Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at Kane County Cougars
Saturday, April 13th, 2002
Phillip B. Elfstrom Stadium, Geneva, Illinios


Dontrelle Willis pitched seven good innings in his
second start of the season, but he ended up with a no
decison, after a late homer by the Rattlers. Willis
pitched very well, he gave up three hits, and one
unearned run. He walked one and struck out two. The
one thing that stands out though is that he had 12
ground ball outs, compared to just 3 fly ball outs. He
threw 82 pitches, 53 for strikes.

Hunter Wyant hit a homerun to win the game in the
ninth inning, it was his first professional homer. The
ball went straight down the left field line.

The Cougars missed a few chances to extended their
lead in the game, in the seventh inning. Anthony
Brewer lead things off with a single to left. Heath
Kelly then tried to bunt Brewer over but since the
third baseman couldn't pick up the ball, he was safe.
Scott Hicks then single into the whole on the left
side of the infield. The reason there was a big whole
was the fact that the runners were going on the pitch.
The Cougars now had the bases loaded with nobody out.
Wyant then grounded one to third, the third baseman
then threw home to get the force on Brewer, the
catcher then threw to first and got the double play on
Wyant. George Arnott then came on and lined out to
left to end the inning, without a run scoring.

In the eighth inning it was more of the same but this
time there were two outs. Winton Zapey singled to
center. Rex Rundgren singled to left. Anthony Brewer
then walked. Heath Kelly then struck out with the
bases loaded after fouling a few pitches off.

Anthony Brewer had two hits in the game both singles,
but the thing that caught my eye was his deffense.
Brewer is from the city of Chicago, so he is a local.
Anthony has run down some ball that I believe I have
only seen former Cougar Quincy Foster be able to just
be in the same area code as. In the sixth inning,
Alejandro Cadena singled to third. Luis Oliveros then
hit a rocket to very deep center field. Brewer was
playing him way off in the other direction. He ran the
ball down near the warning track. Cadena must've
thought that there was absoulutly no way he was going
to catch this ball since he was between second and
third when he caught it. Brewer then threw off balance
back to first base to get the double play.


The scoring started in the top of the first when, the
game got ugly right from the get go. Jeff Ellena lead
thing off by reaching on and error by shortstop Rex
Rundgren. Miguel Villio then reached on an error by
second baseman Heath Kelly. On the play Ellena made it
to third. Shin-soo Choo then grounded back to Willis.
Dontrelle made a nice leaping grab to keep the ball in
the infield. Willis then got wild, he threw a wild
pitch. on the play Ellena would try to score, catcher
Zapey got to the ball quickly and threw it back to
Willis who put down the tag to get Ellena for the
first out of the inning. Another wild pitch on a third
strike to Greg Dobbs would allow Villio to trot home.

The Cougars would answer back in the bottom of the
inning when, Anthony Brewer lead things off with a
walk. Heath Kelly then singled to center. Scott Hicks
hit into a fielder's choice, where Kelly would be out
at second. On the play Brewer would score.

Getting the lead in the second inning the Cougars
would score three runs in the frame. Charles Frazier
would lead thing off with a single to center, then
steal second. Michael Tucker then grounded out to
first to move Frazier to third. Frazier would then
score on a wild pitch by Rattlers starter Renee
Cortez. Winton Zapey then walked. Rex Rundgren then
reached on an error when the shortstop couldn't pick
up the ball. Cortez would then balk the runners to
second and third. Anthony Brewer then singled to
center to bring home both Zapey and Rundgren. Cortez
then would balk again, this time Brewer would go to
second. Kelly then poped out ot center. Scott Hicks
then grounded out to short.

The Rattlers would take the lead in the eighth inning,
reliever Elvis DeJesus had just come into the game to
start the inning. Harvey Monte struck out. Corey
Freeman then doubled to left. Jeff Ellena struck out.
Miguel Villio walked. Shin-soo Choo doubled to left to
score both Freeman and Villio. The Cougars would then
bring in the closer, Kevin Cave. He would come in and
the first hitter he faced, Greg Dobbs took him down
the right field line for a three run homer to take the
lead. On the play I thought the ball was foul from
were I sit.

In the bottom of the ninth the Cougars were down by
one, Scott Hicks doubled to center. The Rattlers
reliever Lanny Patten tried to pick off Hicks at
second and threw the ball into center field. Hicks
would move up to third. Hunter Wyant then took Patten
deep to left field, right on the foul line for the
game winning homer.


Anthony Brewer-CF, 2-3, 2 RBI, 2 BB, R
Heath Kelly-2B, 2-5, K, E
Scott Hicks-1B, 2-5, 2B, R
Hunter Wyant-DH, 2-5, HR, 2 RBI, R, K, GIDP
George Arnott-LF, 0-3, BB, GIDP
Charles Frazier-RF, 2-4, 2B, R, 2 SB, CS, K
Michael Tucker-3B, 1-4
Winton Zapey-C, 2-3, BB, R
Rex Rundgren-SS, 1-4, R, E

Dontrelle Willis, 7 ip, 3 h, 1 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 2 k, 82
NP, 53 S
Elvis DeJesus, 0.2+2 ip, 2 h, 3 r, 3 er, 1 bb, 2 k, 23
NP, 13 S
Kevin Cave, 1.1 ip, 1 h, 1 r, 1 er, 0 bb, 1 k, 21 NP,
15 S


Wisconsin---100-000-040--5-6-1
Kane County-130-000-002--6-14-2

W-Kevin Cave
L-Lanny Patten


A-4005


Alumni Report

Atlanta 4, Florida 5
Michael Tejera, 1 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 0 k
Gary Knotts, 2 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 1 k, W


Iowa 3, Calgary 4
Blaine Neal, 2 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 0 bb, 0 k, W
Matt Erickson-3B, 1-3, R, K
Nate Rolison-1B, 1-3, R, K
Derek Wathan-SS, 0-2, BB


Binghampton 4, Portland 0
Joe Sergent, 2 ip, 3 h, 1 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 3 k
Brandon Bowe, 1 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 0 bb, 0 k

Jesus Medrano-2B, 1-3, 3B, BB
Quincy Foster-CF, 0-4, 2 K
Adrian Gonzalez-1B, 1-3, HBP, K
Jose Santos-3B, 1-3, BB
Matt Padgett-RF, 0-3, BB, 2 K
Matt Treanor-C, 0-4, K
Drew Niles-SS, 0-2, BB
Chris Aguila-PH, 0-1


West Tennessee 1, Birmingham 2
David Noyce, 2 ip, 2 h, 0 r, 0 er, 0 bb, 1 k



This Day In Kane County History
April 13th

91-First Home Game for the Cougars, vs South Bend
White Sox, Cougars win 13-0

94-Billy McMillon, hits a 3 run homer in the 7th,
Cougars win 7-3 vs Fort Wayne

95-Cougars pund out 20 hits and steal 9 bases on the
day as they swep a double header from Peoria by the
scores of 11-3, 10-3 Todd Dunwoody blasts a 3 run
homer in game one, Josh Booty hits a three run homer
in game two.


Remember that you only have two more days to vote on
who you think will be the 2002 MVP for the Cougars. On
the 15th the poll goes down and the votes are totaled.
On the 15th a new poll will go up for April player of
the month voting

Vote At-members.core.com/~malshere



Thanks
David Malamut
dmalshere1@...
members.core.com/~malshere


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