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Eugene Church · 06-17-2011, 07:28 PM

The Islandian Times
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

2024 Tycobbian South Final Recap

Suns Burn Ninjas In TU South Playoff
The 2024 Tycobbian South season had to go overtime to get a champion. The Arroyo Suns and the Ginza Ninjas were tied after 154 games and the Suns burned them 9-1 in the playoff game and won the pennant. It was Arroyo Grande's fourth flag in the last five years. Ginza had beaten them last season. Third place went to the Summerland Sunsets, who were right up with the Suns and the Ninjas until a bad September, but slipped 7 and a half games back with a 3-11 mark the last month. The Cape Coral Hurricanes finished fourth, 8 and a half games off the pace.

Manager Cyclone Cobb depends on good bats and average pitching to get his Arroyo Grande Suns (89-66) by... The Suns were the top hitting team in the TU with a .269 BA and were number two with 187 home runs and 795 runs... only High Mesa with 191 homers and Bay St. Clair with 798 runs were better... the triumvirate of superstar 1B Rusty Vizcarra (.341 BA/54 HR/161 RBI/129 R), SS Andy Pearson (.315 BA/26 HR/80 RBI/124 R) and C Gary Troxell (.289 BA/34 HR/95 RBI/72 R) are hard to outscore... Vizcarra had another fabulous season and led the entire IPA in homers, RBIs and runs... Vizcarra came real close to the Triple Crown as he was fifth in the batting race... leading the Suns mound corps were two 20-game winners: 42-year-old Sixto Zamora (24-14 3.00) and 11-year vet Ernie Matthews (20-14 3.48)... 38-year-old closer Jason Patrick saved 31 games with a 2.93 ERA, but was only 7-9 in wins and losses.

The Ginza Ninjas (88-67) gave Arroyo Grande a great run for its money and came up only one game short of winning its second straight TU South title... Huroko Uchiyama had a fine starting four with Yutaka Yoshida (23-12 3.34), Harlan Wilson (20-10 3.34), Ron Koehler (19-18 3.65) and Daniel Ferguson (16-16 3.20)... in the bullpen, closer Frank Beard (2-4) was excellent with 31 saves and an impressive 1.50 ERA... star 1B Johnny O'Rorke (.321 BA/28 HR/105 RBI/100 R) continued to carry the team with some help from C Crash Davis (.285 BA/17 HR/72 RBI/79 R)... Ginza need a couple of studs at the plate to overtake Arroyo Grande.

It was a remarkable season for the downtrodden Summerland Sunsets (81-73), who snapped a three-year string of cellar-dwelling with a sudden jump to third place... Summerland hasn't been in the first division since 2012... skipper Will Hackett had the Sunsets running neck-and-neck with the leaders down the stretch, but they faded badly in September... the Sunsets had adequate starters (3.73 ERA-7th), but were really good in the bullpen with a 1.75 ERA (1st)... Cary Snead (5-4) was the closer with 25 saves and a super 1.67 ERA... middle reliever and spot starter Scotty Ellison stood out with a 10-2 record and an outlandish 1.21 ERA in 37 games and 5 starts... Sparky DeWey (19-12 3.63) topped the starters... SS Gregg Proctor (.286 BA/15 HR/93 RBI), CF Clell Renshaw (.263 BA/15 HR/83 RBI/93 R) and RF Brady Gilbert (.262 BA/13 HR/82 RBI/87 R) provided most of the offense.

For the first time in years the Cape Coral Hurricanes (80-74) also got out of the second division... Huggy Miller's Hurricanes had finished seventh for the last five seasons... Miller gives most of the credit to his 5-man bullpen, who chalked up a 2.09 ERA (5th), led by closer Flapper Bird (8-3) with 22 saves and a microscopic 0.65 ERA... also excelling were Mike Rinaldi (9-7 2.42), Bobby Maas (3-0 2.22), Alec Gunderson (4-0 2.79) and Jesse Seymour (1-0 1.78)... Ray Salisbury (9-5 3.98) was the most effective starter... Miller gave up on 21-year-old Cory Burg too soon this season... Burg, the son of IPA great and all-time strikeout leader Cody Burg, was released in July with an 8-6 record and a 4.61 ERA... his daddy was 369-264 with over 5000 Ks in 21 seasons... Blue Lake signed him and he promptly went 10-5 with a 2.93 ERA... if Cory is half the pitcher his dad was, Blue lake got a heck of a bargain... RF Bill James (.299 BA/18 HR/78 RBI/105 R) and C Wendell Crosby (.267 BA/21 HR/86 RBI was the only productive batters in the line-up.

The Turon Typhoons (75-79) finished fifth for the second successive season, trailing Arroyo Grande by 13 and a half games... stars of the past have retired, been traded, or just got old... Turon is no longer the dynasty that won 4 Pro Cups and 11 TU South pennants... manager Whitey Richburn still has the great Nicky Engstrom around at age 35 and he's still a prime-time pitcher with a 20-12 mark and strong 2.35 ERA, but he has little help on the hill... Engstrom is 320-149 in his 15 years with the club... 1B Michael Page (.279 BA/33 HR/97 RBI/82 R) is the best bat on the team and a good one, but has little help... it's been rebuilding time for Richburn and the Typhoons for several years now.

