Clinton Lumberkings at Kane County Cougars
May 15th, 2000
Phillip B. Elfstrom Stadium, Geneva, Illinios

COUGARS WIN ON FRICK GRAND SLAM!!!

The Cougars win on a eighth inning grand slam for catcher Matt Frick to put the Cougars ahead for good. All of the runs scored in tonights game were by the long ball, which is something unusual so far in the season.

Jose Valdez started for the Lumberkings and pitched a good game. Only making one mistake to Matt Padgett who took him deep in the first inning. After that he retired the next 12 hitters for the Cougars.

Jorge Cordova pitched seven innings giving up only four hits. He gave up one long ball which acounted for all of the runs that Clinton got in the game. Joe Sergent came in for an inning and gave up one hits, but struck out one.

Offensivley for the Cougars besides the two blasts. Matt Padgett had two hits. The impressive thing offesnivley is how Cougars second baseman Kevin Hooper hits in the leadoff or second position he worked the count and realy helped the Cougars, not just tonight but throughout the season.

The scoring started in the first inning for the Cougars when Kevin Hooper worked the count and got a single to center. One out later Scott Goodman singled to center. Then Matt Padgett lifted a ball onto the deck in right, for a three run blast.

The Lumberkings would answer in the fifth when with one out Samone Peters hit a homer to center.

Then more for the Lumberkings the next inning when with one out Mark Burnett walked and Andrew Beattie hit a homer onto the bleachers in right centerfield.

THe fireworks started for the Cougars in the eighth when Francisco Ferrand walked
Lumberkings
Name POS AB R H RBI
Mark Burnett 2B 3 1 1 0
Andrew Beattie SS 4 1 1 2
Fernando Rios LF 4 0 1 0
Bobby Cripps DH 4 0 0 0
Omar Hurtado RF 4 0 0 0
Samone Peters 1B 4 1 1 1
Francisco Rivera C 4 0 1 0
Matt Dehner 3B 2 0 0 0
Jon Weber CF 3 0 0 0
Cougars
Name POS AB R H RBI
Kevin Hooper 2B 4 1 1 0
Francisco Ferrand CF 3 1 0 0
Scott Goodman LF 3 2 1 0
Matt Padgett RF 3 2 2 3
Matt Frick C 2 1 1 4
David Callahan 1B 4 0 0 0
Kelley Washington 3B 4 0 0 0
Dennis Anderson DH 3 0 0 0
Luis Ugueto SS 4 0 1 0

LOB CLI-4, KC-5, 2B-Burnett, HR-Beattie (Cordova), Peters (Cordova), Padgett (Valdez), Frick (Bradley), SB-Rios, Frick

Clinton 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 5 0
Kane County 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 X 7 7 0

Lumberkings
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB
Jose Valdez 7 4 3 3 2 4 ND 0 0 2 24 28 5 11
David Bradley 0.2 3 4 4 2 2 L (0-3) 0 0 0 5 7 0 0
Tom Pike 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 ND 0 0 0 1 1 0 0

Cougars
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB
Jorge Cordova 7 4 3 3 2 5 ND 0 0 0 24 27 3 13
Joe Sergent 1 1 0 0 0 1 W (3-2) 0 0 0 4 4 2 0
Brandon Bowe 1 0 0 0 0 0 ND 0 0 0 3 3 2 1

HB-Frick (Valdez), Anderson (Valdez), SO-Beattie, Rios, Hurtado, Peters 2, Rivera, Goodman, Frick, Callahan 2, Washington, Ugueto, BB-Burnett, Dehner, Ferrand, Goodman, Padgett, Frick

2:33
3,539

Notes-Kelley Washington has made some incredible deffensive grabs on pop up this series and I forgot to mention it so here it is.

Beware tomorrow is another one of those kids days with probly 3000 kids at the ball park, so it will not be fun.