Kane County Cougars at Burlington Bees
Thursday, April 4th, 2002
Community Field, Burlington, Iowa

Fulchino Starts Out Year Right


Cougars Pitcher Jeff Fulchino started out the 2002
season with a bang. He pitched five good inning, and
was dominant in his
outing. Jeff gave up two runs, neither of those runs
were earned. Since the deffense had it's moments of
keystone cops. He
walked two and struck out 10. Fulchino struck out four
of the first six outs. Then in the third inning he
struck out the side.
Fulchino lead off the fourth, and closed the fourth
with strikeouts. The one to close the inning would be
his last of the night. His
final inning the deffense started to give way, Two
errors in the inning, alowed both of the runs to
score.

Fulchino threw 74 pitches, 54 of them were for
strikes. He went to three ball counts on only three of
the 20 hitters he faced.
Fulchino is in his second professional season, his
first full season. Last year at Utica he went 3-8 with
a 3.56 era. He spent the
majority of the year last year finishing up his
college season at the University of Conneticut. This
is the first time as a pro that he
has struck out more than five in a start.

Mike Stodolka started for the Bees, and the way this
game was going I thought it was going to be a 1-0
game. The first hit
wasn't untill the fourth inning off of Fulchino.
Stodolka did not give up a hit in his sixth innings of
work. Just like Fulchino,
Stodolka threw good. He walked two and struck out
eight. Stodolka threw 76 pitches, 46 were strikes. He
struck out two in
an inning in the fifth and the sixth innings, and
three in the first.

Scott Hicks had two singles in four at-bats. He also
scored two runs, and had a walk. Charles Frazier added
two hits, both
singles. He drove home one run and scored two.

The scoring leadoff with the Bees in the fifth inning
when, John Draper lead off the inning by reaching on
an error by shortstop
Rex Rundgren. On the play Rex threw the ball two far
in the dirt in front of Stokes at first base. Jonathan
Guzman then bunted
him to second. The only problem was that he beat the
throw to first for a hit. Victor Rosario then put down
a good sacrifice
bunt to get the runners to second and third with only
one out. James Shanks blooped one to right, the
rightfielder Charles
Frazier, I guess misjudged the ball in the lights or
something. It hit off of his glove and droped for an
error. On the play Draper
would score and everyone else would move up a base.
Brett Groves then hit into a fielder's choice at
second. On the play
Guzman would score to make the score 2-0 Bees.

In the sixth inning the Bees would send Galindo Gomez
to the plate with one out, and he hit a liner over the
billboards in left
center to put the Bees up by three.

The Cougars did get some offense going, but it wasn't
untill the second half of the game. In the seventh
inning, Scott Hicks
singled to center. Jason Stokes then walked. Reliever
Ryan Douglass then threw a wild pitch that went
between the catchers
legs and hit against the back stop. Winton Zapay then
lined out to leftfield. Charles Frazier singled to
right to score Hicks.
Michael Tucker then took Douglass deep over all of the
billboards to left field for a three run homer.
Douglass then came back
and struck the next two Cougars out.

The Bees would counter the Cougars big inning by
scoring one more run of their own. Guzman lead off the
inning with a walk.
Rosario sacrificed him over. Shanks then poped up to
second. Groves drove home Guzman with a single to
right.

Scott Hicks then in the eighth inning would help the
Cougars put a run on the board when he singled to
right. Jason Stokes then
doubled to right to bring home Hicks to give the
Cougars the lead.

In the ninth inning the Cougars would score some more
runs when, Frazier lead off the inning with a single
to center. Michael
Tucker then tried to bunt him over, the pitcher got
the ball but three it down the line. Kris Clute then
walked. Rex Rundgren
and Anthony Brewer both struck out. William Arroyo
grounded one to short, for what looked like a sure
out, the ball I guess
ate him up and he booted it. On the play Frazier would
score.

The Bees made the game interesting in the bottom of
the ninth when Guzman lead of the inning with a walk.
Rosario then got
him to second on his groundout to short. Shanks then
bunted back to the pitcher, Cave. Cave threw the ball
into rightfield. With
Groves up to bat, and the next pitch after Cougars
pitching coach Gil Lopez came to the mound. Cave threw
to first, the ball
went up the line and Shanks moved on to third. Groves
struck out. Chris Fallon then poped out to short to
end the game. The
pop up to short was made to be an adventure.



Anthony Brewer-CF, 0-5, 4 K
William Arroyo-2B, 0-4, BB, 2 K, CS
Scott Hicks-LF, 2-4, 2 R, BB
Jason Stokes-1B, 1-3, 2B, RBI, BB, R, K
Winton Zapay-C, 0-4, K
Charles Frazier-RF, 2-4, 2 R, RBI, K, E
Michael Tucker-3B, 1-3, HR, 3 RBI, R, SACB
Kris Clute-DH, 0-3, BB, 2 K
Rex Rundgren-SS, 0-3, BB, 3 K

Jeff Fulchino, 5 ip, 2 h, 2 r, 0 er, 2 bb, 10 k, b-20,
s-54, p-74
Nick Ungs, 2 ip, 3 h, 2 r, 2 er, 1 bb, 2 k, b-11,
s-17, p-28
Elvis DeJesus, 1 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 0 bb, 1 k, b-1,
s-6, p-7
Kevin Cave, 1 ip, 1 h, 1 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 1 k, b-11,
s-11, p-22


Kane County-000-000-411--6-6-2
Burlington--000-021-101--5-6-2

W-Nick Ungs, 1-0
L-Ryan Douglass, 0-1
SV-Kevin Cave, 1


T-3:15
A-502


Today's Birthdays
Jim Dedrick, P (91) 34
Bo Ortiz, OF (91) 32
Reece Borges, P (98) 26


Ok lets see what happend today, well I think Sue
Warners tongue froze since she didn't talk most of the
game. The
temperature when the game was over was around 25
degress, the only good part was there was no wind. Ill
see you all in
Kane County on Sunday for the home opener. Remember
Sedivey's head gets shaved since they wont he title
last year, the
time he gets it at home plate. Im still going to be in
Burlington for the next two days so the website will
not be updated.


Thank You
David Malamut
email-dmalshere1@...
website-members.core.com/~malshere

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