River City Rascals - Independent Professional Baseball

RASCALS WIN WILD ONE 10-9 OVER RIVERHAWKS

Loves Park, IL – A combined twenty runs and twenty eight hits by the River City Rascals and Rockford RiverHawks opened the second half of the season and finished in a 10-9 Rascal victory.

River City used four unanswered runs, two in the seventh and two in the eighth, to overtake the RiverHawks. Andrew Sweet’s sacrifice fly to right field proved to be the game winner, scoring Greg Stone.

The Rascals took their first lead of the ballgame with a five run third. Brad Hough drove in two with a bases loaded single. Phil Laurent then followed with his sixth home run of the season with a three run shot to right to make it 5-4 River City. Jim Paduck was chased for Rockford after the Laurent homer.

Scott Fogelson started for the Rascals and allowed four of his six runs total in the first inning off six hits. The RiverHawks got to the left-hander again in the bottom of the third inning for two more when Robbie Knapp drove in his second and third RBIs of the night with his first home run in a RiverHawks uniform. Rockford tallied three in the inning to go back on top 7-5.

Will Basom drove in a run with a double in the fifth to cut the lead to one. Rockford made it 9-6 with back-to-back RBI doubles with two outs off Gary Lee in the bottom of the inning.

Shawn Balteff and Kyffin Marcum surrendered the four final runs to the Rascals, three of which were unearned.

Jonathan Miller, Brian Logan and Mike Benacka combined to toss the final 4.1 innings of shutout baseball. Benacka picked up his thirteenth save by striking out the side in the ninth. Logan (2-1) got the win going 1.1 innings and struck out two. Marcum (2-1) got saddled with the loss going .1 innings.

The Rascals (25-27) and RiverHawks (24-28) play game two of the three game series Saturday night at 7:05 p.m. from Road Ranger Stadium. Catch Josh Anderson and the River City Rascals on the road all season long on FM 104.5 KSLQ.

7/18/08
River City 10, Rockford 9

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
River City	0	0	5	0	1	0	2	2	0	10	11	1
Rockford	4	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	9	17	3

River City	POS	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG
L. Barganier	CF	5	1	3	1	.328
A. Sweet	CAT/LF	2	2	0	1	.285
B. Hough	3B	4	2	1	2	.282
P. Laurent	RF	4	2	1	3	.235
J. Miller	1B	5	0	0	0	.302
W. Basom	DH	4	0	3	1	.355
R. Wehrle	PR/DH	1	0	0	0	.241
J. Wilson	LF	2	0	0	0	.000
C. Marshall	CAT	3	0	0	0	.273
J. DeBoer	2B	4	1	1	0	.231
G. Stone	SS	4	2	2	0	.223
S. Fogelson	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
G. Lee	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
J. Miller	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
B. Logan	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
M. Benacka	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
TOTALS		38	10	11	8

Rockford	POS	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG
J. Anthonsen	2B	3	1	0	0	.346
Santos	LF	5	0	3	0	.600
J. James	DH	5	1	2	1	.332
T. Gonzalez	RF	5	2	2	0	.393
Knapp	3B	4	3	2	3	.500
B. Dutton	SS	3	1	2	1	.328
B. Cohen	1B	4	0	0	0	.224
M. Scripture	CAT	1	0	1	1	.179
R. Sabates	CAT	3	1	3	2	.319
Rivera	CF	4	0	2	1	.500
J. Paduch	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
M. Enderle	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
S. Balteff	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
K. Marcum	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
R. Bringelson	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
J. Cramphin	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
TOTALS		37	9	17	9

E--J.Wilson, Knapp, Rivera, K.Marcum. DP--RIVER CITY 1, ROCKFORD 1. LOB--RIVER CITY 7, ROCKFORD 7. 2B--W.Basom (3), R.Sabates (4), Rivera (1). HR--P.Laurent (6), Knapp (1). SB--B.Hough (9), J.Anthonsen (8). CS--L.Barganier, Santos. HBP--Knapp. SF--A.Sweet. SH--B.Dutton.

River City	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
S. Fogelson	2.0	9	6	6	1	4	1	4.53
G. Lee	2.2	6	3	3	0	1	0	4.56
J. Miller	2.0	2	0	0	0	3	0	3.96
B. Logan (W, 2-1)	1.1	0	0	0	1	2	0	3.80
M. Benacka (S, 13)	0.2	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.35

Rockford	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
J. Paduch	2.2	7	5	5	1	4	1	4.85
M. Enderle	2.1	2	1	1	2	2	0	2.62
S. Balteff	1.2	0	2	0	2	3	0	1.38
K. Marcum (L,2-1)	0.1	1	2	1	0	0	0	4.05
R. Bringelson	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5.86
J. Cramphin	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	6.52

WP--S.Balteff. HB--G.Lee. PB--C.Marshall. SO--L.Barganier 2, A.Sweet, B.Hough, P.Laurent, J.Miller 2, J.Wilson, C.Marshall, J.DeBoer 2, J.Anthonsen, Santos 2, J.James, T.Gonzalez 3, Knapp, B.Dutton, B.Cohen, Rivera 2. BB--A.Sweet 2, B.Hough, P.Laurent, J.DeBoer, J.Anthonsen 2, B.Dutton.

Time: 3:36, Attendance: 3,308