Schaumburg Boomers can’t get clutch hit in shutout loss at Joliet

The Schaumburg Boomers placed runners on base in eight innings and outhit the home-standing Joliet Slammers but suffered a 5-0 loss on the road Friday night.

The Boomers placed runners on base in each of the first four innings against Frontier League veteran Zac Westcott but could not score. Blake Berry, a former Boomer, put his team ahead 2-0 with a 2-run homer in the bottom of the fourth. Schaumburg had two runners thrown out at the plate later in the game with chances to cut into the deficit. Joliet tacked on two in the seventh and one in the eighth on extra-base hits to account for the final despite totaling just 5 hits.

Schaumburg finished with 9 hits but could not solve five hurlers, led by five innings from Westcott, the league’s all-time leader in nearly every pitching category. Dwayne Matos suffered the hard-luck loss, allowing just two runs on two hits in six innings in his Schaumburg debut and his first start since 2022. Both hits came in the fourth. Alec Craig, Christian Fedko and Bren Spillane all tallied two hits in the losing effort.