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Eugene Church · 10-19-2013, 01:31 PM

THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Sunday, September 25, 2039

2039 IPA DIVISION SERIES - RUTHLANDIAN UNION

ROVERS KNOT SERIES AT 2-2
At home, Sligo ace Scotty Price had his good stuff as he tamed Cold Creek 3-2, helped out by Denny Simmons' eighth-inning game-winning homer, to knot up the Ruthlandian Division Series at two games apiece... Price (1-0/1.69) only gave up two runs in eight innings, though he was touched for nine hits... Gary Booth worked a flawless ninth to get the save... Price outpitched J. J. Gillespie (1-1/3.18), who went the distance and absorbed a tough loss, yielding three runs on nine hits with five Ks and no walks.

The Catamounts scored first in the second on LF Wayne Kenney's (.333) sacrifice fly that scored CF Guy St. Laurent (.313) from third base... it stayed that way until the Sligo fifth when Pat Foreman (.500) tied it up with a solo swat... Cold Creek again got the lead in the sixth on C Arved Tarand's (.333) sac fly... the Rovers came right back in the bottom half of the frame and tied it up 2-2 on a double by CF Joe McGarrett (.250) and an RBI single by C Damon Klein (.400).

Simmons (.500) and Klein (.400) topped the Rovers with three hits each... Simmons game-winner was his second homer of the series and his fifth RBI... RF Pat Foreman (.500) added two hits to the Sligo offense... 2B Pat Ellis (.400) paced Cold Creek with two hits.

REDHAWKS POWER BY WESTERNERS 9-7, TIE SERIES
After three low-scoring affairs, Far Mountain and Waleska lite up the scoreboard at Sky High Stadium... the home-standing Redhawks bashed four out of the park for a 9-7 win to even the Ruthlandian Division Series at two games each... Bert Richter tied it up in the eighth with a solo shot and Axel Bauer boomed a two-run homer to send the Westerners down to defeat... both teams had 11 hits each in the slugfest.

3B Axel Bauer (.667) led Far Mountain with 2-3, both home runs, two runs and three RBIs... C Lou Ranson (.231) also got his second homer, a three-run blast, and scored two runs.... RF Kyle Gottwald (.750) chipped with three hits and scored twice in the game.

Leading the Waleska attack were RF Niles Gregory (.143) with three RBIs, CF Jon Lassiter (.188) and LF Teke Holmes (.333) with two hits and two runs... 3B Monty McMurtry (.286) delivered three hits and 1B Shayn Lambert (.250) doubled in two runs.

Far Mountain closer Ryan Kolb (1-0/0.00) did his job and gained the win by blanking the Westerners on one hit over the last two innings... Vern Bass (1-2) really took it on the chin and lost it as he was nailed for two homers and three runs in just one-third of an inning.

2039 IPA DIVISION SERIES - TYCOBBIAN UNION

NH HAWKS CLOBBER TURON 10-5, EVENS SERIES
It was a wild and wooly ball game at Typhoon Stadium in Turon... when it was over North Hills had clobbered the Typhoons 10-5 and evened up their Tycobbian Division Series at 2-2... the Hawks hammered out 16 hits and benefitted from three Turon errors... the Hawks committed four errors... only four of the 15 runs in the game were earned... everybody in the North Hills line-up contributed at least one hit.

The Hawks took charge with a five-run fifth inning to go up 9-3, led by RF Gerry Rice (.389) with 4-5, including a pair of doubles... five other players cracked two hits apiece: 2B Kiril Ivonoski (.333), LF Adam Thurgood (.294), 3B Jim McDermott (.167), C Mikhail Romanovsky (.250) and SS Norris Henry (.214)... 1B Ric Hamilton (.231) got his second homer of the series good for two runs in the fifth.

Tony Mack (2-0/1.00) pitched the entire game, didn't give up an earned run, permitted seven hits, walked none and posted six strikeouts... losing pitcher Clyde Engstrom (0-1/4.61) was battered for nine runs on 12 hits in five-plus frames... four of them were gifts of the Typhoons' shoddy defense.

