A night after battling a rainy and muddy field the Lorain County Ironmen arrived in Hannibal on a hot and humid evening. The game headed to the top of the seventh inning when Mother Nature showed up.

The skies opened and the rain started and did not stop. After an hour rain delay that saw the dugouts flood with more than four feet of water the game was called after six complete innings and the Ironmen fell to the Cavemen 7-2.

Complete stats were not immediately available due to the official score-keeping equipment being washed away in the rain.

The night started promising for Lorain. After falling behind 2-0 in the bottom of the first inning they answered right back. Billy Urban started the second inning with a single. JT Feldkamp followed with another single.

Will Hodges singled to leftfield with one out to score Urban. The leftfielder miss played the ball allowing Feldkamp to move to third. Evan Melendez’s sac fly scored Feldkamp to tie the score at 2.

The bottom fell out for the Ironmen in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cavemen scored four runs to open up the score.

Aaron Hilt started for Lorain. He went five 1/3 innings. He walked four, gave up 11 hits and allowed seven runs.

The Lorain County Ironmen arrived in Springfield just in time for the rain to start on Tuesday night. After a two hour delay the game started on a muddy field. Two-out hitting in the fourth inning propelled Springfield to a 5-2 win.

The Ironmen took the early lead in the top of the second inning. Nate Antone started the inning with a single. He moved to second on Austin Ingraham’s sacrifice bunt. Antone scored on Brandon Cantrill’s RBI single.

The Ironmen put one more run on the board in the top of the eighth inning. With two outs Stephen Hagen singled and moved to second base on Antone’s single. Hagen would score two wild pitches later.

Newest Ironmen, Tony Naso started for the Ironmen. He went 3 2/3 innings. Naso walked four and struck out two. He allowed five runs, all earned. Danny Kraus relieved in the fourth inning. He went 2 1/3.

Kraus walked one and struck out two without allowing a run. Patrick Mulligan finished the night for Lorain. He pitched two scoreless innings while walking three and striking out one.

The Lorain County Ironmen played their best game of the year against the Chillicothe Paints but came up just short on Friday night losing 7-5. The Ironmen had the tying run at the plate in the ninth inning but a double play ended the game.

The Ironmen had to play from behind early when Chillicothe took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning. Joe Corfman doubled with one out and came into score on Torsten Boss’s triple. Boss then scored on Brandon White’s double.

The Ironmen offense kept the pressure on the Paints all night. After going down 2-0, Stephen Hagen started the inning reaching on an error. He came into score on Billy Urban’s RBI single.

The offense exploded in the seventg to get the Ironmen back into the ballgame after falling behind 6-1. Brandon Cantrill started the inning with a single. JT Feldkamp followed with a single. Justin Mackert then doubled to score Cantrill. Evan Melendez followed with a single to score Feldkamp. Mackert then scored on Nate Antone’s single to make the score 6-4.

The Ironmen entered the top of the ninth down 7-4. Matt McAllester lined the first pitch of the inning into right center for a lead off double. Hagen then singled to put runners at the corners. Antone’s sac fly brought in McAllester to make the score 7-5. A double play then ended the ball game.

The Ironmen would take their last lead of the game in the top of the seventh. Mackert started the inning with a triple off the wall in centerfield. Melendez followed with a single.

McAllester tried to squeeze Mackert home but he was retired at the plate. McAllester then was picked off of first base but was able to get in a rundown to allow Melendez to score the go ahead run. McAllester avoided a tag in the run down and moved to second.

Chris Barnett started for Lorain County. He went four innings allowing five runs, four earned. He walked nobody and struck out three. Danny Kraus relieved and pitched four innings as well. He allowed two runs, both earned. He walked four and struck out three.

The Lorain County Ironmen ran into a hot pitcher Tuesday night in West Virginia. Dean Wolosiansky, a righty from Ohio State picked up his fourth win of the year to beat the Ironmen 6-2.

Wolosiansky went eight innings. He allowed three hits, an earned run and struck out eight. He was perfect through 3 1/3 before Matt McAllester hustled to get a double.

McAllester would be stranded at third base. The Ironmen got on the board in the seventh. Stephen Hagen started the inning with a double and came home to score on Billy Urban’s single.

