Cougars even playoff series

Posted September 09, 2010 11:00 pm

DAVENPORT, Iowa - The Kane County Cougars faced a must-win situation Thursday night at Modern Woodmen Park, and their 5-run second inning proved to be enough.

They held on to defeat the Quad Cities River Bandits 5-4 in Game 2 of the best-of-three quarterfinal playoff series.

Jonathan Joseph pitched 5 innings for the win, and the Cougars used 2-run homers by Rashun Dixon and Conner Crumbliss to fuel the offense.

The Cougars had not scored a run in 22 consecutive innings when Dixon belted his shot home run off Michael Blazek in the second. Mike Gilmartin followed with an RBI double. Crumbliss smashed his 2-run shot to make it 5-0.

Joseph gave up his only run in the second and struck out seven. He yielded 2 hits and walked three.

Ryan Doolittle gave up 2 runs in the sixth, Josh Lansford worked 2 perfect innings, and Jose Guzman, Max Peterson and Bo Schultz each recorded a strikeout in the ninth to end it.

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