Rice Creek Lightning finish 1-3 at Midland Explorers Boulevard Lounge Tournament
Game 2: Priority Mortgage 5 (1-0) Rice Creek 2 (0-1)
WP – Duke Vanderark (6H, 4K, 4BB), LP – Sean Kelly (10H, 6K, 2BB)
Rice Creek scored 2 unearned runs in the top of the 1st and Ryan Saylor had 4 hits. Terry Boetsma drove in 2 runs with a double in the 3rd. Scott Gruppen drove in 2 with a single in the 4th. Dave Lach, Boetsma and Jeff Geggen each had 2 hits.
Game 5: ISC #12 Heflin 3 (1-0) Rice Creek 2 (0-2)
WP – Blair Ezekiel (4H, 9K, 1BB), LP – Jeff Lovell (8H, 0K, 3BB)
Chris Rivard and Adam Saylor hit solor HR’s for Rice Creek. Eduardo Leonardo hit a HR and Frank Perez and Ryan Kostel each drove in a run for Heflin. Kostel and Leonardo each had 2 hits.
Game 16: Rice Creek 7 (1-2) Oshawa BB Juniors (1-3)
WP – Sean Kelly (4H, 6K, 1BB), LP – Brian Mather (5H, 5K, 7BB)
Steve Myers had a 2-RBI double and Matt Shock scored 2 runs for Rice Creek.
Game 17: ISC #29 MVD Sports 6 (3-0) Rice Creek 2 (1-3)
WP – Tom Berube (7H, 12K, 0BB), LP – Jeff Lovel (9H, 2K, 2BB)
Steve Myers was 2×3 for Rice Creek. Brian Culler was 3×4 and Kevin Scott, Matt Van Dine, Bryan Hall (HR) each had 2 hits for MVD.
Pool B
Heflin 4-0 (1st)
MVD 3-1 (2nd)
Oshawa 1-3)
Rice Creek 1-3
Priority Mortgage 1-3