The Boomers hit the road for the first time in the 2017 season, dropping the opener with the Windy City Thunderbolts by a 4-3 score, losing for the first time this season.

Windy City used a four-run seventh inning to hand the Boomers their first loss of the season, despite Schaumburg jumping ahead 3-0.

Three consecutive hits on three pitches for the Boomers in the third allowed Schaumburg to grab a 1-0 lead, as Zach Weigel drove in Kenny Towns, who doubled. Josh Gardiner would drive in his first run of the season on a single up the middle to score Nick Oddo. Seth Spivey tried to add a third run in the inning on a sac-fly, but an appeal ruled Weigel left early, ending the threat.

David Harris continued his torrid start to the season with a solo-homer in the fourth, his second of the year. Harris owns 11 RBIs in four games, most in the league.

Starter Preston Jamison made his Schaumburg debut and threw 5.1 shutout innings, allowing just three hits while walking two and striking out five. Jamison had not thrown in a game since 2013.

Rob McDonnell stranded a pair of runners in the sixth and has not allowed an inherited runner to score this year. Blair Beck hit a three-run game-tying homer off McDonnell in the seventh and Windy CIty would add another to account for the final.

Weigel reached base in all four plate appearances, recording two doubles, a single and a walk. Schaumburg finished with nine hits in the game.

The Boomers return to Crestwood for game two of the series tomorrow morning at 10:35 a.m. The Boomers will send lefty Lars Liguori to the mound to make his season debut opposite Thunderbolts Jake Fisher.