Cedar Rapids Kernels at Kane County Cougars
Thursday, April 25th, 2002
Phillip B. Elfstrom Stadium, Geneva, Illinios


COUGARS FREEZE KERNELS The Cougars froze the Kernels, in from of just over two thousand freezing Cougar fans at the Elf. Good pitching and an inning when we did somehting diffrent, we actually had a Cougar cross home plate. All of that combined helped to bring the Cougars their second win in a row.

Dontrelle Willis got his first victory of the season, after going his first three starts without a decsion. He lasted five innings, and 84 pitches. Dontrelle allowed four hits, no more than one hit an inning. He gave up one run after the runner got on with a walk. Willis did walk four, which is the first time in his three starts that he walked more than one. He struck out eight, which is the most he has struck out this year. He started out twelve of the twenty-one hitters he faced with a strike. Of those he didn't get a first pitch strike three of the four walks were the result of the time at-bat.

The bullpen did it's job, Elvis DeJesus pitched three innings, he was a little bit wild. He threw 49 pitches, with 30 strikes. Elvis gave up one hit and one walk. He also struck out three. Kevin Cave came in for the save in the ninth he got the side down in order, including getting one strikeout.

Cedar Rapids also got good pitching, Jaime Steward started and lasted into the sixth inning. He gave up two hits and two unearned runs. He walked two and struck out two. He threw 80 pitches, Steward retired the first seven Cougars he faced.


The scoring started in the third inning for the Kernels when with one out, Jon Cahill walked. He would advance to second on a wild pitch. Ransel Melgarejo then flied out to center. Dallas McPherson singled to left to score Cahill.

In the fifth inning the Cougars offense finally did something. Jason Stokes led things off with a double to left. Heath Kelly put down a nice sacrifice bunt to move Stokes to third. Charles Frazier walked. Guy Lynam then hit one back to the pitcher, Steward. He tried to throw the ball home to get Stokes but threw the ball to the back stop to allow Stokes to score the Cougars first run of the game. Rex Rundgren then grounded into a fielder's choice, on the play Frazier would score, and Lynam would be out at second.

Kernels
Name POS AB R H RBI
Ransel Melgarejo CF 4 0 1 0
Dallas McPherson 3B 2 0 1 1
Jeff Mathis C 3 0 0 0
Casey Kotchman 1B 4 0 0 0
Nick Gorneault LF 3 0 0 0
Greg Porter RF 3 0 0 0
Tommy Murphy SS 4 0 1 0
Ryan Nevins DH 4 0 2 0
Jon Cahill 2B 1 1 0 0
Justin Turner PH/2B 1 0 0 0
Cougars
Name POS AB R H RBI
Anthony Brewer CF 4 0 1 0
Hunter Wyant DH 4 0 0 0
Scott Hicks LF 1 0 0 0
George Arnott LF 2 0 0 0
Jason Stokes 1B 3 1 1 0
Heath Kelly 3B 2 0 0 0
Charlie Frazier RF 2 1 0 0
Guy Lynam C 3 0 1 0
Rex Rundgren SS 3 0 1 1
William Arroyo 2B 3 0 0 0
E-Lynam, LOB-Kernels-8, Cougars-4, 2B-Stokes, 3B-Brewer, RBI-McPherson, Rundgren, SACB-Kelly, Cahill, SB-Gorneault, PiO-Murphy, DP-Mathis (Willis)(5-4-3)
Cedar Rapids 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
Kane County 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 X 2 4 2
Kernels
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB NP S
Jaime Steward 5.2+1 2 2 0 2 2 L (1-1) 0 0 0 18 21 6 7 80 46
Mark O'Sullivan 1.1 1 0 0 0 1 ND 0 0 0 5 5 2 1 24 13
Jason Dennis 1 1 0 0 0 2 ND 0 0 0 4 4 1 0 15 12
Cougars
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB NP S
Dontrelle Willis 5 4 1 1 4 8 W (1-0) 1 0 0 16 21 4 1 84 48
Elvis DeJesus 2 1 0 0 1 2 ND 0 0 0 10 12 1 5 49 30
Kevin Cave 1 0 0 0 0 1 SV (4) 0 0 0 3 3 1 1 8 7
WP-Steward, Willis, SO-Melgarejo, McPherson, Kotchman 2, Gorneault 2, Porter 2, Murphy 2, Cahill, Brewer, Wyant, Frazier, Arroyo, BB-McPherson 2, Mathis, Gorneault, Porter, Cahill, Hicks, Frazier
A-2048
T-too long
W-30 degress?
H-(29,666)(7), A-(10,278)(11), T-(39,944)(18)


Alumni Report
Houston 4, Florida 5
A.J. Burnett, 7 ip, 5 h, 3 r, 3 er, 5 bb, 9 k, W, 0-2 K

Calgary 2, Tacoma 3
Kevin Hooper-SS, 2-5
Matt Erickson-2B, 1-4, SB, HBP
Nate Rolison-1B, 2-4, HR (Greg Wooten) 2B, RBI, R
Derek Wathan-PR, 0-0

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

Stockton 6, High Desert 4
Jorge Cordova, 1 ip, 3 h, 1 r, 1 er, 1 bb, 3 k, W

Daytona 15, Jupiter 9
Denny Bautista, 2.2 ip, 7 h, 10 r, 9 er, 4 bb, 2 k, HBP, L
Marc Sauer, 3.1 ip, 2 h, 1 r, 1 er, 0 bb, 3 k
Terry Byron, 1.1 ip, 3 h, 4 r, 4 er, 2 bb, 1 k, HBP
Chris Key, 1.2 ip, 2 h, 0 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 2 k
HR-R. Sadler (Bautista), Jason DuBois (Sauer), T. Garcia (Byron)
Chip Ambres-CF, 0-3, R, 2 BB
Matt DeMarco-2B, 1-5, RBI, K
Miguel Cabrera-DH, 1-5, 2 RBI
Pat Magness-1B, 1-4, BB, R, K
Jim Kavourias-RF, 2-4, HR (J. Blanton) 2B, 3 R, RBI, BB, K
Josh Willingham-3B, 2-5, R
Francisco Ferrand-LF, 1-4, RBI, R


This Day In Cougars History
4/25/93, Tony Sylvestri and Chris Sheff each collected three hits in Cougars 12-2 win over the Waterloo Diamonds, Rey Mendoza starts the game for the Cougars and gets the win.
4/25/95, Pitcher Mike Parisi carries a no-hitter into the 5th and the Cougars hang on for a 4-3 win over Burlington
4/25/97, Kane County 28, Cedar Rapids 11