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\n\tFOND DU LAC, WI<\/b>– Another tough loss to swallow this season for the Growlers, falling late to the Dock Spiders, 6-5.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tKalamazoo jumped on the board early in the second. Credit Michael Diffley (San Diego State) with a bloop two out RBI-single to plate Drew Huff (Middle Tennessee State), 1-0 visitors.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tFond du Lac would soon tie it in the bottom of the fourth after a Joe Breaux (McClennan Community College) sacrifice fly to left field that would bring in Andrew Bullock (Western Carolina), 1-1 after four.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Growlers would then regain the lead the following inning. It all started with a sacrifice fly and an RBI off the bat of first baseman Charlie Carpenter (USC Upstate), Connor Hollis (Houston) scores. Following a throwing error that would plate Jack Duffy (Missouri State), Drew Huff would double to left field to score Ivan Estrella (Texas Rio Grande), 4-1 good guys.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tKalamazoo struck for one more in the visitor’s half of the seventh inning. Charlie Carpenter would wrack up his second RBI on the night on an RBI-groundout. Jack Duffy comes around for the second time on the night on the fielder’s choice, 5-1.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tConnor Manous (Indiana) dominated for a majority of the evening for the Growlers. Final stat line for Manous: six innings pitched, one earned run, on four hits, while striking out seven.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tAJ Lewis (Missouri) would start the fierce seventh inning rally for the Dock Spiders with a sacrifice fly to centerfield that would score catcher, Nick Fortes (Ole Miss). A two-RBI single for Brandon Wulff (Stanford) brought Fondy within one. Andrew Bullock would then tie up the game with a clutch 2 out RBI-single, knotted at five a piece after seven.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tKeavon Edwards (Missouri) would bring in the game winning run for Fond du Lac in the bottom of the eighth on a sacrifice fly to center to plate Joe Breaux, 6-5 Dock Spiders final.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Growlers look to bounce back in game two of the series of which is scheduled for 6:35 CT, 7:35 ET.\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe Kalamazoo Growlers are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The 23-year-old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 170 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champion Ben Zobrist (CHC) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM) and Lucas Duda (NYM). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League portal<\/a>. For more information, visit www.growlersbaseball.com<\/a> or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Growlers as your favorite team.\u200b<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOND DU LAC, WI– Another tough loss to swallow this season for the Growlers, falling late to the Dock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,31,142],"tags":[433,48],"class_list":["post-10546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-recaps","category-permanentslider","category-update-ticker","tag-dock-spiders","tag-kalamazoo-growlers"],"yoast_head":"\n