River City Rascals - Independent Professional Baseball

HOUGH ENDS EXTRAS WITH A SOLO HOMERUN

O’Fallon, MO – On a cold night which saw the River City Rascals and Rockford RiverHawks go into extra innings, Brad Hough gave the fans who stuck around something to cheer about with a walk-off homerun to give the Rascals a 2-1 win in 11 innings.

For River City, it was their fourth straight win and first against Rockford in four chances.

The Rascals got on the board early when Jeff Miller stole his first base of the season and was batted in by Luke Bargainer putting the Rascals up 1-0.

The game went scoreless until the RiverHawks Jason James hit a bomb to right field in the top of the seventh making it 1-1.

Both starters left after seven. Jonathan Miller started strong for River City, allowing just the James homerun while striking out eight. The RiverHawks Chris Schutt tied a career high with strikeouts, allowing just one run.

Both teams stayed even until the eleventh when Hough come through.

“I was just ready to go home,” Hough said. “He was throwing hard so I was looking for something over the plate and I just made a nice swing.”

Adam Tollefson (2-0) picked up the win for River City going 2.2 innings while striking out five batters. Mike Marksbury (0-1) took the loss for the RiverHawks.

River City and Rockford will play game two of their three game series Wednesday night at 7:05 p.m. at T.R. Hughes Ballpark. Gates will open at 6:05 p.m. Tickets are available by calling (636) 240-BATS or visiting www.rivercityrascals.com.

Wednseday nights are Military appreciation nights with the Missouri Air National Guard being honored at the ballpark this Wednesday.

5/27/08
Rockford 1, River City 2
(EXTRA INNINGS)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
Rockford	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0
River City	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	0

Rockford	POS	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG
J. Anthonsen	2B	5	0	0	0	.222
J. Brooks	SS	4	0	0	0	.182
J. James	LF	4	1	1	1	.269
C. Stang	RF	4	0	1	0	.167
C. Raber	1B	4	0	0	0	.267
S. Pickerell	CAT	4	0	0	0	.231
M. Borman	DH	4	0	0	0	.300
B. Thomas	3B	3	0	1	0	.313
R. Kowalski	CF	3	0	0	0	.188
C. Schutt	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
R. Bringelson	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
M. Marksbury	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
TOTALS		35	1	3	1

River City	POS	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG
J. Deboer	2B	4	0	1	0	.381
P. Laurent	LF	5	0	2	0	.172
B. Hough	RF	4	1	1	1	.308
B. Mosby	DH	3	0	0	0	.300
B. Logan	PR	0	0	0	0	.000
J. Miller	1B	3	1	0	0	.091
A. Sweet	CAT	2	0	0	0	.261
C. Raniere	3B	4	0	0	0	.200
L. Barganier	CF	3	0	1	1	.235
G. Stone	SS	4	0	0	0	.240
J. Miller	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
S. Fogelson	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
G. Lee	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
A. Tollefson	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
TOTALS		32	2	5	2

DP--ROCKFORD 0, RIVER CITY 0. LOB--ROCKFORD 3, RIVER CITY 7. HR-- J.James (2), B.Hough (3). SB--B.Thomas (1), R.Kowalski 2 (3), B.Hough (1), J.Miller (1). CS--C.Stang, L.Barganier.

Rockford	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
C. Schutt	7.0	3	1	1	5	10	0	0.64
R. Bringelson	3.0	1	0	0	2	2	0	0.00
M. Marksbury (L, 0-1)	0.0	1	1	1	0	0	1	13.50

River City	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
J. Miller	7.0	2	1	1	2	8	1	0.68
S. Fogelson	1.0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0.00
G. Lee	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
A. Tollefson (W,2-0)	2.2	0	0	0	0	5	0	0.00

SO--J.Anthonsen 3, J.Brooks 2, C.Raber 3, S.Pickerell, M.Borman 3, B.Thomas, R.Kowalski 3, J.Deboer 2, P.Laurent, B.Hough, B.Mosby 3, J.Miller, C.Raniere, L.Barganier, G.Stone 2. BB--B.Thomas, R.Kowalski, J.Deboer, B.Hough, B.Mosby, J.Miller, A.Sweet 2, L.Barganier.

Time: 3:17, Attendance: 1,044