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THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Friday, October 19, 2040
IPA BEST SKIPPERS SELECTED, LEMIEUX & HACKETT WIN
The best and quickest way to win a Manager of the Year Award in the IPA is to have a sensational turnaround year. Worst-to-first would almost be an automatic award winner. The toughest way to win is to have a great team. To win you have to really have a great season. This season's winners were Cold Creek's Scoop Lemieux, the Ruthlandian Manager of the Year and Summerland's Will Hackett, who captured the Tycobbian Manager of the Year Award. Lemieux has won the honor three times in the last five years, while it's the first time in Hackett four-decades long career that he has been picked. Lemieux won it in back-to-back seasons 2036 and 2037.
Ruthlandian Union:
1. Cold Creek's manager Scoop Lemieux came off a great 2039 with an even better 2040. The Catamounts were 94-61 last year and improved to 101-53 this season.
2. Crystal Lake's Herman "Baby" George rose up from 77-77 and fifth place (14 GB) to win the RU South with a 94-60 mark.
3. Beechwood's Bret George saw his Bobcats improve from 70-84 and seventh place (24 GB) to 94-60, which was only good enough for second place, 7 games behind powerful Cold Creek.
Tycobbian Union:
1. Summerland's Will Hackett motivated his club to rise up from 77-77 and third place, 14 GB to the TU South Division crown with a super 98-56 season.
2. High Mesa's Jack Elliott got his club to perk up from last place with a 57-97 record and 26 GB to second place with an 80-74 mark... the Cowboys lost the pennant by one game to Ozarka in the TU East.
3. North Hills' Todd Simons has been the top team in the RU North for seven straight seasons... last year he was 97-57... this year he was "just" 97-57... ironically, his team didn't improve enough to sway the voters that he was the best skipper in the Tycobbian Union... Simons came in third in the voting.
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