September 10, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Sauget, IL-The Florence Freedom are heading to their first ever Frontier League championship series after a 7-0 win over the Gateway Grizzlies Monday night. The Freedom won the best of five series three games to two. <\/p>\n
Peter Fatse had a career high six RBI's and starter Brad Allen pitched eight shutout innings. <\/p>\n
Fatse hit a three run homerun in the first inning to give the Freedom a 3-0 lead. He also had an RBI single in the fourth which made it 4-0. Fatse then in the seventh drilled a two run double to deep right center as the Freedom led 7-0. <\/p>\n
Allen allowed three hits and struck out seven while walking four. He improved his scoreless innings streak to twenty one straight with his shutout performance. He also improved to 5-0 with a .47 ERA as a starter. <\/p>\n
The Freedom pitching staff threw fourteen straight scoreless innings against Gateway which started in the fifth inning of game four and carried through the duration of game five. <\/p>\n
Jim Jacquot also homered for the victorious Freedom. Fatse ended the game going 3-4 with 6 RBI's. David Harris and Pierre LePage also collected two hits. <\/p>\n
The Freedom will now host the Southern Illinois Miners in game one of a best of five championship series starting Wednesday night. LHP David Harden(1-0,0.00) gets the start for the Miners while the Florence starter is TBA. The game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 6:20 on Real Talk 1160 and realtalk1160.com. <\/p>\n
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