It's been seven years since the Colchester Elites (73-81) have been in the hunt for the pennant... Uncle Robbie Wilbertson guided the Elites to sixth place, winding up 15 and a half games back... Wilbertson has two fine starters in Brandy Snow (20-15 2.72) and Mac Flowers (18-11 3.04)... but no much else... offensively the Elites are not very good... RF Johnny Washington (.273 BA/19 HR/65 RBI) and LF Stephen Day (.272 BA/15 HR/64 RBI) are the only decent bats in the line-up... but Wilbertson may have found a pretty good bat in youngster Steve Burns, who was installed at first base in August and he ended up with 16 homers and a .304 BA.

After four good years the Southport Sun Sox (67-87) have fallen on hard times and have spiral downward to seventh, 21 and a half games out... for the past two years Charley Oscar had the finest pitching in the IPA, 2.78 team ERA in 2022 and 2.90 in 2023, but not this year... it skyrocketed to 4.05... the staff was decimated by the retirement of long-time ace Bob Montgomery, who won 147 games in 8 seasons with the club, and the loss of young Rod Bailey, who signed a great contract with San Dimas of the Ruthlandian Union... Montgomery (18-14 2.64) and Bailey (24-12 2.32) won 42 games between them last year... Oscar had no one to replace them... never much offensively in the past, Southport hit only .245 (25th)... 3B Jason Hinton (.313 BA/16 HR/67 RBI) and 1B Kyle Ross (.273 BA/19 HR/80 RBI) were Oscar's best regulars.

Over 20 years ago the San Alejo Montaneros (62-92) won the pennants in the team's first two seasons in the IPA, but have nothing to show for it since... manager Alberto Herrera's club struggled again this season and finished in the TU South basement, 26 and a half games off the pace... the best thing the Montaneros have is Trini Corona, a talented pitcher... Corona was 14-16, but had an excellent 2.87 ERA... the only other thing they do is hit a few homers... San Alejo is 11th in the TU with 133 HRs... 24-year-old RF Lou Browning tops the team with a .288 BA, 29 HR, 71 RBIs and 102 runs scored... LF Warren Love slammed 22 out of the park and batted in a team-high 91 runs, but hit only .205.

