A big Shout out to Tommy Smith and his Wife Pam, for all the hard work they did yesterday ( setting things up and handling the grill). The Allstar game was a big success!! It was great seeing all the players and fans having a good time, couldnt ask for a better day.
-- Edited by CLEMENTE21 on Sunday 14th of August 2011 06:58:31 PM
The revival of the 35+ All-Star game and Home Run Derby were a complete success. Tom and Pam Smith were a two person show. Thanks for all the hard work on our behalf you two!!! The Home Run Derby went down to a final showdown between Ryan Johnson and Chris Bonaparte, who each had 3 HR's in the perliminary round. The All-Star game was very competitive as Doug Reisinger's team was leading 7-6 through 6 innings, which is when I had to leave due to my 3 year-old grandson coming down with a fever. Please somebody fill-in the endings to these two events.
I just got the details for the end of the All-Star game, but still don't know who won the HR Derby. The Reisinger All-Stars hung on to defeat the Girard All-Stars 7-6. Doug's team got 5 runs in the top of the 3rd inning, with the big blows being a RBI single by Witkowski and a 3-RBI double by JJ Pearsall. They would push the advantage to 6-0, in the top of the 5th, on a two-out double by Eddie Alvarez and a RBI single by Miller. The Girard All-Stars would start their comeback, in the bottom of the 5th inning, scoring 3 runs on 3 singles (Girard, Mark Hitch****, and Derrick Engeln), a walk (Steve Lounello), an error, and two sacrafice flies (Mike Ferraro and Jallah Kulic). The Reisinger squad plated an unearned run, in the top of the sixth, with the run scoring on a Jim Bonaparte bloop single to left, making the score 7-3. The Girard team fought back to make it a one run game with 3 more runs in the bottom of the sixth. Mike Girard had a RBI single and Kulic and Hitch**** worked bases -loaded walks in the rally. The Girard squad held the Reisinger's scoreless in the top of the seventh, and got two runners on with just one out, in the bottom of the seventh, but were unable to plate the tying run. JJ Pearsall was named the MVP. JJ pitched 4 scorless innings and had the big hit (a 3-run double) in the winning team's big rally.
