Jim Goulart

Nashville Site Game Summary: The Nashville Sounds dropped their third straight game on Monday evening, falling 3-0 in the finale of a four-game series against the New Orleans Zephyrs at Zephyr Field. The loss was the first shutout defeat of the season for Nashville (6-6), which fell into a first-place tie with Omaha in the American Conference Northern Division. Four New Orleans hurlers limited the Sounds to only four hits in the contest, including two by Prince Fielder (2-for-4). Brendan Harris put the Z?s on the board with a leadoff solo homer off Nashville starter Ben Hendrickson in the bottom of the second inning, his first roundtripper of the season. Tyrell Godwin doubled the New Orleans advantage to 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth with a two-out RBI single to center to plate Hector Ortiz. Another two-out knock led to the third Zephyrs run of the game in the bottom of the fifth. With two down, Dan DeMent and Jason Bowers drew consecutive walks before Ortiz delivered an RBI single to make it a 3-0 game. Sun-Woo Kim (2-1) earned the victory after fanning six batters over five scoreless innings. Hendrickson (0-1) took the loss for Nashville after allowing all three Zephyrs runs in his 4 2/3 innings of work. The Sounds bullpen combined for 3 1/3 scoreless frames to close out the contest. Hector Carrasco tossed a scoreless ninth, fanning two batters, to earn his fourth save of the year. Nashville continues its current road trip on Tuesday with the 7:05 p.m. opener of a four-game series against the Oklahoma RedHawks. Southpaw Jeff Housman (0-0, 1.69) takes the hill for the Sounds to face Oklahoma right-hander Ricardo Rodriguez (1-1, 2.25).

Final: New Orleans (Nationals) 3, Nashville 0 Back to .500 as the affiliates continue to stumble along in terms of W's... Nashville Box Score: Just way too many baserunners allowed by Ben Hendrickson... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nozaaa_1 Nashville Game Log: David Krynzel's gaudy first-week numbers have settled into a more recognizable level... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nozaaa_1

Steve Scarborough Nashville Pre-Game Audio (from Sunday): Nice conversation -- gotta be happy for Scar thus far in 2005... www.nashvillesounds.com/a...204-17.mp3

Final: Huntsville 2, Mobile (Padres) 1, 11 innings Jeff Winchester drives in Nelson Cruz for the game-winner; Cruz with a single and stolen base to begin the 11th... Huntsville Box Score: Nelson Cruz well on his way to an April Player of the Month Award... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1 Huntsville Game Log: The organization has a little jewel in pitching coach Rich Sauveur; the staff's K-to-BB ratio is 96-to-24 -- hey, Mike Maddux was plucked from AA to the bigs... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

