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Eugene Church · 03-01-2010, 06:07 PM

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

2010 Tybobbian North Final Recap

Blue Lake Cops TU North In 3-Way Playoff
It was a monumental battle to decide the Tycobbian North champion this season. Heading into the last week of play six teams were still in the running, all within three games of one another. At the end of the regular season it was a three-way tie between Blue Lake Blue Sox, Mahaska Haymakers and Oxford Red Caps. They went into a playoff to determine the regular season division champion and a spot in the IPA Pro Cup playoffs.

Mahaska got a bye because it had won the season series with Blue Lake and Oxford. Home field advantage was also determined by head-to-head season series. Oxford hosted Blue Lake in the first game with the Blue Sox taking the game 4-0 on fine 6-hit shutout by Pat Grange (15-8 3.34). Nicky Nicholson (21-13 3.85) was tagged with the loss. The loser of this game had to go up against Mahaska.

In a magnificent pitching duel Mahaska eliminated the Oxford Red Caps 1-0 in 10 innings. Haymaker RF Reynaldo Quezada got the game-winning single off losing pitcher Ronnie D'Abo (9-5 1.65) with the victory going to Robbie Sampson (4-4 4.19). Both had come on in relief in the 10th. Starters Del Anderson and Dain Abner both went nine innings and battled to a scoreless tie. Anderson limited Mahaska to just two hits, while Abner gave up only four hits to the Red Caps and struck out six batters.

In the championship game at Mahaska, Blue Lake KO'd the Haymakers 8-1 by ripping out 12 hits in an easy win. Pete Henry held Mahaska to seven hits and fanned six, giving the Blue Sox a spot in the IPA Pro Cup playoffs. Blue Lake SS Loren Babcock (.296) had four hits, 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored to lead the victory. CF Rick Hilliard (.313) scored three runs for the winners. Johnny Spears (14-13 3.28) took the loss for the Haymakers.

Blue Lake won the RU North crown by one game over second place Mahaska, two games over the Hartsdale Hellcats and Oxford Red Caps and three games better than Fairfax and White River that tied for fifth place.

Cobb Tyson's pitching carried the champion Blue Lake Blue Sox (92-64) to their first division title... Justin Eckhardt (24-9 2.79), Pete Henry (20-14 3.01) and Pat Grange (15-8 3.34) were his prime starters with rookie closer Tony Reed (4-6 3.88) doing impressive work with 35 saves... the Blue Sox bats were just adequate and were led by RF Ted Karno with 27 homers, 90 RBIs, 89 scores, while putting up a .264 BA... 2B Loren Babcock batted at a .296 pace, had 20 homers, 84 RBIs and scored 99 runs, CF Rick Hilliard hit .313 with 18 roundtrippers, 68 RBIs and 89 runs and LF Vic Gelder added a .283 BA, 22 home runs and 77 runs batted in.

Skipper Rusty Tanussa of the second place Mahaska Haymakers (91-65) got good pitching, too... topping his mound staff was Johnny Picou (18-13 2.82), Dain Abner (20-15 3.63) and Don Shaw (18-11 3.51)... Mahaska was short on hitters with a .254 BA (21st), but long on fielding... the Haymakers were the best defenders in the TU with a .977 FA... Tanussa best batsmen were 3B Domingo Rios, who hit .286 with 27 homers, 89 RBI and 92 runs... 2B Walt Long chipped in with a .284 average, 14 home runs, drove in 69 runs and scored 92 times.

It really looks like Zim Donner might have had the best ball club in the TU North this season... Last year's champion, the Hartsdale Hellcats (89-65), wound up a very close third, just two games off the pace... the Hellcat bats were number one with a .275 team BA and 189 homers, but also quite competitive with a 3.47 team ERA (8th)... at the plate 2B Jud Turchin excelled by hitting .337 with 35 home runs, 119 RBIs and 109 runs... 1B Tom Brabant was also a potent force with 37 homers, 119 RBIs and a .307 BA... other contributors were RF Mac Faulkner, who batted .314 with 19 roundtrippers, 81 RBIs and 93 runs scored... and 3B Kendry Moulton with 24 homers, 80 RBIs, 80 runs and a .271 BA... in the pitching department Nico Carnera piled up a brilliant 24-6 mark with a stout 2.73 ERA to lead the rotation... Mark DaRosa was steady and consistent with 21 wins and 15 losses, while posting a 3.56 ERA... young closer Ben Clermont (4-4 2.70) also did well with 10 saves.

