Kane County Cougars at Dayton Dragons
Monday, May 21st, 2001
Fifth Third Field, Dayton, Ohio


Brad Haynes started and pitched very well, he went into the sixth inning and gave up only three hits. He allowed two runs, one of the runs was a bases loaded walk. He walked four and tied a career high with seven strikeouts. From the second till the sixth, Haynes allowed one hit and one walk. In that time he struck out five and retired ten of the twelve men he faced and the Dragons only had two runners, and left one of them on base. The other runner was erased by a double play. Brad just fell apart in the sixth as he gave up one hit, one walk, and hit one Dragon.

Miguel Cabrera had a big day with him getting his second homer of the season in the first. He also had a run scoring double in the third. He drove home three runs.

Mike Flannery did a good job in an inning of relief, he got two fly outs and a pop out. Eudy Lajara got the last out of the seventh inning by getting David Espinosa to ground out to third. Hansel Izquierdo did one heck of a good job in one inning of work. Hansel walked the first man he faced. Then he settled down and struck out the next three batters he faced. Steve Sawyer had a lot of trouble in what would be one thirds of an inning of work. The first man he faced reached on an error. Then he gave up a single, he recoverd from that to get a big strike out of Mike Calitri. Omar Hurtado though singled off of him, and that sent him to the showers. Brandon Sloan gave up a single to the first man he faced to allow a run to score. Then he got pitch hitter Brian Jones to fly to left, even though that resulted in Dayton getting a run aon a sacrifice fly, he got the out. Randy Ruiz then grounded out on a wierd play.

Dennis Anderson was the first Cougar this year to be thrown out of a game as he was tossed in th top of the ninth when after he singled to center, and got to third when DeMarco walked. He was caught off of second on a throw from the pitcher, and was called out. He argued with base ump Scott McClellan.


The scoring started in the top of the first when Chip Ambres led the games off with a walk. Will Smith then singled to right to get Ambres to third. Adrian Gonzalez then singled to left to score Ambres. Jim Kavourias was next and he hit one to third, the third baseman threw to second to force Gonzalez out. Smith scored on the play. Miguel Cabrera then hit a homer to left that just made it out.

The Dragons came right back in the bottom of the inning when David Espinosa lead off the inning with a walk. One out later Randy Ruiz doubled to right off the wall, to socre Espinosa.

More fun for the Cougars in the thid when Smith lead off the inning by being plunked in the hip by a pitch. Gonzalez then singled to left. One out later Cabrera hit a double, that went just passed the third baseman and into the bullpen. Smith would score on the play. Josh Willingham then hit a long fly to right, it ended up as a sacrifice fly. Gonzalez would score on the play.

Haynes would get into trouble again in the sixth when, David Espinosa lead off the inning with a single to right. Wandel Campana then walked. One out later, Samone Peters was hit by a pitch. One out later, Steve Smitherman walked with the bases loaded to allow Espinosa to score. The Cougars then made a pitching change to bring in Mike Flannery with the bases still loaded. Flanery then sawed off Marc Sauerz who poped out to short to leave the bases loaded.

Dayton then made it a game in the bottom of the ninth when Steve Smitherman lead off the inning by reaching on an error by short stop Miguel Cabrera. Marc Sauerz then singled right up the middle past pitcher Steve Sawyer. Mike Calitri then struck out. Omar Hurtado hit one over the hear of Kavourias in right, the Dragons held the runner, Smitherman at third but the throw got away from DeMarco at third, they charged Kavourias with an error on the play because they said that the throw was low, that allowed Smitherman to score. After that Sawyer was removed and Brandon Sloan came on with runners on first and second with one out and it was a save situation. David Esponosa then singled to right to load the bases. The Dragons then pitch hit for Wandel Campana, Brian Jones then came on and hit a sacrifice fly to left to score Sauerz. On the play Hurtado went to third. Randy Ruiz then hit a ball that swibbled off the bat or foot of Randy Ruiz down the thrid base line. Catcher Dominic Woody got to the ball and thre Ruiz out. Ruiz didn't even run down to first since he thought the ball was foul and off of his foot. Dayton manager Donnie Scott came out and yelled at homeplate ump Ria Cortesio.

Cougars
Name POS AB R H RBI
Chip Ambres CF 2 1 1 0
Will Smith DH 3 2 1 0
Adrian Gonzalez 1B 4 1 2 1
Jim Kavourias RF 4 1 0 0
Miguel Cabrera SS 4 1 2 3
Josh Willingham 3B 3 0 0 1
Francisco Ferrand LF 4 0 0 0
Dennis Anderson C 4 0 1 0
Dominic Woody C
Josh Wilson 2B 1 0 0 0
Matt DeMarco 2B 2 0 0 0
Dragons
Name POS AB R H RBI
David Espinosa SS 4 2 2 0
Wandel Campana 2B 2 0 0 0
Brian Jones PH 0 0 0 1
Randy Ruiz DH 5 0 1 1
Samone Peters 1B 3 0 0 0
Wily Mo Pena CF 4 0 0 0
Steve Smitherman LF 3 1 0 1
Marc Saurez C 4 1 1 0
Mike Caliltri 3B 3 0 0 0
Omar Hurtado RF 4 0 2 0


E-Cabrera, LOB KC-3, DAY-7, 2B-Cabrera, Ruiz, HR-Cabrera (Mottl), SACF-Willingham, Jones, DP-Campana (Haynes)(5-4-3)

Kane County 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 7 2
Dayton 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 4 6 0

Cougars
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB
Brad Haynes 5.2+2 3 2 2 4 7 W (3-2) 1 0 1 19 22 6 3
Mike Flannery 1 0 0 0 0 0 ND 0 0 0 3 3 0 3
Eudy Lajara 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 ND 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
Hansel Izquierdo 1 0 0 0 1 3 ND 0 0 0 3 4 0 0
Steve Sawyer 0.1+1 2 2 1 0 1 ND 0 0 0 4 4 0 0
Brandon Sloan 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 SV (7) 0 0 0 2 3 1 1

Dragons
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB
Ryan Mottl 3 5 6 6 1 0 L (5-1) 0 0 1 13 16 4 4
Andy Boutwell 5 1 0 0 1 5 ND 0 0 0 16 17 0 9
Thad Markray 1 1 0 0 1 0 ND 0 0 0 3 4 1 1

HB-Smith (Mottl), Petera (Haynes), SO-Smith, Kavourias, Cabrera, Ferrand, Anderson, Campana, Ruiz 2, Peters 2, Pena 2, Smitherman 2, Caliltri, Hurtado, BB-Ambres, Wilson, Espinosa, Campana 2, Smitherman, Caliltri


Attendence-7679
Time-2:52

Umpires
Plate-Ria Cortesio
Bases-Scott McClellan


Tommorrow
Kane County-Terry Byron
Dayton-Dustin Mosley

Just so all you know the game is at 6 p.m. tommorrow on WBIG 1280, but they are doing the game on a tape delay broadcast so it will start at 7 p.m.

--Alumni Report--
Since the Cougars game ended early I will send a seperate email of alumni stuff tommorrow


Thank You
David Malamut
dmalshere1@yahoo.com
www.megsinet.com/malshere