Vermont Lake Monsters

Vermont Tosses 10-1 Win Vs. Lowell Sunday

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BURLINGTON, VT — Reed Stygles and Issac Jensen combined to allow three hits with nine strikeouts, while Travis Stroh scored three runs including once on his two-run homer in the seventh inning to lead the Vermont Lake Monsters to a 10-1 Futures League victory over the Lowell Spinners in front of 3,571 on Delta Dental Diamond at Centennial Field Sunday evening. 

Stygles (BFA-St. Albans/USC Aiken) allowed one run on two hits with two walks and four strikeouts over five innings to earn his third win of the season. After Stygles retired seven of the last eight batters he faced, Jensen (Southern Maine) retired 12 of the 13 batters, five by strikeout, over four scoreless innings for the save.

Bryan Richman (Cal Poly Pomona) led off the bottom of the first with team-leading ninth double and scored his league-leading 38th run on a Jake Lopez (UIndianapolis) RBI single. Vermont scored single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings for a 4-1 lead before Stroh hit his second two-run homer of the season for a 6-1 lead. |

The Lake Monsters added four more runs in the eighth on Hunter Strohm’s (Mississippi State) second RBI of game,, pinch hitter Colin West’s (Baldwin Wallace) sacrifice fly and a Patrick Shrake (Colby) two-run single. 

MONSTER STARS
* Stygles (W) 5 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 SO
* Jensen (S) 4 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 SO
* Shrake 2-for-3, BB, 2 RBI

MONSTER HIGHLIGHTS
* Vermont (38-15) needs just 1 win (or 1 New Britain loss) in final 5 games to clinch its 3rd FCBL regular-season title (2021 & 2022)
* Lake Monsters have won 13 of last 14 at Centennial and are 20-2 at home since June 6th
* Brad Johnston (Swartamore) has recorded 2 hits in each of last 4 games (8-for-17)
* Tyler Wiltsey (Rutgers), playing 1st game since July 19th, 1-for-4 to extend hit streak to 11 straight
* Richman extended his Vermont career record of hits to 105 with his 16th multi-hit game of season
* 2nd outing of 4+ scoreless IP for both Stygles (4 IP, 1 H, 9 SO at Lowell 7/23) and  Jensen (5 IP, 2 H, 0 R at Norwich July 17th)
* 10th time this season that Vermont has scored in double figures and 7+ runs for 24th time in 52 games 
* 9th crowd of 3,000+ at Centennial this season, including each of last 4 games (3,644 average last 4)

UPCOMING 
Next Game: Monday vs. Lowell, 6:35pm 
Promotion: Busyhead Project Night (Jersey Auction)
Next Home Game: WYCI (TV), FCBLnetwork.com (streaming), WJOY 1230am (radio)