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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Down on the Farm - 5/3/13

AA - Corpus Christi 10 Midland 4

George Springer homered and drove in 3 runs to lead a 13-hit attack as the Hooks (17-11) defeated the RockHounds 10-4. Michael Burgess added 3 hits including a pair of doubles, Ben Orloff knocked in a pair of runs, and 5 different Hooks players had multi-hit games. On the mound, Matt Heidenreich, who had been struggling, turned in his best outing of the year throwing 5 shutout innings in relief to earn his 2nd win of the season and lower his ERA to 6.35. Pat Urckfitz added a scoreless inning on the mound.

Advanced A - High Desert 9 Lancaster 7

Nolan Fontana had four hits including his third home run of the year, but his error led to 6 unearned runs and the JetHawks (16-11) fell to the Mavericks 9-7. Andrew Aplin and Telvin Nash each added a pair of hits, but Delino DeShields Jr. was 0 for 4 and saw his average dip to .228 on the year and Matt Duffy went hitless and is now 0 for 17 following a 15 game hitting streak. Jonas Dufek pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief while David Rollins (2-3, 4.91) suffered the loss on the mound.

Low A - Quad Cities 3 South Bend 2

The River Bandits (16-10) scored single runs in the 7th, 8th and 9th to defeat the Silver Hawks (18-7) in a close one, 3-2. Brian Holmes followed up his 10-strikeout performance, with 3 scoreless innings in relief, and Jon Neely pitched a perfect 9th for his fourth save. Offensively, Teoscar Hernandez hit his first home run of the year in the 8th to tie the game, and Miles Hamblin drove in Jesse Wierzbicki on an rbi single in the top of the 9th to put Quad Cities up for good.

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