Schaumburg Gets First Home Win Of \'05
May 25, 2005 - Northern League (NL)
Schaumburg Flyers News Release
SCHAUMBURG, IL- The Schaumburg Flyers handed the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks their first loss of the season and climbed back to .500 in a 7-0 win on Wednesday, May 25. Schaumburg is now 3-3 while Fargo fell to 4-1. The Flyers stopped a three-game losing streak.
Matt Bailie (2-0) only allowed four hits over the course of eight innings and was able to keep his ERA at a flawless 0.00. Bailie retired 11 straight batters at one point from the fourth through eighth innings. He struck out six RedHawk batters and walked four, two in his final inning of work. LHP Lyle Prempas came on in the ninth inning to finish the shutout. Bailie has allowed just one unearned run in 15 innings of work this season.
Fargo starter J.J. Scheving (0-1) was tagged with the loss following 4.1 innings of work. Scheving was victimized by two big Schaumburg innings as the Flyers scored four runs in the second and added three more tallies in the fifth inning. Scheving faced a total of 25 batters and was charged with seven runs, all earned, on the night.
Most of the damage came in the second inning, starting with a double by Chris Weekly. Justin Hendrickson followed with his third home run of the season, a towering blast to left field, giving the Flyers a 2-0 lead. Later in the inning, Ted Ledbetter added an RBI single and Geoff McCallum followed with an RBI ground out to first to make the score 4-0. The Flyers had five consecutive hits with one away before McCallum was retired for the second out.
Opportunity came knocking again in the fifth, as Weekly (3-for-4, RBI) added an RBI single. Gord and Ledbetter followed with their second RBI of the night, moving the score to 7-0. Gord finished the game with a perfect night at the plate, batting 4-for-4 with four singles, one RBI and a run scored. Hendrickson and Ledbetter led the Flyers with two RBI apiece.
The Flyers will try to take the final game of the series on Thursday night with LHP Anthony Boughner (1-0) looking to successfully follow Bailie's Wednesday performance. RHP Todd George (0-0) will draw the start for Fargo. Tickets are available for the 7:05 PM game at flyersbaseball.com or at (847) 891-2255.
Notes: There are two former RedHawks in the Flyers lineup, McCallum and CF Jason Fitzgerald...Fargo LF Brent Krause was with the Flyers for a few weeks last season...Scheving and Bailie also went head-to-head last July 31 in Fargo...Bailie won that matchup as well...
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