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The Islandian Times

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Tycobbian Union West Division First Round Playoffs

Bucs Sink Viks in Playoff Opener 7-5
The visiting Bay St. Clair Buccaneers went deep three times at Downtown Plaza Stadium to sink the Bayview Vikings 7-5 to grab a one-game lead in the Tycobbian Union West playoffs... 1B George Lyons and LF Jose Valenzuela slammed solo shots in the second inning and CF Wayne Latham put a two-run shot in the stands to snap a 2-2 deadlock in the fifth... Winning pitcher Denny Coulon went eight strong innings, but weakened in the ninth when Bayview rallied and scored three times... Coulon (1-0 3.24) yielded three runs on eight hits and left with one out in the ninth... He fanned six and walked just one batter... The Vikings continued the assault on Norm Gross, who finally got them out after being battered for two runs and three hits... Bayview had the advantage in hits 11-8, but came up short in the runs department... Losing pitcher Jerry Harrison was knocked out in the sixth frame... The Bucs tagged him for six runs and five hits... The two ball clubs will travel south down the coast and go at it again tomorrow afternoon in Bay St. Clair... It's a best-two-out-of-three series.

Greenwood Fires 2-Hitter, Blanks Wildcats 4-0
At the Midtown Base Ball Grounds in Rolling Hills, Keith Greenwood dazzled the Kenwood Wildcats 4-0 on a brilliant two-hitter... That put the Reds ahead 1-0 in the best-of-three First Round Playoff Series... Greenwood (1-0 0.00) walked four and sent down nine Wildcats on strikes, only giving up two singles... Greenwood had a no-hitter until 2B Denholm Carruthers got a hit in the seventh... SS Ned Chamberlain got the other one in the eighth... CF Willie Mays Nixon doubled in the first run of the game in the third inning... one batter later 1B Sunshine Anaba made it 3-0 Reds with a two-run roundtripper... then C Alfredo Del Toro finished up the scoring with an RBI double in the seventh... Rolling Hills only got four hits in the game, all coming off loser Corey Brabham (0-1 5.68), who worked into the seventh frame and allowed all four runs... The series now moves over to Kenwood... the Wildcats will try to get back into the series tomorrow afternoon at Olde Towne Grounds.
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