The Islandian Times
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Ruthlandian Union West Division First Round Playoffs
'Jacks Stop Stoner Stars 6-4, Jarvis Homers
The Forest City Lumberjacks took the series lead one game to none with a 6-4 victory over the Stoner Stars at Nonnac Stadium... A four-run fourth, highlighted by C Joey Jarvis' three-run clout did in Dwight Ruckman and the Stars... Each club collected 12 hits in the game with CF Ryan Morse and 1B Kurt Vecchio getting three apiece for Forest City and SS Yancy Bellows and CF Joe Delmore cracking three for Stoner... Timmy Brooks (1-0 5.14) picked up the win, going seven innings and allowing four runs with one walk and six strikeouts... Closer Johnny Marsh claimed the save with a scoreless eighth and ninth innings... Ruckman (0-1 9.00) had a very tough outing and lost it... He gave up six runs in six innings... Game two is scheduled tomorrow afternoon at Forest City... It's a best-of-three-games series.
Vigilantes Blast Roosters 11-3
In the Ruthlandian Union West playoff series opener at Middlefield Park, the defending IPA champions, the Volusia Vigilantes, had a field day banging out 16 hits and smashing the Middlefield Roosters 11-3... The V's hammered three homers with 1B Francisco Abreu, SS Shane Wells and CF Ryan Raines all going deep... Abreu and Raines drove in three runs apiece with 3B Chaco Rivera and LF Domingo DeLeon driving across two each... Southpaw Carl Schmitz (1-0 3.00) went the route, allowed three runs and seven hits, fanned six and walked three... Jackie Lee Bevis (0-1) garnered the defeat, being blasted for six runs in less than two innings... RF Bailey Norcross put Roosters up 2-0 with a roundtripper in the opening frame. It was short-lived as Volusia answered it with six runs in the second to put Middlefied away... The series will switch venues tomorrow afternoon with the two teams tangling at the Jailhouse in Volusia.
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