Kane County Cougars ride 9-run fifth inning to victory

The Kane County Cougars continued their hot hitting, posting a 9-run fifth inning on the way to a 13-8 victory over the Lake Country DockHounds on Friday night at Northwestern Medicine Field in Geneva.

Early in the game, Lake Country (16-22) jumped out to the lead against Cougars’ (23-15) starter Jack Fox (5-1). In the top of the second, Marek Chlup drove in the first run of the ballgame with an RBI single. Lake Country continued to add on with a sacrifice fly by Deivy Grullon and 2-run homer from Thomas Jones to take a 4-0 lead.

After falling behind, it was just about all Cougars the rest of the night. In the bottom of the second, Todd Lott worked a leadoff walk from Lake Country starter Luke Hansel (0-1). Following Lott’s walk, Jonah Davis crushed a mammoth home run over the patio deck in right field to make it a 4-2 ballgame. Later in the inning, Hayden Dunhurst brought home another run on a sacrifice fly to make it 4-3.

One inning later, the Cougars tied it up. Cornelius Randolph led off the inning with a single before Todd Lott was hit by a pitch to put two runners aboard. Then a Claudio Finol grounder led to a throwing error that brought home Randolph to tie the game at 4.