Clinton Lumberkings at Kane County Cougars
April 22nd, 2001
Phillip B. Elfstrom Stadium, Geneva, Illinios


The Cougars offense was in neutral during the first half of the game as they only produced four hits, and no runs. After that they scored four times and had six hits. Jim Kavourias contributed to the production as it was his game winning two run homer over the scoreboard that made the diffrence for the Cougars.

Ramon Castillo started for the Cougars, he went six innings, and did not look sharp. He was getting hit, and the Kings hit mostly line drives off of him. He also walked four and struck out five. Ramon eventhough he was getting hit hard, still was able to pitch out of some very tough jams and did a good job.

The bullpen then did a great job as they combined went three innings and gave up one hit and two walks. Hansel Izquierdo pitched two innings and Steve Sawyer pitched the final inning to pick off his second win of the season.

Offensivly the Cougars had a couple of people hitting well. Jim Kavourias, Miguel Cabrera and Dennis Anderson all had two hits. Josh Wilson did a good job with two sacrifice bunts in the last three innings to move runners along. Chip Ambres also got two hits and two walks

For the Lumberkings Luke Lockwood started and pitched well. He went into the sixth, giving up six hits, but only one earned run. He walked three and struck out two. Chris Bye then came in for two and one thirds innings. He gave up two hits and one run. Gerardo Casadiego then went two thirds of an inning and gave up two hits and two runs. Including the game winning home run.

Brett Boyer lead the way for the Lumberkings offensivly with two hits.



The Lumberkings led off the scoring in the top of the first when with one out Danny Rombley singled to center. Grady Sizemore then walked. After a double steal and a strike out, Drew McMillon came up and hit one to left. Leftfielder Josh Willingham could not find the ball and it droped in there for a hit, meanwhile both Rombley and Sizemore scored.

The Cougars would get on the board in the fifth when with two outs Miguel Cabrera singled to center, then stole second. Dennis Anderson then doubled to center to score Cabrera.

Chip Ambres led off the seventh inning with a walk, then stole second base. Josh Wilson then put down a sacrifice bunt to move Ambres to third. Adrian Gonzalez then singled to center to score Ambres.

Chip Ambres also led off the ninth, this time he doubled to center. Josh Wilson then put down another perfect sacrifice bunt to move Ambres to third. One out later, Jim Kavourias then hit a bomb over the scoreboard in left to win the game.

Kings
Name POS AB R H RBI
Brett Boyer SS 5 0 2 0
Danny Rombley RF 4 1 1 0
Grady Sizemore CF 4 1 0 0
Phil Downing LF 3 0 0 0
Drew McMillon DH 5 0 1 2
Vince Rooi 3B 3 0 0 0
Clyde Williams 1B 4 0 1 0
Eric Langill C 3 0 0 0
Jose Docen 2B 2 0 1 0
Cougars
Name POS AB R H RBI
Chip Ambres DH 3 2 2 0
Josh Wilson SS 3 0 0 0
Adrian Gonzalez 1B 5 0 1 1
Jim Kavourias RF 4 1 2 2
Josh Willingham LF 3 0 0 0
Will Smith PH/LF 1 0 0 0
Miguel Cabrera SS 4 1 2 0
Dennis Anderson C 4 0 2 1
Matt Easterday CF 3 0 0 0
Kevin Hooper 2B 3 0 1 0



E-Wilson, LOB-Kings-12, Cougars-10, RLISP-Kings-8, Cougars-6, 2B-McMillon, Ambres, Anderson 2, HR-Kavourias (Casadiego), RBI-McMillon 2, Gonzalez, Kavourias 2, Anderson, SACB-Wilson 2, SB-Rombley, Sizemore, Ambres, Cabrera, CS-Hooper, DP-Wilson (Lockwood)(3-6-3)

Clinton 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 1
Kane County 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 4 10 1

Kings
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB
Luke Lockwood 5.2+3 6 1 1 3 2 ND 0 0 0 22 26 9 5
Chris Bye 2.1 2 1 1 1 1 ND 1 0 0 8 10 4 1
Gerado Casadiego 0.2+1 2 2 2 0 0 L (0-1) 0 0 0 3 4 2 0

Cougars
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB
Ramon Castillo 6 5 2 2 4 5 ND 0 0 1 23 27 4 9
Hansel Izquierdo 2 1 0 0 2 2 ND 1 0 1 7 10 4 0
Steve Sawyer 1 0 0 0 0 0 W (2-1) 0 0 0 3 3 1 2

HB-Langill (Castillo), Rombley (Izquierdo), IBB-Downing (Castillo), SO-Boyer, Sizemore, Downing, McMillon, Langill, Docen, Willingham, Easterday 2, BB-Sizemore, Downing 2, Rooi, Docen 2, Ambres, Kavourias, Easterday, Hooper

A-5,166

Notes-Just so I don't hear about it from anyone (That means you Dale, George, Herman and ect..) the website will not be updated till later since I am going to go and work on it after I finish writing this story, hopefully it will be updated by the end of the night, but don't count on it.

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