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Standings through Friday's action: Pacific Coast League (AAA) - American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Nashville 27 21 .563 - 16-8 11-13 L1[/b] Iowa 20 26 .435 6.0 10-12 10-14 W1 Omaha 19 28 .404 7.5 12-11 7-17 W1 Memphis 15 31 .326 11.0 11-13 4-18 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chattanooga 32 17 .653 - 19-6 13-11 L1 West Tenn 28 21 .571 4.0 12-12 16-9 L1 Carolina 24 25 .490 8.0 15-10 9-15 W1 Tennessee 22 27 .449 10.0 13-11 9-16 W1 [b]Huntsville 20 28 .417 11.5 9-14 11-14 L8[/b] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Lucie 26 21 .553 - 12-13 14-8 W1 Daytona 25 23 .521 1.5 15-10 10-13 W1 [b]Brevard County 24 23 .511 2.0 10-10 14-13 L3[/b] Palm Beach 23 24 .489 3.0 10-12 13-12 L1 Jupiter 20 27 .426 6.0 10-15 10-12 W2 Vero Beach 19 29 .396 7.5 11-14 8-15 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Atlantic League (A) - Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Delmarva 29 17 .630 - 16-9 13-8 W8 Lexington 29 18 .617 0.5 17-8 12-10 W3 Greensboro 26 21 .553 3.5 18-7 8-14 L1 Lakewood 25 22 .532 4.5 14-9 11-13 W3 [b]West Virginia 24 22 .522 5.0 13-10 11-12 L1[/b] Lake County 22 26 .458 8.0 12-13 10-13 L3 Hickory 18 27 .400 10.5 8-11 10-16 L1 Hagerstown 18 29 .383 11.5 9-11 9-18 L4

This link will be included in each daily report when the Nashville Sounds and/or Huntsville Stars are scheduled to play. Normally it is updated an hour or two prior to gametime: Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format): www.nashvillesounds.com/pdf/notes.pdf Following Nashville's lead, Huntsville now makes its media notes available as well, nice: www.huntsvillestars.com/i...eNotes.pdf

Follow Saturday's action as it happens: Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Window". Activate the Nashville Gameday. For the other links, choose "Log". While you're listening to your minor league game of choice (or watching/listening to the big league Crew when they are playing), simply refresh your game log browsers every so often. It's sweet! Nashville: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1 Huntsville: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1 Brevard County: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1 West Virginia: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_wvaafx_1

Saturday's Daily Menu: All times Central; pitchers subject to change -- Nashville: RHP Jared Fernandez at Iowa (Cubs), 6:40 PM pre-game, 7:00 gametime Audio link: www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/ Huntsville: LHP Jeff Housman at home vs. Jacksonville (Dodgers), 1:50 PM pre-game, 2:05 gametime Audio link: www.espn1450.com/ Brevard County: RHP Mark Rogers at home vs. Daytona (Cubs), 6:00 PM Audio link (opponent's): voiceoftherepublic.com/live.asx West Virginia: RHP Matt Kretzschmar at home vs. Lakewood (Phillies), 5:55 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime Audio link: www.sportsjuice.com/provi...e=wvpower.

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Final: Iowa (Cubs) 3, Nashville 1 Nashville Site Game Summary: Link for Dennis Sarfate photo, text follows -- www.nashvillesounds.com/n...ewsId=1971 Sounds Drop Road Trip Opener To Iowa, 3-1 DES MOINES ? The Nashville Sounds came up short in the opener of a four-game series on Friday evening at Principal Park, falling 3-1 to the host Iowa Cubs. The Sounds jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning when Jermaine Clark drew a walk, stole his PCL-leading 15th base of the year, and scored on a Milko Jaramillo single. Jaramillo made his first start of the year for Nashville (at second base). AUDIO: Milko Jaramillo's RBI Single -- www.nashvillesounds.com/a...205-26.wma Iowa took the lead with a two-run third against Sounds starter Dennis Sarfate. With one out, Michael Restovich knotted the score at 1-1 with an RBI double to center that brought home Buck Coats then Micah Hoffpauir followed with a go-ahead run-scoring single. The Cubs tacked on an insurance run in the fifth on a Casey McGehee sacrifice fly. Nelson Cruz continued his hot hitting with a 2-for-4 evening for the Sounds. Iowa starter Ryan O?Malley (3-2) picked up the victory after holding the Sounds to one run on seven hits over 6 2/3 innings, while Sarfate (2-2) took the loss after surrendering all three Cubs runs on six hits in his six frames. David Aardsma worked a scoreless ninth for the I-Cubs to earn his fifth save of the year. The teams meet again at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday. Nashville sends knuckleballer Jared Fernandez (1-1, 2.03) to the hill to face Iowa southpaw Les Walrond (4-1, 2.25). Nashville Box Score: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1 Nashville Game Log: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1