CHAMPS JOLT PANTHERS 9-7 TO TIE SERIES AT 2-2
In game four of the TU Division Series, East Point's Frank Blair had Arlon eating out of his hand with a 5-0 lead after five innings, but then the roof fell in on him... the Champs rallied for nine runs in the next three frames to capture it 9-7 and tie up the best-of-seven series at two games each.

Four homers and solid relief pitching by Dale Greene made the difference... Greene (1-0/0.00) tossed three shutout innings and got credit for the win, enabling the Champions to get back in the game... in the sixth SS Roland Duvernet (.389) had an RBI single and 3B Matt Clarendon (.294) smacked a two-run roundtripper, narrowing the score to 5-3... RF Mark Cameron (.211) homered to make it 5-4 in the seventh... in the eighth Arlon erupted for five runs to rally past East Point... Duvernet came through again and tied the Panthers at 5-5 with a solo homer... Arlon moved ahead 7-5 on a wild pitch and Gussie Czajk's (.316) base hit... and C Nick Shafer's (.300) two-run clout gave them a four-run lead at 9-5... Panther 1B Bert Henrich (.167) hit a two-run homer in the ninth for the final runs of the game.

Arlon got 13 hits to 10 for East Point... Clarendon had three hits and 2B Todd Benson (.417) to lead the way for the Champs... Cameron and Duvernet had two apiece... East Point got a three-run homer in the third from 2B Tetsu Tanaka (.357) and a two-run shot by Henrich in the ninth... SS Dean O'Donnell (.300), RF Ricky Urbina (.316) and Tanaka (.357) all had a pair of hits each for the Panthers.

Frank Blair (1-1/4.02) suffered the loss after surrendering six runs on nine hits in seven-plus innings... Arlon's ace Ronny Farnsworth left the game after four innings with an injury trailing 5-0... no word yet on the problem... the loss of Farnsworth, who was 21-8 in the season with a 2.64 ERA, would be a big setback for Arlon's Pro Cup aspirations... Champions manager Rocco Belasario told reporters that IPA strikeout king, Lanny Gray (16-15/3.38) will take his place in the starting rotation.

