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Eugene Church · 11-04-2010, 09:29 PM

The Islandian Times
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Ruthlandian North Mid-Season Recap

6-Team Battle In RU North, Valmara Leads At Break
The old guard, the defending champion Far Mountain Redhawks and the heavy-hitting Taranto Tars, who have controlled the division for the last few years, find themselves being challenged by the Valmara Vipers, Ancona Red Elephants, Kilkenny Cats and the Glasco Athletics. It's a 6-team race this season with all of the clubs within 5 games of each other.

Valmara, under new manager Jet Kazmarek, has a fragile hold on first place at the All-Star break. The Vipers (39-34) are one game up on Ancona, Far Mountain and Kilkenny, all with a 38-35 record... Glasco (36-37) is 3 games back in fifth place and Taranto (34-39) is sixth, but just 5 off the pace... Ranford (30-43) and LaGrange (29-44) trail by 9 and 10 games respectively.

The Valmara Vipers have the lead at the halfway point... top hurlers are rookie Tad Janicki (10-7) and Kolya Romanov (10-5)... so far the offense has been supplied by rookie 1B Tyler Ferguson (.301/3 HR), RF Lou Gdowski (.322/9 HR) and 3B Al Jalenak (.302/4 HR), but Far Mountain is still the favorite because it is such a well-rounded and experienced ball club... All-Star Don Nichols (.347) and RF Jonas Boehm (.323) head up the offense... Taranto has lousy pitching, the worst in the IPA, but can hit the daylights out of the ball... the Tars are on a record-breaking pace offensively with the likes of All-Stars Augie Marshall (.331/21 HR), 2B Ed Miles (.321/10 HR) and 3B Wayne Pounders (.279/21 HR), along with SS Aron Aiello (.322/10 HR)... Taranto has gone deep 125 times this season... Ancona may be in it for the long run with its good starting pitching and solid bats... best hitters are All-Star Kenny Willard (.337/17 HR), 2B Kevin Laroche (.311/1 HR) and RF Louis DiMucci (.293/10 HR)... Kilkenny has the pitching, but not much offense... All-Star Justin Eckhardt (7-2) and Kyle Ferguson (11-6) lead the Cats staff... Glasco can't compete in the long haul with the others... Vet Ernie Watkins (9-7) is still a solid starter and LF Tony Piel (.312/6 HR) still handles the bat well... new managers did not make a difference in Ranford and LaGrange.

11-04-2010, 09:29 PM	#2099
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,916	The Islandian Times Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Ruthlandian North Mid-Season Recap 6-Team Battle In RU North, Valmara Leads At Break The old guard, the defending champion Far Mountain Redhawks and the heavy-hitting Taranto Tars, who have controlled the division for the last few years, find themselves being challenged by the Valmara Vipers, Ancona Red Elephants, Kilkenny Cats and the Glasco Athletics. It's a 6-team race this season with all of the clubs within 5 games of each other. Valmara, under new manager Jet Kazmarek, has a fragile hold on first place at the All-Star break. The Vipers (39-34) are one game up on Ancona, Far Mountain and Kilkenny, all with a 38-35 record... Glasco (36-37) is 3 games back in fifth place and Taranto (34-39) is sixth, but just 5 off the pace... Ranford (30-43) and LaGrange (29-44) trail by 9 and 10 games respectively. The Valmara Vipers have the lead at the halfway point... top hurlers are rookie Tad Janicki (10-7) and Kolya Romanov (10-5)... so far the offense has been supplied by rookie 1B Tyler Ferguson (.301/3 HR), RF Lou Gdowski (.322/9 HR) and 3B Al Jalenak (.302/4 HR), but Far Mountain is still the favorite because it is such a well-rounded and experienced ball club... All-Star Don Nichols (.347) and RF Jonas Boehm (.323) head up the offense... Taranto has lousy pitching, the worst in the IPA, but can hit the daylights out of the ball... the Tars are on a record-breaking pace offensively with the likes of All-Stars Augie Marshall (.331/21 HR), 2B Ed Miles (.321/10 HR) and 3B Wayne Pounders (.279/21 HR), along with SS Aron Aiello (.322/10 HR)... Taranto has gone deep 125 times this season... Ancona may be in it for the long run with its good starting pitching and solid bats... best hitters are All-Star Kenny Willard (.337/17 HR), 2B Kevin Laroche (.311/1 HR) and RF Louis DiMucci (.293/10 HR)... Kilkenny has the pitching, but not much offense... All-Star Justin Eckhardt (7-2) and Kyle Ferguson (11-6) lead the Cats staff... Glasco can't compete in the long haul with the others... Vet Ernie Watkins (9-7) is still a solid starter and LF Tony Piel (.312/6 HR) still handles the bat well... new managers did not make a difference in Ranford and LaGrange. Last edited by Eugene Church; 11-05-2010 at 02:28 PM.