THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Monday, October 10, 2050
2050 IPA PRO CUP SERIES - Game 3
VALMARA NEARS REPEAT, POLASKI WINS 4-1 IN GAME 3
With 11 wins in a row, defending IPA champion Valmara is nearing a sweep of the postseason games and is fast closing in on its second straight Pro Cup title... Darek Polaski (3-0/2.08) crafted a 4-1 victory in game three of the Pro Cup Finals at War Memorial Stadium in Valmara... he stiffed the White River Rascals on four hits and an unearned run to give the Vipers a commanding three-to-nothing lead in the series... Polaski registered 6 Ks and walked nobody in a superb outing.
Valmara put the Rascals away early with three runs in the opening frame and added a fourth in the second... CF Don Ritchie (.395) doubled in the first one... C Karol Koska (.261) got number two in with a groundout to short... and 3B Arnie Pliska's (.242) sacrifice fly scored the third one... the Vipers got an unearned run in the second... 2B Jorge Aparicio (.293) got aboard on a two-base error by catcher Duke Sims (.250), went to third on a sac bunt and came home when SS Ken Jensen (.292) groundout out to short... that gave Jensen 15 RBIs for the postseason.
In a solid effort Clem Warren (3-1/1.74) went all the way in defeat, allowing only two earned runs on seven hits... it was his first loss of the postseason... LF Tomek Abramczyk (.381) and RF Boyd Holmes (.333) paced Valmara at the plate with two hits apiece... CF Pudge Tate (.232) had two for the Rascals.
Only three times in IPA history has a club swept through the playoffs without losing a game... Far Mountain did it in 2013, Eastshore in 2016 and Rocky Rapids in 2019... The longest all-time winning streak in postseason play belongs to the Eastshore Elegants, who ran off 20 consecutive triumphs in the '16 and '17 postseason play.
Last edited by Eugene Church; 12-25-2014 at 11:19 AM.
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