Schaumburg Boomers limited to 3 hits in loss at Lake Erie

The Schaumburg Boomers managed just three hits in dropping the middle game in Ohio to the Lake Erie Crushers by a 6-1 final.

Lake Erie jumped ahead in the first inning without a hit. Joe Redfield reached on a walk before one of the top base stealers in the league swiped second and third. Pavin Parks lifted a sacrifice fly to open the scoring.

Consecutive singles for Lake Erie with two outs in the fourth pushed the lead to 2-0. Schaumburg did not record a hit until the top of the sixth. Cole Smith was hit by a pitch to open the inning before Anthony Calarco tallied the lid-lifting hit, an opposite-field single. Kellum Clark put the Boomers on the board with an RBI single, knocking home his 70th run of the year. The 70 RBIs are tied with Calarco for the third most in franchise history.

Lake Erie immediately answered in the bottom half with a homer from Parks to push the lead back to 3-1. The Crushers collected three insurance runs in the eighth to account for the final. Calarco, Clark and Banks Tolley picked up hits for the Boomers. Buddie Pindel suffered the loss despite posting a quality start, allowing three runs in six innings of work.