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Brevard AUDIO: LHP Stephen Peterson chats with Dave Walkovic on the Manatees Pregame Show Sunday's Game Highlights (and lowlights) - The Jays power past Brevard County, 6-2

Via the Manatees - this is how the open AA spot gets filled: RHP Jacob Barnes has been transferred from Brevard County to Huntsville. RHP Chad Pierce has been transferred from Helena to Brevard County. *** Selected by the Brewers in the 14th round of the 2011 draft out of Florida Gulf Coast University, Barnes gets to make his AA debut after two-plus seasons with the Manatees. Congrats to him. Chad Pierce, like Kyle Heckathorn and Johnnie Lowe before him, gets free of the temporary Helena purgatory of not having a roster spot.

Final: Pensacola 7, @Huntsville 5 STARS RALLY COMES UP SHORT Huntsville, AL - The Huntsville Stars rallied late Sunday at “The Joe” but still came up short, falling in game five of their series with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos 7-5. The Stars still took three out of five in the series against the Cincinnati Reds Double-A Affiliate. The Stars were trailing 7-2 going into the ninth. Jason Rogers started the inning by doubling off the left field wall against Blue Wahoo reliever Sean Black. Mitch Haniger followed with a two-run homer to left field for his third homer of the season. It was also the third straight game that Haniger homered in. The Stars kept chipping away at the deficit. Shawn Zarraga singled for his second hit of the day. Two batters later pinch hitter Shea Vucinich lined an RBI double down the left field line making it 7-5. The Stars chased Black out of the game after he allowed three runs on four hits. Fabian Williamson entered and got Hainley Statia to ground out to third. With the tying runner at the plate, Josh Prince struck out to end the game. Pensacola hit a team record four home runs, three against Huntsville starter Tyler Cravy (1-1). Donald Lutz hit a two-run homer and solo home run against Cravy. Juan Silverio also hit a two-run homer against the Stars starter. Silverio’s home run in the second put the Blue Wahoos up for good. Yorman Rodriguez hit the fourth and final home run for Pensacola in the ninth against Casey Medlen. The Blue Wahoos got an excellent start from Michael Lorenzen (2-0). The right-hander tossed 6.2 innings allowing four hits, while striking out four and allowing two earned runs. The Stars’ Nick Ramirez homered against him in the seventh. The Stars will travel to Pearl, Mississippi Monday night for the beginning of a five game series against the Mississippi Braves, the Double-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. RHP Brooks Hal l(0-1, 5.62) will start for Huntsville. Aaron Northcraft (0-0, 0.00) will go for Mississippi. The game can be heard starting at 6:45 PM with Steve Jarnicki on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM WTKI and online at www.wtkiradio.com. Huntsville Box Score RHP Tyler Cravy's first AA start wasn't strong, but he should bounce back. Cravy gave up exactly one home run in 79.1 innings while at Brevard in 2013. He surrendered three in a four-inning span here. RHP Eric Marzec should be noted for two innings of scoreless middle relief. Free 25-year-old switch-hitting catcher Shawn Zarraga! Dude is 8-for-13 with three walks and no K's in his customary part-time role (1.262 OPS). The hefty (6'0", 248) Zarraga should draw interest as a minor league free agent next fall if the Brewers don't bring him back for an 8th season in the system. Huntsville Game Log Impressive, but down 7-2 entering the 9th, not enough -- Huntsville Bottom of the 9th Pitching Change: Sean Black replaces Mikey O'Brien, batting 9th. Jason Rogers doubles (3) on a fly ball to left fielder Donald Lutz. Mitch Haniger homers (3) on a fly ball to left field. Jason Rogers scores. Shawn Zarraga singles on a ground ball to right fielder Juan Duran. Brock Kjeldgaard grounds into a force out, third baseman Juan Silverio to second baseman Rey Navarro. Shawn Zarraga out at 2nd. Brock Kjeldgaard to 1st. Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter Shea Vucinich replaces Casey Medlen. With Shea Vucinich batting, wild pitch by Sean Black, Brock Kjeldgaard to 2nd. Shea Vucinich doubles (1) on a ground ball to left fielder Donald Lutz. Brock Kjeldgaard scores. Pitching Change: Fabian Williamson replaces Sean Black, batting 9th. Hainley Statia grounds out, third baseman Juan Silverio to first baseman Travis Mattair. Shea Vucinich to 3rd. Josh Prince strikes out on a foul tip.

