Today's game on Gessler Field certainly had its ups and downs...Mostly ups for the visiting team and down for the home boys. The true challenge beside the cold and wind was the number of players. Since we had 10 on one team and nine on the other, we decided to play ten leaving the middle open.
The visitors lineup was put together by Ron Butler. His lineup included Coffman, Toro, Smith, Hartley, Butler, Kallister, Levesque, Borrelli, Hawbaker, and McPartin. They started strong and had as good af first six innings as I can remember. The first five batters in the first two innings got on base and scored. In the third they tallied three times with home runs by Coffman and Levesque. They continued adding up the runs with two in the fourth. Things were out of hand by the time they tallied five more runs in the fifth. In the sixth, Ron Butler's home run propelled them to four more in the sixth. At the end of six innings they had totaled 24 runs.
The home team had Dampier, Hill, Wiltshire, Jacobson, Zelazny, Vandenberg, Wells, Podbielski, and Lopicollo.
Despite a strong motivational speech by the manager Zelazny, the home boys started slow and stranded too many runners to make a game of it. They managed five in the second but made no headway in reducing the lead enjoyed by the visitors. With only one run in the next two innings they were looking at having to overcome a deficit of nine. The fifth saw doubles by Hill and Wiltshire and a triple by Vandenberg provided the power to push across six runs. The home boys continued to speak with their bats and scored five in the sixth. So despite being behind there was a glimmer of hope with three to go.
Despite a strong motivational speech by the manager Zelazny, the home boys started slow and stranded too many runners to make a game of it. They managed five in the second but made no headway in reducing the lead enjoyed by the visitors. With only one run in the next two innings they were looking at having to overcome a deficit of nine. The fifth saw doubles by Hill and Wiltshire and a triple by Vandenberg provided the power to push across six runs. The home boys continued to speak with their bats and scored five in the sixth. So despite being behind there was a glimmer of hope with three to go.
The seventh inning started with the visitors up by six. That preety much the game, as Wiltshire's triple scored the lone run in the last three innings. Final score Visitors 24 and Home 19.
Winning pitcher BJ Kallister.
Winning pitcher BJ Kallister.
Key Performances
Kirk Coffman 4 for 6
Juan Toro 4 for 6
Terry Smith 4 for 6 with two doubles
Dave Hartley 4 for 5
Ron Butler 4 for 6 with a homer
Ray Lesvesque 4 for 5 with a homer
Dave Hawbaker 4 for 5
Fred Dampier 5 for 7
Steve Hill 5 for 7
Bob Zelazny 6 for 7
Bob Vandenberg 5 for 7
submitted by Bob Zelazny
The game on Field B was very competitive.
Manager of the Home Team was Karen Holley and Larry Powell was Manager of the Visitors team.
The visitors started the first inning by scoring 4 runs on 7 singles and one walk.The Home Team scored 2 runs with Ed Guspyt hitting an inside the park home run. Ed also hit for the cycle hitting one of each in a 4 for 5 day.
The visitors scored 2 runs in the second, 3 in the third and fourth innings. They didn't score again until the ninth inning when they scored 3 runs to win the game. The Home team were able to score at least one run in 2nd-8th innings and we leading 13 to 12 heading into the ninth inning. They couldn't
shut the visitors down in the ninth when they scored 3 runs.
The Home Team was shut down with no runs or hits and lost by a score of 15-13.
Jerry Witter and Larry Powell shared pitching duties. Jerry was playing in the outfield in the last inning and caught a fly ball for the third out to end the game.
Leading hitters for the Visitors Team were:
Nic Burns--4-4 with 2 doubles
Jerry Remington--4-5
Russ King--3-4 with 2 doubles
Jerry Witter--4-4
Ron Augenstein--3-4
Home Team was lead by:
Ed Guspyt--4-5 with one home run,one triple, one double
John Merritt--3-3
Ron Thompson--4-4
Spitaler(new player)--3-4
submitted by Larry Powell
submitted by Bob Zelazny
The game on Field B was very competitive.
Manager of the Home Team was Karen Holley and Larry Powell was Manager of the Visitors team.
The visitors started the first inning by scoring 4 runs on 7 singles and one walk.The Home Team scored 2 runs with Ed Guspyt hitting an inside the park home run. Ed also hit for the cycle hitting one of each in a 4 for 5 day.
The visitors scored 2 runs in the second, 3 in the third and fourth innings. They didn't score again until the ninth inning when they scored 3 runs to win the game. The Home team were able to score at least one run in 2nd-8th innings and we leading 13 to 12 heading into the ninth inning. They couldn't
shut the visitors down in the ninth when they scored 3 runs.
The Home Team was shut down with no runs or hits and lost by a score of 15-13.
Jerry Witter and Larry Powell shared pitching duties. Jerry was playing in the outfield in the last inning and caught a fly ball for the third out to end the game.
Leading hitters for the Visitors Team were:
Nic Burns--4-4 with 2 doubles
Jerry Remington--4-5
Russ King--3-4 with 2 doubles
Jerry Witter--4-4
Ron Augenstein--3-4
Home Team was lead by:
Ed Guspyt--4-5 with one home run,one triple, one double
John Merritt--3-3
Ron Thompson--4-4
Spitaler(new player)--3-4
submitted by Larry Powell
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