Link while active, text follows: www.al.com/sports/huntsvi...117890.xml It's loony: Money and Mooneyham Eerie coincidences link Stars manager and UAH coach Huntsville Times Contact Mark McCarter at markcolumn@aol.com It is because of a finicky red Miata convertible that the University of Alabama-Huntsville has its baseball coach. That the car was owned by a former Huntsville Stars broadcaster, well, that's only about sixth or seventh on the list of eerie coincidences in this saga. It's about two men whose Huntsville baseball teams will occupy Joe W. Davis Stadium on Tuesday and Wednesday. Don Money, manager, Huntsville Stars, from Vineland, N.J. Lowell Mooneyham, coach, UAH, from Bridgeton, N.J. Money and "Mooney.'' And Vineland and Bridgeton, down in south Jersey, are about as far apart as the width of a typewritten "o," the difference in the men's names, when you find the towns on an atlas. "About six miles'' is Money's guess. It's even closer in some other ways. In the late 1980s, Mooneyham's parents bought a new home ... from Money's brother, Kenny. And, when he was a child, "Mooney" met Money, when the latter was a hotshot major leaguer, starting his career with the nearby Philadelphia Phillies. That Mooneyham is coaching UAH is actually because of the whole synergy between the Huntsville Stars and UAH, something that's clearly demonstrated in what amounts to back-to-back doubleheaders. The Stars play Mobile Tuesday at 12:05 p.m. and Wednesday at 10:05 a.m. UAH plays Delta State Tuesday night at 6, then again Wednesday at 4 p.m. Mooneyham is in his first season as the UAH head coach, after two years as a full-time assistant. He's a former Chargers player, leading the team in hitting in 1998 with a .379 average. He batted .367 for his career, with 18 homers and 55 RBIs in 47 games. Back in the day, it was still a bit special to be playing at Joe Davis Stadium. Now, it's more special that the days of being a co-tenant are nearing an end. UAH has a field of its own being built. It means convenience - no more moving from field to field - and it'll be a recruiting tool, with an on-campus facility. It'll also enable the Chargers to draw more from the school community. "Enormous is what it is for our program,'' Mooneyham says. OK. Now for the backstory. In 1994, when Bobby Pierce was just starting the UAH baseball program, he made a trip to Joe Davis Stadium. He bumped into Steve Kornya, then the Stars broadcaster. "Steve was a baseball nut,'' Pierce recalls. "We got to talking a lot of baseball, who you know and all that. He said, 'This may sound strange, but I ran into a guy not long ago who'd like to join your baseball team.' " Kornya had taken his Miata to a dealership in Decatur for service. "And,'' Kornya says, "I got to talking to a guy there about baseball, and he said he had played some junior college ball.'' "Now, we don't even have a team yet,'' Pierce continues. "We were getting a lot of these conversations. 'I know a guy...' 'I know a guy...' "Well, Kornya's guy was a used-car salesman.'' Says Kornya, "I gave Bobby the guy's card to see if he wanted to call him, or if the guy could call him.'' "I told (assistant coach) Jeff Crane, 'OK, here's another,' and he's rolling his eyes. "The used car salesman,'' Pierce says, "turns out to be Lowell Mooneyham.''

Here's a tricky end-around link that will get you the Huntsville audio directly without the ESPN1450 site -- I'll start listing this one instead in the Daily Menu: specs.eyecentric.com/pres...opup.shtml

It's somewhat ironic in that pimping minor league audio as we do, we've managed to promote it so well that the Huntsville ESPN1450 web site is regularly down at peak audio moments due to lack of bandwidth (too many folks trying to access it)... In progress: Mobile (Padres) 1, Huntsville 1, after nine innings

Final: Port St. Lucie (Mets) 10, Brevard County 7 Can't we see if Ben Diggins has anything left at all in a closer's role? Brevard County Box Score: Josh Brady now 1-for-30; Fielder, Gemoll, Brady and Richardson have all really struggled as the organization's first basemen thus far in 2005... YTD YTD ST. LUCIE AB R H BI AVG BREVARD COUNTY AB R H BI AVG C.Ragsdale SS 5 1 1 0 .273 O.Chavez SS 3 1 2 0 .250 J.Slack LF 5 2 3 2 .278 L.Palmisano CAT 5 1 1 0 .250 L.Milledge CF 3 1 0 0 .237 D.Anderson LF 5 1 1 3 .313 B.Harper 1B 3 2 1 2 .295 A.Heether DH 4 2 2 0 .308 A.Wilson DH 5 1 1 1 .231 J.Eure 3B 4 1 2 0 .286 S.Bowman 3B 5 1 2 2 .132 S.Moss CF 4 1 3 2 .229 A.Turay RF 1 0 0 0 .156 J.Brady 1B 4 0 0 0 .033 R.Harvey RF 4 1 1 0 .538 S.Sollmann 2B 3 0 1 1 .222 B.Whealy 2B 4 0 2 1 .289 T.Ezi RF 4 0 1 0 .167 Y.Garcia CAT 4 0 1 1 .120 C.Villanueva PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 K.Rios PR 0 1 0 0 .250 K.Rival PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 B.Wilson CAT 0 0 0 0 .615 R.Costello PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 V.Cordova PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 D.Grybash PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 B.Walker PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 N.Slack PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 A.Garcia PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Rodriguez PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 39 10 12 9 TOTALS 36 7 13 6 ST. LUCIE 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7-10 12 1 BREVARD COUNTY 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0- 7 13 1 E--B.Whealy, J.Eure. DP--ST. LUCIE 3, BREVARD COUNTY 0. LOB--ST. LUCIE 6, BREVARD COUNTY 5. 2B--C.Ragsdale (2), J.Slack (3), S.Bowman (1), R.Harvey (2), O.Chavez (4), A.Heether (2), J.Eure (5), S.Moss (2), S.Sollmann (2). HR--B.Harper (7), D.Anderson (1). SB--J.Slack (2), L.Milledge (3), S.Moss (1). CS--S.Moss. SH--L.Milledge, O.Chavez. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA ST. LUCIE V.Cordova 5.2 11 6 6 1 3 1 5.06 B.Walker 1.1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0.00 A.Garcia (W,1-0) 1.0 1 1 1 1 2 0 3.38 J.Rodriguez (S,2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.70 BREVARD COUNTY C.Villanueva 5.0 3 3 2 2 7 1 1.80 K.Rival 1.2 2 0 0 0 2 0 6.35 R.Costello 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3.52 D.Grybash 0.1 4 4 4 0 0 0 8.31 N.Slack (L,0-1) 0.2 3 3 3 1 0 0 16.62 WP--C.Villanueva. SO--C.Ragsdale 2, L.Milledge, B.Harper, A.Wilson 2, S.Bowman 2, B.Whealy, Y.Garcia, L.Palmisano, D.Anderson, A.Heether, J.Eure, J.Brady, S.Sollmann, T.Ezi. BB--L.Milledge, B.Harper 2, O.Chavez, S.Sollmann. T--2:53. A--651Brevard County Game Log: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_breafx_1

