The Schaumburg Boomers scored in their first four trips to the plate to ease past the Lake Erie Crushers on the road 9-3, grabbing a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three wild-card series.

Frontier League MVP Anthony Calarco put the Boomers on the scoreboard with two outs in the top of the first, tripling off the wall in center field. Calarco did not have a triple during his MVP campaign.

The lead reached 2-0 when Banks Tolley homered to open the second. Schaumburg broke the game open by sending nine to the plate in the third. Nick Podkul stroked a 2-run single before a run scored on a wild pitch. Michael Gould smacked a 2-run double with two outs to extend the lead to 7-0.

Christian Fedko led off the fourth with a homer to cap the early outburst. Lake Erie was able to draw within 8-3 but the B

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