Campy Roy guided his Oxford Red Caps (90-66) to a fourth place finish and just narrowly missed out on the postseason by two scant games... the Red Caps wound up in the first division for the ninth year in a row... Roy just has an abundance of quality ballplayers... Oxford is 8th with a .268 BA, 6th with 179 home runs and 11th with a 3.66 ERA... the best position players are 3B Cameron Kamara with 32 home runs, 115 RBIs, 109 runs and a .299 BA... CF Wayne McDonald (.305/21/94/104)... and LF Mac Spencer (.282/25/84/78)... Oxford is loaded with good arms, too... heading the list are Emerson Carnell (19-14 3.22), Nicky Nicholson (21-13 3.85) and Del Anderson (18-11 3.79)... rookie closer Ronnie D'Abo really flourished in his first season with 26 saves and superlative 1.65 ERA, while registering an impressive 9-5 won-lost mark.

The Fairfax Frogs (88-66) and White River Rascals (88-66) were two more fine teams in the TU North that had excellent seasons, yet ended up in fifth place, but trailing by only three games... Fairfax with Harry Buckley in charge has a well-rounded ball team... the Frogs hit at a .274 clip (4th), compiled a strong 3.44 team ERA (6th) and unloaded 169 roundtrippers (7th)... Buckley has one of the better starting rotations with Ken Hill (13-5 2.97), Wally Tidwell (19-16 3.07), Joe Hampton (17-8 3.35) and Scotty Marshall (18-12 3.61)... toss in Gino Carmazzo, who split time as a starter and closer, and you have a top-notch mound corps... Carmazzo was 11-10 with a 3.27 ERA and 10 saves... Fairfax also featured some gifted hitters, too... RF Dane Wesner won the Triple Crown with a .383 BA, 46 home runs and 146 RBIs, while scoring 107 times... the 25-year-old Wesner is the second IPA player to accomplish this rare feat... SS Karol Zodoka did it in 2002, while playing for the East Point Panthers... Zodoka led the league with a .351 BA, hit an all-time IPA record 54 homers and batted in 146 runs... Buckley's other solid batsmen are SS Wes Hickox (.262/23/104/94), 1B Chancey Quibedeaux (.298/20/69/14) and RF Ted Karno (.277/31/89/76).

White River had a strong first half of the year, but slumped below .500 in the last half and fell to a fifth-place tie... 2010 was a great improvement for skipper John Randison, who finished dead last in 2009, 21 games off the pace... White River depends on pitching and home runs to get the job done... Randison's Rascals notched a very good 3.46 team ERA (7th), while batting .254 (22nd) with 155 home runs (9th)... leading the rotation were Danny Blauser (19-17/3.71), Mick Cronyn (17-17 3.20) and Mark Morse (17-16 4.13)... in the bullpen White River has a stud in Lance Logan (4-4), who racked up 28 saves and compiled a microscopic 1.52 ERA... Randison only has a couple of quality bats in SS Riley Cloy, who walloped 38 homers, batted in 107 runs, scored 92 with a .273 batting average... and RF Joey Jarrett, who hit .324 with 13 homers, 85 RBIs and scored 81 runs.

Alejandro Rodrigo had to endure another terrible year in Luxora (63-91) as the Zorros were way back near the bottom of the division, 28 games out... just two years ago the Z's won the TU North... Rodrigo has decent pitching with a 3.82 team ERA (16th), but not much offense with a .247 team BA (29th) and very little power with only 108 homers (28th)... Luxora's best pitchers are Elio Laurente (15-20 3.27) and Anthony Glaser (15-14 3.44)... the best bats belong to CF Rick Vaughn (.315/14/72) and 2B Pablo Santa Cruz (.277/12/56/86)... Rodrigo is dire need of a lot more quality players.

Last year the North Hills Hawks (55-99) surprised with a third-place finish, but it was a quick return to form this year... Hub Carlson's Hawks were atrocious and fell all the way to the TU North basement, 36 games behind in the race... Carlson's club is a terrible hitting team with a pathetic .234 BA (32nd) and only 87 roundtrippers (32nd)... pitching is less than average with a 4.04 team ERA (25th)... the Hawks have no pitcher to speak of... however, 20-year-old rookie closer Ken Wright (1-4) has impressed with a standout 2.06 ERA and 26 saves... 36-year-old 1B Masaichi Okawa is the team's batting leader with 23 home runs and 76 RBIs, but only a .253 batting average... times are really hard in them there North Hills.