Brevard County's Dan Grybash and Nick Slack just caughed up an enormous seven-run furball in the 9th inning to blow a huge lead -- insert "vomit sound" here...

Our buddy AJAY is usually clamoring for more national coverage of the Brewers. Looks like they're on their way to all the national pub they can handle tonight. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/embarassed.gif

Nashville Pre-Game Media Notes (PDF format): www.nashvillesounds.com/pdf/notes.pdf

The links you'll use to peek in on tonight's action as it happens: Nashville: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nozaaa_1 Huntsville: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1 Brevard County: www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_breafx_1

Link while active, text follows: www.dailymail.com/news/Sp...005041818/ Power gets needed blast of confidence Matt Lockhart Charleston Daily Mail Sportswriter It was right there, skid marks and all, sitting on the top shelf of Carlos Corporan's corner locker. It was the same red-stitched ball that, with one looping swing, one wrist-flip of the wooden bat and one trot around the bases, helped give the 6-foot-3, 210-pound, 21-year-old a smile like a school kid. "It was a great, great moment," Corporan said Sunday, minutes after his three-run walkoff homer in the bottom of the ninth bounced off the city pavement to give the West Virginia Power a 3-2, series-tying win over Hagerstown (9-2). "I love it." He's not the only one. Power players waited, and waited and waited for Corporan to emerge from Appalachian Power Park field and its 3,417 fans after his game-winning homer. Backup catcher Nestor Corredor gave Corporan a "Where have you been?" look when the designated hitter finally walked into the clubhouse. Corporan, with a smile as big as his native Puerto Rico, didn't say a word. He didn't have to. The quick flick of his wrist -- symbolizing a game-winning autograph session -- told the story. "That was a big confidence builder for us," first baseman Grant Richardson said. "It might be just what we need right now." Chances are, without Corporan's home run, spirits in the Power clubhouse would have been down. It had started the season 1-9, with a batting average (.206) about 30 points lower than gas prices. "It showed a lot of character for our team," said Power Manager Ramon Aviles. "Pitching from both sides was great. Just one pitch decided the game." Power hitters were anything but great in the game's first eight innings. The Suns' combination of Gabriel Hernandez and Michael Devaney took a one-hitter into the ninth inning with one out, before an Alcides Escobar single to center and a Will Lewis infield hit put runners on first and second. Hagerstown Manager and former big leaguer Gene Richards decided to turn the game over to closer Carlos Muniz, who had two saves in the seven previous meetings with the Power. Muniz threw only two pitches. One was a called strike. The other became a Corporan souvenir. "It was a great swing and a great moment," said Corporan, batting .206 on the season. "He threw me a fastball in. I was looking for that pitch allllll day long." Now, many Power players can rest all day long. Only the pitchers will report for an off-day workout. "Now, I wish we played tomorrow," Aviles said, "so we could carry this into tomorrow." Truth is, they need the day off. Many haven't had a true rest day since they reported to spring training in Phoenix, Ariz., in mid- to late February. Some flew to Charleston, while others logged the 2,010 miles in a car, only to head on a season-opening seven-game road trip. "I'm going to relax in my apartment and watch some TV," said Corporan, who hit two of his five career minor league home runs in the four-game home series against Hagerstown. "This is my first day off." POWER PLUGS: Josh Wahpepah (1-1) earned the victory by pitching four scoreless innings for the Power, which struck out 11 Suns hitters ...West Virginia struck out eight times Sunday to make it 101 whiffs on the season, an average of nine per game. "We extended the strike zone to our eyes, and we can't do that," Richardson said ...Attendance for the four-game series was 17,685, for an average of 4,421. The average for the first four games last season at Watt Powell Park was 1,346 ... Corporan's home run should not be that big of a surprise, considering no one had hit a long ball Sunday. For the series, there were 10 home runs, seven by Hagerstown ... Mark Rogers' regular diary has been updated on www.minorleaguebaseball.com. The former first-round pick, who struck out six and gave up two runs and two hits in four innings Sunday, wrote about his season-opening struggles. "He was throwing too many curveballs," said Reid Nichols, director of player development for the Milwaukee Brewers. "With an arm like that, you don't have to trick them." Nichols, the Brewers' minor league chief, was in Charleston for the series ...The Power returns to action for a three-game home series with the Lexington Legends on Tuesday at 7:05 PM (6:05 Central). Lefty Greg Kloosterman (0-2, 4.50 earned run average) gets the start against Lexington right-hander Juan Gutierrez (0-0, 2.00 ERA).

