Note:
Next Tuesday is the last Lakeland play date this winter. On March 25th, we return to the DiamondPlex. Earlier start times will begin in April.
Dateline: Lakeland
National League
Two powerhouse teams from the National League met in fierce combat today
as Russ Kings home team (Moots, Mahon, Michalski, Carpenter,
Marinacci, Kline, King, McLellan, Wells, Fulton, Andrews, and Baker) handed Ted
Taylor and his visiting team (Marino, Waddell, Luatenschlager, Shaffer,
Remington, Hopper, Ayers, Altemose, Bloom, Taylor, Mills, and Newbaker) a hard
fought defeat.. The visitors, lead by power hitting Rich Marino started early
and scored five quick runs. Richie's lead off triple setting the stage. Moots
lead off and seven singles later their fifth run crossed the plate. In the
second, the visitors were held scoreless while the home boys hit eight singles
to push across five more runs. In the third, the visitors first five batters
scored with Jerry Remington's double the big blow. The home team managed just a
scant two runs. The fourth saw the bottom of the line up fail to score for the
visitors, while Mahon and Carpenter's doubles added one run to the home teams
total.
With the score 13 to 10 at the end of four it looked like it was going to
be touch and go the rest of the way. Unfortunately the next four innings saw the
visitors outscored 12 to 4. The home team hit 13 singles and a double during
that stretch, mostly to the right side. I cannot forget Russ Kings home
run.These boys were threading the needle like Betsy Ross.
Going into the ninth, we stood at 24 to 14, but there was no quit in the
visitors as the first five batters reached base and scored. With the heart
of the lineup coming to bat it looked like they were going to get right
back in it. Unfortunately three grounders to second base and the inning was
over. Final score Home Team 25 and Visitors 18.
Key performances
Rich Moots 4 for 5
Dick Mahon 4 for 5 with a
double
Stan Michalski 4 for 5
John Carpenter 4 for 5 with a double
Eddie
Kline 5
for 5
Russ
King 5
for 5 with a double and homer
John Fulton 4 for
4
Al Andrews 4 for 4
Josh
Wells winning
pitcher
Rich Marino 4 for 5 with a
triple and double
H Lautenschlager 5 for 5
Denny Shaffer 4
for 5
Bill
Ayers 5
for 5
Jim
Altemose 3 for
4
American League
Ron Butler's thirteen took the field against Freddy Gonzalez's twelve in a wet grass/hit 'n sit match on the Lakeland Southwest Complex turf.
Jose Rivera and Sam Cuscovitch led off the scoring by getting on base and watching Donnie Held hit the first of two homers over the fence. Herbie O and Terry Smith led off the scoring for the home team and after one, the score was 3-2 visitors.
The game started off close in spite of Donnie Held's heroic smashes and after 4 innings the score stood at 7-6 in favor of Freddy's Visiting Angels. That's as close as the Home team would get although they rallied a bit in the 8th to close to 16-12.
Final Score 19-12 in favor of Freddy's squad.
JD and Nick Matta shared the winning pitcher spot while Larry Powell and Pat Lopiccolo co-pitched the defeat distinction.
Leading Hitters
Team Gonzalez
Rivera 4 for 5
Drouiliard 4 for 5 2b
Held 4 for 5 2-HR, 2-DB
Gonzalez 3 for 5 2b 3b
Giordano 3 for 5 2b
Hill 2 for 4 3b
Team Butler
Smith 4 for 5 2b
Wiltshire 3 for 4 SAC
Hartley 3 for 4
Denny 3 for 4 2b
Pepin 4 for 4
Ota 3 for 4
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