Kane County Cougars at Clinton Lumberkings
Wednesday, April 17th, 2002
Alliant Energy Field (Riverview Stadium), Clinton,
Iowa


4 Hits Will Not Win A Game

The Cougars got out hit and out played in the field
today, as they now drop three games below the 500 mark
for the season. It is kind of a bad day when the
highlight of the game is in the ninth inning, when one
of your players hits a long homer, and it's what the
ump does that makes it the highlight.

Shawn Hill pitched a good game for the Lumberkings, he
went five innings, and gave up only two hits. He did
give up one run, but it was unearned. He walked one
and struck out six. Hill retired six of the first
seven Cougars he faced. The one he did not retire
walked to lead off the second. He ended his outing by
retiring the final five.

The relievers for the Lumberkings came in and just
shut the door. Jason Walked pitched the next two
innings and walked one and struck out one.

Phil Akens made his third start for the Cougars. All
three have been on the road. He pitched into the fifth
inning. He just did not have much today. Phil gave
nine hits and seven runs. Six of those runs were
earned.

Tyler Banks did a good job out of the pen, he went two
and one thirds innings, giving up only one hit. He
walked three and struck out three. He got a double
play in the seventh inning to get out of a first and
third with two outs situation. Lou Evans did not fare
much better. He pitched one inning. An error by
shortstop Rex Rundgren did him in. He gave up three
runs in the inning. He only gave up one hit.


The scoring began in the bottom of the first when
Danny Rombley singled to right. Greg Thissen then
grounded to third to move Rombley over. John
Labanderia then drove home Rombley from second with a
single to center.

The Kings added another in the second when with one
out. Shawn Norris walked. David Lutz then doubled to
right. Craig Kerner hit a sacrifice fly to left to
score Norris.

The Cougars did put up a little bit of a fight in this
game, in the third inning, Kris Clute would reach on
an error by the second baseman Greg Thissen. Rex
Rundgren then popped out to the shortstop. Anthony
Brewer doubled to right to score Clute to cut the
Kings lead in half.

In the fifth the Kings exploded with five runs. David
Lutz led things off with a single to right.
Rightfielder Charles Frazier missed the ball and let
it go to the fence for an error. Lutz would get to
second. Craig Kerner then put down a sacrifice bunt to
move Lutz to third. Danny Rombley doubled to left to
score Lutz. Greg Thissen then singled to left to score
Rombley. A wild pitch would move Thissen to second.
Josh Labanderia then lined to left. Dominick Ambrosini
doubled to left to score Thissen. Clyde Williams hit a
homer to right to score Ambrosini. Matt Brown then
singled to left. The Cougars made a pitching change
and brought in Tyler Banks. Banks got Shawn Norris to
groundout to second to end the nightmare inning.

Clinton put the game out of reach in the eighth with
three more runs, this time off Cougars reliever Lou
Evans. David Lutz led off with a walk. Craig Kerner
then walked also. Danny Rombley lined on off of the
right leg of Evans for a single. Anthony Ambrosini
then reached from an error by shortstop Rex Rundgren.
On the play Lutz would score. Josh Lababderia then
struck out. Dominick Ambrosini then walked with the
bases loaded. Kerner then came home on the play. Clyde
Williams hit a sacrifice fly to left to score Rombley.

The highlight of the game came in the ninth for the
Cougars when Jason Stokes hit a long homer to left
field. On the play the home plate ump got up after
Stokes hit the ball took one step on the grass and
fell on his back, he signaled the homerun while still
on the back, I guess he found a wet spot on the grass.