The Ironmen made the game interesting in the top of the ninth. Brent Zimmerman replaced Wolosiansky and gave up a single to Hagen with one out. Nate Antone followed with a four-pitch walk. Urban followed with a ball off the top of the wall in left to score Hagen. That was as close as the Ironmen could get.

Kris Hall started the game for Lorain County and fell to 2-3 on the year. Hall went five innings. He allowed nine hits and six runs, five earned. Hall was relieved by Danny Kraus who went two innings without allowing a hit and striking out two. Phil Brua pitched the eigth sitting the Miners down in order with a strikeout.

The Ironmen will be back at Epling Stadium Wednesday night for another 7:05 start time.

The Lorain County Ironmen engaged in a pitcher’s duel for the first four innings Monday night at Linda K Epling Stadium. Things then turned into a difficult evening. The West Virginia Miners scored 11 runs over the final three innings en route to a 19-2 win.

Jeff Kotler got the start for the Ironmen. He lasted 4 2/3 innings. Kotler surrendered seven runs, only three earned. He took the loss, his third of the season. He was relieved by four pitchers who combined to allow 12 runs, seven earned. JT Feldkamp made his first appearance on the mound and pitched the final two-thirds of the eighth inning.

The Lorain offense was paced by Evan Melendez and Brandon Cantrill who both had two hits. Matt McAllester scored two runs and Stephen Hagen and Nate Antone both had an RBI. The offense pounded out nine hits.

The Lorain County Ironmen are starting to put it together.

Coupled by quality pitching and timely hitting, the Ironmen won their second game in as many nights, defeating the Slippery Rock Sliders, 7-5 on a hot Thursday night at The Pipe Yard in front of a crowd of 174.

With the win, the Ironmen improve their mark to 17-19 overall (3-4 second half) — good for second place in the Eastern Division of the Prospect League.

A four-run second inning captured early momentum for the Ironmen. Tony Brunetti reached on an error by first baseman Jeremy Banks to start things off. Billy Urban then singled, followed by an RBI single by Austin Ingraham that scored Brunetti. After Urban and Ingraham moved up a base on a wild pitch, Mike Grieco’s ground out to second baseman Matt Fenster, scored Urban. Ingraham then scored on a wild pitch by Vince Molesky, followed by an infield RBI single by Evan Melendez which scored Justin Mackert, who drew a two-out walk.

“The past few nights, we‘ve put good games together,” Ironmen manager Eric Cormell said. “Our middle relief pitching has been better. We‘re hitting the ball better. We‘ve made some adjustments with the line up. We‘ve made some adjustments with our pre-game activities as far as hitting and it seems to be paying off.”

Urban recorded his second hit of the night in the third inning, a two-out RBI double scoring Hagen, who walked to lead off the inning. Hagen had moved to third on a double play ball hit by Brunetti. That made the score 5-0 Ironmen.

“Things are just working out,” Urban said. “Line drives are outs (on defense), bloopers are hits, some fall, some don’t. It’s just the way we’ve been playing lately. Things seem to be going our way again and ending that slide feels good.”

Ironmen starting pitcher Jeff Kotler took a no-hitter into the fourth inning before allowing back-to-back singles by Sean Mahley and Sam Sivilotti to leadoff the inning. Banks then hit an RBI double over Brunetti’s head in left field to score Mahley. After recording the first out of the inning, the next ball hit by Kyle Mossbarger was to Ingraham at first, who decided to throw home to get a sliding Sivilotti, but the umpire ruled he was safe as it appeared that catcher Grieco juggled the ball, while tagging Sivilotti. Matt Baer then ripped a double off the left field wall to score Banks. Fenster lifted a sacrifice fly to score Mossbarger, making it a one-run game, 5-4.

Kotler regained his control for the fifth inning as he struck out the first two batters he faced before getting Sivoloti, who popped up in foul territory to Ingraham. He retired nine batters in a row after giving up the sacrifice fly to make it a one-run game. He allowed a double to Cameron Fagg, but struck out the next batter Eric Miranda to end the seventh inning. He finished with five strikeouts and only allowed five hits and those four runs in the fourth.

“The guy pitched great,” Cormell said. “Even in that (bad) inning, we didn’t help him defensively. He made some great pitches, throwing his off-speed stuff for strikes. His change-up was really really working tonight … He did an awesome job. That’s what we needed.”

