A’s Win Pair, Host Kenosha Today
Posted: July 30, 2011
After posting a dramatic doubleheader victory in Green Bay last night, the Sheboygan A’s entertain the Kenosha Kings in a Wisconsin State League doubleheader at Wildwood Park today. The first game begins at 1 p.m.
The A’s wins last night were by 5-2 and 3-1 scores. They put the A’s in second place in the Northeastern Wisconsin League with a 12-8 record, one-half game ahead of Menasha. Menasha must win two if its final three games to overtake the A’s in the battle for second place. The first and second place teams get home field advantage in the playoffs which begin Friday night.
The second game was a white-knuckler.
Both teams scored a run in the second inning and nobody scored after that as Mitch Gardner and Josh Jarro matched scoreless innings until the extra eighth. Colin Willis, Tim Patzman and Ben Stancyk all had doubles in that inning to give the A’s a 3-1 lead.
But Green Bay wouldn’t go away. Gardner, who had held the Storm to just one run on five hits through seven innings opened the eighth by giving up a base hit and a walk. Enter Shaun Wegner. Wegner promptly gave up a base hit to load the bases with the winning run on first and nobody out.
Wegner overpowered the next three hitters with swinging strikeouts to preserve the win for Gardner. Ben Stanczyk led the offense, going 3-for-4.
Stanczyk was the winning pitcher in the first game, giving up only five hits, although two of them were home runs (Joel Rupno and Nick Pierce) to give Green Bay a 2-1 lead. The A’s erased that with a pair in the fifth and secured the win with two in the seventh.
Willis drove in three runs with three doubles to lead hitting. Adam Wilson added two hits and Greg Rhude an RBI double.
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.
