Challengers down Devils 20-4

The Challengers used their offensive powers again and scored 20 times in an easy 20-4 romp over the Wil Devils in Game 1 of Sunday's doubleheader.

	Manny Marchant pitched the final two innings and also homered twice.

Manny Marchant led the attack with his eighth and ninth homers of the season.

Tobias Siegrist and Chris Palatinus also added solo homers to lead off the 2nd and 5th inning, respectively.

The Devils had the lead just once when starter Benny Räber gave up an RBI-single to the no. 9 batter Fillinger with two outs in the top of the second inning.

But his offense provided him with three runs in the bottom half of the inning when Siegrist homered, and Roger Brunner and Räber himself followed with back-to-back RBI-doubles.

It was Brunner's first game coming back from retirement, and he finished with three hits in four at-bats and also scored twice.

	Roger Brunner watches his ground-rule double in the 2nd inning sail over the right field fences.

The Challengers further extended their lead in the next inning, profiting from two fielding errors to score four unearned runs off Devils starter Haltiner.

While Räber allowed no more runs in the fourth and fifth innings, his teammates went on to score 11 times in that span.

Marchant hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning, and he combined with Palatinus to hit back-to-back solo homers to lead off the fifth innning.

That made the day for Haltiner who was replaced by Isenring. He went on to allow five more runs in his two innings of work.

Räber went to the showers after five innings, having allowed two runs on eight hits, walking none and striking out four en route to his team-leading fifth win of the season.

Marchant gave up two runs in the final two innings, but none of them was earned as his defense commited three errors in the final two innings that enabled the Devils to get their third and fourth runs of the game.

Game notes: Catcher Siegrist was the only starter who didn't get a stolen base. ...Iqbal Khan was the second player besides Brunner who came back from retirement. He had two ground outs. ...The Devils' two leadoff hitters combined for four strikeouts in four at-bats.