St Thomas league Best of 5 final Tied @ 1-1

[Al's Fastball News]

Received: 9/25/06 10:50:02 AM 
From:  "Paul McCart" <fastballchico13(at)hotmail.com> 


Subject:  St Thomas league Best of 5 final Tied @ 1-1  
    

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Alvinston ON

ALVINSTON INDIANS EVEN SERIES

On a cold and windy Sunday afternoon, September 24, the Alvinston
Indians 
hosted game 2 of the best 3 out of 5 St. Thomas and District
Fastball League 
Playoff Finals. With St. Thomas up 1-0 in the series, a win for
Alvinston 
was very vital, as they did not want to fall behind 2-0 in the
series. The 
Indians sent Brad Young to the mound, and the St. Thomas Storm
sent Ryan 
Cummings to the mound. Both pitchers were brilliant in the contest,
and so 
were the fielders of each team, who battled the strong winds
for every out 
in the game.

Both teams offences struggled for hits, because of the great
performances by 
both pitchers on the mound. After seven complete innings, the
score was 
still 0-0, and the international tie breaker rule was put into
force in the 
game, in hopes of deciding a winner in the contest. In the eighth
inning, 
neither team counted a run. In the ninth Alvinston held St. Thomas
off the 
scoresheet, due to a timely defensive catch by CF Marc Greenwood
for the 
Indians to end the inning. In their half of the ninth, the Indians
finally 
scored a run to even the series at 1 game a piece. With Shawn
Fenton at 
second, he was sacrifice bunted to third by Scott Smith. Then
St. Thomas 
proceeded to intentionally walk Brad Young, and Scott McAuley
to load the 
bases and to allow for the force play at any base. The next batter
Marc 
Greenwood then executed the suicide squeeze play to perfection,
scoring 
Fenton from third base for the 1-0 hard fought victory for the
Indians. 
Brad Young was the winning pitcher on the mound. He was dominant
in 9 
innings of work, where he allowed no runs on five hits, while
walking two, 
and striking out 3.

Game 3 of the series goes at 8:00pm Tuesday evening in Fingal

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