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ThunderBolts lose first half finale in Schaumburg

07/14/2024 5:02 PM

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SCHAUMBURG, IL — The ThunderBolts limped into the all-star break with a 12-1 defeat at the hands of the Schaumburg Boomers at Wintrust Field on Sunday, completing a Schaumburg sweep in the three-game inter-suburb weekend series.

The Boomers (32-25) snatched the early lead in short order on a Paxton Wallace double, but ThunderBolt starter John Mikolaciyk stranded a pair to evade further damage.

Bolts first baseman Joe Johnson promptly got his hands inside an offering from Boomers starter Jacob Smith and blasted a towering home run to left in the subsequent frame to even the reckoning.

Schaumburg padded its lead in the bottom of the frame however, ushering home a pair of runs on a Jake Meyer sacrifice fly and a Christian Fedko single to make it 3-1 before doubling that total with a three-run fourth on the strength of a bases-loaded walk to Chase Dawson and a two-run single from Wallace.

The Boomers tacked on additional insurance in the sixth, seventh, and eighth, highlighted by a two-run bomb by Aaron Simmons in the sixth and a three-run clout by catcher Felix Aberouette in the eighth frame to push the advantage to 12-1 as the ThunderBolt offense remained dormant.

Cole Stallings (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings and got the win for Scahaumburg. Mikolaicyk (2-3) allowed three runs in two innings and took the loss.

While the Bolts (21-37) lost by a significant margin, the game was not without its share of silver linings, as Brennen Dorighi continued his hot-hitting with a two-hit day and Johnson’s homer constituted his first blast since June 15.

The Bolts will seek to reset and recuperate over the four-day all-star break before taking on another in-state foe, the Joliet Slammers, in Joliet starting on Friday. In the meantime, ThunderBolt all-stars Buddie Pindel, who leads the Frontier League with a sparkling 1.99 ERA, and Christian Kuzemka, whose 49 RBIs are third in the circuit, will travel to Quebec for Wednesday’s Frontier League All-Star Game.


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