August 5, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Florence, KY-The The Florence Freedom(38-32) came back from a 4-2 deficit and rallied for a 5-4 win Sunday night over the Road Warriors. The Freedom hit three homeruns and remained in contention for a wild card berth in the Frontier League playoffs. With the win, and Windy City splitting their doubleheader against Rockford, the Freedom are now 2.5 games behind Windy City for the final wild card spot.

With the Freedom trailing 4-2 in the 5th and two runners on base, Freedom catcher Jim Jacquot muscled a three run homerun over the left field wall. The homerun just barely made it over the fence as Matt Wright nearly brought the ball back on a leaping effort. Jacquot's 7th homerun of the season gave the Freedom a 5-4 lead.

The trio of Jose Velazquez, Matt Kline, and Brennan Flick were terrific out of the Freedom bullpen combining for 4.1 innings of hitless baseball. Velazquez raised his record to 5-0 after reliving starter Brent Choban with two outs in the fifth. Choban took the no decision going 4.2 innings allowing 4 hits, on 2 earned runs.

The Freedom came back from an early deficit of 2-0, as David Harris led off the 1st, with a solo homerun. It was Harris's 7th homer of the year. The Freedom then tied it on another solo shot, this one coming from John Malloy in the 2nd. Malloy now has a team lead of 10 homeruns for a Freedom team that ranks second in the Frontier League in homeruns hit.

The Freedom and Road Warriors will play a doubleheader Monday evening, with both contests scheduled for 7 innings. LHP Greg Hendrix(0-1, 18.00) will start for the Road Warriors as LHP Andres Caceres(6-3, 4.48) will climb the hill for Florence. The game can be heard starting at 5:45 with Steve Jarnicki on Real Talk 1160 AM and realtalk1160.com.

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