February 21st Friday
Flyers vs Cobras:
It has been said that “any day you can play softball is a good day”, but weather-wise today was a crappy day. First, we were moved from field B to field A (the short fence field).The wind was blowing out fiercely, there was bound to be a lot of balls hit over the fence, especially with each team getting 2 American league players to fill out each roster.
The flyers started the game with 3 hits over the fence, Essenmacher, Brock and Vanderhyde, and scored 3 runs. The cobras scored 4 runs with 2 regular doubles and 1 HR over the fence by Gonzalas. The flyers scored 5 in the top of the second with 2 HR’s going over the fence, Brock & Kallister, but the cobras could only muster up 1 run, that going over the fence by DeBrock. Nobody scored in the third., score: flyers 8 cobras 5. In the 4th the flyers got 2 and the cobras got 4 with another one over the fence. After 4 innings, Flyers 10 ,Cobras 9. It was all Cobras after that. Flyers only scored 1 run in the last 5 innings while the cobras scored 17 runs with 5 more over the fence HR’s. Final score: Cobras 26 Flyers 11.
Winning pitcher Hal Ridley
Top hitters for the cobras:
Spitaleri 6/6 2 doubles
Gonzalas 5/5 a double & 3 HR’s
Debroeck 5/5 2 HR’s
Granger 3/3 2 HR’s
Vandenberg 5/6 w/ 3 doubles
Spigel 3/6 w/ HR
Peskie 3/6
Gelinas 3/6
Wallace 2/4
Notable outfield defense plays by Debroeck
Top Hitters for the Flyers
Fabian 3/4
Essenmacher 3/5 W/HR
Brock 3/5 w/2 HR’s
Kallister 3/5 w/ HR
Vanderhyde4/5 w/HR
Segiun 2/4
Baker 2/4
A total of 13 balls were hit over the fence for ground rule doubles (wind factor)
Write-up by Bob Vandenberg
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