Tag: Florence Freedom

The Florence Freedom will face the River City Rascals in a one-game playoff on Tuesday as the Frontier League post-season kicks off. The Freedom qualified for the playoffs for the third time in the past four seasons on Sunday when the Evansville Otters were knocked out of contention thats to their loss to the Rascals […]

Win Sunday’s regular season finale and the Florence Freedom are headed to the Frontier League playoffs – the result of turning red hot when it mattered most and salvaging a season in which the Florence squad was named Frontier League Organization of the Year. The Freedom (49-46) rallied from two runs down to stun the Southern […]

The Florence Freedom (47-45) fell to the Windy City ThunderBolts (40-52) by a score of 9-2 on Wednesday. With the loss Florence is once again tied with the Rockford Aviators for the final spot in the Frontier League playoffs. Florence would be in if the season ended today as they hold the tiebreaker. Four games remain in […]

The Florence Freedom (47-44) got a monster performance from All-Star Sam Eberle and some great pitching as well as they knocked off the Windy City ThunderBolts (39-52) by a final score of 8-1 Tuesday night at UC Health Stadium. With the win, the Freedom remain one game ahead of the Rockford Aviators for the final playoff spot and […]

The Florence Freedom (45-43) got a masterful performance from Jeremy Gooding (7-4) Friday night as they knocked off the Frontier Greys (39-49) by a final score of 6-0 at UC Health Stadium. With the win combined with Rockford’s loss to Normal, the Freedom are tied with the Aviators for the final spot in the Frontier League playoffs with […]

The Florence Freedom (41-43) used a combination of Jeremy Gooding (6-4), Seth Harvey, Ethan Gibbons and Ed Kohout to toss a three-hit shutout against the Schaumburg Boomers (34-50) Sunday afternoon as the Freedom won 5-0.  The win marks the Freedom’s third series sweep of the season and their second of the Boomers at Boomers Stadium. It’s the Freedom’s […]

The Florence Freedom won their third straight game on Friday night with a 7-3 victory over the Schaumburg Boomers. With Rockford’s loss to Southern Illinois, Florence (39-43)  Zach Wendorf (2-1) went five and two thirds innings, giving up three runs on five hits to pick up the win. He got a measure of payback as […]

For the 31st time, a member of the Florence Freedom has signed a contract with a Major League Baseball team. Right-handed pitcher Chuck Weaver’s contract was purchased Friday by the Miami Marlins. The 24-year old is the first Freedom player to have his contract purchased by the Big League. “We are very excited for Chuck,” […]

The Florence Freedom dropped to five games under .500 after the Normal Cornbelters erased a three-run deficit in the eighth inning. Normal picked up its sixth straight win, 8-7 on Wednesday night. The Cornbelters (43-31) used three singles and two doubles to rally in the eighth. The final blow, an Ozney Guillen double, rolled all the […]