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Thursday July 28th
The Draft 15 Gaspar 3
Worden Williams 15 Hennessey's Tavern 11
Worden Williams 15 Hennessey's Tavern 11
Gaspar took the field this morning missing some big bats. Manager Skip Moyer took the field with his team and played hard and nobody complained about anything. Classy bunch.
The Draft spotted Gaspar a 1-0 lead early but that proved to not hold up. Leading the way for The Draft was Teddy Badillo 2 for 2 with a sac fly and Paul Thomas was 3-3.
For Gaspar Tom Benacka was 3-3. Thanks to Joe Gomez for subbing for Gaspar.
Worden Williams 15 Hennessey's Tavern 11
Worden Williams 15 Hennessey's Tavern 11
Worden Williams 15 Hennessey's Tavern 11
“Mirabile dictu!”
“Do you believe in miracles?”, the greatest sports call in history by Al Michaels as the clock wound down in the 1980 Olympic semifinal hockey game as the U.S. beat the Russkies on a game winning gold medal by Mike Eruzione and eventually took the hockey gold metal (ok, this is a run on sentence). A miracle of sorts, not quite as impactful but joyous nonetheless, occurred on Pine field as Worden Williams (starting at 2-5) defeated Hennessey’s Tavern 15 to 11 after being down by 10 runs as late as the 6th inning. Both managers, Joe Paul and Janet Wood both agreed that this was a game of the “have nots” as in “I have not enough players.” But both managers provided the other with a catcher and facing a 12 PM deadline to keep the soccer munchkins off of the field, completed the game with 5 minutes to spare.
Oh, the game. Down 11 to 1 in the bottom of the 6th , and looking as tired as a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest, WW scored 7 in the 6th, 2 more in the 7th and 5 in the 8th while shutting out HEN from the 6th inning on. WW was led by Mark Riserbato (5/5), with a homerun and homeruns by Rich Lavacat and Ken Thompson. The key hit, however, was a 2 out double by J.V. (John Vivrett) in the bottom of the 8th to start a five run inning and pull WW ahead by 4 runs. Slick fielding by Nanci Watt and Mark Riserbato kept HEN from scoring in the last 3 innings.
Offensively, HEN was led by Donato Domaguin (5/5) including a home run, sub Dale Miller (4/4), Rich Berkley (3/5) and a HR and Barry Anderson and Gene Lachimia (4/5). Defensively, Oscar Castillo and Donato made some fine fielding plays and Barry took away a sure home run off the bat of Sam Smith by making a fine running catch in the outfield – wait what! Barry?
Our thanks to Joey Rafa for umpiring today's game.
Village Pie Shoppe 27 The Landings 14
Village Pie Shoppe 27 The Landings 14
Village Pie Shoppe 27 The Landings 14
The Landings had twelve players willing to get out of bed at an ungodly hour to play the early game of a doubleheader at Alga 3. Village Pie only had eleven so LAN kindly furnished a catcher. VPS scored an average of four runs per inning to LANs one and a half, so the game was never in doubt. However, Landings won the home run sweepstakes three to one. The Landings "taters" came from Greg (I Never Met A Beer I Didn't Like) Lorton, Barbara (I Beg Your) Pardo and acting manager Bill Codner, who lives by Teddy Roosevelt's motto, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." VPS's homer came from Leigh Peterson and it was a honey!
For the Villagers, Bob Porter, Johnny Brand, Ken McGehee and Mike Endeman were perfect at the plate and Oscar Lara and Duane (Magoo) Lizotte only made a single out.
For Landings, the aforementioned Greg and Bill each made only one out. A shout out goes to Donna Engleman, Barb Pardo, Evie Schwartz and Kirsten Mildbrandt for some excellent defensive plays throughout the game.
Our thanks to the quintessential umpire, Al Cabacungan, for offering his services gratis.
Nucci's 18 Pizza Port 16
Village Pie Shoppe 27 The Landings 14
Village Pie Shoppe 27 The Landings 14
With humidity starting at the 10:30 game at Alga PPB bats came out hot scoring five runs in the first inning with Nucci's scoring 1 run. Both teams were scoreless in the 2nd and 3rd inning. It must have been that great pitching from Rodney Johnson and Johnnie Martinez.
In the fourth inning Nucci's scored two runs and PPB one run. PPB bats came alive again in the bottom of the fifth and scored five runs giving them the lead of 11-3 Nucci's was scoreless but rallied back with an awesome 7 runs in the 6th bringing the score 10 to 11.
PPB scored three runs bringing PPB to 14 runs. Nucci's scored five runs in the 7th and held PPB to one run and tied the game 15-15 The game was tied again in the 8th with each team scoring 1 run .
