Freedom Will Play for First Ever Frontier League Championship

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.

Peter Fatse had a career high six RBI's and starter Brad Allen pitched eight shutout innings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Freedom Will Play for First Ever Frontier League Championship