Anthony Brewer-CF, 1-4, 2B, RBI, K
Scott Hicks-LF, 0-4, 2 K
Jason Stokes-1B, 1-4, HR, RBI, R, K
George Arnott-DH, 0-3, BB, K
Charles Frazier-RF, 1-4, 2B, 2 K
Winton Zapey-C, 0-4
Michael Tucker-3B, 0-3, BB, 3 K
Kris Clute-2B, 0-3, R
Rex Rundgren-SS, 0-3, 2 K

Phil Akens 4.2 +3 ip, 9 h, 7 r, 6 er, 1 bb, 4 k
Tyler Banks, 2.1 ip, 1 h, 0 r, 0 er, 3 bb, 3 k
Lou Evans, 1 ip, 1 h, 3 r, 0 er, 3 bb, 1 k


Kane County-001-000-001--2-4-1
Clinton--11-0-050-03X--10-11-1

Shawn Hill
Phil Akens, 0-2

A-616
T-2:41

Notes-an hour before the game it was anounced that
Kris Clute came back off of the disabled list, and
with Heath Kelly still here, Juan Carlos Garcia has
been moved to extended spring training.

Just a note to all of you, the game portion of the
reviews will start being put on the website after the
game, the night of. The reviews will not be sent on
the mailing list till the next morning so that I can
give everyone the alumni report, thanks
You Can get the game reports after the game or
somewhere that night, at my website at
members.core.com/~malshere


Alumni News-Brian Meadows (96) has been signed by the
Pirates orginization. The Marlins put Julian Tavarez
ont he disabled list today, and called up Hansel
Izquierdo (01) to the big show congrats to Hansel.
Bobby Rodgers (97) has been moved up from Portland to
Calgary and Brandon Sloan(01) went from Jupiter to
Portland.

Alumni Report

Philadelphia 7, Florida 5
Michael Tejera, 2 ip, 4 h, 2 r, 2 er, 1 bb, 1 k, ND
HR-Mike Liebrathal (Tejera)

Tucson 1, Calgary 2, G1
Blaine Neal, 2 ip, 2 h, 0 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 1 k, W
Matt Erickson-2B, 1-2, RBI, CS
Nate Rolison-1B, 0-2, K
Derek Wathan-SS, 1-2, 3B, K
Kevin Hooper-PH, 0-1

Tucson 5, Calgary 0, G2
Bobby Rodgers, 4 ip, 2 h, 1 r, 1 er, 3 bb, 5 k, L
HR-Chad Moehler (Rodgers)
Kevin Hooper-2B, 0-3
Derek Wathan-SS, 0-3
Bobby Rodgers-P, 0-1

New Haven 5 Portland 6
Joe Sergent, 5 ip, 7 r, 5 r, 5 er, 1 bb, 2 k, WP, BK
HR-Dee Haynes (Sergent)
Jesus Medrano-2B, 1-2, R, RBI, SO, 2 BB
Quincy Foster-CF, 1-2, 2 RBI, HBP, SACF
Adrian Gonzalez-1B, 1-3, 2B, RBI, R, HBP, K
Matt Padgett-RF, 1-4, SB, 2 K
Chris Aguila-LF, 0-3, RBI, SACF
Matt Treanor-C, 2-3, 2 R, BB
Joe Sergent-P, 0-1
Drew Niles-SS, 1-3, 3B, R, RBI, K

Vero Beach 4, Jupiter 0
Rob Henkel, 5 ip, 3 h, 3 r, 2 er, 1 bb, 8 k, L, WP
Ryan Harber, 2 ip, 3 h, 1 r, 1 er, 0 bb, 0 k
Terry Byron, 1 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 0 bb, 1 k
Michael Flannery, 1 ip, 3 h, 1 r, 1 er, 0 bb, 3 k
HR-C. Martinez (Henkel)
Chip Ambres-CF, 1-4, 2B
Josh Wilson-SS, 1-4, K
Will Smith-LF, 0-4
Miguel Cabrera-3B, 0-3, BB, E
Josh Willingham-DH, 1-4, 2 K
Pat Magness-1B, 0-3
Jim Kavourias-RF, 0-3
Dennis Anderson-C, 1-3, PB, K
Matt DeMarco-2B, 0-3


This Day In Cougars History
4/17/93, Cougars DH, Eric Wulf gets 5 hits in a game @
Quad City

94-The Cougars defeat the Lumberkings 6-1 behinf a
strong pitching performance by Dan Ehler and Kevin
Millar's three run homer in the first


Birthdays
T.R. Lewis, IF, (92) 31


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for the month of April. You can vote for the MVP of
the hitters and the pitchers of the month. At my
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Thanks
David Malamut

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