Link while active, text follows: www.wvgazette.com/section...2005041720 Three-run HR lifts Power, 3-2 Corporan?s blast in ninth wins it By Jim Workman For The Charleston Gazette With the excitement that has surrounded Appalachian Power Park this week, the West Virginia Power players have been itching to give the thousands of fans something extra to cheer about. Power designated hitter Carlos Corporan was happy to oblige on Sunday afternoon, blasting a walk-off three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning over the right-field wall to lift West Virginia to a 3-2 victory over the Hagerstown Suns in a South Atlantic League game played before 3,417 fans. ?It was a great moment,? Corporan said, adding that the homer was his first game-winner at the professional level. ?I had a good swing. He gave me a fastball up, and I was looking for that pitch all day long. It just came at the right moment. I was really concentrating on what I had to do.? ?I know I?m excited,? said Power manager Ramon Aviles. ?As a former player, I know they?re excited about playing for the fans.? ?It?s going to be a fun year,? said Corporan. ?We love the fans being excited about coming to the games.? Through eight innings, the Power had managed just one hit, a seventh-inning single by Grant Richardson. Scoring opportunities were few and far between and were quickly snuffed out by the Suns. ?That?s baseball,? Corporan said. ?You can never give up. You have to concentrate all game long. That?s what we did.? Alcides Escobar hit a one-out single to left to start the Power rally in the ninth. Will Lewis followed with an infield single to set the scene for Corporan?s one-out heroics. Hagerstown scored its two runs in second inning off Power starter Mark Rogers. Tyler Davidson pounded a double to center field that scored Derran Watts, and Davidson later scored on a wild pitch to give the Suns a 2-0 advantage. But Hagerstown was shut down the rest of the way as Rogers adjusted, and Power relievers Robert Hinton and Josh Wahpepah slammed the door, allowing just four more hits over the final seven innings. Power pitchers allowed just five hits and struck out 11. Wahpepaph (1-1) got the win, and Carlos Muniz (1-1) was tabbed for the loss. ?As long as we get pitching like that and play good defense, we have a chance to win the ballgame,? said Aviles. The Suns fall to 9-2, and the Power is 2-9 with its only other win coming Thursday on opening night at AP Park. ?The first 10 games have been rough,? Richardson admitted. ?But this will help. We have to get more aggressive and swing the bats, but be also smart about it. This will give us a big boost. It will be a big confidence-builder. The fans loved it, and we loved giving it to them.? ?This was a great game,? said Aviles. ?We showed a lot of character as a team, especially after the game we lost [saturday night]. We could have come in here and rolled over and let them do whatever they wanted to do. But we didn?t do that. We played an outstanding game. Pitching from both sides was great. But one pitch decided the game. ?But what impressed me the most was that we didn?t give up. We were focused and we played hard for the whole nine innings. I was thinking before the inning that this has been a great game. Even if we lose, I have nothing negative to say to my kids.? Pressing too hard can be a concern for professional athletes. ?We had a meeting and we asked the players what was going on,? said Aviles. ?They said, ?We have a lot of fans, and we don?t want to mess up.? But I just told them to relax and do what you?re capable of doing and the fans will appreciate it. You give them your best on the field and that?s it. We want to do good because we want to put on a good show for the fans. Sometimes that can work against you, because you can put too much pressure on yourself.? The Power has an off-day today and will open a three-game series at home with the Lexington Legends at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday. It is Two-for-Tuesday. Left-hander Greg Kloosterman (0-2, 4.50 ERA) will start for West Virginia, and right-hander Juan Gutierrez (0-0, 2.00) is scheduled to start for Lexington. ?Now I wish we played [today],? Aviles said. ?I wish we could carry this win over into the next day. But we want to keep the switch turned on until Tuesday. Don?t turn it off just because we have a day off.? Charleston Gazette Photographer:Chip Ellis Power starter Mark Rogers delivers to the Suns. http://www.wvgazettemail.com/images/stories/Power1.jpg The Power?s Hernan Iribarren tries to steal second but is tagged out by Hagerstown?s Wilson Batista. http://www.wvgazettemail.com/images/stories/Power3.jpg

