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THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Saturday, September 21, 2047
2047 IPA DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES - GAME 4
Ruthlandian Union
LONG ZAPS NINE 3-0, ROOSTERS TIE SERIES
In game four of the Ruthlandian Division Championship Series at Middlefield Park, Rooster ace James Long was on top of his game as the veteran right-hander zapped the Marston Nine 3-0 on a five-hitter... Long (1-0/1.00) hurled a gem, striking out seven and walking none to even up the series at two games each... Middlefield had just enough offense to get by... Felix Delatte (0-1/2.65) only allowed three runs on seven hits with three Ks and a walk... he went all the way in defeat.
Middlefield was led at bat by RF Sidney Conner (.333) and SS Jimmy Beach (.294) each with two hits and an RBI... 2B Ike Gary (.267) scored two runs for the Roosters... Conner homered in the second inning, Beach singled in a score in the third and the final Rooster run came in on a wild pitch in the fifth... Long held Marston to just five singles... Long got in trouble only one time in the third when two singles put runners on first and third with two outs... but he got out of it without any damage being done.
FM'S STEINHAUER STUFFS SUNBIRDS 9-1, EVENS SERIES
Not only did Curt Steinhauer shine on the mound, the Far Mountain ace also took the bat in his own hand and drove in four runs in the Redhawks' 9-1 rout of the Belair Beach Sunbirds in game four of the Ruthlandian DCS... Steinhauer (1-0/0.60) evened the series at two games apiece by holding the Sunbirds to just one run in his eight innings on six hits... he was effectively wild with six walks in the game, but pretty much kept the Sunbirds off of the scoreboard.
Steinhauer (.500) sparked the Redhawks with three hits... 1B Norm Huffman (.375) also collected three hits and his brother LF Lew Huffman (.429) went 2-for-4, scored twice and batted in a run... Far Mountain smashed 13 hits in all... 2B Rodger Hawkins (.176) socked a two-run triple for the winners... the defeat went to Belair Beach starter Kevin Tolbert (0-1/1.50), who was undermined by poor defensive play... the Sunbirds committed three errors and allowed six unearned runs... CF Norm Ellis (.294) went deep for the Sunbirds' only score and he committed two of the errors.
Tycobbian Union
SUN SOX SOCK IT TO HELLCATS 13-5, TAKE 3-1 LEAD
The Southport Sun Sox have put the defending Pro Cup champion Hartsdale in a perilous predicament... in game four they socked it to the Hellcats 13-5 to take a huge three games to one edge in the Tycobbian Division Series... one more Southport victory and the season is over for Hartsdale and the IPA will get a new champion... it was shoddily played game with lots of runs, hits and errors... each team made three errors... in the end it was the Sun Sox bats that made the difference.
3B Craig Glennon (.294) clouted his third roundtripper of the series and drove in three runs and scored three times, while CF Barney Lewis (.188) got his second one and also batted in two runs and scored twice... 1B Eddie Douglas (.375) had two hits and three runs batted in... SS Gonzalo Topez went 4-for-5 and had two RBIs... and 2B Ricky Whitaker (.267) chipped in with two hits.
Billy Hoover (2-0/2.50) went the route, but gave up three runs in the opening inning, then settled down and put it into cruise control, backed up by 14 hits... Hoover fanned seven and walked three... only two of the runs were earned... Perry Givens (0-2/9.00) struggled again and took his second loss of the series... he permitted five hits and eight runs in just two innings... five of them unearned.
The Hellcats bashed out 10 hits, paced by RF Emilian Burgess (.500) with four hits and two runs... LF Danny Marks (.500) picked up two hits, one of them a solo homer... and CF Darrell Nesbitt (.375) went 2-for-4 and scored a run.
COX TAMES WILDCATS 3-2, RED SOX TIE SERIES
Red Bluff moved ahead 3-0 after six innings and managed to fend off Kenwood 3-2 in game four of the Tycobbian Division Series,which is now deadlocked at two games... Red Sox ace Jud Cox (1-1/2.08) hurled a complete game, stopping the Wildcats on five hits, and outpitched Tommy Carter (1-1/3.52), who gave up three runs and 11 hits in eight innings.
Leading the Red Sox at the plate with two hits apiece were SS Leemon O'Donovan (.333), 3B Fran Blanchard (.333) and C Ed Warren (.250)... Cox (.286) himself put Red Bluff in front with an RBI single in the top of the second... in the fourth RF David Kelso (.438) led off with a double, moved to third on a groundout and scored when CF Ike Sweetwater (.308) rolled out to first... Warren doubled in the last run in the sixth.
Kenwood got their first score in the last of the eighth on a triple by Ben Daniels and a double by Jesse Daniels, cutting the lead to 3-1... Ben Daniels doubled in the last Wildcat run in the ninth... that made the score 3-2... with two away and runners on second and third Jud Cox got the final out of the ball game on a routine fly to left field.
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