WATERLOO, IOWA  – JULY 31, 2007 – Matt Trausch (Oakland) pitched eight scoreless innings allowing just three hits and striking out a season-high five batters in a 1-0 win over the Waterloo Bucks. The win moves the Chucks within a half game of the South Division leaders Eau Claire and Green Bay with a 15-6 (31-24 overall) second half record.

The only run came in the fourth when Brent Weaver (Rose State College) drove in Jeremy Barnes (Notre Dame) on an RBI-single. Elliott Arrington (UNC-Asheville) was the only Woodchucks with a multi-hit game finishing 2-for-4 with a couple singles.

Trausch allowed just four base runners in eight innings and retired eight straight from the fifth to the seventh. Pat Venditte (Creighton) picked up his ninth save logging the last inning. Weaver had eight assists at third, recording the third out in the ninth. 

The Chucks continue its six game-road trip in Alexandria Wednesday, August 1 at 7:05 p.m.

NOTES: Sam Freeman is the probable starter for Wednesday, August 1 versus Alexandria ... The Chucks are now 4-2 this season and 59-63 all-time versus Bucks ... Trausch has two complete games and pitched eight innings in three other starts ... Trausch recorded 12 groundball outs compared to just three fly ball outs ... Its the first game since July 9th that the Woodchucks did not have an extra base hit as all seven hits were singles ... Its the 25th one run game the Chucks have played in, a league-high, standing 12-13 in that situation ... Woodchucks finish July 18-8, the second most wins in the league.