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June 29, 2009 - Frontier League (FL)
River City Rascals News Release


O'Fallon, MO - Fans will not want to miss the lineup that SPP Sports and the River City Rascals have in store for Saturday, July 11 starting at 12:00pm at T.R. Hughes Ballpark located in O'Fallon, MO. The Rascals and SPP Sports will help celebrate All-Star week in St. Louis with their very own softball challenge that includes the following participants slated to play an exhibition softball game at the home of the River City Rascals, members of the professional independent Frontier League. The lineup includes...

Steve Garvey - Dodgers Alumni

Neil Rackers - Arizona Cardinals

Donnie Jones - St. Louis Rams

Billy Blanks - Tae Bo Creator

Jason Brown - St. Louis Rams

Clifton Ryan - St. Louis Rams

David Vobora - St. Louis Rams

Derek Stanley - St. Louis Rams

Murphy Lee - Rapper; St. Lunatics

Kyjuan Dabess- Rapper; St. Lunatics

Hope Solo - Goalie US Soccer

Al Hrabosky - "Mad Hungarian" Former MLB Player

Paul Stastny - Colorado Avalanche

Yan Stastny - St. Louis Blues

Chris Mason - St. Louis Blues

Carlo Colaiacovo - St. Louis Blues

Cam Janssen - St. Louis Blues

Barrett Jackman - St. Louis Blues

Tickets for this event can be purchased online at www.rivercityrascals.com or by calling the Rascals box office at (636) 240-BATS (2287). All tickets are only $20.00 with proceeds going to the St. Louis Children's Hospital. Seats for this star-studded event are going fast so act today to join all of the festivities.

WEST DIVISION

River City Rascals ( 23 - 11 )

Windy City ThunderBolts ( 20 - 15 )

Southern Illinois Miners ( 20 - 15 )

Rockford RiverHawks ( 15 - 20 )

Gateway Grizzlies ( 13 - 21 )

Evansville Otters ( 10 - 25)

EAST DIVISION

Kalamazoo Kings ( 23 - 11 )

Lake Erie Crushers ( 20 - 15 )

Florence Freedom ( 18 - 17 )

Traverse City Beach Bums ( 17 - 18 )

Washington Wild Things ( 15 - 20 )

Midwest Sliders of Ypsilanti ( 15 - 20 )

PLAYER SPOTLIGHT

#27 Daniel Howard

Daniel Howard took a shutout into the ninth inning and the Rascals held on for a 4-3 victory over the Miners Sunday night at T.R. Hughes Ballpark. River City slammed three home runs in the win.

The Rascals (23-11) launched a pair of long balls in the first to spot Howard with a 2-0 lead. Chad Maddox lined the first pitch from Brett Scarpetta (1-1) just over the left field wall for a leadoff home run. Chris Colton followed later in the frame with his eighth blast of the season.

Howard (3-2) went the first eight innings for River City and started the ninth. Jereme Milons led off with a single and Joey Metropoulos broke up the shutout with his ninth homer of the season. Jason Lowey came in and allowed an Andrew Sweet double and a single to Tom Stack-Babich to plate another run. Lowey retired the next two in order to preserve the 4-3 win for the seventh save in eight chances.

Howard allowed the two runs on six hits with six strikeouts to only one walk for his third save. His outing tied Chris Ingoglia for the longest outing by a Rascal pitcher this season.

The Miners (20-15) allowed two runs in the fifth to trail 4-0. Scarpetta walked JoJo Batten and Kevin Reynolds went yard for the third time this season.

Scarpetta was pulled a batter later, tossing four innings allowing ten hits and four runs in the game.

Maddox, Colton, Scott Robinson and Jorge Gutierrez each had two hits in the contest. Maddox extended his hitting streak to nine games, tying Colton for the longest mark of the season.

The rubber match is tomorrow night at T.R. Hughes Ballpark. Chris Ingoglia (4-2) is up against to be announced for Southern Illinois. Game time is set for 7:05 p.m.

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