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SCOTT SCHEBLER (Prairie, Rancho Cucamonga (Dodgers)) - Started in left field Thursday and was 1-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs in the Quakes' season-opening 5-4 win over Lake Elsinore.
KELLEN SWEENEY (Jefferson, Lansing (Blue Jays)) - Started as designated hitter Thursday and was 1-for-4 with a single in the Lugnuts' 5-4 loss at Lake County.
RYAN SWEENEY (Xavier, Iowa (Cubs)) - Did not play Thursday in the I-Cubs' 10-3 loss at Albuquerque.
The games of "pickle" in the Mauer family's basement in St. Paul, Minn., got a little rough at times when Jake, Billy and Joe were kids.
They called it "hot box," where there's two fielders and one runner, and Joe - the youngest of the three boys - took a pounding at times.
"Yeah, Joe took the brunt of all that," Jake said with a smile Wednesday, remembering the good old days in the Mauer household.
All three boys turned out to be professional baseball players in the Minnesota Twins organization, but Jake ran into elbow problems and Billy had a shoulder injury that ended their minor league careers.
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The Cedar Rapids Kernels plan to use a six-man rotation with their starting pitchers this season, an unsual gambit that's one pitcher more than normal.
The directive came from the Minnesota Twins, the local club's new Major League affiliate.
The idea is to spread the workload and give pitchers an opportunity to develop at the Class A level in the Midwest League.
"Obviously there's a need in our organization for starters, and we're pretty excited about some of these young men we took in the draft last year," Kernels Manager Jake Mauer said Wednesday.
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Marshalltown third baseman Erica White had some advice for her teammates Wednesday afternoon after she struck out against Kirkwood ace Amber Logemann.
"Don't go after the high one," White told her friends after futilely swinging at strike three.
She also could have told her teammates to lay off the other pitches as well - high, low and in-between. It really didn't matter.
Logemann pitched a total of seven innings in Wednesday's doubleheader and struck out 20 batters in two games as the seventh-ranked Eagles swept Marshalltown, 10-0 and 5-0, in junior college softball.
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Ryan Sweeney has signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs and is expected to begin the year with their Triple-A team in Des Moines, The Gazette reported on its website Tuesday.
Sweeney, an outfielder from Cedar Rapids, has spent seven years in the Major Leagues with the Chicago White Sox, Oakland A's and Boston Red Sox.
Sweeney, 28, was not included on Boston's 25-man roster for Opening Day this season and elected to become a free agent. He is a career .280 hitter.
The Des Moines I-Cubs open the season Thursday at Albuquerque.
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