Payne Sizzles with 20-Game Batting Streak
The hitting streak for <Illinois:team#74> left fielder <Chris Payne:player#9983> now stands at 20 games, but the Warhawks dropped today's contest 11-6 to the <Washington Resonance:team#91>. Payne went 2-for-5 in the game.

"Things went well for me personally today," he said later. "I got 2 hits and the streak keeps going. But we didn't win the game."
<Chris Payne:player#9983> singled in the 1st, grounded out in the 2nd, flied out in the 4th, grounded out in the 6th and singled in the 8th.

So far this year <Payne:player#9983> has 42 home runs and a .311 batting average.