks took the lead for good at 6-5 on May's fielder's choice grounder against Baron, who took the loss to fall to 4-4.

The Looks tallied against Robert Hinton in the eighth on a two-run double by Ramon Nivar and successive run-scoring hits by May, Andrew Lambo and Adam Godwin. The Stars have now been scored on in 22 out of 44 innings in their last five games.

The series continues Thursday with right-hander Mike Jones making the start for the Stars against Lookouts' right-hander JD Durbin. Coverage of the game begins at 6:00 pm central time and can be heard through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

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