September 16, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Marion, IL-The Florence Freedom were on the brink of elimination Saturday night in the Frontier League Championship series but prevailed in game three with a 4-3 win over the Southern Illinois Miners.

The win extended the best of five series to game four Sunday night in Marion, Illinois. The Miners lead the Freedom two games to one.

The Freedom trailed 2-0 in the fourth when Drew Rundle recorded an RBI single and John Malloy produced a sacrifice fly to tie the game at 2-2.

With the Freedom trailing 3-2 in the fifth they rallied for two runs against Miner starter Cody Hall(1-1)to take the lead for good. David Harris drove an RBI double over center fielder Alvaro Ramirez's head and then Peter Fatse came through with a sacrifice fly to give the Freedom a 4-3 advantage.

Brad Allen(3-0) remained perfect as a starter for the Freedom this year. He worked six innings giving up eight hits on three earned runs while striking out three.

Andres Caceres pitched a scoreless seventh as Jorge Marban notched a two inning save. The Miners threatened in the ninth as they had runners on the corners with one out. Ramirez hit a grounder to shortstop Junior Arrojo who threw home to catcher Jim Jacquot. Jacquot applied the tag on Carlos Mendez trying to score the game tying run. Marban then got Jake Kaase to pop out to first baseman Drew Rundle to end the game.

Harris and Pierre LePage led the Freedom with two hits apiece.

The Freedom and Miners will play game four Sunday night at Rent One Park in Marion, Illinois. The starters are TBA for both teams. The game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 5:50 pm on Real Talk 1160 AM and realtalk1160.com.

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Freedom Hold off Miners and Live to Play Another Day