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Eugene Church · 01-08-2013, 06:26 PM

THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Saturday, October 7, 2034

2034 IPA Pro Cup Playoffs
(best-of-seven)

Ruthlandian Union Final 4 Series

CL Crushes Volusia 12-5 In Game 7
Game seven of the RU Final 4 was billed as a clash of 20-games aces, but it didn't turn out that way... Crystal Lake crushed Volusia 12-5 with a 17-hit barrage to cop the RU title game... Stan Stanek walloped 2 home runs and batted in 5 runs in the massacre... the Crushers lived up to their name today and will now play the Tycobbian winner for the IPA Pro Cup, emblematic of pro baseball supremacy in the Islands.

The expected pitching duel lasted only 5 innings... Volusia started the game with a bang with homers by CF Ernesto Andujar (.297) and C Tubby Tarkanian (.273) off of Arnie Cason, good for a 3-0 lead... Crystal Lake fought back with runs off Tommy Smith in the third and fourth frames... after 5 innings it was 3-2 in favor of Volusia... but that quickly went out the door when the Crushers exploded for 7 runs in the sixth, highlighted by C Stan Stanek's (.365) 3-run homer and 2-run singles by RF Paul Dillon (.273) and CF Teke Holmes (.292)... after a rough first inning, Arnie Cason managed to pretty much hold the Vigilantes in check... Cason (2-2/2.79) went the distance, permitted 5 runs on 11 hits, fanned 6 and walked one... Tommy Smith (3-2/1.42) took the loss... in 5 and two-thirds innings he was battered for 13 hits and 9 runs, though only 3 were earned.

Crystal Lake was sparked at the plate by Stanek, Holmes, 3B Willie Burke (.395) and SS Mackie Cummings (.289), all with 3 hits apiece... 3B Antonio Diaz (.283) topped the V's with 3 hits in 5 tries... and 1B Ernie Pryor went 2-for-4.

At the post-game news conference Crystal Lake manager Herman "Baby" George said, "Stan Stanek, Arnie Cason, Dennis Mills and Douglas Merrill have been terrific for us all during the playoffs... Stanek have been remarkable with 7 homers and 18 RBIs... thank goodness, our bats came alive in the last two games... until then we really struggled at the plate... our pitching kept us in the series and then our bats finally won it for us."

Volusia manager Alfonso Feliz was upbeat even though his Vigilantes were beaten. He congratulated the Crushers on their victory telling the writers, "Baby has a strong ball club and I think they will do well in the Pro Cup. So I'm not going to hang my head in shame. My V's surprised a lot of you guys... none of you gave us much of a chance against Eastshore in the first round, nor in the second round, but we almost pulled it off and got a seventh seed in the Pro Cup title series... next year we are going to get us another pitcher to go with Tommy Smith and take the whole shebang. Volusia will be back next year... mark my word."

Tycobbian Union Final 4 Series

O'Donnell's HR Puts North Hills In Pro Cup Finals
The seventh game of the TU Final 4 was going down to the wire... the score was 2-2 in the top of the eighth, runners were on first and second with 2 away and clean-up hitter Dean O'Donnell facing Kajika Fleetfoot... O'Donnell quickly did his job and rifled the ball over the right field fence to give North Hills a 5-2 win over the Chicopee Braves and a spot in the Pro Cup Finals against the Crystal Lake Crushers, the champion of the Ruthlandian Union... this will mark the Hawks first appearance in the IPA championship game... the Crushers have been there three times and came home with the trophy on two occasions.

The winning pitcher was David Michael (5-0/1.76), who hurled another standout game... Michael went all the way, holding the talented Chicopee bats to just 4 hits... Michael tied for the IPA lead in victories with 26 this year and is unbeaten in 6 postseason starts... the 27-year-old right-hander whipped the Braves three times in the series.

The Hawks were led offensively by O'Donnell (.345) with 4 RBIs... SS Norris Henry (.319) had 3 hits and scored twice... 2B Kiril Ivonoski (.260) was 2-for-4 and scored 2 runs and LF Adam Thurgood (.446) went 2-for-4 and drove in a run... Chicopee got their runs in the seventh when they evened the score at 2-all on RBI singles by 3B Kurt Gustavsen (.391) and 1B Pierre Giguerre (.286)... Fleetfoot (2-3/3.56) caught the loss as he allowed 5 runs and 10 hits in 8 innings.

Todd Simons, skipper of the Hawks, told the press, "What can you say about David Michael... he won 5 of our 8 playoff wins... we always have a chance when he is on the hill... but that's not to say we are a one-man team... we got a pretty solid core of clutch hitters, too... someone always seems to come through for us... O'Donnell really did it big time for us today."

Losing manager Ivan Burkholder lamented, "We had our chance... we were up two games to one, but we just couldn't beat Michael... that was the series."

