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PG and HEN played a game at Pine today that alternated between sunshine and fog on the deck. HEN was seriously hampered by missing six players and got two subs and two defensive loaners from PG. It was not enough as the PG bats were hot, starting with a five run first inning with no outs. PG went on to score in every inning but one and Jimmie Martin's pitching and a solid defense held HEN scoreless in six of the innings.

Four PG players had perfect days with Donato Domaguin, Oscar Castillo, Teddy Badillo, and David Bosque all went 4 for 4 including a homer for Donato. Six other players were 3 for 4 - Joe Uribe, Robert Kroger, Rich Reynolds, Jeff Jacobs, and Lou Chartz, including a 3 RBI homer. The sixth player with three hits was Keith Richards with each of the hits being homers and driving in 8 runs.

For HEN, Rich Lavacot was 3 for 5 including a triple and a home run, and their two subs, David Hartzog and Ron Silverman were 3 for 5 and 3 for 4 respectively.

The two acting managers, Dick Wood and Craig Wheatcroft, thank Rick Shaw for umpiring a challenge free game.

Each team was matching the other one in runs every inning so it appears whoever was last up had a good chance at a walk off and PPB’s Vern Blough did that with a shot to right field in the bottom of the 9th inning to score Tom Carney, who was 5/5 w/3 doubles, a triple & 5 RBIs. Vern ended up 4/5 w/a double & 4 RBIs.

PPB’s Super Sub Ken Thompson was 5/5 w/3 RBIs and pitched a great game as did TTP’s Margo Jacobo, who also had 2 hits.

Other leading hitters for PPB were Mark Riserbato 4/4 & Jerry Galiley 4/4 w/a bases loaded clearing double & had a 9th inning ending bases loaded catch. Cord Cameron 3/5 w/a double. Karl Stern had 2 run scoring singles. Albert Casteneda, Gary Soper & Joel Kudren had 2 hits a piece.

Leading hitters for TPP were Brian Turner 4/5 w/2 doubles, Pat Steele 4/5 w/a double, triple & 5 RBIs, Dan Smith 4/5 w/3 doubles & 4 RBIs, Bob Porter 4/5  w/a triple & 3 RBIs, Oscar Delgado 4/5, Dale Miller, Super Sub Andy Boyer & David Buck were all 3/4, Super Sub Ron Bondsu & Donna Engleman both had 2 singles.

Both teams thank Umpire Joel Raffa, who did a great job of calling balls and strikes. 

He's sometimes called the Fickle Finger of Fate, but I prefer to call him Old Mo.  When he walks into your dugout you can suddenly do no wrong.  Today Old Mo was seated comfortably in the Nucci's third base dugout.  For the first three innings the maroon marauders built up a 7-0 lead.  Mo then stuck his head briefly in the Draft dugout and danged if they didn't tie the score with a seven-run fourth.  From the fourth through the sixth the game was competitive with Mo watching from the bleachers, and Nucci's built a 13-9 lead.  At that point Old Mo came and sat down next to Draft manager Ray Kusmer and said, "Ray, I believe I've come to stay."  Immediately, The Draft put together three five-run innings while Nucci's folded like a paper plate on chili night.

The heavy lifting for The Draft was done by Johnny Brand and Andy Balas, who both went 6/6.  Roney Lewis and Dave Grull were 5/6 with the latter hitting a homer.  

Nucci's hitters were led by Greg Lorton at 4/4, Frank Weishaar and Steve Sexton at 3/4 and the much beloved Big Kahuna, Al Cabacungan, who hit 2/3 with a walk.  

The Draft is grateful for the prodigious contributions of sub Kevin McBarron, for the two defensive players graciously supplied by Lil Keehan of Nucci's and for the umpiring skills of Randy Agadoni, Grand High Cyclops of the Carlsbad Inn Sect.

“There have been only two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. “ Tallulah Bankhead (Editor’s note – If you weren’t born in the 40’s you probably never heard of Ms. Bankhead)

If you thought the North County Senior Softball league was all about high-scoring games, today's match between Gaspar and Worden Williams would have changed your mind. Solid defense and pitching proved to be the key, as the Dubs edged out a determined Gaspar team 12-8. Gaspar, already down five players at the start, lost a sixth to an in-game injury. Offensive struggles were apparent, with Worden Williams being shut out in five of the nine innings and Gaspar blanked in six. Pitchers Mike Endeman (WW) and Skip Moyer (GAS) were in top form, keeping some strong hitters quiet.

Leading the way for the Dubs was Bob Buscher (4/4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs) who was also flawless at shortstop and Jimmy Smyth who is in a league of his own when it comes to clutch hits and two out RBIs.

For GAS, sub Joe Dimambro gobbled up everything at the hot corner and contributed three hits while Dan Hacker and Jim Goertzen both went 4/5 at the plate.

Much thanks to Joe D and Linda Wolf for subbing and Russ Roopenian for a great job behind the plate.

  Bye: Carlsbad Inn

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