Hitting streak at record 24 games
MIDLAND -- After winning six straight series, the Kane County Cougars have lost two straight sets.
With their 5-0 loss Monday night at Dow Diamond against the Great Lakes Loons, the Cougars finished a six-game trip through Michigan with a 1-5 mark.
They were swept in Lansing and lost two of three against Great Lakes.
Justin Marks (3-12) made only a few mistakes Monday, and they cost him the game.
He faced the minimum in five of the six innings he completed but also gave up a pair of homers to Brian Cavazos-Galvez -- a two-run shot in the second and a solo shot with two outs in the seventh.
Cavazos-Galvez's hitting streak is now at a franchise record 24 games.
Marks left during a three-run seventh, giving up five runs on four hits over 6 2/3 innings.
He walked two and fanned six in the loss, and A.J. Huttenlocker handled the final 1 1/3 innings with run-free work.
Meanwhile the Cougars' offense had chances in each of the first five innings against Brett Wallach (6-0) but stranded seven and could not score.
The Cougars then went 1-2-3 in each of the final four frames, and Jordan Roberts notched the save for the Loons (24-6, 66-32), who own the best record in all of professional baseball.
