All Americans Win in 15 Innings

Lowell 9 Holyoke 8
 

Lowell, Ma (August 3 2007) For the second day in a row the Holyoke Giants and Lowell All Americans battled into extra innings. Last night the game was won by the Giants in the bottom of the 11th, tonight the teams scored 16 runs in 7.5 innings and then blanked each other for another 7.5 until Kevin Nolan of the Lowell All Americans drove home James Chevalier to win the game 9-8. The teams will play tomorrow in Holyoke for the deciding game in the series.

Holyoke started the game off with 2 runs in the 1st inning. Leadoff hitter Justin Little started it off with a bunt single, was sacrificed to 2nd and later scored on a Jack Cawley base hit. Also scoring on Cawley?s single was Third Baseman Kody Hightower. The Giants scored their third run of the game in the 3rd inning when Hightower scored on a double play.

The All Americans got on the board in the bottom of 3rd on a Brendan Akashian single. Lowell added another run in the 4th when Tom Stack-Babich homered to left field. In the 5th Holyoke scored 2 runs on a Cawley homerun bringing the score to 5-2 Giants. However, in Lowell?s half of the 5th the momentum swung when left fielder Kevin Rivers hit a 3 run triple and subsequently scored on a throwing error by the second baseman.

The All Americans scored another 2 runs in the 6th inning stretching their lead to 8-5. In the next frame Holyoke was able to cut away 1 run from that lead after Kevin Renaud singled home Hightower. In the 8th inning the Giants rallied again when Matt Reimer started the inning with a bunt hit. Two batters later Mike Walczuk hit a two run homerun that just stayed fair of the left field foul pole tying the game at 8.

Notable Giants performers: Jack Cawley 3-6 Hr 4 RBI. Kody Hightower 3-5 3 BB 2 2B 3R. Mike Walzcuk 1-1 2 run PH HR. Sean Bergeron 5 IP relief 5K 0R.

The Giants next game is tomorrow night at 7 pm at Mackenzie Stadium.

Box Score can be found at www.necbl.com

WP: Leigh (1-0)
LP: Maertz (1-1)

Line Score: 1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9  10 11 12  13 14 15  R H  E
Giants      2 0 1  2 2 0  1 2 0  0  0  0   0  0  0   8 21 2
Lowell      0 0 1  1 4 2  0 0 0  0  0  0   0  0  1   8 15 4
 

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