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Thursday February 24th
Gaspar 21 Landings 20
Pizza Port 12 Hennessey’s 11
Pizza Port 12 Hennessey’s 11
A very chilly morning start at Pine, but Gaspar came out strong scoring 5 runs in the first inning and at the end of the third inning the score was Gaspar 11, Landings 2. Gaspar led the entire game and over the next 7 innings maintained a 6-7 run lead. At the top of the ninth inning the score was Gaspar 21 and Landings 13 at which time the Landings bats came alive and they scored 7 runs but Gaspar held on to close out the game. Final score Gaspar 21, Landings 20.
Landings' Mitch Anderson was 5/5 with a home run. Ernie Martinez and Mike Matinsky were 4/5. Rich Berkeley and Joe Itson also hit home runs.
Gaspar had five players 3/4: Paul Thomas, Oscar Castillo, Bruce Petz, Bill Codner and Brian Turner. Three players hit one home run each: Oscar, Brian and Bruce. Gaspar welcomed back Oscar who has recovered from his recent illness and his first at bat was a home run...Nice..!!!
Pizza Port 12 Hennessey’s 11
Pizza Port 12 Hennessey’s 11
Pizza Port 12 Hennessey’s 11
It was a pitcher’s duel at Alga today with Janet Wood throwing 4 zero’s at PPB and Rod Johnson/Rich Keefer throwing 6 zero’s back at Hennessey’s. Gene LaChimia- 4/4- hit a 3 run HR in the first inning only to watch Hennessey’s get 4 back on the hitting of Al Castaneda 4/4 and Gary McBride’s 3 hits.
PPB made it 6-4 with Dave Erwine going 4/4 and Joe Kahn and Jerry Nuanez both getting big greeny hits. Then the runs got scarce and the defenses tightened as the McBride/Roney Lewis combo gobbled up balls and double plays. Hennessey’s slowly climbed back and took a late 9-7 lead on a Lewis HR.
But in the 8th inning Kevin McBarron hit a 2 run HR to tie the game, setting up a very exciting ending. With the top of the Hennessey’s lineup up in the bottom of the 8th PPB got great catches from Larry Treppel and John Quigly to keep the game tied going into the 9th. PPB rallied to push across 3 runs in the 9th with Dennis Rayford and Rod Johnson doing the damage.
Then the white knuckle game got even more tense. In the bottom of the 9th, Hennessy's loaded the bases with no outs. A Dick Wood screamer was snared by SS Steve Sexton saving a sure gapper that might have ended the game. Hennessey’s got another hit to make it 12-11 with runners aboard before PPB was finally able to end the threat and get the win. It was a well-played defensive battle that only one or two’s plays provided a winner.
Village Pie Shop 21 Plotkin Group 18
Village Pie Shop 21 Plotkin Group 18
Village Pie Shop 21 Plotkin Group 18
VPS plays softball on Planet Earth and knows little about Star Wars or Planet Alderaan's pebbles. We do know a competitive game and VPS barely "squeaked" out a win today. In the bottom of the 9th with PG trailing by 6 and got the top of the order. A quick 3 runs score and runners on base with the tying run at the plate. Long fly out ended the game at Cavalera Field.
Until the 7 inning it was a pitcher's dual between PB Russ Roopenian and Bob Baptista, who was supported by a 5 run 7th. Additional support was graciously appreciated by "super sub" Ray Kusmer with a 4/5 and 2 ribe performance. Like last Tuesday, it was the VPS bottom of the order that added their 8 ribes, along with Pete Lindner's 4 ribes and Ron Silverman's 5 ribes.
Another enjoyable senior game with loads of comraderies.....nuff said
Nucci’s 20 The Draft 7
Village Pie Shop 21 Plotkin Group 18
Village Pie Shop 21 Plotkin Group 18
Nucci’s started the game with 5 runs in the first inning to start things off. Whenever The Draft started catching up, the Nucci’s defense would keep The Draft players on base and would continue to score runs to expand on their lead.
Highlights for the Draft include: Rick Shaw hit 4/4 ; John Musselman hit 3/4 and a homerun ; Jeff Jacob hit ¾ ; Kirsten Mildbrandt hit 3/3 ; and Greg Lorton hit 3/3. Also, Evie Schwartz hit a zinging line drive for a home run.
