Fireflies Swarm Hillcats in 3-1 Win

Kudrna's four scoreless frames pace Columbia

By Dylan Jackson

May 28, 2022

COLUMBIA, SC – The Columbia Fireflies pitching staff led the way in a 3-1 rain-shortened win over the Lynchburg Hillcats at Bank of the James Stadium Friday night. Ben Kudrna, the Royals 2021 second-round selection, pitched four scoreless innings, allowing just one hit while recording five strikeouts. After 62 pitches,

COLUMBIA, SC – The Columbia Fireflies pitching staff led the way in a 3-1 rain-shortened win over the Lynchburg Hillcats at Bank of the James Stadium Friday night.

Ben Kudrna, the Royals 2021 second-round selection, pitched four scoreless innings, allowing just one hit while recording five strikeouts. After 62 pitches, he was replaced by *Heribert Garcia *(W, 4-2), who sacrificed only one hit in two innings of work.

Columbia’s offense was moving early Friday night. Darryl Collins smacked a sacrifice fly to left to score River Town in the first and then Gary Camarillo launched his second homer of the season in the second to put the visiting team in front 2-0 after a pair of innings.

The Fireflies allowed only a single run, and it scored at the bottom of the fifth inning when Richard Paz hit a sacrifice fly to score Isaiah Green.

The Columbia Fireflies will play the Lynchburg Hillcats again tomorrow at Bank of the James Stadium at 6:30 p.m. RHP Samuel Valerio (0-2, 7.17 ERA) takes the mound for Columbia while LHP Rodney Boone (2-0, 2.02 ERA) gets the nod for Lynchburg.

Columbia returns home for a two-week homestand June 7-19 that includes two Budweiser Thirsty Thursdays, two Freebie Fridays, two firework shows and the return of Negro League Weekend! Tickets are available at FirefliesTickets.com.