Fireflies fall in 2nd-half opener
Kannapolis scored five times in the fifth inning and held off a Columbia rally for an 8-5 win against the Fireflies on Thursday night at Spirit Communications Park.
Jacob Zanon put on a show in his return to the Fireflies. Because of an injury, Zanon hadn’t appeared in game since April 10. He tallied three hits – one of which a two-run home run – scored twice and drove in three.
Tim Tebow added a pair of doubles and scored two runs.
Fireflies’ pitchers struck out a franchise-best 17 batters in the loss. Starter Blake Taylor had eight of the strikeouts.
Sam Dexter and Zach Remillard each had two RBI to lead Kannapolis.
Kannapolis | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | k |
Sullivan cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Roman ss | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Schnurbusch lf | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Adolfo rf | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Dulin 1b | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Remillard 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Massey 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Schroeder c | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Dexter dh | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
TOTALS | 35 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 17 |
Columbia | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | k |
Zanon cf | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Gimenez ss | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Carpio 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Winningham 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Brosher dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Jabs rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sanchez c | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Tebow lf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ramos 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TOTALS | 37 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
Kannapolis | 020 | 050 | 001 | — | 8 |
Columbia | 100 | 010 | 300 | — | 5 |
E — Schroeder; Carpio; Tebow; Ramos. DP — Kannapolis 1. LOB — Kannapolis 6; Columbia 6. 2B — Adolfo; Tebow 2. HR — Zanon. SH — Sullivan.
Kannapolis | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Solorzano W, 2-5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
VanVossen | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Escorcia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Foster S, 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Columbia | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Taylor L, 0-7 | 4 2/3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
Atkins | 1 1/3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pobereyko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Zanghi | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
WP — Solorzano; VanVossen 2. HBP — Roman (by Taylor, B). Umpires — HP: Jude Koury. 1B: Aaron Schorch. T — 3:06. A — 4,672.
This story was originally published June 23, 2017 at 2:10 AM with the headline "Fireflies fall in 2nd-half opener."