ROCKFORD, Ill. \u2013 The Kenosha Kingfish (6-9) lost the opening game of a home-away doubleheader on Tuesday to the Rockford Rivets (7-8) by a final score of 14-3 at Rivets Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Rivets scored at least three runs in four separate innings.<\/p>\n
Josh Dudden (Creighton) knocked in Nick Juaire (Texas Christian) in the first inning on a single to put Rockford ahead. Then Tom Josten (Central Florida) came around to score on a wild pitch. Aaron Mann (Drury) extended the Rivets\u2019 early lead to 3-0 with a sacrifice fly to right field.<\/p>\n
Zach Nogalski (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) slugged a solo home run in the top of the fourth inning to put the Kingfish on the board and make the score 3-1.<\/p>\n
Noglaski was just a triple short of the cycle on Tuesday, going 3-for-4 with a single and a double to go along with the home run.<\/p>\n
Nick Figus (Illinois Wesleyan) added to Rockford\u2019s lead in the bottom of the fourth with a triple on a fly ball that got past the diving arms of Noglaski and rolled into the right field corner to score Mann and Tim Lilly (Villanova). Josten gave the Rivets a five-run edge at 6-1 with a sacrifice fly to right field.<\/p>\n
Rockford kept the pressure on with four more runs in the fifth inning. Mann got back into the action, driving in a run on double to left field. Mann scored on a Josten single past a diving Ethan Owens (Drury). Jake VanderWal (Long Beach State) capped off the scoring in the fifth with Rockford\u2019s second two-RBI triple in as many innings.<\/p>\n
Thomas scored RJ Pearson (Oral Roberts) on a sacrifice fly in the top of the sixth inning to cut the deficit to 10-2.<\/p>\n
Rockford got the run back in the bottom of the sixth on a bases loaded walk.<\/p>\n
Andrew Wilhite (Minnesota) drove in another run in the seventh inning on a double that was the product of a tricky hop on a ground ball. Mann followed the double with Rockford\u2019s third triple of the day to score Wilhite. Then Lilly brought Mann home with a double off the left field wall. The three-run seventh inning gave Rockford a 14-2 advantage.<\/p>\n
Mann went 2-for-2 with two walks, three RBI and three runs scored.<\/p>\n
Thomas picked up another RBI on his second sacrifice fly in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n
Lilly moved from third base to the pitcher\u2019s mound to close out the game for Rockford and lock up the 14-3 win.<\/p>\n
Jordan Nelson (Dubuque) collected the win after throwing four innings of one-run baseball in relief for Rockford. Sam Marhefke (Loras) suffered his first loss of the season for Kenosha.<\/p>\n
The Rivets and Kingfish will play again on Tuesday at 6:35 p.m. at Simmons field.<\/p>\n
on a sacrifice fly in the top of the sixth inning to cut the deficit to 10-2.<\/p>\n
Rockford got the run back in the bottom of the sixth on a bases loaded walk.<\/p>\n
Andrew Wilhite (Minnesota) drove in another run in the seventh inning on a double that was the product of a tricky hop on a ground ball. Mann followed the double with Rockford\u2019s third triple of the day to score Wilhite. Then Lilly brought Mann home with a double off the left field wall. The three-run seventh inning gave Rockford a 14-2 advantage.<\/p>\n
Mann went 2-for-2 with two walks, three RBI and three runs scored.<\/p>\n
Thomas picked up another RBI on his second sacrifice fly in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n
Lilly moved from third base to the pitcher\u2019s mound to close out the game for Rockford and lock up the 14-3 win.<\/p>\n
Jordan Nelson (Dubuque) collected the win after throwing four innings of one-run baseball in relief for Rockford. Sam Marhefke (Loras) suffered his first loss of the season for Kenosha.<\/p>\n
The Rivets and Kingfish will play again on Tuesday at 6:35 p.m. at Simmons field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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