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THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Wednesday, September 21, 2050
2050 IPA DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES - Game 1
Ruthlandian Union
ROOSTERS ROUST RATTLERS IN OPENER 7-4
In more ways than one James Long of the Middlefield Roosters had a hand in the 7-4 triumph over Sugar Valley in the opening game of the Ruthlandian Division Championship Series played at Farmers Memorial Park in Sugar Valley... not only did he go the route, but he also drove in three runs... Long (1-0) wasn't at his best, but he beat the high-powered Rattlers, though he permitted four runs on seven hits... Long singled in two runs in the top of the first inning when Middlefield tagged loser Christopher Dunsberry (0-1) for five runs... that was all Long needed to put away the Rattlers... he also doubled in a run in the third frame.
Long and RF Timothey Hayworth both led the Roosters at the plate with two hits each... RF Duncan McEllicott homered and singled twice to pace Sugar Valley... he and 3B Smokey Nix batted in two runs apiece for the Rattlers.
VIPERS SPANK CRUSADERS 8-2 BEHIND GRAJEK
Playing the Ruthlandian LCS opener at home at War Memorial Stadium, the defending IPA champion Valmara Vipers opened up with an 8-2 win over the St. John Crusaders as 25-game winner Darus Grajek (1-0) scattered 10 hits and allowed only one earned run in a complete game performance... Grajek fanned three batters and walked none in topping 26-game winner Frank Long (0-1), who was battered for seven runs and nine hits in just five and two-thirds innings.
Heading up the Vipers' 12-hit attack was SS Ken Jensen with a two-run homer and three RBIs... LF Tomek Abramczyk added four hits and a pair of RBIs and 2B Jorge Aparicio chipped in two hits and scored twice... Jensen's smash put Valmara ahead to stay in the bottom of the fifth... 1B Al Pace and 3B Stan Cobb led the losers with a pair of hits each.
Tycobbian Union
VLACHOS' HR BIG BLOW IN SUN SOX GAME 1 WIN
Vasilis Vlachos's three-run clout in the top of the fifth snapped a scoreless duel between Billy Hoover and 26-game winner Butch Slattery to give Southport an opening game win 4-2 over White River at White River Stadium... Hoover (1-0) went all the way, gave up 11 hits, but only two runs to beat Slattery, who tied for the IPA lead in victories this season... Slattery yielded four runs and 11 hits, but went the distance, striking out three and walking three... Hoover whiffed four and walked three... both of them stranded 11 baserunners each.
In addition to Vlachos, Southport was sparked by 3B Ricky Whitaker, LF Tony Patrano and SS Yank Canyon with two hits apiece.,, 2B Ryan Byrd led the Rascals with a two-run double... Slattery, 3B Kenny Yarbrough, SS Kunta Burton and CF Pudge Tate all had two hits.
BUCS BOP PANTHERS ON RITTER'S TRIPLE IN 15TH
On their home turf at Shoreline Park in Bay St. Clair, the Buccaneers came back and won game one of the Tycobbian Division Championship Series, edging East Point 6-5 in 15 innings... Butch Thornhill sent the game into overtime with a dramatic two-run homer in the ninth and pinchhitter Ike Ritter won it when he tripled in Coy Champion who had walked to lead off the last of the 15th.
Both clubs got strong relief pitching... the Buccaneer bullpen blanked the Panthers over the last eight frames on two hits... Ian Abercrombie worked the eighth and ninth, Cadillac Bogart the tenth and the eleventh and winning pitcher Steve Swanwick tossed the final four innings... Pudgy Putnam and Joey Dulles held the Bucs scoreless for four and two-thirds innings... and the loss went to Kerry Woodburn (0-1), who surrendered the walk to Champion and the game-winning triple to Ritter.
Bay St. Clair's top bats were RF Butch Thornhill with two homers and 1B Clive Caviness with a two-run roundtripper... the Bucs collected 12 hits with Thornhill, C Andy Spencer and 3B Trace Burney getting two apiece... topping East Point were rookie 1B Alvara Cavacos with two hits, two RBIs and two runs and rookie RF Doug Dennhardt with two doubles... Cavacos went deep for the Panthers, who had 10 hits.
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