Dave Kimura Delivers Game Winning Hit
The A-1 Casa Trejo So Cal Bombers won again at the ISC World Tournament in Kimberly, Wisconsin, in one of the best games of the tournament, against the highly ranked Broken Bow Gremlins of Nebraska. The game featured a number of the games top pitchers, including starters Marty Grant for the Bombers and Andrew Kirkpatrick for Broken Bow. The game see-sawed, with Bow leading first, the Bombers taking a lead, Bow coming back to tie it in the late innings.
Dave Kimura delivered the game winner in the top of the 8th inning, a high hopper over the head of Broken Bow third baseman Todd Budke, scoring two to give the Bombers the lead. Bombers skipper Kelly McGiffin pressed all the right buttons, inserting Darryl Sandback as a pitch hitter for Kimura earlier inn the game, with Sandback driving in a run. Kimura was re-entered into the game and came through in the clutch with the biggest hit of the game, for the win.
Bow battled back for a run in the bottom of the eighth inning, and had the tying and go ahead runs aboard, but could not cash them in against Bomber’s reliever, Lucas Mata. For Broken Bow, Denmark import Freddy Terkelsen had a home run and a double off off Grant, while veteran Jarrad Martin had two hits and drove in two of Broken Bow’s four runs.
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The Bombers are now among the final seven teams, with four unbeaten teams:
Aspen
The Farm Tavern
Kitcheners and
Patsy’s
along with three teams with one loss:
So Cal Bombers
Jarvis of Ontario, Canada and
Horse Lake Thunder of Alberta Canada
The Bombers will face the losers of the Kitcheners/Patsy’s game at 7pm central time tonight (Friday), 5pm California time, while the winner of Jarvis/Horse Lake Thunder will take on the loser of The Farm/Patsy’s. Patsy’s is the team that dropped the Bombers into the loser’s bracket, with a 13-2 rout that including 7 home runs for Patsy’s.
The ISC World Tournament concludes tomorrow, Saturday, August 16, 2008 with the championship game at 6pm central, 4pm California time.
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