Monarchs Gold opened in the first game of the World Series with a 2-0 win over the Louisville Orangemen at Owens Community College live on BCSN Thursday.  Gold went scoreless in the first inning but opened the second inning with back to back singles by Brandon McFarland and Bret Howard. Eric Yunker then laid down a sacrifice bunt to move McFarland and Howard to second and third. Adam Yunker then hit an infield single between first and second and scored McFarland for the RBI and the 1-0 lead.

Gold remained scoreless until the 6th inning when Brandon McFarland blasted a home run against the wind over the right field fence to give Gold their second score of the game. Brian Bilius went 2 for 4 with Cappelletty, Hornyak, and Eric Yunker accounting for the remainder of the hits.

Brian Koehl started on the mound and pitched an incredible 8 innings not allowing any runs and only 3 hits with 7 strikeouts. Bret Kuebler came in to close the game shutting down the last 3 batters.