Tom Carney and Craig Wheatcroft hit in the 9th inning to give Nucci's two runs to advance ahead of PPB. PPB was held scoreless in the bottom of the 9th.
A very competitive game with great defense and sportsmanship.
Nucci's Highlights : Tom Carney,4/5, 1 HR 3 Rbi's, Craig W., Mark L. and Al C. were 3/5, Dave Hartzog, 3/4 with 5 Rbi's Rick Skidmore, 3/4 and Jerry Nunaez 3/4 with 3 Rbi's
PPB Highlights: Bob Blachford, 3/4 2 RBI's, Kevin 3/3 with 3 RBI's, Mike M 2/4 4 RBI's, Ray K 3/4 1 RBI, Jerry G 3/4 2 RBI's, Scott 4/4, Joe Kahn 1/4, 1 RBI
Tuesday July 26th
The Draft 16 Village Pie Shop 10
The Draft 16 Village Pie Shop 10
The Draft 16 Village Pie Shop 10
Always interesting when a team scores 5 in the 1st inning and then more or less struggles the remainder of the game. Today both teams followed this pattern with runs in the middle innings hard to come by. The score was 5-5 after one inning and 11-10 going into the bottom of the 8th. The Draft scored 5 runs in the bottom of the 8th with 2 outs to score a 16-10 victory.
For The Draft, Teddy Badillo lead the way going 4 for 4, Roney Lewis, Gary Soper, Dave Erwine (home run), Steve Berry and Roger Tesi all 3 for 4.
For VPS, Leigh "Honey" Peterson was 4 for 4, and both Bob Porter and Johnny Brand were 3 for 4 with Johnny getting a home run.
Good play and great sportsmanship by both teams.
Pizza Port 25 Worden Williams 9
The Draft 16 Village Pie Shop 10
The Draft 16 Village Pie Shop 10
Pizza Port Brewery took a 5 run lead in the first inning with Mike Maltinsky-4/5- HR, Kevin McBarron-4/4- and Steve Sexton-4/4- doing the damage. Worden Williams came back with two runs on a Rich Lavacot -3/4- run scoring double and a Ken Thompson- 3/3- hit to make it 5-2. And there it sat as the defenses took over until the 5th inning where Pizza Port stretched the lead to 10-4 before pulling away late.
Dan Menendez and Bobby Blachford added 4 hits each as Pizza Port kept adding on. But with a stellar Worden Williams defense and Dan Miserany and Jack Schwarzel chipping in with 3 hits each for Worden Williams, it was still only 14-7 into the 9th. Then PPB unleashed KempAvalaNez as Dennis Kemp, Pete Zavala and Johnnie Martinez combined for 7 RBIs with Zavala hitting more HRs today than Pete Lindner and Dennis Kemp getting more triples than McBarron as PPB tacked on 11 late runs for the final score.
Hennessey's 17 The Landings 8
Hennessey's 17 The Landings 8
Hennessey's 17 The Landings 8
In the late game at Pine today, Hennessey's prevailed over a short-handed The Landing by a score of 17-8 with the game coming to a close during the bottom of the 8th inning as right field was taken over by hundreds of kids at a soccer camp. Our contract with Carlsbad only runs from 9;00 to noon, and we were well past that time when the game was called.
All four of the home runs were before the soccer players arrived so no one got hurt. Kirsten Milbrandt led off the 7th inning for LAN with a bomb to the left center fence. Donato Domaguin had a three RBI homer in a 3 for 4 day for HEN and Oscar Castillo had TWO homers for five RBIs in a 3 for 4 day. Everyone in the HEN lineup had at least one hit and HEN scored in every inning but one, Al Castaneda and Rich Berkley were 4 for 4 and Gene LaChimia, Barry Anderson, John Quigley and Vickie were all 3 for 4.
Barry's pitching and a generally solid defense kept most of the LAN hitters from doing much damage. Thanks to three double plays by the HEN infield LAN was only able to score in three innings. Only manager Steve Newberg had more than two hits going 4 for 4.
Nucci's 10 Gaspar 8
Hennessey's 17 The Landings 8
Hennessey's 17 The Landings 8
Nucci's took a 5-0 lead in the first inning. Low scoring for the rest of the game that shows both teams had good defense and were very competitive with each other.
Highlights:
Nucci's: Mark Lehman 3/3 and 1 homerun, Al Cabacungan 3/3,
Rodney Johnson, Tom Carney, Craig Wheatcraft 3/4 with a homerun
Dan Griffin, Dave Hartzog, Brenda Lehman, and Joe Dimambro were 2/3
Gaspar's Dan Frye was 3/4 and Dale Miller hit 4/4.
Gaspar thanks Dale Miller for subbing.
Thanks to Joe Raffa and Rick Shaw for doing a fine job umpiring.
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