Huntsville / Southern League Notes -- Huntsville Times: Covering the bases Mark McCarter Stars manager Don Money has come upon an unfamiliar chore. For the first time, after seven years in the low-A Midwest League, Money doesn't have a designated hitter each game. "I'm rattling my brain,'' he said, laughing. Without the DH, Money is put in more situations where he must pinch-hit or pull a complicated double-switch, removing a pitcher and a position player and swapping their spots in the lineup to minimize a pitcher's chances of coming to bat. It's also forced Money to be more proactive, "I tell my guys, even if they're not playing, they've got to be ready. I may need them to pinch-hit or go in on a switch.'' ... Though principal owner Miles Prentice missed the Stars' opener Friday because of a business conflict, two of his partners were on hand. Hank Amon and Jerry Gold, avid Stars fans who are frequent visitors, were at the games Friday and Saturday. ... Ryan Miller, who appeared to be headed to Huntsville as a Stars reliever, remained in Phoenix for extended spring training, a precautionary measure after developing some soreness in his throwing elbow. He had arthroscopic surgery in the elbow last year. However, he is back on the mound in Arizona and could well be in Huntsville soon. ... Not such good news for John Novinsky. The Stars relief ace in 2004 (7-1, 17 saves, 2.93 in 45 appearances) is out of action after undergoing surgery. ... For Money, there is a luxury, yet a quandary. The Stars are carrying three catchers -- the Brewers want Vinny Rottino catching frequently rather than being used in a utility role -- and finding playing time for him, John Vanden Berg and Jeff Winchester is difficult. Around the league Ex-Star utility ace Johnny Raburn is leading the Southern League in hitting at .480. He's now a Montgomery Biscuit, having been drafted by Tampa Bay in the offseason. ... A pair of streaks ended Friday night. Tennessee, in its first season as an Arizona farm club, won its first game after an 0-7 start by mauling the Mobile bullpen for nine runs in an 11-8 win. ... Montgomery lost to Birmingham 8-7, ending the Biscuits 7-0 start. ... Well, the Biscuits weren't undefeated going in, to read a headline in The Montgomery Advertiser. After a recent brawl, the paper said, "Biscuits lose fight, but finish sweep of Braves,'' and writer Stacy Long suggested that a player who charged the mound, and wound up on his knees, "lost a unanimous decision.'' ... The Mississippi Braves, having moved from Greenville, S.C., to Pearl, outside Jackson, make their home debut Monday at Trustmark Park, hosting Montgomery.