Nashville Pre-Game Audio Coaches Chat with Manager Frank Kremblas: www.nashvillesounds.com/a...205-26.wma

Huntsville Site Game Summary: Link, text follows -- www.huntsvillestars.com/n...newsId=851 Stars' Frustration Continues Adam Thomas worked three scoreless innings in relief and knocked in the game-winning run in Jacksonville?s 6-4 decision over Huntsville Friday night in the fourth game of a five-game set at Joe Davis Stadium. The Suns won their fifth in a row to improve to 30-19 and moved into first place in the Southern League South Division after Montgomery fell to Mobile, while the Stars suffered a season-high eighth straight defeat and fell to 20-28 on the season. Huntsville has lost its last seven games at home and has been held to 14 runs in those defeats. Brett Evert, sent to Huntsville from triple-A Nashville earlier in the day, took over on the hill for starter Matt Yeatman to open the sixth inning and hit Justin Ruggiano, the first batter he faced. Tony Abreu singled and Evert struck out Brad Cresse for the first out of the frame. The runners pulled off a double steal on the second pitch to Thomas before the free-agent signee looped a 1-2 pitch into shallow right field. Second baseman Callix Crabbe gave chase and tried to make an over the shoulder catch and had the ball hit off his glove and land for a single, allowing Ruggiano to score to make it 5-4 Suns. The Stars got Abreu hung up in a run down and tagged him out for the second out of the inning. Wilkin Ruan, the next hitter, singled to center field and Thomas was thrown out at the plate by Travis Ezi to end the inning. Ron Acuna singled to open the home eighth inning, moved to second on a wild pitch and stayed there when Greg Sain walked to chase Thomas from the game. Casey Hoorelbeke took over on the mound and Adam Heether laid down his second pitch for a sacrifice bunt to advance the runners. Lou Palmisano then chopped a ground ball back to Hoorelebeke, who got Acuna tagged out for the second out of the inning in a rundown. Sain moved to third base and Palmisano to second on the play and they were stranded when Ozzie Chavez flied out to end the inning. Jacksonville added an unearned run in the ninth inning when Sain could not handle a two-out ground ball hit by Chin-Lung Hu that allowed Anthony Raglani to score from third base. Hoorelbeke retired the side in order in the ninth inning to earn his second save of the series and his third of the season. He has allowed one earned run in 29 innings and has not given up an earned run since April 13 at home against Montgomery. Thomas allowed two hits, fanned three and walked a pair to improve to 2-1 in his fourth outing with the Suns. Sain belted a two-out, two-run home run in the third inning and Heether followed with his first long ball of the year, marking the second time the Stars had hit back-to-back home runs this season, to give the home side a 4-0 lead. It was Sain?s first round tripper since April 27 and he knocked in his first runs since May 3. Jacksonville tied the game with four runs in the fourth on a two-run home run by Matt Kemp, a run-scoring double by Craig Brazell and a sacrifice fly by starting pitcher Alvis Ojeda. The series wraps up Saturday afternoon when Stars? southpaw Jeff Housman takes the mound against Suns? right-hander Spike Lundberg. Coverage of the game begins at 1:50 p.m. central time and can be heard locally on ESPN Radio 1450 AM and via the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

Final: Jacksonville (Dodgers) 6, Huntsville 4 Crazy eight -- as in straight losses... Huntsville Box Score: Two hits and no runs for the Stars over the final five innings, disappointing nearly 5,000 in attendance; Adam Heether with his long-anticipated first home run of 2006... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1 Huntsville Game Log: Stars led 4-0 after three innings, then Matt Yeatman allowed the first six batters to reach in the 4th and gave it all back; Brett Evert fortunate two Suns were thrown out on the bases in the 6th; down 5-4 in the 8th, it was all set up for Lou Palmisano -- one out, 2nd and 3rd -- but it was not to be; must not be a fun clubhouse right now... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

