Stars Send Battered Biscuits to Another Loss

Published on June 1, 2007 under Southern League (SL1)
Huntsville Stars News Release


Three pitchers in relief combined to throw four scoreless innings to preserve Huntsville's 4-2 win Friday night over Montgomery in the last of a five-game set at Joe Davis Stadium. The Stars took four out of five from the defending league champions to improve to 29-24 and maintain their share of first place in the North Division, while the Biscuits slumped to 28-27 after dropping seven of ten on the just completed road trip. The Stars bullpen tossed 11 scoreless innings over the last three games and a total of 12 in the four wins to give the home team wins in 10 of its' last 12 on home soil.

Guilder Rodriguez singled with one out in the home first and scored when Steve Sollmann doubled to left and advanced to third on the throw home. Adam Heether singled home Sollmann with two outs to make it 2-0 and extend his hitting streak to 15 games, the longest for a Stars' batter since the start of the 2005 season.

The Biscuits loaded the bases with two outs in the second and scored their first run on a single by Josh Asanovich, who knocked in his fourth run of the series. Stars' starter Lindsay Gulin worked out of further trouble by retiring Jason Pridie on a fly ball out and then worked out of a bases loaded, one-out jam in the third by striking out Chris Nowak and getting Gabriel Martinez to fly out. Shaun Cumberland's leadoff home run in the fourth knotted the game at two.

Steve Moss doubled home Yohannis Perez with two outs in the home fourth to push the Stars into the lead for good and a Lou Palmisano ground ball double play brought in Sollmann with the game's final run. Huntsville totaled 46 runs on 61 hits in its' highest scoring series of the season and won a second straight home set by a four games to one margin.

Gulin earned his third win after yielding two runs on six hits and a pair of walks over five frames. He struck out four and lasted at least five innings for a fourth time in five turns with the Stars. Mark DiFelice went 2 1/3 scoreless innings and has thrown eight shutout innings in his last three outings. Lefty Jeff Housman was brought on face lefty-swinging Martinez with a runner on in the eighth and got him to bounce into an inning-ending double play before retiring Cumberland to open the ninth and giving way to Marino Salas. The right-hander retired the two batters he faced to end the game and earn his 11th save in as many tries.

The Stars embark on a ten-game road trip that opens with a five-game series Saturday night at Chattanooga. Huntsville will send southpaw Sam Narron to the hill against Lookouts' right-hander Richie Gardner. Coverage of the game begins at 6:00 p.m. central time and can be heard locally on Sports Radio 730 WUMP and through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

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