01-08-2013, 06:26 PM	#3394
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,940	*THE ISLANDIAN TIMES* Saturday, October 7, 2034 2034 IPA Pro Cup Playoffs (best-of-seven) Ruthlandian Union Final 4 Series CL Crushes Volusia 12-5 In Game 7 Game seven of the RU Final 4 was billed as a clash of 20-games aces, but it didn't turn out that way... Crystal Lake crushed Volusia 12-5 with a 17-hit barrage to cop the RU title game... Stan Stanek walloped 2 home runs and batted in 5 runs in the massacre... the Crushers lived up to their name today and will now play the Tycobbian winner for the IPA Pro Cup, emblematic of pro baseball supremacy in the Islands. The expected pitching duel lasted only 5 innings... Volusia started the game with a bang with homers by CF Ernesto Andujar (.297) and C Tubby Tarkanian (.273) off of Arnie Cason, good for a 3-0 lead... Crystal Lake fought back with runs off Tommy Smith in the third and fourth frames... after 5 innings it was 3-2 in favor of Volusia... but that quickly went out the door when the Crushers exploded for 7 runs in the sixth, highlighted by C Stan Stanek's (.365) 3-run homer and 2-run singles by RF Paul Dillon (.273) and CF Teke Holmes (.292)... after a rough first inning, Arnie Cason managed to pretty much hold the Vigilantes in check... Cason (2-2/2.79) went the distance, permitted 5 runs on 11 hits, fanned 6 and walked one... Tommy Smith (3-2/1.42) took the loss... in 5 and two-thirds innings he was battered for 13 hits and 9 runs, though only 3 were earned. Crystal Lake was sparked at the plate by Stanek, Holmes, 3B Willie Burke (.395) and SS Mackie Cummings (.289), all with 3 hits apiece... 3B Antonio Diaz (.283) topped the V's with 3 hits in 5 tries... and 1B Ernie Pryor went 2-for-4. At the post-game news conference Crystal Lake manager Herman "Baby" George said, "Stan Stanek, Arnie Cason, Dennis Mills and Douglas Merrill have been terrific for us all during the playoffs... Stanek have been remarkable with 7 homers and 18 RBIs... thank goodness, our bats came alive in the last two games... until then we really struggled at the plate... our pitching kept us in the series and then our bats finally won it for us." Volusia manager Alfonso Feliz was upbeat even though his Vigilantes were beaten. He congratulated the Crushers on their victory telling the writers, "Baby has a strong ball club and I think they will do well in the Pro Cup. So I'm not going to hang my head in shame. My V's surprised a lot of you guys... none of you gave us much of a chance against Eastshore in the first round, nor in the second round, but we almost pulled it off and got a seventh seed in the Pro Cup title series... next year we are going to get us another pitcher to go with Tommy Smith and take the whole shebang. Volusia will be back next year... mark my word." Tycobbian Union Final 4 Series O'Donnell's HR Puts North Hills In Pro Cup Finals The seventh game of the TU Final 4 was going down to the wire... the score was 2-2 in the top of the eighth, runners were on first and second with 2 away and clean-up hitter Dean O'Donnell facing Kajika Fleetfoot... O'Donnell quickly did his job and rifled the ball over the right field fence to give North Hills a 5-2 win over the Chicopee Braves and a spot in the Pro Cup Finals against the Crystal Lake Crushers, the champion of the Ruthlandian Union... this will mark the Hawks first appearance in the IPA championship game... the Crushers have been there three times and came home with the trophy on two occasions. The winning pitcher was David Michael (5-0/1.76), who hurled another standout game... Michael went all the way, holding the talented Chicopee bats to just 4 hits... Michael tied for the IPA lead in victories with 26 this year and is unbeaten in 6 postseason starts... the 27-year-old right-hander whipped the Braves three times in the series. The Hawks were led offensively by O'Donnell (.345) with 4 RBIs... SS Norris Henry (.319) had 3 hits and scored twice... 2B Kiril Ivonoski (.260) was 2-for-4 and scored 2 runs and LF Adam Thurgood (.446) went 2-for-4 and drove in a run... Chicopee got their runs in the seventh when they evened the score at 2-all on RBI singles by 3B Kurt Gustavsen (.391) and 1B Pierre Giguerre (.286)... Fleetfoot (2-3/3.56) caught the loss as he allowed 5 runs and 10 hits in 8 innings. Todd Simons, skipper of the Hawks, told the press, "What can you say about David Michael... he won 5 of our 8 playoff wins... we always have a chance when he is on the hill... but that's not to say we are a one-man team... we got a pretty solid core of clutch hitters, too... someone always seems to come through for us... O'Donnell really did it big time for us today." Losing manager Ivan Burkholder lamented, "We had our chance... we were up two games to one, but we just couldn't beat Michael... that was the series." Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-12-2015 at 05:24 PM.