Vermont Lake Monsters

Monsters Find Relief In 4-1 Victory Friday

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BURLINGTON, VT  — Vermont scored a run in four different innings and five Lake Monster relievers combined to retire the final 14 Westfield batters for a 4-1 Futures League victory over the Starfires on Delta Dental Diamond at Centennial Field in front of 3,069 spectators. 

After a Westfield two-out RBI single in the top of the second, the Lake Monsters quickly tied the game in the bottom of the inning on a James Henshon (Tufts) RBI groundout to plate Jake Dunlap (Catawba) who had led off the inning with a single in his Vermont debut.

Lake Monsters took the lead in fourth as Travis Stroh (CVU/Fairleigh Dickinson) walked with two outs, advanced to third on a single and scored on a wild pitch. Vermont added an insurance run in the sixth on a Henshon sacrifice fly and another in the seventh on a Dunlap RBI groundout.

Vermont reliever Albert Savino (UConn Avery Point) gave up back-to-back one-out singles in the fifth before retiring the final two batters of the inning. The Starfires went down in order over the next four frames with a 1-2-3 inning by Doug Pyle (Azusa Pacific), Kevin Rusinak (Quinnipiac), Ethan Freed (Harvard) and Sam Lebrecque (Oberlin). 

MONSTER HIGHLIGHTS
* Dunlap 2×4, 2 R, RBI
* Henshon 1×2, BB, 2 RBI
* Keller Vogt (Colby) 4 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE 
* Dunlap made his Vermont debut after helping Catawba finish as Division 2 World Series runner-up
* Along with Dunlap’s 2 hits, the 8 other Lake Monsters batters each had 1 hit
* Vermont bullpen retired 15 of 17 batters faced (final 14) with 6 strikeouts
* With Vogt’s 1 run allowed over 4 innings, Lake Monster starters have now allowed just 3 runs over their last 27 innings combined (1.00 ERA)
* Vermont defense did not commit an error for 3rd time  last 5 games and had 7 errors in last 10 games
* 2nd largest crowd of the season at Centennial (3,225 for home opener May 30th)
* Lake Monsters improve to 13-7 overall and remain atop of the FCBL standing in 1st place at one-third mark of 60-game season.

UPCOMING 
Next Game: Sunday vs. Lowell, 5:05pm
Promotion: Father’s Day! Myers Dad Hat Giveaway!
Broadcast: WYCI (TV),  FCBLnetwork.com (streaming), WJOY 1230am (radio)