Stokes Scorches Islanders for 3 HR
<Hoboken:team#55> right fielder <Ed Stokes:player#10266> blasted three homers today at Hoboken Ballpark in the 8-5 Falcons victory over the <Hilton Head Islanders:team#109>.

For the game, <Ed Stokes:player#10266> scored 4 times and knocked in 5 runs. When he hit his last home run, his teammates, hearing the crack of the bat, leaped off the bench and rushed on the field to greet the jubilant <Stokes:player#10266> when he reached home plate.

"It was just one game, but it sure was a lot of fun -- 3-for-4, three roundtrippers and a win," a gleeful Stokes told BNN reporters in a postgame interview. "What a day."

<Ed Stokes:player#10266> hit a solo-shot off <Mehdi Chaumont:player#11361> in the 2nd, hit a solo-shot off <Mehdi Chaumont:player#11361> in the 4th, grounded out in the 5th, walked in the 7th and hit a two-run home run off <Don McFadden:player#4314> in the 8th.

Currently <Stokes:player#10266> is hitting .329 and has collected 23 home runs, 59 RBIs and scored 56 times, while playing in 67 games.