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Eugene Church · 03-19-2009, 04:47 PM

The Islandian Times

Friday, September 20, 2002

Ruthlandian Union West Division First Round Playoffs

'Jacks Whack Stars 4-2, Move Up To Sweet 16
In the RU West Division, Forest City took the rubber game of the best-of-three series 4-2, winning on a two-run error by RF Rob Preiss in the last of the sixth. The Lumberjacks were pushed hard by the Stoner Stars, but in the end, the regular season division winner proved superior. Hard-throwing righty, Frank Loeffler, had an outstanding outing for skipper Rob Jackson... Loeffler (1-0 2.00) went the distance and held Stoner to six hits and just two runs, while fanning six and issuing only one base on balls... 38-year-old Mike Atkinson did a creditable job on the mound, but suffered from a lack of defense and run support... Atkinson deserved better as he gave up four runs in six innings, with three of them earned... Forest City racked up ten hits and were paced by 1B J. T. Edmonds and LF Dave Jagger, who each had two hits and two RBIs... Preiss led the Stars with 2-4, including a ninth-inning home run... The Lumberjacks are headed for the Sweet 16 and will go up against the Volusia-Middlefield winner tomorrow afternoon at one of their ballparks... The Sweet 16 round is a best-of-three games series.

Volusia Out! Roosters Nip Them 5-4 in 10 Innings
Middlefield held off Volusia 5-4 in 10 innings and eliminated the defending IPA champions two-games-to-one in the RU West playoffs... In a thrilling ballgame, the Roosters took the lead three times and twice the Vigilantes came back to tie in the sixth and bottom of the ninth... and they made a valiant effort a third time, but could not come from three runs down... The V's could only come up with two in the tenth and will not be defending their title any longer... Middlefield scored three times in the top of the tenth off losing pitcher Hernando Espaderos (0-1)... CF Ty DeWitt doubled in two runs and 1B Ricky Tinker had an RBI ground out to plate the the third run... That gave the Rooster a 5-2 lead... 1B Fernando Abreu singled in one run to make it 5-3 with no outs and runners on first and third... Otis Canfield came in from the bullpen and promptly got Scooter Perez to hit into a double play... the runner on third scored, cutting the Middlefield lead to just one run... Canfield then retired C Juanito Luque on a popup to third to end the game... Both teams collected 12 hits each with DeWitt leading the Roosters with two hits, two RBIs and two runs... RF Bailey Norcross had three hits and scored a run... Abreu and CF Ryan Raines topped the V's with three hits apiece... Abreu drove in a pair of runs and Raines scored a pair... Both clubs got good performances from their starters... Joshua Jackson went six for Middlefield, allowed one run and seven hits, while Ricky Moreno tossed nine innings, gave up two runs on nine hits and fanned 10... Only one of the runs was earned... Jamie Hicks picked up the victory, going three innings, but gave up three runs on five hits... The Roosters will advance to the Sweet 16 and play host to the Forest City Lumberjacks in Middlefield tomorrow afternoon in game one of a best-of-three series.

The Roosters lost their shortstop Earl Reeves for at least a week... Reeves hurt his Achilles tendon while running the bases.

03-19-2009, 04:47 PM	#799
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,749 Blog Entries: 1	The Islandian Times Friday, September 20, 2002 Ruthlandian Union West Division First Round Playoffs 'Jacks Whack Stars 4-2, Move Up To Sweet 16 In the RU West Division, Forest City took the rubber game of the best-of-three series 4-2, winning on a two-run error by RF Rob Preiss in the last of the sixth. The Lumberjacks were pushed hard by the Stoner Stars, but in the end, the regular season division winner proved superior. Hard-throwing righty, Frank Loeffler, had an outstanding outing for skipper Rob Jackson... Loeffler (1-0 2.00) went the distance and held Stoner to six hits and just two runs, while fanning six and issuing only one base on balls... 38-year-old Mike Atkinson did a creditable job on the mound, but suffered from a lack of defense and run support... Atkinson deserved better as he gave up four runs in six innings, with three of them earned... Forest City racked up ten hits and were paced by 1B J. T. Edmonds and LF Dave Jagger, who each had two hits and two RBIs... Preiss led the Stars with 2-4, including a ninth-inning home run... The Lumberjacks are headed for the Sweet 16 and will go up against the Volusia-Middlefield winner tomorrow afternoon at one of their ballparks... The Sweet 16 round is a best-of-three games series. Volusia Out! Roosters Nip Them 5-4 in 10 Innings Middlefield held off Volusia 5-4 in 10 innings and eliminated the defending IPA champions two-games-to-one in the RU West playoffs... In a thrilling ballgame, the Roosters took the lead three times and twice the Vigilantes came back to tie in the sixth and bottom of the ninth... and they made a valiant effort a third time, but could not come from three runs down... The V's could only come up with two in the tenth and will not be defending their title any longer... Middlefield scored three times in the top of the tenth off losing pitcher Hernando Espaderos (0-1)... CF Ty DeWitt doubled in two runs and 1B Ricky Tinker had an RBI ground out to plate the the third run... That gave the Rooster a 5-2 lead... 1B Fernando Abreu singled in one run to make it 5-3 with no outs and runners on first and third... Otis Canfield came in from the bullpen and promptly got Scooter Perez to hit into a double play... the runner on third scored, cutting the Middlefield lead to just one run... Canfield then retired C Juanito Luque on a popup to third to end the game... Both teams collected 12 hits each with DeWitt leading the Roosters with two hits, two RBIs and two runs... RF Bailey Norcross had three hits and scored a run... Abreu and CF Ryan Raines topped the V's with three hits apiece... Abreu drove in a pair of runs and Raines scored a pair... Both clubs got good performances from their starters... Joshua Jackson went six for Middlefield, allowed one run and seven hits, while Ricky Moreno tossed nine innings, gave up two runs on nine hits and fanned 10... Only one of the runs was earned... Jamie Hicks picked up the victory, going three innings, but gave up three runs on five hits... The Roosters will advance to the Sweet 16 and play host to the Forest City Lumberjacks in Middlefield tomorrow afternoon in game one of a best-of-three series. The Roosters lost their shortstop Earl Reeves for at least a week... Reeves hurt his Achilles tendon while running the bases. Last edited by Eugene Church; 03-19-2009 at 04:51 PM.