(Press Release, Photo Credit: Southern Illinois Miners Photos)
Marion, IL – The Southern Illinois Miners continue to have a strong home stand as they defeated the Normal CornBelters 3-2 on Tuesday night. Miners reliever Ronald Uviedo (1-0) earned his first win as a Miner as he pitched 1 1/3 innings in relief and struck out two batters. The Miners are 42-34 on the season and are four games back in the East Division.
Jon Eisen hit his first triple of the season off CornBelters starter Drew Provence to lead off the bottom of the third inning. Steven Liddle grounded out to shortstop to bring Eisen home and give the Miners a 1-0 lead. Normal tied at 1-1 off Nation in the top of the fifth inning. CornBelters rightfielder Aaron Dudley hit a solo home run off Nation in the top of the sixth inning to give Normal a 2-1 lead.
Blake Nation pitched 6 2/3 innings and allowed two runs. He gave up five hits and walked four batters with three strikeouts in a no-decision.
The Miners tied the game in the bottom of the seventh inning as Gerardo Avila scored on a wild pitch by CornBelters reliver Jose Trinidad. Southern Illinois then took the lead 3-2 with the bases loaded off Trinidad as Jereme Milons scored on an error by third baseman TJ Gavlik.
Race Parmenter earned his sixth save in the ninth as he retired the side and recorded one strikeout.
The Miners and CornBelters will play on Wednesday at Rent One Park. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 pm. Mike Ventola will have the call beginning at6:45 pm with the Heartland Regional Medical Center Pregame Show on the Miners Radio Network, southernillinoisminers.com and ustream.tv.
The Southern Illinois Miners are the 2012 Frontier League Champions and have been awarded the Frontier League Organization of the Year three times since its inception. It has also set a new Frontier League attendance record in 2007. For media inquiries concerning the Miners, please contact Mike Ventola, Director of Media Relations 618-998-8499 ext. 8547 or mikev@
