Thunder Starts 4-Game Series Tonight vs. Arizona Sunbirds
August 4, 2004 - National Pro Fastpitch (NPF)
Rockford Thunder News Release
Your 1st Place Texas Thunder starts their next to the last home stand on Wednesday, August 4th, when they take on the Arizona Sunbirds. Game time Wednesday is 7:35pm. Thursday is doubleheader day with games at 6pm & 8:30pm. Friday's single game has a scheduled start time of 7:35pm.
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Yesterday in Akron, OH the Texas Thunder ended a 6-game series split with doubleheader against the Akron Racers on Tuesday evening at Firestone Stadium. The Racers took game one on Tuesday 3-0 before falling to the Thunder 3-0 in nine innings in the nightcap. Thunder is currently one game ahead of Akron for first place in National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) standings.
After playing four consecutive extra-inning games in the last two days, the Racers jumped on the NPF's ERA leader, CHRISTA WILLIAMS (Dobie High School / Texas), with one run in the fourth inning. The league's leader in batting average, Racers center fielder Iyhia McMichael, led off the frame with an infield single and moved to third on a base hit off the bat of Akron catcher Jenn Poore. McMichael touched home to give Akron the early lead on an RBI bunt single by Racer first baseman Nicole Trimboli.
The Racers added a pair of insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth with a long home run courtesy of NPF Player of the Week, right fielder Trena Peel. Akron designated player Dana Degen reached in front of Peel with a one-out single to left field and was lifted for pinch-runner Antionette Armstrong. Peel followed, taking Williams' offering deep over the right field fence to put Akron up 3-0. The homer was Peel's third of the season, and keeps her in first place in the NPF with 23 RBIs.
The loss moved Christa's record to 10-5 with an amazing 0.83 ERA.
Game two featured a classic pitcher's duel between Akron's Radara McHugh and Texas' Lindsay Chouinard (DePaul), as each hurler held her opponent scoreless through eight innings. Texas Thunder broke through in the ninth when right fielder Julie Brooks knocked a three-run home run to right field, giving Texas the game.
Chouinard got the win and moves her record to 8-5 with a 1.06 era.
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EXCHANGE OLYMPIC EXHIBITION TICKETS FOR THUNDER TICKETS
In an effort to ease the burden of all of the kids/fans that were unable to see the USA Olympic fastpitch softball team in exhibition game on July 6th the Texas Thunder will honor your Olympic exhibition ticket to ANY regular season Texas Thunder game. Bring your ticket or ticket stub to any of the remaining regular season home games (see schedule on this web site) and exchange it at NO EXPENSE for a Texas Thunder game ticket.
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ALL SEATS $6.00
Remember, it's Panasonic's treat so all tickets remaining are $6.00 each.
PANASONIC DAY -- Texas Thunder and PANASONIC have partnered up again for "Panasonic Night" at the ball park during the entire series against the New England Riptide and the NY/NJ Juggernaut as they come to town this week.
Again, thanks to PANASONIC, ALL seats in the stadium are on sale for $6.00 per seat (box and bleacher seats). This offer is on a first-come-first-serve basis for this series only. Call now to buy your tickets over the phone (281-265-8277) or purchase them at the UH ticket window at the UH softball field at 6:15pm each night (no other discounts or promotions apply). Also, Panasonic will be on hand to give away a few FREE prizes to some lucky fans. Without Panasonic's help we would never be able to make this possible. THANKS!
We look forward to seeing you, your family and your entire team at the game this week.
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