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Eugene Church · 07-25-2012, 11:19 AM

THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Saturday, October 16, 2032

2032 IPA Pro Cup Final Series - Game 7
(best-of-seven)

San Alejo Crowned IPA Pro Cup Champs
31 years of frustration finally ended today for the San Alejo Montaneros, the new IPA Pro Cup champion... the Monties won a classic pitchers' duel 2-1 in 10 innings to defeat favored Colfax in game seven of the IPA Pro Cup Finals for the first Islands' championship in the team's history... Herb Stewart went all the way in a masterful performance, holding the potent Blasters to one run on 8 hits... Stewart (5-1/1.53) struck out 4 and walked one in the crucial extra-inning win over Colfax ace Rudy Rosario (5-2/2.96), who worked into the tenth before he tired and took the loss... Rosario gave up only 2 runs and 8 hits.

San Alejo had to come back from a 3-2 deficit in games to win the title. Both of them were tense nail-biters and were decided by one run... San Alejo went into the Pro Cup playoffs as the fourth seed and ended up whipping Colfax, Fairfax and Rolling Hills, the second, third and fifth seeds to take the IPA crown... Colfax was the number-two seeded club... they had to get past number-one seed Elnora and number seven LaGrange to reach the Finals.

With one away in the top of the tenth Montaneros SS Jeff Crandall (.308) singled and 3B Bubby Blackwell walked (.297)... that's when Rosario was replaced by Norm Harbison, who promptly walked LF Adrian Otero (.186) to fill the bases... CF Jaime Chacon (.310) lined out to left field, but the speedy Crandall tagged up at third and scored the winning run.

San Alejo took the lead in the second frame on RF Orlando Ybarra's (.254) solo homer, his fourth blast in the postseason.... Colfax knotted it up in the seventh on a pair of doubles by RF Hank Lunsford (.339) and 1B Doug Kirkwood (.386)... Each team racked up 8 hits apiece with Crandall leading the Montaneros with 3 hits... three Blasters had 2 hits each: Lunsford, Kirkwood and 2B Dale Hardy (.421).

Jubilant San Alejo skipper Alberto Herrera told the press at the trophy ceremony, "Stewart and Olivares were magnificent the whole year... we would not have won without them... my Monties weren't the best-hitting team, but we could scrounge up enough runs to win... at one time or another in the playoffs, somebody would come through at crunch time... we were a special team... we had to beat three fine teams to win the Pro Cup... Fairfax, Rolling Hills and Colfax are as good as it gets in the IPA and we beat them all... any one of them could have been the champ... fortunately we got the right hit at the right time and won it."

Losing manager Ilya Szabo congratulated the new IPA Pro Cup champion, "The Montaneros did what they had to do... always rising to the occasion... standout pitching and good power is a good formula for success... that's what San Alejo had... they are a scrappy ball club with strong pitching and timely hitting... it's hard to believe that we had 6 regulars bat over .300 in the playoffs and had three solid starters and a fine bullpen, but didn't win... San Alejo proved that you win on the field, not on paper."

In the playoffs San Alejo compiled a 12-8 record with a terrific 2.04 team ERA and 19 home runs, averaging 3.8 runs per game offensively... Colfax was 11-5 in the postseason with a .304 team BA, only 5 homers, a 2.85 team ERA and they scored almost 5 runs a game.

07-25-2012, 11:19 AM	#3238
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,890	*THE ISLANDIAN TIMES* Saturday, October 16, 2032 2032 IPA Pro Cup Final Series - Game 7 (best-of-seven) San Alejo Crowned IPA Pro Cup Champs 31 years of frustration finally ended today for the San Alejo Montaneros, the new IPA Pro Cup champion... the Monties won a classic pitchers' duel 2-1 in 10 innings to defeat favored Colfax in game seven of the IPA Pro Cup Finals for the first Islands' championship in the team's history... Herb Stewart went all the way in a masterful performance, holding the potent Blasters to one run on 8 hits... Stewart (5-1/1.53) struck out 4 and walked one in the crucial extra-inning win over Colfax ace Rudy Rosario (5-2/2.96), who worked into the tenth before he tired and took the loss... Rosario gave up only 2 runs and 8 hits. San Alejo had to come back from a 3-2 deficit in games to win the title. Both of them were tense nail-biters and were decided by one run... San Alejo went into the Pro Cup playoffs as the fourth seed and ended up whipping Colfax, Fairfax and Rolling Hills, the second, third and fifth seeds to take the IPA crown... Colfax was the number-two seeded club... they had to get past number-one seed Elnora and number seven LaGrange to reach the Finals. With one away in the top of the tenth Montaneros SS Jeff Crandall (.308) singled and 3B Bubby Blackwell walked (.297)... that's when Rosario was replaced by Norm Harbison, who promptly walked LF Adrian Otero (.186) to fill the bases... CF Jaime Chacon (.310) lined out to left field, but the speedy Crandall tagged up at third and scored the winning run. San Alejo took the lead in the second frame on RF Orlando Ybarra's (.254) solo homer, his fourth blast in the postseason.... Colfax knotted it up in the seventh on a pair of doubles by RF Hank Lunsford (.339) and 1B Doug Kirkwood (.386)... Each team racked up 8 hits apiece with Crandall leading the Montaneros with 3 hits... three Blasters had 2 hits each: Lunsford, Kirkwood and 2B Dale Hardy (.421). Jubilant San Alejo skipper Alberto Herrera told the press at the trophy ceremony, "Stewart and Olivares were magnificent the whole year... we would not have won without them... my Monties weren't the best-hitting team, but we could scrounge up enough runs to win... at one time or another in the playoffs, somebody would come through at crunch time... we were a special team... we had to beat three fine teams to win the Pro Cup... Fairfax, Rolling Hills and Colfax are as good as it gets in the IPA and we beat them all... any one of them could have been the champ... fortunately we got the right hit at the right time and won it." Losing manager Ilya Szabo congratulated the new IPA Pro Cup champion, "The Montaneros did what they had to do... always rising to the occasion... standout pitching and good power is a good formula for success... that's what San Alejo had... they are a scrappy ball club with strong pitching and timely hitting... it's hard to believe that we had 6 regulars bat over .300 in the playoffs and had three solid starters and a fine bullpen, but didn't win... San Alejo proved that you win on the field, not on paper." In the playoffs San Alejo compiled a 12-8 record with a terrific 2.04 team ERA and 19 home runs, averaging 3.8 runs per game offensively... Colfax was 11-5 in the postseason with a .304 team BA, only 5 homers, a 2.85 team ERA and they scored almost 5 runs a game. Last edited by Eugene Church; 06-03-2015 at 10:21 PM.