Boomers drop extra-inning affair

The Schaumburg Boomers dropped the middle game of a three-game set with the Windy City ThunderBolts, suffering a 5-2 loss in 11 innings.

Neither team scored until the eighth inning as starter Conrad Wozniak matched Windy City hurler Jake Fisher with zeroes. Wozniak threw 6 shutout innings in his second start with the Boomers, walking 1 and striking out 3. Windy City scored a pair of runs in the eighth against the bullpen to take the lead. Schaumburg battled back in the bottom of the eighth, finally forcing Fisher out of the game to tie the score. Jack Parenty and Kyle Ruchim opened with singles and with 2 outs and 2 strikes, Seth Spivey doubled home 2 to even the game. Keenyn Walker doubled home 3 in the 11th to account for the final.

Spivey has reached base in 19 consecutive games and finished with 2 hits. The Boomers totaled 10 in the defeat. Schaumburg loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth but did not score while Jake Joyce left the bases loaded for Windy City in the 10th. Joyce suffered the loss. Ruchim also finished with 2 hits in the defeat, which broke a 3-game win streak.