Hounds Lose First Game

Tue Jun 16 12:43:55 EDT 2009

                      HOUNDS   LOSE FIRST GAME

  Play continued Monday night in the Rick McDonald Memorial Fastball
League  out in Azilda .In the opner the Dog House North Stars
(1-1) picked up their firsr victory of the season as the Parry
Island Hawks forfiethed because of the lack of players to give
the North Stars a 7-0 win.

   In the nightcap the Cardinals of Pickerel River  took on the
first place undefeated Garson Hounds .Jonathan Contin(2-1) from
the Cardinals only faced 25 batters in his five innings of work
as he struck out 8 Hounds to give him a league high 26 on route
to a 7-3 victory and tie Garson for first place at 2-1 . Contin
only faced minor trouble in the top of the fouth when Garson
scored all three of its runs .Gary Lamothe(2-1) went all the
way for the Hounds scattering 8 hits ,issuing 4 base on balls
and fanning 4 Cardinals . Curtis Hambley , Ed Panamick Jr and
Pat Brennan Jr led the way for Pickerel River each hitting 2
for 3 while Dan Bidal hit 1 for 2 in a losing cause for the Hounds.

    Play resumes in the Rick McDonald Memorial Fastball League
on Thursday night at the Lorn Brady Park in Garson .In the opener
set for 7PM it will be Dog House North Stars(1-1) taking on the
Garson Hounds(2-1) followed by the nightcap at 9PM when the Parry
Island Hawks(1-1) face the  winless Sudbury Athletics (0-2) .

    Don't forget this coming weekend the 10th Annual Rick McDonald
Memorial Fastball Tournament taking part at the Rick McDonald
Memorial Park in Azilda. This is very prestigeous tournament
held every year since the sad death of  Officer Rick McDonald
killed on duty.This year we will also remember Dan McDonald ,Rick's
brother who for so many years was one of the leaders of this
event and was killed in a car accident  last year. Every year
several police(both ladies and men constables) teams from across
Ontario come to Greater Sudbury to play some weekend slo-pitch
 but also a fastball tournament is held in memory of Rick who
was an excellent ball player from the Sudbury league. Everything
gets underway Friday night on all three fields in Azilda .Don't
forget there is BBQ all weekend plus a dance Saturday night.This
year there will be 8 competing teams in the fastball section
. The eight teams have been divided into two divisions of four
. There will be divisional round robbin games for both Friday
and Saturday followed by two semi finals and a championship game
on Sunday. In semi final action the top teams in each division
advance.Here are this year's fastball teams :

                         BUD LIGHT DIVISION                 
                                             BLUE LIGHT DIVISION

                            1. Garson Hounds                
                                                    5. Dog House
North Stars     
                            2. JB Red  Soxs                 
                                                      6. Pickerel
River Cardinals
                            3. Sudbury Athletics            
                                                     7. Maganatewan
Native Sons
                            4. Parry Island Hawks           
                                                    8.Sagamok
Rez Riders

        The final schedule for this weekend's 15 games will be
out on Wednesday June the 10th. 

                           Yours in fastball ,

                           Roger Legendre

                           Umpire,statistitian

                           Public Relations Liaison/Advisor 

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