03-01-2010, 06:07 PM	#1598
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,940	The Islandian Times Thursday, September 23, 2010 2010 Tybobbian North Final Recap Blue Lake Cops TU North In 3-Way Playoff It was a monumental battle to decide the Tycobbian North champion this season. Heading into the last week of play six teams were still in the running, all within three games of one another. At the end of the regular season it was a three-way tie between Blue Lake Blue Sox, Mahaska Haymakers and Oxford Red Caps. They went into a playoff to determine the regular season division champion and a spot in the IPA Pro Cup playoffs. Mahaska got a bye because it had won the season series with Blue Lake and Oxford. Home field advantage was also determined by head-to-head season series. Oxford hosted Blue Lake in the first game with the Blue Sox taking the game 4-0 on fine 6-hit shutout by Pat Grange (15-8 3.34). Nicky Nicholson (21-13 3.85) was tagged with the loss. The loser of this game had to go up against Mahaska. In a magnificent pitching duel Mahaska eliminated the Oxford Red Caps 1-0 in 10 innings. Haymaker RF Reynaldo Quezada got the game-winning single off losing pitcher Ronnie D'Abo (9-5 1.65) with the victory going to Robbie Sampson (4-4 4.19). Both had come on in relief in the 10th. Starters Del Anderson and Dain Abner both went nine innings and battled to a scoreless tie. Anderson limited Mahaska to just two hits, while Abner gave up only four hits to the Red Caps and struck out six batters. In the championship game at Mahaska, Blue Lake KO'd the Haymakers 8-1 by ripping out 12 hits in an easy win. Pete Henry held Mahaska to seven hits and fanned six, giving the Blue Sox a spot in the IPA Pro Cup playoffs. Blue Lake SS Loren Babcock (.296) had four hits, 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored to lead the victory. CF Rick Hilliard (.313) scored three runs for the winners. Johnny Spears (14-13 3.28) took the loss for the Haymakers. Blue Lake won the RU North crown by one game over second place Mahaska, two games over the Hartsdale Hellcats and Oxford Red Caps and three games better than Fairfax and White River that tied for fifth place. Cobb Tyson's pitching carried the champion Blue Lake Blue Sox (92-64) to their first division title... Justin Eckhardt (24-9 2.79), Pete Henry (20-14 3.01) and Pat Grange (15-8 3.34) were his prime starters with rookie closer Tony Reed (4-6 3.88) doing impressive work with 35 saves... the Blue Sox bats were just adequate and were led by RF Ted Karno with 27 homers, 90 RBIs, 89 scores, while putting up a .264 BA... 2B Loren Babcock batted at a .296 pace, had 20 homers, 84 RBIs and scored 99 runs, CF Rick Hilliard hit .313 with 18 roundtrippers, 68 RBIs and 89 runs and LF Vic Gelder added a .283 BA, 22 home runs and 77 runs batted in. Skipper Rusty Tanussa of the second place Mahaska Haymakers (91-65) got good pitching, too... topping his mound staff was Johnny Picou (18-13 2.82), Dain Abner (20-15 3.63) and Don Shaw (18-11 3.51)... Mahaska was short on hitters with a .254 BA (21st), but long on fielding... the Haymakers were the best defenders in the TU with a .977 FA... Tanussa best batsmen were 3B Domingo Rios, who hit .286 with 27 homers, 89 RBI and 92 runs... 2B Walt Long chipped in with a .284 average, 14 home runs, drove in 69 runs and scored 92 times. It really looks like Zim Donner might have had the best ball club in the TU North this season... Last year's champion, the Hartsdale Hellcats (89-65), wound up a very close third, just two games off the pace... the Hellcat bats were number one with a .275 team BA and 189 homers, but also quite competitive with a 3.47 team ERA (8th)... at the plate 2B Jud Turchin excelled by hitting .337 with 35 home runs, 119 RBIs and 109 runs... 1B Tom Brabant was also a potent force with 37 homers, 119 RBIs and a .307 BA... other contributors were RF Mac Faulkner, who batted .314 with 19 roundtrippers, 81 RBIs and 93 runs scored... and 3B Kendry Moulton with 24 homers, 80 RBIs, 80 runs and a .271 BA... in the pitching department Nico Carnera piled up a brilliant 24-6 mark with a stout 2.73 ERA to lead the rotation... Mark DaRosa was steady and consistent with 21 wins and 15 losses, while posting a 3.56 ERA... young closer Ben Clermont (4-4 2.70) also did well with 