Cougars clobbered 9-1

With 6 runs in the final three innings, the South Bend Silver Hawks pulled away late and trounced the Kane County Cougars with a 9-1 victory Thursday night at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark.

South Bend pulled ahead in the top of the second as Roidany Aguila singled and advanced to second on a balk from Kellen Moen (3-6) before scoring on a two-out knock from Raul Navarro.

Chris Ellison tripled to start the third inning and scored on a groundout off the bat of Elgin native Ryan Court to put the Silver Hawks up by a pair.

Archie Bradley (8-5) was solid over six innings as he surrendered just a run on 4 hits while punching out six.

Bradley’s only run allowed scored in the third as the Cougars (45-45, 11-9) strung together 3 singles with Kenny Swab scoring on a Justin Trapp hit, coupled with an Ellison error in center.

South Bend never looked back from there. They picked up 1 more run off Moen in the fourth as Aguila cracked an RBI double to bring home Kerry Jenkins.

Kane County’s bullpen was tagged late as the Silver Hawks scored 3 runs off Jonathan Dooley and 1 in the eighth against Andrew Triggs before Aguila ripped a 2-run homer in the ninth off Cody Fassold.