BURLINGTON, VT — The Vermont Lake Monsters head into the Futures League All-Star Break on a six-game winning streak after holding on for a 3-2 victory over the Nashua Silver Knights Sunday evening in front of 2,907 at historic Centennial Field’s Delta Dental Diamond.
The contest was scoreless until the fifth when the Silver Knights got an RBI single off reliever Adam Schwartz (Colby), but the Lake Monsters responded with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the inning. After a leadoff error and walk, Tyler Harmony (Northeastern) and Sam Cavossa (Saint Michael’s) gave Vermont the lead with back-to-back two-out RBI singles.
Harmony added another two-out RBI single in the bottom of the seventh after Vermont had opened the inning with a hit batter and walk. That would prove an important run as Nashua scored a one-out run in the ninth before loading the bases with back-to-back two-out walks.
But Sean Gamble (Bethany Lutheran) got the league’s batting average leading Patrick Shrake) to groundout into a fielder’s choice to earn his third save of the week, league-leading seventh of the season and Vermont FCBL-era record 19th career save.
MONSTER PERFORMANCES
* Harmony 2-for-3, 2 RBI
* Nolan Colby (Northeastern) 0x1, BB, HBP, 2 R
* Casey Gouge (Catawba) 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 SO in Vermont debut
BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
* Vermont (30-16) has won 6 straight to move 14 games over .500 for the 1st time this season
* Gouge, making the start in his Lake Monsters debut, retired 9 of 10 batters faced (2-out double in 2nd)
* Cavossa RBI single increased his league-leading base hit total to 59 entering All-Star Break |
* Bryan Richman (Cal Poly Pomona) went 0-for-4, snapping his 13-game hit streak (18-for-53)
* Jack McLaughlin (Tufts) had 3 strikeouts in 2.0 shutout innings (5.1 scoreless IP in 2 outings this week)
* Lake Monsters have now drawn 66,901 to Centennial Field, an average of 2,573 per home date
|* Vermont heads into All-Star Break with FCBL leader in hits (Cavossa 59), runs (Cavossa 35), homers (Shaun McMillan 10), RBI (McMillan 44), ERA (John Delgado 1.15), strikeouts (Delgado 47)
* 9 Lake Monsters will participate in the FCBL All-Star Game Tuesday: Cavossa, Delgado, Leandro Guevara, Jack Kelleher, Hunter Kingsbury, McMillan, Richman, Jeremy Sosa and Zander Teator
Next Game: Thursday at Nashua, 6:00pm (NESN)
Next Home Game:: Tuesday July 29th vs. Norwich, 6:35pm