Link while active, text follows: www.al.com/sports/huntsvi...717891.xml No bat, no crisis for Stars Borrowed lumber helps reliever build cushion in victory By BRUCE McLELLAN Associate Sports Editor brucem@htimes.com Huntsville Stars reliever Alec Zumwalt had a minor problem as his spot in the batting order approached in the sixth inning Sunday at Joe Davis Stadium. He didn't have one of his bats in the dugout and there wasn't time to get one from the clubhouse underneath the stands. "Being in the role that I thought I'd be in - late-inning guy - you usually don't get an at-bat," Zumwalt said. "I asked for anybody to donate a bat that might be used." First baseman Brandon Gemoll complied. "He knew I was a former position player, so I think he trusted me that I wasn't going to break it into 80 pieces," said Zumwalt, a converted outfielder. He took the borrowed 34-inch Louisville Slugger and hit a two-out, two-run single to left field, breaking open a close game and giving the Stars momentum for an 11-2 victory over Carolina in front of an announced crowd of 1,843 on a sunny afternoon. Even better than the hit that gave Huntsville a 5-2 lead, Zumwalt (1-1) got his first victory of the season while pitching three shutout innings. He faced only 10 batters, gave up two hits, induced one double play and didn't issue a walk. "It was a good outing," he said. "I pitched today instead of just throwing." It also ended as a good day for Huntsville's batters, who previously had found hits as hard to find as gasoline priced under $2. The Stars finished with 15 hits and had their first inning of the season with more than four hits and four runs, getting five of each in the ninth. The 11 runs were five more than the Stars had scored in any of their first nine games. "We really needed that," Zumwalt said of the offense. Manager Don Money also was upbeat after the Stars scored 17 runs in winning consecutive games against the Mudcats - who held Huntsville to one run in four games the first week of the season. "Hitting is contagious - you've probably heard that 1,000 times," Money said. "But non-hitting is contagious, too." Carolina took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on Drew Niles' home run to right field off of Huntsville starter Khalid Ballouli. Meanwhile, Mudcats starter Logan Kensing (1-1) was rolling, retiring eight Stars in a row before Enrique Cruz's double in the fifth. But after Tony Gwynn Jr. was hit by a pitch to lead off the sixth, Kensing no longer seemed invincible. Gwynn scored to tie the game on a double by Nelson Cruz, who came home to give Huntsville a 3-2 lead when Jeff Winchester hit a grounder. Eventually, it was Zumwalt's turn to bat with two out and the bases loaded. Money said that since Huntsville already had a lead he wanted to keep Zumwalt in the game and let him pitch more than an inning. "If it was 2-2, we would have pinch-hit for him," Money said. Zumwalt played in the outfield in the Atlanta Braves system from 1999-2001 before converting to pitching. He said Sunday's at-bat was his first since last August when he was a reliever with Greenville. "As bad as I hate to say it, I'm not a hitter anymore." But he swings a borrowed bat pretty well. Tonight: Huntsville's Dana Eveland (0-1, 1.00 ERA) is scheduled to face Mobile's Brian Whitaker (1-1, 3.00) at 7:05 at Joe Davis Stadium.

Monday's Daily Menu: All times Central; pitchers subject to change: Nashville: RHP Ben Hendrickson at New Orleans (Nationals), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Audio link: www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/ Huntsville: LHP Dana Eveland at home vs. Mobile (Padres), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Audio link: www.espn1450.com/ Brevard County: TBD back on the mound for the Manatees at home vs. Port St. Lucie (Mets), 6:00 PM -- actually TBD is a misnomer, it's been determined, it just hasn't been announced -- we may have to switch to TBA; anyway, no web audio for this one -- if they play a game, and there's no broadcast, and no newspaper coverage, did it really happen? I knew the Florida State League would do this to us.... West Virginia: Idle and feeling a little better about themselves thanks to Carlos Corporan...

