Bees Sweep Doubleheader in Normal
Game 1
Game 1
| Final (8) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Normal CornBelters | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
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Burlington Bees | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
Normal, IL – Entering the all-star break on a four game losing streak, the Burlington Bees (6-6, 17-20) entered last night's doubleheader against the Normal CornBelters (5-6, 20-17) in
desperate need of a momentum shift. They received the spark they needed, taking two games from Normal on July 9 at the Corn Crib by final scores of 2-1 and 9-3.
Game 1
Tate Slagle (Iowa) threw a season high six innings while allowing just one run. However, he left the game with the Bees down 1-0. That was until Burlington scored an unearned run to tie the game in the bottom of the sixth. Zach Troxel (Indiana Wesleyan) entered for the seventh and pitched out of a bases loaded jam before the Bees stranded the winning runner at third in the bottom half of the frame. With runners on first and third and nobody out in the top of the eighth for Normal, Troxel recorded a strikeout and induced a groundball double play to escape the inning. Jace Figuereo (South Dakota State) provided the heroics in the bottom of the eighth by singling in Troy Peltz (Iowa Western) to win the game.
Game 2
Rowen Bergeron (LSU-Eunice) started game two with a two run home run to put the Bees up 2-0. In the bottom half of the inning, Normal would even the tally on a sac fly and a single.
Burlington would score the next two runs as Sean Kang (SIU-Edwardsville) singled Figuereo home in the top of the third. Next inning, the Bees took advantage of two walks to begin the frame, and Kila Teixeira (Hawaii-Pacific) extended the lead to 4-2 by driving in Tanner Reinartz (Huntington). The CornBelters would respond with one in the bottom of the fourth, but then the Bees would go on to score the last five runs of the game. Lucas Krebs (Illinois) tripled to begin the fifth and scored on a wild pitch. Burlington was not done scoring yet in the fifth, as PJ Hamel (McHenry County) knocked in Bergeron on a single. The Bees would add three more runs in the sixth inning with Kang providing the knockout blow on a two run single to take a commanding 9-3 lead.