New Ironmen pitcher Danny Krause came on in relief in the eighth. He allowed a leadoff single to Mahley and walked Sivilotti, before Cormell made the call to the bullpen to sure-handed Phil Brua, who leads the league in appearances and saves.

Brua got the next two batters to hit into fielder’s choices, but it allowed Mahley to score, cutting the deficit to 7-5. Brua then struck out Mossbarger to end the eighth, before pitching a 1-2-3 ninth inning to pick up his league-leading seventh save.

The Ironmen added some breathing room in the bottom of the fourth inning as Melendez, who has been in a slump, had his second hit of the game, an RBI double to score Mackert, who led off with a single. Melendez finished with two RBIs and two stolen bases and appears to be out of his slump.

“It feels really good (to get out of the slump),“ Melendez said. “Slumps are one of those things you play so long, it‘s not something with your mechanics. It‘s a mentality thing. You just got to get back strong and go back out there and keep playing and plugging away.

“The main thing (during the slump), I didn’t want to get down on myself or think that ‘Hey, I’m dropping my back shoulder and doing all this’, because really what it comes down to, you want to get your pitch and be aggressive up there and not take too many strikes. I just need to maintain that for the rest of the season.”

Ingraham hit a two-out double over the left fielder’s head in the bottom of the fifth to score Urban, who reached on a throwing error by third baseman Mossbarger. That pushed the Ironmen’s lead back out to three, 7-4.

Notes

• On “Snoopy’s Birthday” night at The Pipe Yard on July 24, Lorain City Schools Athletic Director Bryan Koury will announce “The Decision” of the new baseball and softball coach he will be hiring for the new Lorain High School.

• The Ironmen have added two pitchers and a catcher to the team. Westlake’s Danny Kraus, a left handed pitcher from Denison University, and Elyria’s Danny Poskocil, a right hand pitcher from Notre Dame (Ohio) and catcher Matt Wantz, who is from Chardon and attends Erskine College, were signed and active for Thursday’s game.

• Pitcher Eric Knight, who pitched Monday night, is no longer on the team. He has returned to Scottsdale, Arizona to spend some time with his family before returning to Oberlin College in the fall.

With timely hitting and strong pitching, the Lorain County Ironmen ended their four-game losing streak with a 6-4 victory over the Hannibal Cavemen on Wednesday.

With the score tied at four in the eighth, Will Hodges and Evan Melendez drew walks and Matt McAllester got his second bunt single of the game to load the bases with no outs.

Stephen Hagen brought the go-ahead run home with a sacrifice fly to left. Tony Brunetti drove home his third run of the game on a fielder’s choice.

“I just wanted to get a good pitch to hit to the outfield and not hit into a double play,” said Hagen, who had three hits, including an RBI double.

A two-run lead was more than enough for closer Phil Brua, who retired the side in order for his sixth save of the year.

“It’s always easier when you’re up two runs instead of one,” he said.
“I changed my grip on my slider, and it was really working for me tonight.”

Brua is one save off the Prospect League lead and also owns the second lowest ERA (1.13) in the league.

“He comes from a small school over in Oberlin, but he could play for any team in the country,” manager Eric Cormell said. “He deserves a look at the next level.”

Relief pitcher Billy Urban got out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh by getting Gardner Richey to ground out to third, forcing the runner out a home. Matt Burton flied out to deep center field to end the inning.

Urban (2-0) pitched three scoreless innings to pick up the win.

The ball was coming off the Ironmen (16-19 overall, 2-4 in the second half) bats sharply for most of the game. The top of the order did the most damage, as four singles brought home two runs in the first inning.

Melendez singled up the middle on the first pitch he saw. McAllester followed with a bunt single down the first base line and Hagen singled to left to load the bases with none out.

Nate Antone then brought Melendez home with a sacrifice fly to right.
Brunetti singled up the middle to score McAllester and give the Ironmen an early 2-1 lead.

“Offensively, we’ve hit the ball pretty well all year,” Cormell said.
“When you have good pitching and play solid defense, you’re going to win games. We had a few hiccups, but they didn’t hurt us.”

Ironmen starter Aaron Hilt went five innings and allowed four runs on six hits. The right-hander walked two and struck out three.

If not for a couple fielding mistakes, he would have stood to earn his first victory of the season.

