Kane County Cougars at Dayton Dragons
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2001
Fifth Third Field, Dayton, Ohio




Terry Byron had his best outing of the season, going intot he sixth inning. Terry had a perfect game going for three innings. Altogether he gave up three hits and three runs. He walked two and struck out one. Terry had a string of 21 straight outs going from his first outing of the year.

The bullpen wasn't much help today as Chris Key and Manuel Esquivia combined to go 3 and two thirds innings. They gave up five hits and three runs, all earned. Thye walked four and struck out three. Eudy Lajara then came in and got hte last two hitters of the game.

Josh Wilson also had three hits, two of which were doubles.


The scoring started in the top of the first with two outs, Adrian Gonzalez hit a homer, his seventh of the year to left.

The Cougars just kept pouring it on, in the second Miguel Cabrera lead off the inning with a double to left. Two outs later Dominic Woody walked. Josh Wilson then hit a fly ball to center, Wily Mo Pena basicaly just droped the ball. On the play Cabrera and Woody scored.

Will Smith lead off the third inning with an infield single to second. Adrian Gonzalez did the same thing to second after him. Smith went to third base on the play. Jim Kavourias then grounded into a double play, on the play Smith would score.

More fun for Kane County in the fourth when with two outs, Dominic Woody doubled to left. Josh Wilson then also doubled to left, this time right down the line to drive home Woody. Chip Ambres then singled to left and Wilson scored. Will Smith then took a pitch to the opposite field for a two run homer.

The Dragons then got on the board in the bottom of the inning when David Espinosa lead off the inning with a single to left. Wandell Campana then followed with a single to left. Espinosa then scored on a wild pitch. Randy Ruiz then grounded out to short, on the play Campana would score.

With two outs in the sixth, Will Smith singled to right. Adrian Gonzalez then hit his second homer of the game.

In the bottom of the ninth the Dragons did add one run to the board when with one out Omar Hurtado singled to right. David Espinosa then walked. The Cougars then made a pitching change taking out Manuel Esquivia and bringing in Eudy Lajara. The first hitter Lajara faced was Wandell Campana and he hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Hurtado.

Cougars
Name POS AB R H RBI
Chip Ambres CF 6 1 1 1
Will Smith LF 6 4 5 2
Adrian Gonzalez 1B 5 2 4 3
Jim Kavourias RF 4 0 0 0
Miguel Cabrera SS 5 1 1 0
Pat Magness DH 5 0 1 1
Josh Willingham 3B 2 0 0 0
Matt DeMarco 3B 2 0 1 0
Dominic Woody C 4 2 1 0
Josh Wilson 2B 5 1 3 1
Dragons
Name POS AB R H RBI
David Espinosa SS 2 2 1 0
Wandel Campana 2B 4 2 2 1
Randy Ruiz RF 5 1 1 4
Samone Peters 1B 3 0 0 0
Wily Mo Pena CF 2 0 1 0
Brian Anderson PH/CF 2 0 0 0
Steve Smitherman DH 3 0 1 0
Marc Saurez C 3 0 1 0
Mike Caliltri 3B 4 0 0 0
Omar Hurtado RF 4 1 1 0


E-Pena, LOB KC-10, DAY-6, 2B-Cabrera, Woody, Wilson 2, HR-Smith (Mosley), Gonzalez 2 (Mosley)(Laesch), Ruiz (Byron), SACF-Espinosa, DP-Kavourias (Mosley)(6-4-3), Caliltri (Byron)(5-4-3)

Kane County 1 2 1 4 0 2 0 1 0 11 17 0
Dayton 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 6 9 1

Cougars
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB
Terry Byron 5+1 3 3 3 2 1 W (1-1) 2 0 0 17 19 8 5
Chris Key 1 3 2 2 0 1 ND 0 0 0 5 5 1 0
Manuel Esquivia 2.1+2 2 1 1 4 2 ND 1 0 0 9 13 3 2
Eudy Lajara 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 ND 0 0 0 1 2 1 1

Dragons
Name IP H R ER BB SO Decison WP BK HB AB BF GB FB
Dustin Mosley 3.2 8 8 6 1 2 L (3-2) 0 0 0 19 20 5 3
Mike Laesch 2.1 2 2 2 2 1 ND 0 0 1 9 11 2 4
Clint Collins 3 7 1 1 0 0 ND 0 0 0 16 16 1 8

HB-Willingham (Laesch), SO-Magness 2, Willingham, Ruiz, Peters 2, Anderson, Hurtado, BB-Gonzalez, Kavourias, Woody, Espinosa 3, Smitherman, Suarez

2:51

The Cougars made a roster move today, as Pat Magness was brought back to the team, and Matt Easterday was sent to Utica.


--Alumni Report--
5/21/01
Lakeland at Brevard County
Josh Beckett, 3 ip, 1 h, 1 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 4 k
Matt Levan, 0.2 ip, 1 h, 0 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 1 k
Tim McClaskey, 0.2 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 0 bb, 1 k, SV(9)
In the game Beckett was taken out for precautionary reasons with a stiff shoulder


5/22/01
Portland 7, Calgary 8

Portland 6, Harrisburg, 1
Game 1
Geoff Goetz, 1 ip, 2 h, 1 r, 1 er, 1 bb, 0 k, W(1-1)
Blaine Neal, 1 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 0 bb, 0 k
HR-Derek Wathan (1)(Chiavacci)
Kevin Hooper, 1-4

Game 2
Portland 3, Harrisburg 7, 14 innings
Scott Henderson, 1 ip, 1 h, 4 r, 3 er, 1 bb, 0 k, L(1-3)
HR-Roy Callaway (Henderson)
Kevin Hooper, 2-6, R, CS

Orlando at West Tennessee
David Noyce, 1.1 ip, 2 h, 1 r, 1 er, 2 bb, 1 k

San Jose at Mudville
Jorge Cordova, 5 ip, 7 h, 5 r, 2 er, 3 bb, 6 k, L(1-3)

Brevard County 5, Jupiter 4
Nate Robertson, 4 ip, 5 h, 3 r, 2 er, 2 bb, 3 k
Ryan Harber, 4 ip, 4 h, 1 r, 1 er, 0 bb, 0 k, W(2-0)
Tim McClaskey, 1 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 0 er, 0 bb, 1 k, SV(10)
Will Hill, 0-3, R, SB

Quad City 2, Lansing 11

Randy Messenger, was moved from the Utica roster to Brevard County


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