Final: Fort Myers (Twins) 8, Brevard County 2 Was closer than it looks... Brevard County Game Summary from the Fort Myers Site: Good teams take advantage of mistakes by the opposition and the Fort Myers Miracle are shaping into a good team as they defeated the Brevard County Manatees 8-2 on Friday night at Hammond Stadium. With the Miracle trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning Korey Feiner led off with a single to right. Deacon Burns then walked to put runners at first and second. Alexi Casilla attempted to sacrifice them over, but Feiner was thrown out at third. Garrett Guzman then ripped a ball that went right through the legs of third baseman Ryan Braun which allowed Burns to score and tie the game at two. That was the opening the Miracle needed to capitalize on and after Kyle Geiger walked to load the bases, Kevin West hit a sac fly and Matt Tolbert singled home Guzman to make it 4-2. The Miracle, who improved to a season best 28-20, added four insurance runs in the eighth. They loaded the bases when Trevor Plouffe led off with a double off the left field wall, Feiner walked and with one out Casilla singled. Guzman added a sac fly and Geiger followed with an RBI single. Kevin West then ripped a two-run double to right for the finishing touches. Miracle starter Kevin Slowey, who had walked just three hitters in 54.1 innings and hadn?t walked anyone in 33.1 innings entering play, struggled with his control for the first time this season. Slowey, however, didn?t allow the Manatees much. In the second he gave up a leadoff double to Brendan Katin who advanced to third on a ground out and scored when Hasan Rasheed?s grounder was misplayed by Casilla. The Miracle tied it in the fifth when Burns reached on an infield single, stole second and scored on Guzman?s double. Slowey made one mistake in the seventh giving up just his second homer of the season, a solo shot to Josh Murray, his second of the season, to give the Manatees a 2-1 lead. Slowey went 6.1 innings allowing two runs on three hits while walking three and striking out five. Brevard County Box Score: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_ftmafa_1 Brevard County Game Log: Scotty McKnight ended innings stranding five men in his first two at-bats... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_ftmafa_1

Final: Kannapolis (White Sox) 6, West Virginia 0 West Virginia Site Game Summary: Intimidators blank Power The Kannapolis Intimidators shut down the Power offense on Friday and shut them out for the second time in the last three games with a 6-0 victory at Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium. The game was scoreless through four and a half innings until Salvador Sanchez drove in Brent Metheny on a sacrifice fly and Jose Rodriguez knocked in the second run in the fifth on an RBI single. Metheny scored his second of three runs in the seventh inning on Mike Bell?s throwing error to put the Intimidators up 3-0. Kannapolis scored three times in the eighth to pull away. Anderson Gomez brought in the first run on a single and Brandon Allen drove in the final two with a two-out double. Kannapolis used three pitchers in the six hit shutout. Clayton Richard (1-1) pitched five and a third innings and earned the win while Dave Welch (1-3) obtained the loss despite allowing only two runs on two hits through four and a third. The Power are 24-22 after the loss and the Intimidators improved to 11-36 with the win. The Power will begin a four game series against the Lakewood BlueClaws at Appalachian Power Park on Friday night. Lakewood will start left hander Matt Maloney (4-4, 2.01) and the Power will counter with right hander Matt Kretzschmar (0-1, 8.53). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM (6:05 Central). West Virginia Box Score: No extra-base hits for the Power; SS Michael Bell with three errors, leading to four unearned runs -- he also was picked off twice... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_kanafx_1 West Virginia Game Log: Ned Yost tossed out at home in the 3rd for the second out of the inning -- ugh... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_kanafx_1

On obscure former Brewer farmhands to the bigs week, in addition to Saul Rivera to Washington, middle infielder Luis Figueroa, 32 years old, (Indianapolis 2004) was promoted to Toronto. It's his first trip to the bigs since 2001 with Pittsburgh.

