A’s Host Manitowoc, Sponsors Tonight
Posted: July 5, 2009
It will be a big night at Wildwood Baseball Park tonight.
The Sheboygan A’s take on the Manitowoc Bandits in a crucial contest that will impact both the Wisconsin State League and the Northeastern Wisconsin League.
In the State League, the A’s and the Bandits are two of the five teams that are separated by just 1 1/2 games in the league’s battle for second place behind the Lombard Orioles. The A’s have opened a 4-game lead in the Northeastern Wisconsin League, but Manitowoc has only four losses in the league and is still emphatically in contention.
Tonight’s game counts in the standings in both leagues. It gets underway at 7:30 p.m.
The As will be throwing just about everything they have into tonight’s contest.
It is Sponsors and Friends Night as the ball club will be hosting those who purchased ads, tickets, made contributions or in other ways helped the club in the last year. The tailgate party starts at 5:30 p.m. and runs until 7:15.
Too Cool will be playing, the Diamonds u-9s will partner with the A’s, and Ari Kupsch and Kayla Kleefisch of South High School will sing the National Anthem.
Ryan Schmitz, 1-2 with a 2.08 earned run average, starts tonight for the A’s
The A’s, 22-9 overall, launch a second half that sees them playing 14 of their last 22 games at home. This, however, will be a difficult week.
After tonight’s home game against Manitowoc, the A’s are at Oshkosh Tuesday, home against Green Bay Wednesday, at Kenosha Thursday and at Chicago for four games over the weekend. On top of that, five of the A’s top players will travel to Burlington Friday night for the annual Northeastern League/Langsdorf League All-Star game. Kreston Albright, Tim Patzman, Matt Schilter, Nohl Depies and Gabe Marshall will compete in that game.
Going into tonight’s action, five regular playres are hitting over .300 and another at .295. The top sticks are Patzman .391, Schmitz .371, Albright .357, Schilter and Lucas Wilsing .333, Depies .300 and Tayler Schwarz .295.
The Sheboygan A's are members of the Wisconsin State League and Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League. The A's have helped develop more than 43 players that have reached professional baseball, including 2002 World Series Champion Jarrod Washburn (Anaheim Angels). All Sheboygan A's home games are played at Wildwood Baseball Park in Sheboygan. Connect with the A's on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
