Stars beat Biscuits

Published on June 19, 2010 under Southern League (SL1)
Huntsville Stars News Release


HUNTSVILLE, ALA. - The Huntsville Stars (31-37) received a stellar pitching performance from its ace and hung on despite a late Montgomery rally for a three-run win on Friday night 9-6.

Jeremy Hall (4-3 2.97) turned into his own worst enemy in the second inning, allowing Huntsville to get on the scoreboard first. A lead-off walk to Zelous Wheeler was the beginning of his unraveling. One out later, a balk allowed the Stars shortstop to advance into scoring position. Chuckie Caufield sent a line drive into the outfield to pick up an RBI. After advancing to second base on the throw, Caufield moved to third on a passed ball charged to Biscuits catcher Craig Albernaz. Hall followed with a miscue of his own, a wild pitch that scored Caufield. Dayton Buller witnessed both the passed ball and wild pitch from the batters box and followed with a walk to first. Hall forced a fly out to end the inning.

Huntsville again capitalized on the struggles of Hall in the second. With Brett Lawrie on second and two outs, Wheeler launched his sixth home run of the year, a monster shot to left center field that Montgomery left fielder Leslie Anderson didn't even bother chasing. Steffan Wilson and Taylor Green both took the worst of Hall's problems; they were plunked with errant pitches in back-to-back at bats to set the table for Caufield who tagged his second home run in as many games to make it a seven-run lead after three innings.

Montgomery (38-28) center fielder Rashad Eldridge led off the fourth with a single. He eventually scored on a single by Matt Sweeny to get the Biscuits on the board. Amaury Rivas held Montgomery to just that one run in his five complete innings. Rivas bounced back from a loss to Carolina in his last outing and struck out eight over five innings Friday while allowing only four hits and walking two. It is Rivas' sixth win of the year, which ties Michael Bowman for the team lead, and his first in nearly a month. Huntsville's ace pitched eight innings at home May 18 to lead the Stars to a one run decision over the Tennessee Smokies.

Rivas' Counterpart Jeremy Hall entered the game with a miniscule 2.31 ERA but couldn't find the strike zone often enough. He walked four batters and hit two in his 2 2/3 innings. A passed ball, a balk and a dropped foul ball all contributed to Hall's troubles. Huntsville plated seven runs against Hall, six of them earned, while only connecting for three hits. Hall walked four and struck out one.

A hit batter and an error helped the Biscuits mount a comeback with a four-run seventh. Huntsville, leading by seven runs at the end of the third inning, saw that lead shrink to three heading in to the final inning having given up five runs in the seventh and eighth combined.

Stars outfielder Chuckie Caufield matched the Stars high RBI mark for the season with six. He went 4-for-4 and scored two runs. Taylor Green set the season record on May 31st in a game against Mobile at Joe Davis Stadium. Caufield is 6-13 over his last three games and has eight runs batted in over that period.

Friday night's win evened the season series between the two teams at 4-4. Game four of the five-game series against the Biscuits and Stars starts Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (CDT) at Joe Davis Stadium. Jake McGee (2-40 3.65) will toe the rubber for Montgomery. The Stars will send Josh Butler (0-3 5.68) to the mound.

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