Nashville Video (from Saturday): Pete Orr could have used this triple for the cycle one day later...

AUDIO Via Jeff Hem's blog -- "Today’s interview is with Sounds second baseman Pete Orr, a 34-year-old veteran who’s played over 400 games in the big leagues with the Braves, Nationals and Phillies. He’s also played in over 1,000 minor league games, a ton of which have been at Triple-A. He nailed an RBI triple last night, made a great play on defense late in the game and also hit what would have been a tape measure home run to right if not for a stiff wind blowing in from that direction. He discusses his game last night, his season so far, coming to the Brewers as a minor league free agent and some of the keys to being successful at Triple-A."

Via Miller Park Prospects, Sam reports on three games he saw in Jacksonville, focusing on (now) 3B Jason Rogers

Back on February 4th, we posted -- Baseball America reports that LHP Kevin James was released this past week. Too bad it didn't work out.

Weather.com: Nashville, TN Huntsville, AL Dunedin, FL South Bend, IN

Sortable individual stat pages: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin

STANDINGS: AAA - Pacific Coast League American Southern Division AA - Southern League North Division High-A - Florida State League North Division A - Midwest League Western Division

Look for these just prior to the respective game times -- Nashville Media Notes - it's a unique link each day, but look for it under the "Roster" banner on the Sounds' site. Brevard County Media Notes - again, it's a unique link each day, but look for it under the "Multimedia" banner on the Manatees' site. Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog

To see tweets as to when the Link Report has been technically "completed" with available links, as well as to know when the new day's Report has been posted, please follow @Mass_Haas on Twitter.

Follow Sunday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

Another Timber Rattlers DVR reminder -- two games (Monday and Wednesday) on local TV this week, listings here.

Sunday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Mike Fiers at home vs. Omaha (Royals), 1:45 PM pre-game, 2:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link Jeff Hem is the play-by-play voice of the Sounds; follow him on Twitter @jeffhempbp; we'll link to his blog updates at On the Air…and Off MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Nashville games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $49.99 season-long package ($12.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP Tyler Cravy at home vs. Pensacola (Reds), 12:45 PM pre-game, 1:00 gametime Free Live Audio Link Steve Jarnicki is the new play-by-play voice of the Stars - welcome aboard! Follow Steve on Twitter @SteveJarnicki. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. ********** Brevard County: LHP Hobbs Johnson at Dunedin (Blue Jays), 11:30 AM pre-game, 12:00 PM gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the proper link based on listed schedule Dave Walkovic returns as the play-by-play voice of the 'Tees; follow the Brevard broadcast booth staff on Twitter @BCManateesRadio. All home games and many road games are scheduled to be broadcast. When road games are only available via the opponents' audio feed (or not at all), we'll let you know that. No Florida State League games are available via MiLB.TV. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Zach Quintana (with LHP Tyler Linehan in tandem) at South Bend (Diamondbacks), 12:45 PM pre-game, 1:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link - 1280 AM WNAM Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio. MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; Wisconsin is one of four Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV. South Bend, tonight's opponent, is not an MiLB.TV carrier. So for the $49.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, Stars' road games from seven Southern League locales, and all Timber Rattlers home games and some road games. NOTE: Thirty-nine (!) of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel (9) and WACY-TV My NEW32 (30) will split duties. We'll let you know when and who, and remember to refer to the Rattlers' full TV schedule so you can coordinate your DVR activity. DVR Alert: Next TV game is Monday 4/14 (My NEW32).

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We appreciate that the South Bend announcer and production staff put together over four minutes of video from last night's game. It doesn't include Clint Coulter's home run (seen above), but it's their home video, we can understand, as Wisconsin takes a similar tact. But you'd think the play-by-play man would learn from watching and self-correct for the future - I lost count of how many times he says "going to be", as in this is a"going to be" a dribbler to 2nd, on and on. It really is quite amazing.