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West Virginia Site Game Summary: The West Virginia Power were held hitless through six innings and scoreless through eight innings, but none of that mattered when Carlos Corporan hit a three run walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, boosting the Power to a 3-2 victory over Hagerstown on Sunday. The Suns took an early 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning. Tyler Davidson knocked in Derran Watts on an RBI double to give the Suns a 1-0 lead, and Davidson scored later in the inning on a wild pitch, providing the Suns with a 2-0 advantage. Gabriel Hernandez started the game for the Suns, and threw five hitless innings. Michael Devaney followed him and kept the no hitter going into the seventh inning, where Grant Richardson broke it up with a one out single. Carlos Muniz relieved Devaney in the bottom of the ninth inning after surrendering back to back one out singles to Alcides Escobar and Will Lewis. Corporan was the only batter Muniz faced, and he hit a walk-off three run homer to win the game for the Power. Josh Wahpepah (1-1) earned the victory for the Power and Carlos Muniz (1-1) obtained the loss for Hagerstown. With the victory the Power improve to 2-9 on the season and the Suns drop to 9-2 with the loss. The Power are off on Monday, and they will begin a three game series with the Lexington Legends at 7:05 PM (6:05 Central) on Tuesday night at Appalachian Power Park. Lefthander Greg Kloosterman (0-2, 4.50) will throw for the Power and the Legends will counter with righthander Juan Gutierrez (0-0, 2.00).

Huntsville Site Game Summary: Alec Zumwalt spun three innings of shutout relief and chipped in with a clutch two-run single as the Stars erupted for a decisive 11-2 win over Carolina Sunday afternoon Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville. The Stars took the final two games of the three game-set to fashion their first winning streak of the year and improve to 3-7, while the Mudcats dropped consecutive games for the first time this season to slip to 6-3. Huntsville starter Khalid Ballouli, who tossed five shutout innings in his first start on Monday, lasted four innings during which he allowed two runs on seven hits. Drew Niles leadoff home run in the fourth inning put the visitors ahead 2-1 before the Stars scored the game?s final 10 runs. Josh Habel worked a scoreless fifth inning and Zumwalt took over in the sixth and matched David Bradley for the longest outing by a Huntsville reliever this season. The right-hander permitted two hits and struck out one to earn his first win of the campaign. The Stars took the lead for good with four runs in the sixth inning with the help of a critical fielding error by the Mudcats. Tony Gwynn, Jr. led off the inning and was hit by a Logan Kensing pitch and then advanced to third base on a single by Brandon Gemoll, who has hit safely in six of the last seven games. Nelson Cruz doubled off the wall in left field to chase home Gwynn to tie the game at two but Gemoll was cut down at the plate trying to score the go-ahead run. Kensing then uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Cruz to advance to third base before walking Tony Zuniga, who has drawn a walk in six of the last seven games. Jeff Winchester smacked a ground ball that could not be handled by shortstop Robert Andino and that allowed Cruz to score, Zuniga to reach second and Winchester to reach safely at first. Chris Barnwell?s ground ball out advanced the runners and Enrique Cruz was intentionally walked to load the bases. Zumwalt, a converted outfielder who hit .216 in the Braves organization between 1999 and 2001, delivered a clean single to left field to plate Zuniga and Winchester to push the home team?s lead to 5-2 and knock Kensing from the game. Ross Wolf took over for Kensing and bore the brunt of a five-run eighth inning, the Stars biggest scoring frame of the season. Kennard Bibbs, Gwynn, Gemoll, Zuniga and Winchester all knocked in markers helping the Stars reach a season-best in runs scored. Gwynn, Winchester and Nelson Cruz became the first players to score more than one run in a game this season and Zuniga, Winchester and Zumwalt each drove in a pair of runs. The Stars open a four-game series against Mobile Monday night with left-hander Dana Eveland taking the mound against BayBears right-hander Brian Whitaker. Coverage of the game gets underway at 6:50 p.m. central time on ESPN 1450 AM and via the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

