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Old 01-30-2008, 07:47 PM   #65
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Friday, May 4, 2001

Tycobbian Baseball Union

TBU East Division

'Cats Mann Masters Z's 4-1
Little Glenn Mann fired a 4-1 victory over Luxora at Pioneer Park in Hartsdale today to move to the top of the heap in the TBU East Division. Mann (2-1) only allowed 4 hits and fanned 5. The only run he gave up was a home run by 3B Rico Vina, who got his 4th of the year. Topping the Hellcats 9-hit attack were 2B Francisco Abreu, CF Greg Reynolds, LF Jesus Guzman and SS Terry Bellino, all of them racked up a pair of hits. Abreu had two RBIs. Southpaw Johnny Montel (1-3) took the loss. He was banged around for 8 hits and 4 runs in the first four innings.

The Hartsdale Hellcats (8-6) are now the TBU East Division co-leader and tied with the Cape Coral Hurricanes. The Luxora Zorros (7-7) fell back into a third place tie with the Ginza Ninjas and the Ozarka Naturals, trailing by one game in the standings.

CC Squeezes by Stallions 3-2
Cape Coral squeezed by South Fork 3-2 as their big lefty Wally Robinson (3-1) had a fine outing. He held the Stallions to just 5 hits and struck out 5 to net his 3rd victory of the season. With one out in the last of the ninth CF Antonio Guerrero doubled and then was driven home with the winning score on another double by pinchhitter Eric Smith. Jamie Kelly had just come on in relief and absorbed the loss. South Fork got good work from starter Ken Olson, who went the first 6 innings, gave up 6 hits and 2 runs, while fanning 5 and walking only one. Reliever Ken Conner also performed well with a scoreless seventh and eighth. Hurricane 3B Hoshi Sato delivered the game's only home run, his first this year.

Cape Coral (8-6) is the TBU East co-leader with Hartsdale (8-6). South Fork (5-9) is sixth and last in the division, 3 games out.

Nats Hatch Sets Strikeout Record
Luther Hatch was firing on all cylinders today at Ellie Ewing Stadium in Ozarka. The little righthander struck out 13 Ginza Ninjas in a 2-1 victory. That is a new IPA mark for the most strikeouts in a game. Hatch harnessed the Ninjas on 6 hits and issued only one walk in an outstanding performance. Back-to-back roundtrippers in the second inning by 1B Doug Cunningham and SS Gil Lantz provided the margin of victory. Vic Rousakis (1-2) tossed a good game, too, yielding only 2 runs and 5 hits in 6 innings, while striking out 4 and allowing 2 walks. Ozarka managed only 5 hits in all.

Carl Thompson of Belair Beach and Wally Robinson of Cape Coral shared the old mark of 12 strikeouts. Thompson did it in a 10-inning game against Forest City on April 25th, while Robinson accomplished it in a regulation 9 innings against Ozarka on April 29th.

Ozarka (7-7) is now in a three-way tie with Ginza (7-7) and Luxora (7-7) for third in the TBU East.

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