{"id":5169,"date":"2021-08-15T04:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T04:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rockford-rivets\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:21:32","slug":"rivets-fall-to-kingfish-in-2021-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rockford-rivets\/2021\/08\/15\/rivets-fall-to-kingfish-in-2021-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivets fall to Kingfish in 2021 finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rockford Rivets finished their 2021 season at Rivets Stadium much like they started it: with a double digit loss to the Kenosha Kingfish. The Rivets\u2019 offense never got going and the Screws fell to the Kingfish 16-4 to finish the 2021 campaign on Saturday night at Rivets Stadium.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rockford finishes the season with a record of 29-41, the team\u2019s 4th straight losing season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rivets\u2019 trend of allowing early runs continued in the season finale, as Seth Masters (R-So, Illinois-Springfield) surrendered an unearned run in the top of the 1st inning to hand the Kingfish a 1-0 lead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Kingfish scoring continued in the 3rd, as they pushed across two more runs via two sacrifice flies off the bat of Cam Collier (Fr, South Florida) and Matt Korman (R-Jr, UW-Whitewater) to push the lead to 3-0.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Masters exited the game following the 3rd, and Rockford\u2019s new arm, Chris Conrad (R-So, UW-Parkside) allowed another run in the 4th thanks to a Chase Gibson (Jr, William Woods) RBI single.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After managing just one hit in the first four innings, Rockford got a rally going against Kenosha starter Dominic Hann (Fr, Michigan State) in the 5th. Drew Stengren (Fr, Central Michigan) and Jake Bilotta (So, Rockford) started the inning with back-to-back singles. Stengren eventually scored on a wild pitch, and Bilotta came around on an RBI groundout from DJ Noble (Fr, South Suburban College) to trim the lead to 4-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The floodgates opened in the 6th inning, as Elijah Sanchez (Jr, Northern Illinois) entered the game and failed to record an out, allowing the first eight batters of the frame to reach. Sanchez would eventually be charged with all six runs that scored in the inning to push the Kingfish lead to 10-2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob Taft (So, Graceland) finished the 6th and came back out for the 7th. Kenosha continued to grow its lead, pushing across three runs against the Belvidere native.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Kingfish lead swelled again in the 8th, as AJ Golembiewski (R-So, Illinois-Springfield) surrendered three more runs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the bottom of the 8th, the Rivets pushed across two unearned runs to cut the lead to 16-4, but the scoring ended there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jack Cavanaugh (R-Jr, UW-Milwaukee) recorded a hit in the bottom of the 9th in his final at-bat of his organized baseball career, but Rockford failed to capitalize and finished the season with a 0 on the line score.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seth Masters took the loss, going three innings, allowing three runs, just one of which was earned. Dominic Hann picked up the victory, as the righty went five innings and surrendered two earned runs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rivets closed the season in front of a season-high 2,017 fans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rockford will return to action in the early summer of 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockford Rivets finished their 2021 season at Rivets Stadium much like they started it: with a double digit loss  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":4972,"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":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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