Miners Strike Early For Win

Southern Illinois 7, Chillicothe 2

All it really took was an error to get things started for the visiting team. The Southern Illinois Miners, currently leading the western division, found a way to capitalize off the Paints' fielding error in the first inning, and that would lead to a fairly quick 4 runs scoring.

To be fair, both teams were alittle sloppy defensively. Both the Miners and the Paints commited 2 errors each. The main difference in this game would have to be the offense. The offense was there for the Miners. It wasn't there for the Paints. Miners slugger Tim Dorn would go deep for a 3-run home run off Paints starter Ryan Flanigan.

Flanigan would go 6 innings deep in his start. He would give up 5 runs on 5 hits allowed, with three of those five hits being home runs. He gave up a walk and struck out 4 batters. Andrew McCormick pitched an inning of relief and would give up a walk and a hit. Edwin Walker pitched the rest of the game. In two innings, he gave up a walk, 3 hits and a run while striking out a batter.

For the offense, Adrian Cantu had a single and went deep for a solo home run. Travis garcia would have two singles. Drew Saylor also had two singles. Travis Storrer had a single. That was all that would come out of the Paints offense. The team would hit into some groundball double plays that would get them out of innings.