10-19-2013, 01:31 PM	#3769
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,934	THE ISLANDIAN TIMES Sunday, September 25, 2039 2039 IPA DIVISION SERIES - RUTHLANDIAN UNION ROVERS KNOT SERIES AT 2-2 At home, Sligo ace Scotty Price had his good stuff as he tamed Cold Creek 3-2, helped out by Denny Simmons' eighth-inning game-winning homer, to knot up the Ruthlandian Division Series at two games apiece... Price (1-0/1.69) only gave up two runs in eight innings, though he was touched for nine hits... Gary Booth worked a flawless ninth to get the save... Price outpitched J. J. Gillespie (1-1/3.18), who went the distance and absorbed a tough loss, yielding three runs on nine hits with five Ks and no walks. The Catamounts scored first in the second on LF Wayne Kenney's (.333) sacrifice fly that scored CF Guy St. Laurent (.313) from third base... it stayed that way until the Sligo fifth when Pat Foreman (.500) tied it up with a solo swat... Cold Creek again got the lead in the sixth on C Arved Tarand's (.333) sac fly... the Rovers came right back in the bottom half of the frame and tied it up 2-2 on a double by CF Joe McGarrett (.250) and an RBI single by C Damon Klein (.400). Simmons (.500) and Klein (.400) topped the Rovers with three hits each... Simmons game-winner was his second homer of the series and his fifth RBI... RF Pat Foreman (.500) added two hits to the Sligo offense... 2B Pat Ellis (.400) paced Cold Creek with two hits. REDHAWKS POWER BY WESTERNERS 9-7, TIE SERIES After three low-scoring affairs, Far Mountain and Waleska lite up the scoreboard at Sky High Stadium... the home-standing Redhawks bashed four out of the park for a 9-7 win to even the Ruthlandian Division Series at two games each... Bert Richter tied it up in the eighth with a solo shot and Axel Bauer boomed a two-run homer to send the Westerners down to defeat... both teams had 11 hits each in the slugfest. 3B Axel Bauer (.667) led Far Mountain with 2-3, both home runs, two runs and three RBIs... C Lou Ranson (.231) also got his second homer, a three-run blast, and scored two runs.... RF Kyle Gottwald (.750) chipped with three hits and scored twice in the game. Leading the Waleska attack were RF Niles Gregory (.143) with three RBIs, CF Jon Lassiter (.188) and LF Teke Holmes (.333) with two hits and two runs... 3B Monty McMurtry (.286) delivered three hits and 1B Shayn Lambert (.250) doubled in two runs. Far Mountain closer Ryan Kolb (1-0/0.00) did his job and gained the win by blanking the Westerners on one hit over the last two innings... Vern Bass (1-2) really took it on the chin and lost it as he was nailed for two homers and three runs in just one-third of an inning. 2039 IPA DIVISION SERIES - TYCOBBIAN UNION NH HAWKS CLOBBER TURON 10-5, EVENS SERIES It was a wild and wooly ball game at Typhoon Stadium in Turon... when it was over North Hills had clobbered the Typhoons 10-5 and evened up their Tycobbian Division Series at 2-2... the Hawks hammered out 16 hits and benefitted from three Turon errors... the Hawks committed four errors... only four of the 15 runs in the game were earned... everybody in the North Hills line-up contributed at least one hit. The Hawks took charge with a five-run fifth inning to go up 9-3, led by RF Gerry Rice (.389) with 4-5, including a pair of doubles... five other players cracked two hits apiece: 2B Kiril Ivonoski (.333), LF Adam Thurgood (.294), 3B Jim McDermott (.167), C Mikhail Romanovsky (.250) and SS Norris Henry (.214)... 1B Ric Hamilton (.231) got his second homer of the series good for two runs in the fifth. Tony Mack (2-0/1.00) pitched the entire game, didn't give up an earned run, permitted seven hits, walked none and posted six strikeouts... losing pitcher Clyde Engstrom (0-1/4.61) was battered for nine runs on 12 hits in five-plus frames... four of them were gifts of the Typhoons' shoddy defense. CHAMPS JOLT PANTHERS 9-7 TO TIE SERIES AT 2-2 In game four of the TU Division Series, East Point's Frank Blair had Arlon eating out of his hand with a 5-0 lead after five innings, but then the roof fell in on him... the Champs rallied for nine runs in the next three frames to capture it 9-7 and tie up the best-of-seven series at two games each. Four homers and solid relief pitching by Dale Greene made the difference... Greene (1-0/0.00) tossed three shutout innings and got credit for the win, enabling the Champions to get back in the game... in the sixth SS Roland Duvernet (.389) had an RBI single and 3B Matt Clarendon (.294) smacked a two-run roundtripper, narrowing the score to 5-3... RF Mark Cameron (.211) homered to make it 5-4 in the seventh... in the eighth Arlon erupted for five runs to rally past East Point... Duvernet came through again and tied the Panthers at 5-5 with a solo homer... Arlon moved ahead 7-5 on a wild pitch and Gussie Czajk's (.316) base hit... and C Nick Shafer's (.300) two-run clout gave them a four-run lead at 9-5... Panther 1B Bert Henrich (.167) hit a two-run homer in the ninth for the final runs of the game. Arlon got 13 hits to 10 for East Point... Clarendon had three hits and 2B Todd Benson (.417) to lead the way for the Champs... Cameron and Duvernet had two apiece... East Point got a three-run homer in the third from 2B Tetsu Tanaka (.357) and a two-run shot by Henrich in the ninth... SS Dean O'Donnell (.300), RF Ricky Urbina (.316) and Tanaka (.357) all had a pair of hits each for the Panthers. Frank Blair (1-1/4.02) suffered the loss after surrendering six runs on nine hits in seven-plus innings... Arlon's ace Ronny Farnsworth left the game after four innings with an injury trailing 5-0... no word yet on the problem... the loss of Farnsworth, who was 21-8 in the season with a 2.64 ERA, would be a big setback for Arlon's Pro Cup aspirations... Champions manager Rocco Belasario told reporters that IPA strikeout king, Lanny Gray (16-15/3.38) will take his place in the starting rotation. Last edited by Eugene Church; 10-19-2013 at 01:51 PM.