Nashville Site Game Summary: New Orleans first baseman Larry Broadway?s two-out RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning gave the Zephyrs a 6-5 victory over the Nashville Sounds, who failed to protect a pair of late leads and fell to 6-5 on the year. The game-winner capped off a three-RBI afternoon for Broadway, who entered the contest with only one run driven in over his initial seven games this season. Nashville led 4-2 in the eighth and 5-4 in the tenth but the Zephyrs (5-5) produced a pair of comebacks against the Sounds bullpen to secure the come-from-behind victory. Dan DeMent led off the bottom of the tenth by singling to center off Sounds reliever Mike Meyers. Tyrell Godwin followed with a walk then both runners surprised Nashville with a double steal in a sacrifice situation. Jason Bowers knotted the contest at 5-5 with a sacrifice fly to center. After an intentional walk to Jeffery Hammonds, pinch-hitter Rick Short was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Meyers picked up a big out by fanning Brendan Harris for the second out of the inning but could not retire Broadway. New Orleans struck first, breaking a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fourth. Bowers led off with an infield single to short then Hammonds drew a four-pitch walk from Nashville starter Jose Capellan. Two outs later, Broadway lifted a two-run double to the wall in right-center to put the home team up, 2-0. The Sounds responded quickly, posting a four-run rally to take a 4-2 lead in the top of the fifth. Kevin Orie drew a leadoff walk from Z?s starter Ed Yarnall and moved to second on Trent Durrington?s single to left. Julio Mosquera followed by plating Orie with an RBI single to center, halving the lead to 2-1. One out later, both runners advanced a base on a wild pitch and pinch-hitter Matt Erickson knotted the game with an RBI groundout. Dave Krynzel followed with an RBI infield single to score Mosquera and give Nashville a 3-2 lead. Rickie Weeks drove in Krynzel with a stand-up triple to straightaway center that hit a few feet below the yellow line on the wall, his league-leading third three-bagger of the season. The Zephyrs evened the score with a pair of runs in the eighth. With one out, pinch-hitter DeMent delivered an opposite-field single to right-center and Godwin blooped a single to left off Clint Weibl. Kane Davis came on in relief for the Sounds and walked Bowers to load the bases with only one out. Jeffrey Hammonds delivered a sacrifice fly to center to plate DeMent and pull the Z?s within a run at 4-3. Matt Cepicky followed with an infield single to first to bring home Godwin with the tying run. Nashville reclaimed the lead in the top of the tenth. Krynzel drew a leadoff walk and advanced to second when Zephyrs reliever Hector Carrasco was unable to handle Weeks? sacrifice bunt attempt. After Prince Fielder lined out, Corey Hart loaded the bases with an infield single to third. Carrasco fanned pinch-hitter Brad Nelson for the second out before Durrington hit a slow roller to shortstop for an RBI infield single, plating Krynzel for a 5-4 Sounds lead. Carrasco (1-0) picked up the victory as a result of the New Orleans comeback, while Meyers (1-2) took the loss after blowing a save and allowing the game-winning run. Capellan allowed two runs and struck out four batters in four innings in his first appearance for the Sounds since Opening Day after skipping a start due to a blister on his pitching hand. The teams wrap up the four-game series on Monday evening at 7:05 p.m. at Zephyr Field. Right-hander Ben Hendrickson (0-0, 6.30) will face New Orleans right-hander Sun-Woo Kim (1-1, 4.35). Ryan Knox Defensive Gem Audio: www.nashvillesounds.com/a...204-17.mp3

Final: New Orleans (Nationals) 6, Nashville 5, ten innings Sounds grab a 5-4 lead in the top of the tenth, but Mike Meyers can't hold it -- he hasn't exactly been clutch... Nashville Box Score: Prince Fielder's struggles are troubling; Sounds strand eight... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nozaaa_1 Nashville Game Log: Ryan Knox with a sweet HR-stealing catch in this one... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nozaaa_1

In progress: Nashville 5, New Orleans 5, tenth inning Zephyrs are challenging to take it, however...

Final: Huntsville 11, Carolina (Marlins) 2 Huntsville Box Score: Enrique Cruz' numbers suddenly interesting; you have to really like the pitching BB-to-K ratios we're seeing throughout most of the organization's games... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1 Huntsville Game Log: Pitcher Alec Zumwalt's base hit helps break it open... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

Final: West Virginia 3, Hagerstown (Mets) 2 Sweet comeback in the ninth, capped by a one-out Carlos Corporan three-run blast! West Virginia Box Score: Prior to the ninth-inning rally, Grant Richardson's 7th inning single was the Power's only base hit... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_wvaafx_1 West Virginia Game Log: Nice outing for Josh Wahpepah, rewarded with the win... www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_wvaafx_1