Winter Park Dawgs on big winning streak

The Winter Park Diamond Dawgs have streaked to ten straight wins while trying to run away with the league nearing the end of the regular season. But the Leesburg Lightning (17-11) won’t let them get away so easily. As of the start of the week both teams were on their longest winning streaks of the season at the same time, adding some drama to the Florida Collegiate Summer League’s final weeks.

And in the fracas even the College Park Freedom (8-20) have begun to come around, winning two straight and coming within two games of the DeLand Suns (10-17), who have rapidly dropped toward the bottom of the league.

In their wild ten-win tear the Dawgs (19-9) have had some strange luck in their scheduling, putting them up against the formerly league-leading Orlando Monarchs (16-11) and longtime rival Sanford River Rats (13-15) in nearly all of those games.

In their most win against Orlando on July 15, it wasn’t even close. Four Dawgs shared the RBI duties, though center fielder Tanner Stanley grabbed the spotlight, blasting two doubles in the game. But it wasn’t all about extra bases from the batter’s box; three of the Dawgs took the small ball route and picked up bases on the run, with Daniel Sweet swiping his 15th bag of the season. Brett Nizamoff handled the Monarchs easily, with six strikeouts in six innings.

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