06-17-2011, 07:28 PM	#2586
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,946	*The Islandian Times* Wednesday, September 18, 2024 2024 Tycobbian South Final Recap Suns Burn Ninjas In TU South Playoff The 2024 Tycobbian South season had to go overtime to get a champion. The Arroyo Suns and the Ginza Ninjas were tied after 154 games and the Suns burned them 9-1 in the playoff game and won the pennant. It was Arroyo Grande's fourth flag in the last five years. Ginza had beaten them last season. Third place went to the Summerland Sunsets, who were right up with the Suns and the Ninjas until a bad September, but slipped 7 and a half games back with a 3-11 mark the last month. The Cape Coral Hurricanes finished fourth, 8 and a half games off the pace. Manager Cyclone Cobb depends on good bats and average pitching to get his Arroyo Grande Suns (89-66) by... The Suns were the top hitting team in the TU with a .269 BA and were number two with 187 home runs and 795 runs... only High Mesa with 191 homers and Bay St. Clair with 798 runs were better... the triumvirate of superstar 1B Rusty Vizcarra (.341 BA/54 HR/161 RBI/129 R), SS Andy Pearson (.315 BA/26 HR/80 RBI/124 R) and C Gary Troxell (.289 BA/34 HR/95 RBI/72 R) are hard to outscore... Vizcarra had another fabulous season and led the entire IPA in homers, RBIs and runs... Vizcarra came real close to the Triple Crown as he was fifth in the batting race... leading the Suns mound corps were two 20-game winners: 42-year-old Sixto Zamora (24-14 3.00) and 11-year vet Ernie Matthews (20-14 3.48)... 38-year-old closer Jason Patrick saved 31 games with a 2.93 ERA, but was only 7-9 in wins and losses. The Ginza Ninjas (88-67) gave Arroyo Grande a great run for its money and came up only one game short of winning its second straight TU South title... Huroko Uchiyama had a fine starting four with Yutaka Yoshida (23-12 3.34), Harlan Wilson (20-10 3.34), Ron Koehler (19-18 3.65) and Daniel Ferguson (16-16 3.20)... in the bullpen, closer Frank Beard (2-4) was excellent with 31 saves and an impressive 1.50 ERA... star 1B Johnny O'Rorke (.321 BA/28 HR/105 RBI/100 R) continued to carry the team with some help from C Crash Davis (.285 BA/17 HR/72 RBI/79 R)... Ginza need a couple of studs at the plate to overtake Arroyo Grande. It was a remarkable season for the downtrodden Summerland Sunsets (81-73), who snapped a three-year string of cellar-dwelling with a sudden jump to third place... Summerland hasn't been in the first division since 2012... skipper Will Hackett had the Sunsets running neck-and-neck with the leaders down the stretch, but they faded badly in September... the Sunsets had adequate starters (3.73 ERA-7th), but were really good in the bullpen with a 1.75 ERA (1st)... Cary Snead (5-4) was the closer with 25 saves and a super 1.67 ERA... middle reliever and spot starter Scotty Ellison stood out with a 10-2 record and an outlandish 1.21 ERA in 37 games and 5 starts... Sparky DeWey (19-12 3.63) topped the starters... SS Gregg Proctor (.286 BA/15 HR/93 RBI), CF Clell Renshaw (.263 BA/15 HR/83 RBI/93 R) and RF Brady Gilbert (.262 BA/13 HR/82 RBI/87 R) provided most of the offense. For the first time in years the Cape Coral Hurricanes (80-74) also got out of the second division... Huggy Miller's Hurricanes had finished seventh for the last five seasons... Miller gives most of the credit to his 5-man bullpen, who chalked up a 2.09 ERA (5th), led by closer Flapper Bird (8-3) with 22 saves and a microscopic 0.65 ERA... also excelling were Mike Rinaldi (9-7 2.42), Bobby Maas (3-0 2.22), Alec Gunderson (4-0 2.79) and Jesse Seymour (1-0 1.78)... Ray Salisbury (9-5 3.98) was the most effective starter... Miller gave up on 21-year-old Cory Burg too soon this season... Burg, the son of IPA great and all-time strikeout leader Cody Burg, was released in July with an 8-6 record and a 4.61 ERA... his daddy was 369-264 with over 5000 Ks in 21 seasons... Blue Lake signed him and he promptly went 10-5 with a 2.93 ERA... if Cory is half the pitcher his dad was, Blue lake got a heck of a bargain... RF Bill James (.299 BA/18 HR/78 RBI/105 R) and C Wendell Crosby (.267 BA/21 HR/86 RBI was the only productive batters in the line-up. The Turon Typhoons (75-79) finished fifth for the second successive season, trailing Arroyo Grande by 13 and a half games... stars of the past have retired, been traded, or just got old... Turon is no longer the dynasty that won 4 Pro Cups and 11 TU South pennants... manager Whitey Richburn still has the great Nicky Engstrom around at age 35 and he's still a prime-time pitcher with a 20-12 mark and strong 2.35 ERA, but he has little help on the hill... Engstrom is 320-149 in his 15 years with the club... 1B Michael Page (.279 BA/33 HR/97 RBI/82 R) is the best bat on the team and a good one, but has little help... it's been rebuilding time for Richburn and the Typhoons for several years now. It's been seven years since the Colchester Elites (73-81) have been in the hunt for the pennant... Uncle Robbie Wilbertson guided the Elites to sixth place, winding up 15 and a half games back... Wilbertson has two fine starters in Brandy Snow (20-15 2.72) and Mac Flowers (18-11 3.04)... but no much else... offensively the Elites are not very good... RF Johnny Washington (.273 BA/19 HR/65 RBI) and LF Stephen Day (.272 BA/15 HR/64 RBI) are the only decent bats in the line-up... but Wilbertson may have found a pretty good bat in youngster Steve Burns, who was installed at first base in August and he ended up with 16 homers and a .304 BA. After four good years the Southport Sun Sox (67-87) have fallen on hard times and have spiral downward to seventh, 21 and a half games out... for the past two years Charley Oscar had the finest pitching in the IPA, 2.78 team ERA in 2022 and 2.90 in 2023, but not this year... it skyrocketed to 4.05... the staff was decimated by the retirement of long-time ace Bob Montgomery, who won 147 games in 8 seasons with the club, and the loss of young Rod Bailey, who signed a great contract with San Dimas of the Ruthlandian Union... Montgomery (18-14 2.64) and Bailey (24-12 2.32) won 42 games between them last year... Oscar had no one to replace them... never much offensively in the past, Southport hit only .245 (25th)... 3B Jason Hinton (.313 BA/16 HR/67 RBI) and 1B Kyle Ross (.273 BA/19 HR/80 RBI) were Oscar's best regulars. Over 20 years ago the San Alejo Montaneros (62-92) won the pennants in the team's first two seasons in the IPA, but have nothing to show for it since... manager Alberto Herrera's club struggled again this season and finished in the TU South basement, 26 and a half games off the pace... the best thing the Montaneros have is Trini Corona, a talented pitcher... Corona was 14-16, but had an excellent 2.87 ERA... the only other thing they do is hit a few homers... San Alejo is 11th in the TU with 133 HRs... 24-year-old RF Lou Browning tops the team with a .288 BA, 29 HR, 71 RBIs and 102 runs scored... LF Warren Love slammed 22 out of the park and batted in a team-high 91 runs, but hit only .205. Last edited by Eugene Church; 06-19-2011 at 11:13 PM.