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On a gorgeous autumn morning at Alga 3, Hennessey’s executed their most all-around complete game of the year in a 16-5 victory over the Pizza Port Brew Crew. Behind the stellar pitching of Steve Berry, the Hens gloves and throws were at the top of their game making challenging catches and on the money throws to just beat out speedy Brew Crew runners. Except for a moment when Pizza Port scored three runs in the top of the second inning, Hennessey’s led the entire game. The Hens were led by the hot bats of Rich Lavacot who was 4 for 4 with two of those hits long homeruns, Sherre Lovick who was also 4 for 4, substitute player Bob Loperena also 4 for 4, Dennis O’Hern with three hits and Craig Wheatcroft with three hits one being a round tripper. The most exciting at bat of the game, however, was the clutch bases loaded triple by the one and only Ruby Murphy that concluded a five-run rally by the Hens.

For Pizza Port, sub-Bob Buscher, centerfielder Vern Blough, left fielder Jerry Galiley and first baseman Jim Davis all had a good day defensively and at the plate.

Worden Williams was well represented at the game. The Hens want to thank Bob Loperena for filling in for some missing players. Bob Buscher and Mike Endeman filled in admirably for some unavailable Brew Crew.

Both teams want to thank Al Cabacungan for calling the game and keeping things moving as the game took only one hour and twenty minutes to complete.

Looking at this score you might think it was a slugfest, but it really wasn't. All of PG's scores were in four innings and VPS's were in only three. Good pitching by Rich Keefer and Jimmie Martin with mostly solid defenses put up a total of 11 goose-eggs between the two teams.

PG started off the game with two runs in the first that stood up until the third inning when Rick Shaw hit a three-run homer to give VPS their only lead of the day. PG followed in the top of the fourth with five straight singles and a double to take a 7 to 4 lead. They upped that lead to 12 to 4 in the sixth capped by Robert Kroger's three run homer. VPS plated five runs of their own in the bottom of the sixth to bring the score to 12 to 9 for PG. VPS then put a scare into PG with two runs in the eighth but left the tying and go-ahead runs stranded. A nervous, but confident, PG then put up six runs in the 9th inning, capped by Teddy Bedillo's grand slam.

PG had two players with 4 for 4 days - Joe Uribe and Oscar Castillo. Keith Richards, David Bosque and Pat Driscoll were each 3 for 4 as were the home run players, Robert Kroger and Teddy Bedillo.

VPS had Rich Keefer, David Hartzog and Dan Menendez go 4 for 4 and five players go 3 for 4 - Phil Kay, David Ward, Rick Shaw, Jeff Schneider and Linda Wolf.

A big shout-out to Steve Sexton for a fine job umpiring.

 It was a fast moving and well played contest on a sunny and pleasant Tuesday morning at Pine Park, with TPP coming out on top thanks to a 6 run rally in the top of the 9th. 

Pitching was particularly strong for both teams, with TPP's Margo Jacobo and GA's Frankie Burns throwing strikes and keeping the hitters off balance. Through the 8th it was a relatively low scoring

game, with Gaspar ahead 9-7. Defensive positioning was well managed on both sides, and there were several line drive outs. Special kudos to TPP's Nanci Watt at 1st base, for two great 'snag and tag' 

plays for key outs. 

Then came the top of the 9th! The 6 run rally was ignited by a base hit by lead-off hitter Donna Engleman, followed by back to back to back home runs by Pat Steele, Dan Smith, and Kevin McBarron. That put TPP ahead 13-9, and the defense held in the bottom of the inning to seal the deal.  

GA's attack was spearheaded by Dan Hacker 4/4; Steve Doan, Dave Ash (3 RBIs), (sub) Dario Santana (2 RBIs), all 3/4; and Joe Dimambro with a double and 3 RBIs. 

Everyone in the TPP lineup had at least one hit. Key contributors were Dan Smith, 4/4 (HR, 2 RBIs), Oscar Delgado, 3/4, Pat Steele 2/4 (HR, 3 RBIs), Kevin McBarron 2/4 (HR, 2 RBIs), Oscar Lara, 2/4 (3 RBIs), Mike Berry, 2/4 (2 RBIs), and Nanci Watt, 2/4 (RBI). 

GA wishes to thank Dario Santana for subbing, and both teams wish to thank Barry Anderson for his fine umpiring. 

The high-flying Carlsbad Inn mates pose a problem to opponents, especially when the game is at Calavera.  Coach Ray Kusmer of the Draft relied on his best outfielders to defend the fences against all the heavy hitters and set up his infield players to try to contain the notoriously bad bounces on this bearcat of a dirt field.  The results are evident in the score.  CBI, the second highest run producers in the league, were held to just 12 runs.  Of course, their defense posed Part B of Ray's problem.  How do you score runs against these guys?  We're still tallying the votes on that one.  The game in a nutshell was The Draft leading for eight straight innings by hitting many line drives, but never ahead by more than four runs, and the ninth when CBI caught up in the top with the meat of their batting order and DR fading away to nothing to end it.

Roney Lewis was flawless at the plate for The Draft, Eugene Smith was 3/4 with a homer that bounced on the top rail of the fence and on over (fortunately there were no Dodger fans to push it back in play), Bill Mead was 3/4, Steve Newberg was 2/3 with a sacrifice and Andy Balas homered.  The Carlsbad Inn greats include Dennis Kemp who was all hits, Ken Thompson and Jack Karson who were both 3/4 and then there's Randy Baird.  This guy hit a ball that cleared the left field fence by twenty feet, but it was ruled just foul, missing the pole by inches.  The next pitch he hit so high and far that it cleared the left center field fence by forty feet.  Shades of Mike Maltinsky!

The Draft wishes to thank substitute Eugene Smith who played a truly amazing game and both teams salute Jimmie Smyth for umpiring a dispute-free game.

  Bye: Nucci's

          Worden Williams