Week 12

Only 6 weeks left in the regular season and things are getting quite interesting in the race for the divisional playoffs.

 

Division A/B

Nine of the ten teams in the A/B Division remain in contention for the A Division playoffs. This is very exciting and every week brings new twists.  Read some of the write-ups below:

 

20-20 Carpet stays in the race with a 13 -  7 win over the Eagles. On the scene, the 20/20 field correspondent ML reports, "Winning pitcher John Speranza was supported by the hot hitting of Jorge Garcia who collected 3 hits on the day including 2 tremendous home runs. Mike Lea and Doc Thorne also had great days picking up 3 hits each. Mike Deambrosia, Bob Ramundo, and Howie Kirshner  also had nice days getting 2 hits each."  Eagle's freelancer AB adds these comments, "In a losing cause, the Eagles rapped out 18 hits, and left on base 9 men.  Billy M, Julio F and Neil M had 3 hits each, while Francis M, Dario D'A, Steve V  and Jon K had 2 hits each, with Chris S adding 1 hit."

 

Pearl River Saloon pulls within 2 games of 1st with win over Thunder 6 - 4: Reported by the Thunder team correspondent, "With many missing players on vacation thunder fielded a fine team but still lost to the Saloon."

 

B's Nest puts a hurt on the 1st Place All American boys 22-7, pulling into a tie for 1st with the aforementioned leaders.

 

Sign Creations couldn't take advantage of the duel betwen B's Next and All American, dropping a close one to the Elks 6-4, creating a 3-way tie at the top of the A/B Division.

 

Division C/D

Seven teams out of eleven remain in contention for the C Division playoffs.

 

Knights pulling themselves up to make a race of things in C/D.  In a shocking event Knights stole a victory from Panthers 21-20. Pans pawed Knights Pitcher Bobby Bodnar in the first three to take a 12 to 5 lead. Knight’s Mitch Saul replaces Bobby after giving a few run held the Pans scoreless. Knights Bobby came back in 7^th gave a few more runs but shut down the Pans after that.  Starting in the bottom of 7^th the Knights lay siege of the castle and throwing catapult hits after hits with some Pans mischief to get to the bottom of the 9^th behind 20-12. John Genovesi starts it off with the fourth of five hits in the day.  One out and then 6 batters got hits along with 2 walks and important costly error that could of ended the game right there. Now two out. John G came through with his fifth hit follow by Hawk Rehad (who also had a fine game) go on. The Shawn (Speedy) shot a double up the middle scoring two for the 9^th run and the stealing victory. The loss puts the Panthers on the brink of elimination from the C Division playoff, but remaining a top team in the D Division.

 

Joe & Joe keeps the pressure on the top teams with a decisive 9-0 victory over the Rockhounds. The on field reporter indicated that every J&J player contriubtes to the win.

 

Angels lose a nail biter to ODB 13-11, allowing the Dirty Boys to climb back into the hunt for the C Division playoffs.

 

Hibs keep rolling with a decsive 26 - 9 onslaught of the Mavericks.

 

BL Deadheads keep pace at the top with a strong showing, getting the better of the Blazers 8-1. Now in a tie for 2nd with the Angels. One game out of first.