Highlights for Nucci’s include: Jonathan Brand hit 4/5 ; Jim Goertzen hit 4/5 including a towering home run ; Leigh Peterson hit 4/4 ; and Dave Ash hit a home run. Nucci’s also had 5 other players hit 3/4, including Joe Raffa’s base-clearing, shoulda-been-a-home-run double, which took him several minutes to collect himself to walk off the field for his replacement runner! And kudos to Jonnie Johnson for hitting 2/3 and a walk and scoring 3 times.
Our thanks to Andy Boyer for subbing for a shorthanded Nucci’s team.
Tuesday February 22nd
Gaspar 17 Pizza Port 9
Plotkin Group 26 Carlsbad Inn 17
Plotkin Group 26 Carlsbad Inn 17
It was a cool blustery day at Alga today which may have contributed to a relatively low scoring game. The score was Gaspar 10 and Pizza Port 6 after 4 innings. Over the next 5 innings Gaspar was able to score 7 runs and with good defense was able to hold Pizza Port to 2 runs.
For Gaspar: Bob Blachford and Bill Codner went 4/5, and Donato Domaguin was 3/4. Thanks to Ernie Martinez who was 3/5 with a home run.
For Pizza Port: Dave Erwin had 4 hits, Ray O' Toole and Pat Driscoll were 3/3.
Plotkin Group 26 Carlsbad Inn 17
Plotkin Group 26 Carlsbad Inn 17
Plotkin Group 26 Carlsbad Inn 17
When you annihilate one of the top three teams in the league, I mean like in Star Wars when The Empire turned Alderaan into ten buzzillion pebbles, you're wanting to toot your horn big time. That won't happen here, however, because CBI only had nine of their own show up today and many of their biggest guns were MIA. Rich Berkely was a loaner and played very well, but when you only have four infielders plus pitcher Barry "The Rude Dude" Anderson, the hitting holes abound. PG scored early and often, steadily building an insurmountable lead so that CBI's five run ninth only brought them within nine. For The Inn Crowd, Rich Lavacot was all hits and Rich Berkley and Dave Ward only made a single out. His Royal Dudeness hit a home run and ran the bases like he was trying to catch the last plane out of Afghanistan. Plotkin Group had seven guys with only a single out, Bob Buscher was all hits and smacked a "tater" and Bob Green launched a SCUD missile that was last seen headed for Ensenada. We're still listening for the BOOM.
Hennessey's 14 The Draft 8
Village Pie Shop 19 Nucci's 18
Village Pie Shop 19 Nucci's 18
Today was a cool, blustery day at Pine with the streakiest team in the league, Hennessey's starting with five straight losses, followed by four straight wins, prevailing over The Draft by a score of 14 to 8. It was probably HEN's best game of the year defensively, allowing only four runs through eight innings. DR scored four runs in the flipped 9th inning, powered by a bases loaded double by Rick Shaw, but the rally fell short.
With Janet Wood and Jimmie Martin's solid pitching, and a stingy defense behind them, only Laurie Mills 3 for 4 and Dan Frye 3 for 3 were able to figure things out.
For HEN several players were 3 for 3 including Roney Lewis, Oscar Lara, Tom Winterbourne and Jimmie Martin. The only long balls were "wouldabeen" homers by Gary Soper and Jimmie Martin, Gary's driving in the final two runs in the 6th inning, and Jimmie's triple to the wall in the 7th inning.
Village Pie Shop 19 Nucci's 18
Village Pie Shop 19 Nucci's 18
Village Pie Shop 19 Nucci's 18
A "squeaker" win in the bottom of the 9th by Phil Heinz timely hit, brought in the winning run. After.....Nucci's 5/5 8th inning to tie the score at 18 runs each. The fences at Alga #3 took a beating by towering HRs by Nucci's Jonathan Brand, Jim Goertzen and 2 HR "slugger" Dave Bosque. Jay Cardona and Dave Ash each went 4/4. The highlight of the game with Dave Ash playing rover didn't get a "triple (unassisted) play" like the last time VPS played Nucci's. Dave only got a double unassisted play today.
VPS "super-sub" Steve Newberg holding down 3rd went 4/4, a HR and 4 ribe's. Dan Griffin also went 4/4 with 4 ribes but the "Big Stick" was Bob Porter with 6 ribes. Every VPS player hit & scored but it was the bottom of the order....Ron Silverman, Bob Baptista and Kathy O'Neil all going 3/4. That made the difference in a very close game.
Another enjoyable senior game with loads of comraderies.....nuff said
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