The Cavemen (17-18, 3-3) scored the first run of the game in the top of the first inning. Hodges, playing center field, misread a fly ball and let it drop with two outs, allowing Brooks Fiala to score from first.

In the third inning, another run for Hannibal crossed the plate from a fielding mistake. With the bases loaded and two outs, Hilt through an outside pitch that tipped off catcher Matt Wantz’s glove, letting L.J. Watson score from third.

Leadoff batter Jerry Hildreth led off the fifth inning with a double down the left field line, just past a diving Nick Hamilton at third. After stealing third, he scored on a wild pitch.

Later in the inning, Ryan Porter sent his fourth home run of the year about 390 feet over the right field wall to give his team a 4-2 lead.

Next on the schedule for the Ironmen is a home game against the Slippery Rock Sliders at 7:05 p.m.

It was a tale of two bad innings and two rain delays at The Pipe Yard Monday night.

After allowing 13 runs in just two innings on Sunday night, the Ironmen’s magnet to bad innings happened again, as Chillicothe scored eight runs in two innings, after the first rain delay, and lead the game 11-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning as thunder delayed the game again in the bottom of the eighth inning with two Ironmen on base with one out.

Moments later, the game was called, giving the Paints the win.

The game was tied at 2 when the rain came down heavily, halting the game in the Ironmen’s bottom half of the fourth inning with two outs. After a rainbow graced The Pipe Yard, the grounds crew got the field back in shape to continue after a one hour and three minute delay.

Starting pitcher Eric Knight, who was pitching in his last outing for the team, couldn’t seem to shake the rain-delay rust off. After having to sit nearly an hour and 20 minutes, he allowed a leadoff double to Onstott to start the fifth inning. He was able to spin around and pick him off while leading off second, but then allowed back-to-back singles to Boss and Brandon White, before walking Jeff Holm to load the bases. Zach Stewart then made him pay by blasting a grand slam home run over the right field fence to unknot the score and make it 6-2.

Down 2-0, the Ironmen tied the game in the bottom of the third inning when Nate Antone ripped a two-run single by the shortstop to score Mike Grieco and Will Hodges, who hit back-to-back singles.

After shuting the Paints down the first two innings, Knight gave up three straight hits equaling two runs in the third inning. Payton Bieker singled, Jeff Onstott doubled, before Torsten Boss singled to drive them both home to give Chillicothe a 2-0 lead. He then pitched a scoreless fourth before the rain came down in the bottom half of the inning.

The Ironmen added a run in the fifth inning when Stephen Hagen hit an RBI double to score Evan Melendez, who singled to lead off. The Ironmen left men on second and third in the sixth inning and first and second in the seventh to squander scoring opportunities.

If you take away two of Chillicothe‘s innings, the Lorain County Ironmen win the game 3-0 Sunday night.

But baseball doesn’t work that way as the Ironmen couldn’t overcome two BIG innings where Chillicothe batted around twice and scored 13 runs, en route to a 13-3 win over the Ironmen in front of a crowd of 205 at The Pipe Yard.

The Ironmen fall to 1-3 in the second half, while the Paints improved to 3-0 and remain in first place of the Eastern Division of the Prospect League.

"It’s a culmination of things," Ironmen manager Eric Cormell said. "We just got off of a long road trip. We lost a few pitchers (due to injuries). We got pnemonia going around, it has two guys down ... Right now, our bullpen is taxed. We had to throw a positon player (Ingraham) just to get us through the game. Against a team like that (Chillicothe), you can’t give them walks and runs like that. Hopefully tomorrow, we’ll figure out a way to beat these guys."

The highlight of the game was Austin Ingraham’s two-run triple in the bottom of the third inning that scored Justin Mackert and Nate Antone, who both drew walks.

With two outs, Ingraham hit a blast to right field, which he hustled to third and slid in just in time for the three bagger. The clutch hit cut a 5-1 deficit to 5-3, but that was the closest the Ironmen got. The Paints painted eight runs on the board the very next inning. "So far every time we play Chillicothe, we‘ve held them in check the first couple innings then they explode," Ingraham said. "They did that again tonight. We‘re going to see these guys a lot in the second half so we have to figure out how to minimize that."

Ingraham also had a chance to pitch and didn’t disappoint. He pitched three innings of scoreless relief, scattering four hits and a walk.