In Fort Myers, Freddy Parejo pinch-hits for OF Charlie Fermaint leading off the 5th -- hopefully everything's OK with Charlie. Nashville Site: Tonight's PCL game at Principal Park in Des Moines, Iowa between the Nashville Sounds and Iowa Cubs will start one hour later than scheduled, at 8:05 p.m. CT, due to travel delays for the Cubs as they fly in from the West Coast.

Nashville Site: To fill Mike Adams' spot on the Nashville roster (traded to the New York Mets for RHP Jeremi Gonzalez -- see Major League Forum), right-hander Wilton Chavez has been activated from the disabled list. Chavez has missed the last two weeks of action due to a right ankle sprain.

Link while active, text follows: www.al.com/sports/huntsvi...amp;coll=1 Stumbling Stars' streak at 7 Huntsville lacks offense in loss to Jacksonville By MARK McCARTER Huntsville Times Sports Staff markcolumn@aol.com Travis Phelps was drafted in the 89th round in 1996. Eventually, he fought his way to the majors - the lowest-drafted player ever to make it to the big leagues. Something for the tombstone? "I hope," he said, "I'm remembered for more than that whenever I die.'' All that seems easy compared to being a starting pitcher for Huntsville these days, where the Stars have now dropped seven in a row after Thursday's 5-2 loss to Jacksonville. The Stars offense, which collected 14 hits Wednesday, was up to its old tricks Thursday night at Joe Davis Stadium, with only two hits through six innings, finishing with seven. The Stars and Suns meet again tonight at 7:05. Saturday's game will be at 2:05, not 7:05 as published elsewhere. The Huntsville pitching staff got a boost Thursday with the return of Corey Thurman from Triple-A Nashville. Thurman was 1-4 to begin the season here, but had a 2.53 ERA. Chris Mabeus, sent here only temporarily, moved up to Milwaukee. Phelps allowed five hits in seven innings Thursday, and has yielded just 12 hits and five earned runs in his 16 innings of work. Yet he is 0-2 with one no-decision because the Stars have scored only three runs during his time on the mound. "It's a struggle. If it's not pitching, it's the hitting. If we're hitting and playing good defense, we're not pitching well,'' Phelps said. "It's been everything. It's not been one thing. We haven't gotten everything put together in one game.'' Fueling him in this comeback is something simple: "The love of the game," he said. "I'd kick myself every day if I didn't play,'' he continued. "As long as I can play and not put my wife under too much stress paying the bills, I'll keep playing. "Being here after going to independent ball, I have a little different outlook on baseball. It means a little more to me than it did before. Sometimes you get taking things for granted. I was on a downward spiral last year. Getting released and going to independent ball was a reality check. I know what I'm looking for now. I know where I want to be.'' The Suns nicked him for a run in the first on a line-scraping RBI double by Andy LaRoche, but Huntsville tied the game in its half when Travis Ezi walked, moved around on a hit batsman and double play and scored on a wild pitch from Suns starter Joel Hanrahan. Jacksonville essentially won the game with two out in the eighth as Stars reliever Andy Pratt walked A.J. Zapp and hit Tony Abreu. Anthony Ragiani and Brad Cresse hit near-identical smashes down the third base line, producing a pair of runs. The Stars rallied with four singles against Jacksonville reliever Carlos Alvarez, the final one an RBI looper to center by Drew Anderson. But after Adam Heether had a near-miss three-run double on a ball a foot foul to deep left, he hit sharply into a 6-4-3 double play that ended the inning. When Guilder Rodriguez bobbled a sure-fire double play ball in the ninth, the Suns capitalized for two more runs - and the cozy win.

Baseball America reports that Milwaukee has released two young pitchers they drafted out of high school, and watched battle arm injuries: LHP Edwin Walker, 22 years old, was drafted in the 9th round in 2002 out of San Antonio, missed all of 2005, and was limited to 88.1 innings in his pro career. Edwin Walker Brewerfan Player Index Page: www.brewerfan.net/ViewPla...ayerId=322 RHP Tommy Hawk, only 21 years old last February, was drafted in the 17th round in 2003, out of Lompoc, California. He had Tommy John surgery and missed all of 2005. He pitched 89.2 innings in his Brewer career. While Walker's injuries seemed to be more drawn out and recurring, Hawk seemed to have had just the one major setback, so it's surprising to see the Brewers give up on him at this point. Tommy Hawk Brewerfan Player Index Page: www.brewerfan.net/ViewPla...ayerId=573 We wish both youngsters well...

