BELOIT, Wis. - The Beloit Snappers topped the Cedar Rapids Kernels, 6-4, Sunday afternoon before 1,056 fans at Pohlman Field, snapping a five-game winning streak for Cedar Rapids.

Four of Beloit's runs were unearned because of two Kernels errors. However, the Kernels still won their eighth series in a row.

The loss dropped Cedar Rapids into a tie with Kane County for first place in the Western Division standings in the Midwest League at 25-17.

The Kernels open a home series against Wisconsin Monday at 6:35 p.m.

Beloit scored the first run in all three games of the series. The Snappers took a 1-0 lead in the second inning Sunday on a pair of doubles. Luis Baez doubled with one out to right-center and scored on Michael Soto's two-out double to deep left-center.

Logan Wade tied the game, 1-1, in the third inning with his fifth home run of the season for Cedar Rapids. His one-out homer snuck just over the wall in left-center and past the glove of Snappers center fielder Justin Higley, who scaled the wall.

The Snappers scored three unearned runs with two outs in the fourth inning, moving ahead 4-1. With two outs and Tyler Marincov at first base after a walk, Kernels right fielder Alex Swim misplayed a ball hit by Chih-Fang Pan.

The fielding error allowed Marincov to score as Pan wheeled to third base. With the Snappers up by a run, Soto drilled his second RBI double to right-center. It scored Pan and made the score 3-1. Soto scored on a single by Higley to make it 4-1.

Stephen Gonsalves (1-1) took the loss. The lefty pitched well in five innings, allowing four runs (one earned) on five hits. He struck out five and walked two.

Beloit increased its lead to 5-1 in the sixth inning with another unearned run against reliever Hudson Boyd. Phil Pohl led off with a single. He advanced to third base when Soto reached on a two-out throwing error by Kernels shortstop Engelb Vielma. Pohl scored on Boyd's wild pitch.

Matt Stalcup (3-3) recorded the win for the Snappers, going five innings. The southpaw allowed one run on four hits while striking out five and walking three. Reliever Hunter Adkins pitched two scoreless innings before running into trouble in the eighth inning.

The Kernels tallied three runs in the eighth, trimming Beloit's lead to 5-4. Chad Christensen led off with a walk. Swim doubled to right-center to put two runners in scoring position with one out.

Max Murphy followed with a RBI single to left, cutting Beloit's lead to 5-2. Michael Quesada drove in Swim and Murphy with a two-run double to left-center as the Kernels got within one run, 5-4.

Sam Bragg came out of the bullpen for Beloit with two on and one out and proceeded to strike out a pair to end the inning.

Adkins went 2 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on four hits. He struck out three and walked two. Bragg ended up striking out the first four batters he faced and retired all five he faced for his fifth save.

Beloit picked up an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth inning against Kernels reliever Brandon Bixler. Pan drew a walk and later scored on a two-out single by Branden Cogswell, pushing the Snappers' lead to 6-4.

Bixler went two innings in relief, allowing one run on three hits. He struck out four and walked two.

KERNELS (4): Walker, 2b, 4 0 1 0, Wade, 3b, 5 1 1 1, Christensen, 1b, 3 1 1 0, Garver, dh, 4 0 1 0, Swim, rf, 4 1 1 0, M.Murphy, lf, 4 1 1 1, Quesada, c, 4 0 2 2, Vielma, ss, 3 0 0 0, J.Murphy, cf, 4 0 0 0. Totals 35 4 8 4.

BELOIT (6): Mercedes, 2b, 3 0 1 0, Mathews, lf, 4 0 1 0, Marincov, rf, 3 1 0 0, Pohl, c, 4 1 1 0, Baez, 3b, 4 1 1 0, Pan, dh, 3 2 0 0, Soto, 1b, 4 1 3 2, Higley, cf, 4 0 1 1, Cogswell, ss, 3 0 1 1. Totals 32 6 9 4.

Kernels     001 000 030 - 4 8 2
Beloit      010 301 01x - 6 9 1

Gonsalves, Boyd (6), Bixler (7) and Quesada. Stalcup, Adkins (6), Bragg (8) and Pohl. W - Stalcup (3-3). L - Gonsalves (1-1). S - Bragg (5). 2B - Christensen (19), Walker (6), Quesada (10), Baez (23), Soto 2 (4). HR - Wade (5). SB - Pohl (4). E - Swim (1), Vielma (14), Cogswell (6). T - 2:45. A - 1,056.