BELOIT — Ryan Ignoffo’s two-out single in the seventh inning spared the Beloit Sky Carp from being no-hit and Colby Shade’s solo home run in the ninth prevented a shutout but it wasn’t enough as the Quad Cities River Bandits prevailed 4-1.
The River Bandits hiked their lead in the six-game series at ABC Supply Stadium to 3-0.
Quad Cities’ starter Ethan Bosacker completely silenced the Sky Carp’s bats through the first six innings as he sat down the first 20 Beloit players he faced before Ignoffo smacked a ground-ball single into left field in the seventh.
Kemp Alderman followed his teammate up with a single up the middle into center but Bosacker got Mark Coley to ground out to first to keep the shutout in tact.
Bosacker struck out 12 and didn’t walk any in his two-hit outing.
The lack of offense spoiled a strong outing from Beloit starter Thomas White, whose only blemish was a two-out homer to right by Spencer Nivens in the first.
White allowed just three whits and walked a pair while striking out three in five innings.
Edgar Sanchez came out of the bullpen and worked around two hits in two innings to keep the Sky Carp within a run but the River Bandits pounced on Justin Storm in the eighth.
Trevor Warner’s RBI double into left made it 2-0 before a sacrifice fly by Carson Roccaforte and a one-run single off the bat of Shervyen Newton upped the score to 4-0.
Andrew Morones threw a perfect eighth for Quad Cities before Shade launched his first bomb as a Sky Carp with his one-out shot to left field in the ninth off Natanael Garabitos.
But Garabitos rebounded to coax Gage Miller into a flyout and strike out Ignoffo, the 13th and final punchout of the evening for the River Bandits, whose pitching staff didn’t issue a single base on balls.
Nivens and Werner each had a pair of hits for Quad Cities, which had seven hits to Beloit’s three.
The Sky Carp offense, which is hitting just .207 in its past 24 games, tied for the worst average in the Midwest League and has just 75 RBIs (11th) in the same span, will look to bounce back against the River Bandits on Friday at 6:35 p.m.
• BOXSCORE:
CEDAR RAPIDS 4, BELOIT 1
QC… 100 000 030 — 4 7 0
Bel… 000 000 001 — 1 3 1
QUAD CITIES (ab-r-h-rbi) — Johnson, 2b, 4-1-0-0; Nivens, lf, 4-1-2-1; Caglianone, dh, 2-1-0-0; Werner, 3b, 4-1-2-1; Roccaforte, cf, 3-0-0-1; Newton, ss, 4-0-1-1; Kulasingam, rf, 4-0-1-0; Brito, 1b, 3-0-1-0; Hayes, c, 3-0-0-0. Totals: 31-4-7-4.
BELOIT (ab-r-h-rbi) — Shade, cf, 4-1-1-1; Miller, 2b, 4-0-0-0; Ignoffo, c, 4-0-1-0; Alderman, lf, 3-0-1-0; Coley, rf, 3-0-0-0; Vradenburg, 1b, 3-0-0-0; Zamora, dh, 3-0-0-0; Bullard, 3b, 3-0-0-0; Rosario, ss, 3-0-0-0. Totals: 30-1–3-1.
E: Storm. DP: Bel 1. LOB: QC 6, Bel 2. 2B: Werner. HR: Nivens (10), Shade (1). SF: Roccaforte. SB: Werner (16). CS: Brito.
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so): Bosacker (W,5-1) 7.0-2-0-0-0-12; Morones 1.0-0-0-0-0-0; Garabitos 1.0-1-1-1-0-1. Bel, White (L,2-3) 5.0-3-1-1-2-3; Sanchez 2.0-2-0-0-0-2; Storm 1.0-2-3-2-1-0; Jones 1.0-0-0-0-0-1.
HBP: Caglianone by White, Johnson by Storm.
T: 2:18. Att.: 1,410.
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