From Friday's Game: VIDEO - Nashville's Caleb Gindl wallops his first homer of the season in a 5-4 loss to Omaha

VIDEO: Clint Coulter's Grand Slam

Nashville Audio Highlights -- Pete Orr's RBI triple, tying the game at 1-1 Sounds go up 5-2 on Jeremy Hermida's RBI double Final out of the game via Donovan Hand

Final: Pensacola 2, @Huntsville 1, ten innings Stars winning streak ends in extra innings By Steve Jarnicki, Huntsville Stars Huntsville, AL - Rey Navarro's solo home run in the top of the tenth lifted the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, the Double-A Affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, to a 2-1 win over the Huntsville Stars. With the loss, the Stars' seven-game winning streak comes to an end. The game was scoreless until Juan Duran singled home Juan Silverio to give Pensacola a 1-0 lead against Stars' starter Brent Suter in the fifth. That would be the only run Suter surrendered. The lefty turned in six strong innings, allowing five hits while striking out six. The Stars' bats were held quiet most of the night by Blue Wahoo starter Jon Moscot. He gave up just two hits in his 5.2 innings on the mound. Finally the Stars put together some offense in the ninth against Pensacola closer Drew Hayes (1-0). For the second straight night, Mitch Haniger provided the Stars with a big moment. Haniger hit a solo home run to left field tying the game at 1-1. It was Haniger's second home run in as many nights and his second of the season. His home run forced the game into extra innings. Stars reliever David Goforth (0-1) pitched the tenth. After he retired the first two batters, Navarro came to the plate and hit a homer over the right center field fence. It was the third straight game that Navarro homered in. The Stars and Blue Wahoos will conclude their five game series Sunday afternoon. RHP Michael Lorenzen (1-0, 0.00) will start for Pensacola while RHP Tyler Cravy (1-0, 1.00) will start for Huntsville. The game can be heard starting at 12:45 PM with Steve Jarnicki on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM WTKI and online at http://www.wtkiradio.com. Huntsville Box Score Wow, looked to be a tremendous display of pitching on both sides in this one. LHP Brent Suter didn't walk a single batter in his six innings (six K's as noted above). RHP Kevin Shackelford with two more scoreless, including four ground ball outs. Outside of Mitch Haniger's clutch blast, offensive highlights were hard to find. Hainley Statia, playing second base, had two hits, including a double. Starter Brent Suter yanked a double to left in his first professional at-bat. Miserable night for most of the rest of the lineup, particularly the top of the order. Nick Shaw made a pinch-running appearance after exiting Friday post-HBP. Huntsville Game Log Shackelford coaxed a bases-loaded GIDP to escape this jam -- Pensacola Top of the 8th Devin Lohman strikes out swinging. Rey Navarro walks. Bryson Smith singles on a line drive to center fielder Mitch Haniger. Rey Navarro to 2nd. Yorman Rodriguez reaches on a fielding error by shortstop Shea Vucinich. Rey Navarro to 3rd. Bryson Smith to 2nd. Travis Mattair grounds into a double play, shortstop Shea Vucinich to second baseman Hainley Statia to first baseman Greg Hopkins. Yorman Rodriguez out at 2nd. Leadoff single in the bottom of the 10th, then pffftttt.... Huntsville Bottom of the 10th Hainley Statia singles on a ground ball to shortstop Devin Lohman. Shea Vucinich strikes out on a foul bunt. Jason Rogers grounds into a force out, shortstop Devin Lohman to second baseman Rey Navarro. Hainley Statia out at 2nd. Jason Rogers to 1st. Offensive Substitution: Pinch-runner Nick Shaw replaces Jason Rogers. D' Vontrey Richardson grounds out to first baseman Travis Mattair.

Brevard County Audio -- Jed Bradley joins Dave Walkovic on the Manatees' pregame show.

Rattler Radio Blog - Postgame Entry: Audio game highlights and Chris' pre-game interview with first baseman David Denson

Audio via Jeff Hem's blog -- "Tonight’s interview is with Sounds outfielder Caleb Gindl, who discusses his home run and two-hit performance from Friday, his start to the season, trying to use not making the Brewers roster out of spring training as a positive and playing for Sounds manager Rick Sweet in winter ball in 2011 when Sweet was with the Reds organization."

RHP Johnnie Lowe transferred from Huntsville to Nashville (making that 90-mile drive as I type, I imagine). Lowe backfills Rob Wooten, called up due to Brandon Kintzler's DL stint with the big league club.