The Goldeyes aren't going down without a fight. After blowing a 5-4 lead in the top of the 9th on Thursday night, the Fish bounced back to split the series with St. Paul.
The Fish fell down early as starter Matt Jackson struggled through the first three innings, the fish found themselves down 4-1 early. Their one run coming on a Ray Sadler solo homerun. It seemed as though the Goldeyes were laying an egg under the lights at Shaw Park. That all changed with one swing of the bat. Third Basemen Yurendell de Caster launched one into space with two outs for a three run shot to left field in the fifth inning to tie the game. It was all Goldeyes from there.
Mark Hardy worked two solid innings of relief out of the bullpen, and some heroics from Ryan Scoma and Ray Sadler put the fish in front for good. Scoma led it off with a single in the 8th and then the man newly nick-named "Ray Ray" drove one into the gap for the Goldeyes fifth and final run of the ball game.
Hardy picked up the win out of the bullpen the lefty is now 7-3 with a 3.48 ERA, while Canadian Chris Kissock picked up his second save of the year.
The Goldeyes (54-43) welcomes Fargo (61-36) to town for a three game set and currently trail Gary in the wildcard by 2.5 games. Winnipeg is 0-9 against Fargo this season, and will have to win out for there to even be a chance at the playoffs. Meanwhile, Gary (56-41) will host the lowly El Paso Diablos (38-59) who will need to help the Fish out by sweeping Gary in Indiana.
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Meanwhile, in football news, a football game was finally won in the newly broken in Investors Group Field. The Bombers have had their chances, the Rifles had one, but it was the University of Manitoba Bisons that finally delivered.
Although the defense may have been a bit of a worry, the offense exploded scoring a whopping 65 points en route to a 65-41 victory over the Alberta GoldenBears in front of 10,199 fans at IGF.
The Bisons were led offensively by a number of players but none more so than running back Anthony Coombs. Coombs finished the game with a whopping 223 yards rushing on 16 carries for an unbelievable 13.9 yards/carry average in three quarters of play.
Newly minted starting pivot Jordan Yantz of Regina had himself a good game going 14-19 for 215 yards through the air, while racking up four touchdowns, and throwing one interception. It was a good bounce back game for the Bisons who lost a close one the prior week to the Regina Rams 30-25.
Up next for the Bisons, the Saskatchewan Huskies come to town for a game next Saturday Sept. 7th. Kickoff is slated for 5:00pm.
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Former Manitoba Moose and most recently, former St. John's IceCap forward Jason King has decided to retire from hockey. He will instead fill an assistant coaching role with St. John's, the Jets farm team.
The 31 year old was drafted in the 7th round of the 2001 NHL Draft by the Vancouver Canucks. In his rookie season he spent some time with the Sedin brothers and scored 12 goals in the process. He spent a total of 6 seasons in the Canucks organization appearing in 55 games with the Canucks racking up 12 goals and 11 assists. He spent most of his career in the AHL with the Moose, Portland Pirates, and most recently the St. John's IceCaps scoring 20 goals 6 times. In total he racked up 129 goals, 124 assists for a total of 253 points in 335 AHL games.
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