The incredible Bill Batterman with his Daily Brew Series Preview -- enjoy: www.brewerfan.net/ViewDai...portId=439

It's $19.95 for the season to see available AAA games on MiLB.TV -- the Sounds are only on occasionally, although this weekend's series in Iowa is available. The games are archived, also: www.minorleaguebaseball.c.../video.jsp

Standings through Thursday's action: Pacific Coast League (AAA) - American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Nashville 27 20 .574 - 16-8 11-12 W2[/b] Iowa 19 26 .422 7.0 9-12 10-14 L2 Omaha 18 28 .391 8.5 11-11 7-17 L5 Memphis 15 30 .333 11.0 11-13 4-17 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chattanooga 32 16 .667 - 19-6 13-10 W7 West Tenn 28 20 .583 4.0 12-11 16-9 W1 Carolina 23 25 .479 9.0 15-10 8-15 L1 Tennessee 21 27 .438 11.0 12-11 9-16 L4 [b]Huntsville 20 27 .426 11.5 9-13 11-14 L7[/b] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Lucie 25 21 .543 - 11-13 14-8 L6 [b]Brevard County 24 22 .522 1.0 10-10 14-12 L2[/b] Daytona 24 23 .511 1.5 15-10 9-13 L2 Palm Beach 23 23 .500 2.0 10-12 13-11 W1 Jupiter 20 27 .426 5.5 10-15 10-12 W2 Vero Beach 17 29 .370 8.0 11-14 6-15 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Atlantic League (A) - Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Delmarva 28 17 .622 - 16-9 12-8 W7 Lexington 28 18 .609 0.5 17-8 11-10 W2 Greensboro 26 20 .565 2.5 18-7 8-13 W2 [b]West Virginia 24 21 .533 4.0 13-10 11-11 W1[/b] Lakewood 24 22 .522 4.5 14-9 10-13 W2 Lake County 22 25 .468 7.0 12-12 10-13 L2 Hickory 18 26 .409 9.5 8-11 10-15 W1 Hagerstown 18 28 .391 10.5 9-10 9-18 L3

This link will be included in each daily report when the Nashville Sounds and/or Huntsville Stars are scheduled to play. Normally it is updated an hour or two prior to gametime: Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format): www.nashvillesounds.com/pdf/notes.pdf Following Nashville's lead, Huntsville now makes its media notes available as well, nice: www.huntsvillestars.com/i...eNotes.pdf

Follow Friday's action as it happens: Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Window". Activate the Nashville Gameday. For the other links, choose "Log". While you're listening to your minor league game of choice (or watching/listening to the big league Crew when they are playing), simply refresh your game log browsers every so often. It's sweet! Nashville: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1 Huntsville: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1 Brevard County: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_ftmafa_1 West Virginia: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_kanafx_1

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF Holiday Weekend Edition! All times Central; pitchers subject to change -- Nashville: RHP Dennis Sarfate at Iowa (Cubs), 6:40 PM pre-game, 7:00 gametime Audio link: www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/ Huntsville: RHP Matt Yeatman at home vs. Jacksonville (Dodgers), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Audio link: www.espn1450.com/ Brevard County: LHP Steve Hammond at Fort Myers (Twins), 6:05 PM Audio link (opponent's): miraclebaseball.com/ West Virginia: LHP Dave Welch at Kannapolis (White Sox), 5:55 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime; look for the Brewers to be cautious with Welch tonight, maybe a couple of innings... Audio link: www.sportsjuice.com/provi...e=wvpower.

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Nice to see West Virginia's LHP David Welch listed as Friday's starter, considering we read this last week: West Virginia used five pitchers Wednesday after starter David Welch had to leave after two scoreless innings. The 6-4, 200-pound left-hander strained his hip or groin when he fielded a ball from the third batter of the first inning. Power pitching coach John Curtis said Welch tried to stick it out, but was in too much pain. Curtis said the team would wait until today to see how Welch feels before making a decision about the disabled list. Welch was putting together a pretty good outing, allowing just two singles.

Latest DFE signing (39th round SS Brad Miller): p092.ezboard.com/fbrewers...mp;stop=61