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Kalamazoo, MI- The Kalamazoo Growlers swept the Battle Creek Bombers in today\u2019s tripleheader at Homer Stryker, winning game one by a score of 7-2, game two 1-0, and game three 2-1.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Growlers jumped out to the early lead in game one, with <\/span>Blake Dunn (Western Michigan University) <\/b>scoring off a <\/span>Carson Greene (Stanford University)<\/b> RBI.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Bombers answered in the bottom of the second with a solo blast off the bat of <\/span>Matt Hogan (Vanderbilt University)<\/b>, evening the score at 1 a side.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Battle Creek jumped out to the 2-1 lead in the 4th, with a <\/span>Josh Swinehart (Western Michigan University) <\/b>sac fly to score <\/span>Justin VanDeBrake (Washington State University)<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Growlers rallied and responded with a huge 6 run top of the 5th, starting with a 2-RBI double off the bat of <\/span>Trent Quartermaine (Ball State University)<\/b>. <\/span>Luke Stephenson (Xavier University) <\/b>followed up with a sac fly to bring home Greene, and <\/span>Ben Van Cleve <\/b>delivered his final hit as a Growler, a 2-Run homer scoring himself and Quartermaine. <\/span>Ben Mets (Davenport University) <\/b>capped off the incredible top of the 5th for the Growlers with an RBI double, scoring <\/span>Will Morrison (Western Michigan University)<\/b>, and brining the Growlers lead to 7-2, where it would remain after starting pitcher <\/span>Eamon Horwedel (Ohio University)<\/b> produced a flyout and then struck out the final two batters to secure the win.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In game two, the Growlers edged out the 1-0 victory courtesy of a combined 1-hitter pitched by <\/span>Hayden Berg (Western Michigan University), Will Mullen (Western Michigan University), <\/b>and <\/span>Trey Nordmann (Howard College)<\/b>. The Growlers got the lone run on the board in the top of the 3rd, when <\/span>Brett Barrera (Stanford University) <\/b>brought home Dunn with an RBI groundout.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In game three, it was the Bombers out to the early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st when VanDeBrake came around to score on back-to-back wild pitches. The Growlers answered with a pair of unearned runs in the top of the 2nd, as both Van Cleve and <\/span>Joe Kalafut (Edgewood College) <\/b>came across home plate on errors.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2-1 is where the score of game three would stay, with <\/span>Andre Orselli (Ball State University)<\/b> entering the game in the 5th and recording his 5th save on the summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Growlers have the night off tomorrow, while the Battle Creek Bombers will square off with the Kalamazoo MacDaddies for another tripleheader from Homer Stryker. Home-run derbies preceding each game slated to begin at 2:30, 5:15, and 8:00 PM. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kalamazoo, MI- The Kalamazoo Growlers swept the Battle Creek Bombers in today\u2019s tripleheader at Homer Stryker, winning game one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15370,"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":[74,31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-recaps","category-permanentslider","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"\n