Kane County Cougars end four-game skid, notch second win of the season

The Kane County Cougars snapped their four-game losing streak with an offensive explosion against the Milwaukee Milkmen, cruising to a 12-1 win on Saturday night at Northwestern Medicine Field.

Trailing Milwaukee (4-3) 1-0 in the fifth, the Cougars (2-6) woke the bats up as Galli Cribbs Jr. drove in Claudio Finol with a single to left field off Milkmen starter Jhordany Mezquita (1-1). Then Trendon Craig stepped up and smacked a single back up the middle to score Cribbs and give the Cougars a 2-1 lead. In the sixth inning the Cougars added to their lead when Nilo Rijo singled in Todd Lott. Cribbs then picked up his second RBI of the game, securing another basehit and scoring Oscar Santos to make it 4-1.

The seventh inning proved to be the best offensive inning for the Cougars on the season. The top of the order got it all started when Craig doubled to left center. One batter later, Armond Upshaw drove Craig home with an RBI single to make it 5-1. After Josh Allen reached on an infield single that scored Upshaw, the hit parade continued when Finol poked a single and scored Allen. Then Oscar Santos stepped in and crushed the first home run of the season for the Cougars on a moon shot to straight-away center that capped off a 5-run inning for the Cougars to give them a 9-1 lead.