Challengers trash Subs 34-1

The Challengers picked up were they left last Saturday and scored a season-high 34 runs against the Romanshorn Submarines in game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader.

	Roger Brunner went 3-for-3, including his 100th hit in his NLA-career.

The Challengers opened the scoring in the second inning on rookie Tobias Siegrist's RBI-single off starter Tom Hingston. Anubis Benitez was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, and Joe Cox followed with a two-run double.

The Submarines managed their only run off starter Roger Brunner in the top of the third on Andreas Friedli's run-scoring ground out to second. Brunner (4-1) pitched six innings for his team-leading fourth win of the season, giving up that only run on five hits and one base-on-balls. He struck out five.

	Roger Brunner Outfielder, Pitcher Roger Brunner
	1999 SEASON STATISTICS AB R H RBI HR AVG 49 20 25 14 4 .510 IP W L SV SO ERA 22.1 4 1 0 17 3.36

Jose Valdez pitched a perfect seventh inning to end the game.

The Challengers scored six times in the third inning off reliever Sudan, who replaced Hingston on the mound. But he wasn't able to get an out while facing seven batters. He gave up three walks, hit a batter with a pitch, and was lifted for Friedli after giving up Thomas Landis' RBI-double.

Friedli managed to retire the first eight batters he faced in order, before Landis broke that streak with his fifth homer of the year in the bottom of the fifth.

Until then, the score was just 14-1 in the Challengers' favor. But the real barrage came in the next inning.

	Chris Palatinus had game-highs with four hits, eight RBI's and five runs scored.

The Challengers sent 23 batters to the plate against Friedli. They had 14 hits, including two doubles, a grand-slam by Chris Palatinus, a two-run double by Landis, two-run homers by Armin Blickenstorfer">Armin Blickenstorfer and Valdez, his 16th of the season, a solo shot by Benitez, and a three-run homer by Brunner.

The Challengers then completely mixed up their defense in the top of the seventh. Joe Cox played in left field, Landis was at third, Nick Lehmann was at shortstop, and Blickenstorfer played 2nd base.

Game Notes: Landis set a new career-high with his 13th double of the season, surpassing his previous high in a season of 12 in 1994. ...Palatinus was the only player who collected three hits in the sixth inning. Four other players had two hits in that inning. ...Bryan Shemley was the only Challengers who didn't get a hit, going 0-for-3 with a strikeout and two flyouts. Every other batter had at least two hits.