THE ISLANDIAN TIMES
Saturday, September 23, 2051
IPA DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: Game 2
Ruthlandian Union
RATTLERS EDGE ROOSTERS 3-2, UP 2-0 IN SERIES
Sugar Valley battled back at home and edged the Middlefield Roosters 3-2 to go up two games to none in the Ruthlandian Division Championship Series... Antonio Cedeno and Cullen Winslow combined for the win... Cedeno worked into the sixth and left trailing 2-1... Winslow (1-0) was the winning pitcher, tossing three and one-third innings of scoreless ball... Carroll Collier (0-1) was the loser... he allowed three runs and nine hits in six frames.
Middlefield had the hit advantage 11 to 10... Rattler 1B Smokey Nix tied the game in the last of the sixth, driving CF Carl Ramsey in with a double... then RF Tyler Alban (.222) delivered the game-winner with an infield hit in the seventh... Nix (.625) sparked Sugar Valley with three hits and Ramsey (.827) added two more... C Johnny McDonald (.429) went 3-3 for the Roosters and 1B Cliff Patterson (.250) had two hits.
VIPERS WIN 15TH STRAIGHT IN DRAMATIC FASHION
The defending Pro Cup champion Valmara Vipers were down 5-3 going into the last of the eighth, but not yet out... they stunned the Waleska Westerners for three runs and ran their postseason win string to 15 straight games with a 6-5 triumph... pinchhitter Jacek Prusak (.500) tied it at 5-5 with a two-run single and SS Ken Jensen (.273) cinched it with a game-winning base hit... the winning hits came off of reliever Vince Gibson (0-1), who came on with a 5-4 lead and two outs and a runner on first in the eighth... three straight singles did him in.
Viper reliever Mirko Musial (1-0) got the win with three and two-thirds scoreless innings... closer Kasio Bajek worked a runless ninth to protect the lead and get the save... LF Tomek Abramczyk (.571) led the Valmara hit parade with three hits and three RBIs... he crushed a three-run homer in the first frame... Abramczyk also homered in game one... Viper 3B Jorge Aparicio (.636) had a perfect day with four hits in four tries... Valmara logged 11 hits, while Waleska got 8... SS Nelson Ridley (.250) paced the Westerners with three RBIs, including a two-run roundtripper and a sac fly... CF Kevin Hardy (.333) had three hits in defeat.
Tycobbian Union
GRAY BEWILDERS BLAZERS 4-0
In a brilliant and almost flawless performance, Arlon's Lanny Gray bewildered the Hillsboro Blazers 4-0 on just two singles, giving the Champions two consecutive wins in the best-of-seven series... Gray (1-0) walked none and struck out five... RF Ferdie Freese (.3.08) and C Landon Moore (.250) led the Champs at the plate with two RBIs each... Freese had three hits in the game... Hillsboro's Jamie Lee Bradley (0-1) was the loser, permitting three runs on eight hits in five-plus innings... he had 7 Ks and walked one batter... Gray had a no-hitter into the eighth when back-to-back singles ended it.
RASCALS WIN AGAIN, 6-4 IN 2ND GAME
Favored White River got the best again of San Alejo on the Rascals home diamond, defeating the Montaneros 6-4 in the second game of the Tycobbian DCS... it was White River's second successive victory... they broke a 2-2 deadlock in the bottom of the fifth with three runs... RBI singles by CF Warren Trimble (.200) and C Josh Groveland (.500), plus a bases-loaded walk to 1B Ruben Reaves (.182) decided the game... reliever Butch Slattery (1-0) got the victory, but it was Ronald Doss, who closed it out, stopping the Monties without any runs in his two innings... the loss went to San Alejo starter Matt Bell (0-1), who was touched for four runs and five hits in five innings.
Three Rascal pitchers fanned 14 batters in the game... starter Artie Wynyard got six of them in his five innings... Slattery fanned five in just two innings, but gave up three hits and two runs... Doss accounted for the other three in two innings... White River got nine hits, while San Alejo had 10... CF Pablo Teixeira (.429) and 1B Alanzo Grassi (.500) both homered and drove in two runs for the Monties... Teixiera popped three hits and Grassi had a pair... pitcher Wynyard (.250) doubled in two runs for the winners... 1B Ruben Reaves (.125), RF Thomas Young (.400), CF Warren Trimble (.250) and C Josh Groveland (.500) got the other RBIs.
Last edited by Eugene Church; 02-09-2015 at 07:59 PM.
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