Greensboro Grasshoppers drop Friday night meeting in Hickory:Crawdads top Hoppers, 3-0

Friday night final from Hickory’s L.P. Frans Stadium:
Hickory Crawdads 3, Greensboro Grasshoppers 0
WP:Zak Kent(1-0)
LP:Michael Burrows(0-1)
SV:Sean Chandler(1)

Hoppers’ hitters:The Grasshoppers had four singles on Friday night….Matthew Frazier, Jared Triolo, Aaron Shackleford, and Francisco Acuna were all 1-4 at the plate for the Hoppers…Fabricio Macias, Grant Koch, and Jesus Valdez all drew walks for the Grasshoppers…

Frainyer Chavez was 1-3 with a Triple and a run scored for Hickory….

Winning Pitcher Zak Kent went four innings in relief for Hickory and he gave up 0 runs on one hit, with one walk and 10 big strikeouts….The Hickory Crawdads’ pitching staff struck out 17 Hopper batters on Friday evening…

Hoppers(9-7)/Crawdads(5-11)

Hoppers' line:0-4-2
Crawdads'line:3-3-1

Attendance:2,465
Time of Game/TOG-3:16