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Tri-City Beats Lake Monsters 5-3 Thursday To Earn Split Of 4-Game Series

June 21, 2012 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


TROY, NY --- Chase Davidson went 3-for-4 with a run, double and an RBI as the Tri-City ValleyCats broke open a one-run game with three runs on six hits in the bottom of the sixth inning and held on to beat the Vermont Lake Monsters 5-3 in New York-Penn League action Thursday night at Bruno Stadium.

The ValleyCats scored two runs in the bottom of the second off Vermont starter J.C. Menna with the first run on a Chad Lewis throwing error and the second on a Ryan Dineen RBI single. The Lake Monsters got one of the runs back in the top of the third on a one-out solo homer from Chris Bostick, the first home run of the season for Vermont.

The game stayed 2-1 until the bottom of the sixth when Tri-City got back-to-back bunt singles from Austin Elkins and Andrew Aplin to leadoff the inning, then knocked Menna from the game as on a Davidson RBI single scoring Elkins. Reliever Drew Gagnier came on and gave up an RBI singles to Jobduan Morales and Jesse Wierzbicki for a 5-1 ValleyCats lead.

Vermont was again able to cut the deficit in half in the top of the eighth on a two-out, two-run homer from Jacob Tanis making the score 5-3, but Tri-City reliever Blake Ford worked around a two-out double from Bostick in the ninth to earn his first save of the season.

Menna (0-1) allowed four runs (three earned) on six hits over 5 1/3 innings to take the loss, while Tri-City reliever Thomas Shirley (1-0) tossed 2 1/3 scoreless innings to pick up the win. Bostick and Wilfredo Solano both had two hits for the Lake Monsters, who opened the season by splitting the four-game series with Tri-City.

Vermont (2-2) continues the five-game roadtrip with the first of a three-game series at Lowell on Friday night against the Spinners with Kurt Wunderlich scheduled to start for the Lake Monsters. The series will continue Saturday night and Sunday afternoon before Vermont returns home to historic Centennial Field for a six-game homestand June 25-30.

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