"It was the first time I pitched since high school," said Ingraham, who pitched at Willoughby South. "I actually threw over the top in high school, but before the game I was joking around and dropped down and threw side arm. Coach needed somebody to throw some innings and I said I’ll do it. I just put the ball over the plate and they probably weren’t expecting stuff that slow, but I got some long fly outs and got through three innings ... I absolutely would pitch again. It felt good to be up there again."

Chillicothe’s Greg Van Horn went yard, hitting a two-run home run over the left field fence after Zach Stewart hit his second two-run single of the game as the Paints cracked the game open, putting put up eight runs in the fourth inning after scoring five runs in the third.

The Ironmen hit the scoreboard first as Stephen Hagen and Nate Antone hit back-to-back doubles with two outs to take a 1-0 lead in the first inning. After Hagen’s first-pitch double, Antone followed with an identical first-pitch RBI double to score Hagen.

The Paints came to life in the third inning, putting up three runs on three hits, before recording their first out of the inning. The Paints added another two more runs before the Ironmen made it out of the inning. Zach Stewart provided a two-run single, Greg Van Horn added an RBI single, Trace Voshell hit a fielder’s choice that scored a run and David Turnbull hit a sacrifice fly.

Starting pitcher Kris Hall lost his first decision of the season, falling to 2-1 after allowing five third-inning runs. Patrick Mulligan allowed the eight runs in the fourth, while Ingraham, Billy Urban and Phil Brua held the Paints scoreless.

The Ironmen will try to snap their three-game losing streak when they host Chillicothe at 7 p.m. Monday night at The Pipe Yard.

The Lorain County Ironmen started the second half of Prospect League play with another ninth inning win Thursday night in Lisle, Illinois, defeating the Dupage Dragons, 4-3.

Mike Grieco provided the game-winning RBI double, scoring Nick Hamilton, who led off the ninth with a single. Grieco finished the game, going 3-for-4 with a run scored and the game-winner.

After the first game, the Ironmen find themselves in first place in the Eastern Division with a 1-0 record.

Matt McAllester gave the Ironmen a 3-1 lead when he hit a two-run single to score Grieco and Justin Mackert.

Eric Knight started for the Ironmen, pitching 5 2/3 innings, allowing three runs, two earned and struck out three. Patrick Mulligan pitched 2 1/3 innings and picked up the win, improving to 3-2. Phil Brua came on to pitch the ninth and earn his fifth save of the season.

The Lorain County Ironmen came from behind on Sunday afternoon in Pennsylvania for a 6-5 victory over the Butler Blue Sox. The win is their sixth in their last seven games. The win also moves the Ironmen to one game under .500 heading into the mid season break.

Down 5-4, the Ironmen struck with two outs in the top of the ninth inning. Matt McAllester was hit-by-pitch with one out, then stole second base on the next pitch. After a fly out for the second out, Billy Urban drew a walk before Austin Ingraham lined the second pitch he saw into right field, scoring McAllester to tie the score at five. Nick Hamilton followed with the game-winning RBI single, scoring Urban to give the Ironmen the lead.

Phil Brua finished the Blue Sox off in the bottom of the ninth inning for his fourth win of the season. Brua pitched two innings to earn the win.

The Ironmen scored two runs in the top of the fourth inning on a Nate Antone two-run single, scoring Tony Brunetti, who singled, and Stephen Hagen, who walked.

Lorain County added two more runs in the fifth inning, led by Brunetti and Ingraham. With one out, Evan Melendez walked and McAllester singled before Brunetti delivered his second of three hits on the day to drive in Melendez. Two batters latter, Ingraham singled home McAllester to push the lead out to 4-1.

The Ironmen are off for the All-Star break until Thursday night when they travel to Dupage to battle the Dragons at 8 p.m.

The Ironmen will also be represented by Brua, Ingraham, Urban and McAllester on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the All-Star game. You can listen to the game through the Prospect League website.

The Lorain County Ironmen won for the sixth time in the last seven games with a 6-4 win over the Slippery Rock Sliders in Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

Eric Knight (Oberlin) won for the third time this season and Evan Melendez (Ashland) and Brandon Cantrill (Oberlin) led the offensive attack.

The Ironmen jumped out to an early lead in the first inning when Melendez singled and advanced to second base when the pitcher threw a pickoff throw past the first baseman.