10 saves. Campy Roy guided his Oxford Red Caps (90-66) to a fourth place finish and just narrowly missed out on the postseason by two scant games... the Red Caps wound up in the first division for the ninth year in a row... Roy just has an abundance of quality ballplayers... Oxford is 8th with a .268 BA, 6th with 179 home runs and 11th with a 3.66 ERA... the best position players are 3B Cameron Kamara with 32 home runs, 115 RBIs, 109 runs and a .299 BA... CF Wayne McDonald (.305/21/94/104)... and LF Mac Spencer (.282/25/84/78)... Oxford is loaded with good arms, too... heading the list are Emerson Carnell (19-14 3.22), Nicky Nicholson (21-13 3.85) and Del Anderson (18-11 3.79)... rookie closer Ronnie D'Abo really flourished in his first season with 26 saves and superlative 1.65 ERA, while registering an impressive 9-5 won-lost mark. The Fairfax Frogs (88-66) and White River Rascals (88-66) were two more fine teams in the TU North that had excellent seasons, yet ended up in fifth place, but trailing by only three games... Fairfax with Harry Buckley in charge has a well-rounded ball team... the Frogs hit at a .274 clip (4th), compiled a strong 3.44 team ERA (6th) and unloaded 169 roundtrippers (7th)... Buckley has one of the better starting rotations with Ken Hill (13-5 2.97), Wally Tidwell (19-16 3.07), Joe Hampton (17-8 3.35) and Scotty Marshall (18-12 3.61)... toss in Gino Carmazzo, who split time as a starter and closer, and you have a top-notch mound corps... Carmazzo was 11-10 with a 3.27 ERA and 10 saves... Fairfax also featured some gifted hitters, too... RF Dane Wesner won the Triple Crown with a .383 BA, 46 home runs and 146 RBIs, while scoring 107 times... the 25-year-old Wesner is the second IPA player to accomplish this rare feat... SS Karol Zodoka did it in 2002, while playing for the East Point Panthers... Zodoka led the league with a .351 BA, hit an all-time IPA record 54 homers and batted in 146 runs... Buckley's other solid batsmen are SS Wes Hickox (.262/23/104/94), 1B Chancey Quibedeaux (.298/20/69/14) and RF Ted Karno (.277/31/89/76). White River had a strong first half of the year, but slumped below .500 in the last half and fell to a fifth-place tie... 2010 was a great improvement for skipper John Randison, who finished dead last in 2009, 21 games off the pace... White River depends on pitching and home runs to get the job done... Randison's Rascals notched a very good 3.46 team ERA (7th), while batting .254 (22nd) with 155 home runs (9th)... leading the rotation were Danny Blauser (19-17/3.71), Mick Cronyn (17-17 3.20) and Mark Morse (17-16 4.13)... in the bullpen White River has a stud in Lance Logan (4-4), who racked up 28 saves and compiled a microscopic 1.52 ERA... Randison only has a couple of quality bats in SS Riley Cloy, who walloped 38 homers, batted in 107 runs, scored 92 with a .273 batting average... and RF Joey Jarrett, who hit .324 with 13 homers, 85 RBIs and scored 81 runs. Alejandro Rodrigo had to endure another terrible year in Luxora (63-91) as the Zorros were way back near the bottom of the division, 28 games out... just two years ago the Z's won the TU North... Rodrigo has decent pitching with a 3.82 team ERA (16th), but not much offense with a .247 team BA (29th) and very little power with only 108 homers (28th)... Luxora's best pitchers are Elio Laurente (15-20 3.27) and Anthony Glaser (15-14 3.44)... the best bats belong to CF Rick Vaughn (.315/14/72) and 2B Pablo Santa Cruz (.277/12/56/86)... Rodrigo is dire need of a lot more quality players. Last year the North Hills Hawks (55-99) surprised with a third-place finish, but it was a quick return to form this year... Hub Carlson's Hawks were atrocious and fell all the way to the TU North basement, 36 games behind in the race... Carlson's club is a terrible hitting team with a pathetic .234 BA (32nd) and only 87 roundtrippers (32nd)... pitching is less than average with a 4.04 team ERA (25th)... the Hawks have no pitcher to speak of... however, 20-year-old rookie closer Ken Wright (1-4) has impressed with a standout 2.06 ERA and 26 saves... 36-year-old 1B Masaichi Okawa is the team's batting leader with 23 home runs and 76 RBIs, but only a .253 batting average... times are really hard in them there North Hills. Last edited by Eugene Church; 03-01-2010 at 06:24 PM.