Auburn notches their first win, Dunedin and Charleston play meaningless games, Syracuse get thirteen hits and lose, New Hampshire play extra innings and win, and Pulaski start their season tonight.
Columbus 9 Syracuse 7
Syracuse scored four in the first inning on doubles by Glenn Williams, Jorge Sequea and Shawn Fagan. Columbus took the lead with five runs in the fifth off Chief starter Ryan Glynn. Syracuse tied it in the fifth on two singles and two hit batsmen. The tie held until the eighth when, with two outs, Aquilino Lopez allowed single, double, double, walk and a double. The Chiefs scored two consolation runs in the ninth. Lopez took the loss while Colter Bean got the win for Columbus.
Sequea continued his hot hitting going 3-5 with two doubles. Stubby Clapp, Glenn Williams, Simon Pond, Gabe Gross and Shawn Fagan each had two hits.
Game Story
Trenton 3 New Hampshire 4
Cam Reimers, Dan Jackson and John Ogiltree pitched eight strong innings yesterday and New Hampshire took a 3-0 lead into the ninth. Anton French got New Hampshire on the board in the first inning with a single, a stolen base, and a run scored on a sac fly from Aaron Hill. NH added a second run in the second on hits by Mikael Jova and Dominic Rich, and a third in the seventh when Mike Snyder scored after singling and stealing a base.
Ogiltree had two outs in the ninth, with one runner on, when the hitter grounded to Hill. Hill underhanded the ball to Dominic Rich, but Rich dropped it, and the next hitter jacked a three run, game tying, home run.
Jordan DeJong pitched a perfect top of the tenth. In the home half of the tenth French doubled with one out and moved to third on a groundball. With two out Aaron Hill grounded to third and, as Rich did in the ninth, the fielder made an error to give the win to NH.
Aaron Hill was 0-4 but his 13 game hit streak ended.
Game Story
Dunedin 9 Sarasota 5
This was the final game of the first half, a nothing game with Dunedin having already clinched the first half title. There were five lead changes in the game and hitters had the upper hand. Dunedin used five pitchers including Justin Maureau who hit his first speed bump in his comeback. Maureau walked three batters in two thirds of an inning of work. Manny Mayerson had three hits and Raul Tablado had two including a home run. Scott Dragicevich also had two hits.
Lexington 1 Charleston 0
Charleston had clinched the first half title so this game was also meaningless. Charleston registered only four hits and Justin James pitched five shoutout innings. Jordy Templett took the loss allowing a single and a triple in the seventh inning.
Game Story
Auburn 8 Mahoning Valley 5
After losing two low scoring games, Auburn decided to slug their way to a win. Auburn had 14 hits in the game.
Auburn built a 7-0 lead through the top of the sixth. Mahoning Valley answered with four in the sixth but Auburn held them at bay for the rest of the game. A boxscore or accounts of this game are not available. As they say on TV "the boxscore and accounts or descriptions of this game remain the property of minor league baseball", and therefore you cannot see them. It looks like there could be a hitting star in this game somewhere, so in the absence of another overwhelming candidate, I will delay awarding the third star until the details of this game are available.
Pulaski
Pulaski's season starts tonight
Our Three-Star Selection
The 3rd Star: Eric Nielsen, 2-4 with his first professional home run
The 2nd Star: Jorge Sequea, 3-5 with two doubles
The 1st Star: Anton French, 4-5 and scored the winning run
Standings
Syracuse were 2-5 on the week and their record now is 30-41. Syracuse are 14 games behind Scranton
New Hampshire, 4-1 for the week and are 36-31, four games back of Binghamton
Dunedin, 41-29, first half champions. Dunedin were 4-3 for the week.
Charleston 41-29 first half champions. Charleston were 2-6 for the week.
Auburn have started 1-2
Combined the Jays minor league teams were 13-17 for the week and their record is 149-132, a .530 winning percentage.
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