Melendez scored when Matt McAllester (Ashland) laid down a sacrifice bunt and pitcher Brian Muransky threw the ball away again allowing McAllester to advance to 2nd. McAllester would score the second run of the inning on Stephen Hagen’s (Texas Tech) sacrifice fly to center.

Melendez scored the third run for the Ironmen when he led off the third inning with a double, advanced to third on McAllester's sacrifice bunt and scored on a wild pitch. Brandon Cantrill and Billy Urban (St. Bonaventure) both added two hits and a run scored as well.

Knight started and pitched 6 innings allowing 5 hits, 2 runs, walked 1 and struck out 6. Knight was relieved by Brian Taricska (Kent State) who threw 2 scoreless and hitless innings. Phil Brua (Oberlin) closed out the game.

The Ironmen will be back in action on Sunday at Butler. It’s a special 2:00 p.m. start time.

Lorain native and Admiral King graduate Ray Carrion talks about his travels and his return to Lorain for a concert at The Pipe Yard.

Plus: clips from Friday night concert.

It was a hot, happening and a reunion of sorts at the Pipe Yard on Friday night.

With Lorain native Ray Carrion on hand, playing a concert in front of his hometown friends and family, it was a party-like atmosphere. The Lorain County Ironmen took on the Dupage Dragons in front of a season-high crowd of 780, who were treated to fireworks after the game.

The Ironmen didn’t disappoint their biggest crowd of the year, defeating the Dragons, 3-0, to improve to 12-15 on the season.

"The positive pressure of performing in front of a crowd, it brings your game to another level," Ironmen manager Eric Cormell said. "Who doesn’t want to play in front of a lot of people? You dream about it when you’re a kid playing T-ball or whifle ball in your backyard. When that buzz in the air, it just makes things a lot more exciting, your adrenaline is up. Positive pressure just makes you perform a lot better."

Western Reserve’s Brandon Cantrill started the Ironmen party in the second inning with an RBI single to score Stephen Hagen, who reached on an error by the second baseman, who dropped a pop up that barely got out of the infield. Billy Urban, who singled, then scored when Cantrill got caught in a rundown between first and second base. While Cantrill got tagged out halfway in the baseline, Urban crossed the plate to give the Ironmen a 2-0 lead.

Evan Melendez showed his hometown crowd his speed on the base paths. After getting hit-by-pitch in the fifth inning, he stole second and third base before scoring on an RBI single by Tony Brunetti to make it 3-0.

"It’s always good to have fans, it always makes it more exciting," Brunetti said.

"Everything you do gets amplified, because you can hear the cheers. It’s always good to carry momentum. We restart after the all-star break so it’s always good to get your feet under you and find your rhythm and carry it through the second half of the season."

Ironmen starting pitcher Kris Hall, who pitches at Cleveland State, was sharp and effective, allowing just two hits and two walks, including two strikeouts, through 6 innings. He threw 88 pitches total. He walked his first batter Jake Miller in the seventh before being removed for Patrick Mulligan, who pitched 1 1/3 innings.

"I really established the fastball early on," Hall said. "I got ahead of guys for the most part. I kind of let them get themselves out, just pitched to contact. First time through the order, I started with a fastball so they don’t see every pitch that I have. Toward the end, it was more my curve ball or my change-up so they wouldn’t be sitting on a fastball."

After Mulligan walked Miller and allowed a single to Steve Dalporto, Avon’s Phil Brua was called upon to clean up the mess. He promptly got Jack DeAno to ground out to the mound. Brua turned and threw a strike to Urban, who threw to first for the inning-ending double play.

Brua then got three of the last four batters he faced in the ninth to pick up his Prospect League-leading fourth save of the season.

"The kid is money in the bank," Cormell added. "I can’t be more proud of him. He’s been doing it for Oberlin the past couple years and now he’s on a little bit bigger stage. I’d like to see him in affiliated ball some day."

The Ironmen’s newest player in Justin Mackert is finding comfort in his new role after having a great season at The Citadel.

"I got some pitches I could hit and I put some good swings on the ball," said Mackert, who went 3-for-3 in the game. "It feels great to contribute. It’s nice to be able to contribute and fit in real quick. When you’re doing well, it tends to happen."