MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com – Charleston, WV (August 3, 2008) – The Delmarva Shorebirds scored early and often at Appalachian Power Park on Sunday night and took the second game of the series with a 10-5 victory over the West Virginia Power.        

Matt Angle walked to start the contest and stole second before reaching third on a passed ball and Paco Figueroa brought him in with a sacrifice fly.  Victor Castillo ripped an RBI double in the top of the second before Curt Rindal cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the inning with an RBI groundout.  The Shorebirds took a 4-1 lead in the third on Joe Nowhicki’s two-run homer.  

Delmarva pulled away with a three run fifth inning.  Nowicki knocked in another run with a sacrifice fly, Anthony Martinez doubled in the next run and scored on Tyler Henson’s base hit.  Paco Figueroa brought in another run with his second sacrifice fly in the sixth inning to give the Shorebirds their largest lead of the night.  The Power plated their second run in the sixth inning on Zelous Wheeler’s RBI triple.  
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Delmarva plated their final two runs in the eighth.  Figueroa’s third sacrifice fly of the night scored Pedro Florimon and Ryan Adams singled in Matt Angle.  In the bottom of the eighth, Adams’s throwing error at second base allowed Caleb Gindl to score and Curt Rindal’s sacrifice fly brought Wheeler home.  Eric Fryer brought in the final run of the game and extended his hitting streak to nine games with a two-out RBI single in the ninth inning.   

Sean Gleason (9-1) pitched six strong innings and allowed just a pair of unearned runs on five hits while striking out five in a winning effort.  Michael Bowman (1-1) allowed six runs on five hits with five walks over four and a third and was tagged with the loss.  The Power pitching staff allowed nine free passes on the night.  

The Power fell to 61-51 on the year and 29-14 in the second half with the loss.  The Shorebirds improved to 62-50 on the year and 24-19 in the second half with the win. Eric Farris paced the Power with a 2-for-5 performance at the plate.  Matt Cline reached once to extend his on base streak to 23 games and Gindl extended his to 26 games.   

Box Score: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_08_03_delafx_wvaafx_1&t=g_box&did=milb

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