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FROM PAGE 01O’Fallon starter and loser Jeremy Pope surrendered that shot.“I was trying to hit a fly ball and I thought the bail had a chance to go out of the park,” Cline said. “It was an off-speed pitch, maybe a changeup, that he left over the plate.”His run-scoring single in the sixth gave the Redbirds some breathing room, which nearly expired in the seventh. Cline, a sophomore third baseman hitting fifth in the order, has a team-best 23RBIs.“He was deep in the count and hit a nice pitch,” Bellm said of Cline’s RBI single. “That was huge.The right-handed hitting Cline said, “I was trying to move the ball the other way and get us an insurance run.Kyle Williams staked the Redbirds to a 3-0 lead in the third. He walked, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and scored when O’Fallon first baseman Brian Gass booted Matt Scoggins’ grounder.Harris of theREDBIRDSThe Telegraph/MARGIE M BARNEStwo-runby teammate Cody Fry, who also scored on the blast, in the second inning Tuesday at Hopkins FieldTylerPanthersThe Redbirds defeated 0 Fallon, 4-2.smacked a solo didn’t want to make thehome run in the fourth, the lone run off Mohr. The Alton righty, now 4-1, allowed fivehits in six innings. He struck out two and worked around eight walks“I don’t think I’ve ever walked eight batters before in a game and got the win,” Mohr said But Ipitches too good for them.” Campbell, getting a save, experienced his share of anxious moments in the seventh.After striking out the first two O’Fallon batters, he watched four successive Panthers reach baseThe fourth one, L.J. Watson, was hit by a pitchwith the bases loaded, forcing in a run. O’Fallon had the tying run at second and the lead one at first base before Mark Daniels flied out to Jake Watson in center field “I think we all started to assume too much in the seventh inning You can’t do that against a great team like O’Fallon,” Bellm saidYet the Redbirds dodged the final bullet and snaggedthe victory.It's a big win for us — absolutely,” Mohr saidswcALTON 4, O’FALLON 2O’Fallon 000 100 1 -26 1Alton 021 001 X - 4 4 1O'Fallon (18-6. 6-4) . / t/v i 2 C • t - , lt;.3 2B $0 . i; pop Alton (15-10, 6-3)( 2R 3ER 3 88 2 K 3Scoggins 1 3 881.H.fi R t FworT T-y I ►
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Alton Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Wed, May 03, 2006
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