[Alsfastball] IS Knights claim title in West St. Paul

[Al Doran]

From: "Brett Bresnahan" <mnfastpitch at hotmail.com>
To: fastball at pmihrm.com
Subject: IS Knights claim title in West St. Paul
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:01:15 -0500


West St. Paul, MN

The IS Knights (Fargo, ND) claimed the title of the 34th Annual West St. 
Paul Tournament Sunday evening with a 5-3 victory over RWP, Inc. 
(Geneva).  IS posted a perfect 6-0 record on the weekend.

With the game tied at zero entering the fourth inning, IS mounted a two-out 
rally over Geneva's Rick Lang.  Jason Wandler and Dan Brekke singled 
back-to-back.  Lamar Noriega's singled to score Wandler.  Brekke then 
scored from second on Mike Armitage's single.

In the bottom half of the fourth, BJ Boom singled off starter Greg Bouchard 
with one out and then scored on Brad Shepherd's triple.  Geneva appeared to 
have tied the score on Jim Harms' Sac fly to left field the next batter, 
but Shepherd was called out for leaving early on a blatantly miscalled 
decision.

Geneva then tied the score in the bottom of the fifth inning when Tomm 
Richards doubled off Michael White, who replaced Bouchard to start the 
inning.  Dan Harms entered to pinch run for Richards.  Dan Harms then 
scored on Shawn Hearn's Sac fly to deep center field (380 feet).

The Knights took the lead for good in their half of the sixth.  Scott 
Deutsch hit into a fielders choice for the first out of the frame and then 
scores on Wandler's Inside-The-Park homer.

Scott McLeod led off the bottom half of that inning with a double and then 
scored when Kyle Magnussen hit a double of his own.  Boom grounded out to 
second to move Magnussen to third, but white retired the next two batters 
to end any potential rally.

An insurance run was added in the seventh when Gregg Cascaess led off the 
inning with a single, advanced to second on Bob Fleming's double, then with 
two outs, scores on Steve Baumgartner's single.

The 18-team event was played under nearly ideal conditions all 
weekend.  Rain was no where in sight and the heat was kept to a minimum on 
the whole.

Line Score for the Championship is as follows.
IS       000 202 1-5 10 1
RWP   000 111 0-3   5 2
Bouchard, White (5) and Noriega, Delorit (6)
Lang and Shepherd
WP-Bouchard (2-0)
LP-Lang (3-2)
HR-Knights:  Wandler (IP) (1)

Complete tournament results can be found at 
<http://www.geocities.com/mnfastpitch/WestStPaulTournament>www.geocities.com/mnfastpitch/WestStPaulTournament

Brett Bresnahan
<mailto:mnfastpitch at hotmail.com>mnfastpitch at hotmail.com
www.geocities.com/mnfastpitch



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