{"id":1040,"date":"2008-07-28T05:18:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2008-07-28T06:02:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:02:19","slug":"hammertime-at-cubs-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Hammertime at Cubs Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

courtesy Al Doran<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: A big THANK YOU to Dennis Dosman for outstanding reporting all weekend long from Hillside Park in Waterloo.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Waterdown Hammer win the Cubs Classic in Waterloo over the home town Bridgeport Braves 6 to 5.<\/p>\n

The Hammer took 9 innings to beat the Braves in the championship final. Tied at 3 after 7 innings, and with Anthony Palmieri, on second with the ITB to start the 8th, he was sacrificed to 3rd by Kyle Davis, and then scored on Paul Barron’s single. Trevor Bownhill singled and Chris Smith scored Barron with his FC hit. <\/p>\n

Bridgeport opened the bottom of the 8th with Duanne Gee on second (ITB). He scored on a Dan Harris single. Harris was sacrificed to second byJason Hoch. Right fielder Greg de Belleval then singled, followed by a Sam Forbes RBI single to score Harris. Jodie Schnarr walked and with two away Waterdown’s Tim Neil struck out Terry Eaton.<\/p>\n

In the 9th, Dave Brownhill started at 2nd, was sacrificed to 3rd by Matt da Silva, and scored by DP John Kemp’s single. Bridgeport,with Eaton on second went 0 for 3 in the bottom of the 9th and the Hammer won the first Elmira Cubs Classic 6 to 5.<\/p>\n

#10 Waterdown Hammer 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 6 10 2
\n#14 Bridgeport Braves 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 5 9 1
\nWP Tim Neill
\nLP Fred Follings<\/p>\n

Waterdown MVP was John Kemp with a HR, 2 singles and 3 RBIs.
\nBridgeport MVP was Ross Herold <\/p>\n

There were some defensive classics for the Cubs Classic, in the 4thboth Don Harris of Bridgeport and Anthony Palmieri both 3rd basemen,made excellent line drive catches in their halfs of the inning. In the top of the 5th and the top of the 9th, Jodie Schnarr made two spectacular diving catches for the Braves. <\/p>\n

Congratulations to the Waterdown Hammer.<\/p>\n

Here are the last two games of pool play played at 9 Sunday<\/p>\n

Game 19
\nElmira Juniors 6, #4 Oswego CPI 1 <\/p>\n

Elmira Juniors 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 6 9 1
\nOswego CPI 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 8 1
\nWP Corey Avery
\nLP Ryan Sharp
\nDan Martin of Elmirs Jrs MVP with 2 run home run, and single. BenWideman 2 singles
\nFor CPI Shaun Winship, and Chad Hodkinson two singles each<\/p>\n

Game 20
\nWaterdown 10 Scarborough 1 <\/p>\n

Scarborough Wolverines Jr. 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1
\nWaterdown Hammer 0 9 0 1 10 11 0
\nWP Wayne Wells
\nLP Andy Skelton
\nFor Scarborough Brandon Horne a 3B and Blake Underwood a HR
\nFor Waterdown, Anthony Palmieri two singles and Chris Smith a singleand a 2B
\nGame MVP was Waterdowns Chris Smith with 2 RBIs on a 2 for 3 at bat<\/p>\n

That closed pool play with Elmira Juniors and Bridgeport Braves in on top of their pools and Oswego and Waterdown meeting along with Scarborough and the Kitchener Outlaws with the winners to face the top seeded teams.<\/p>\n

Game 21
\n#10 Waterdown 5 #4 CPI 0 <\/p>\n

Oswego CPI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
\nWaterdown Hammer 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 5 8 0
\nWP Tim Neil (no hitter)
\nLP Jason Smith
\nJohn Kemp has 2 singles and 2 RBIs and Kyle Davis a HR for the Hammer, Tim Neill was the MVP on the No Hitter<\/p>\n

Game 22
\nScarborough Wolverines 8 #13 Kitchener Outlaws 3 <\/p>\n

Scarborough Jr Wolverines 4 0 0 1 0 0 3 8 13 2
\nKitchener Outlaws 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 10 0
\nWP Kevin Buckley
\nLP Mel Ross
\nSean Geehan led the Outlaws with 2 HRs and Brad Hackert and Derek Martin each had 2 singles
\nFor the Wolverines, Brandon Horne, Chad Lowey, Antony Paradiso Richard Colin Thome and Ryan Jaynes each had 2 singles,. Blake Underwood was the MVP for Scarborough with his 3 run HR.<\/p>\n

Game 23
\nWaterdown Hammer 8 , Elmira Jrs 1 <\/p>\n

Waterdown Hammer 3 2 1 1 1 8 12 2
\nElmira Juniors 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 1
\nWP Wayne Wells
\nLP Corey Avery
\nWaterdowns Tim Coe was game MVP , 2 singles and a 3 run HR…4 totalRBIs
\nAlso for Waterdown Matt DaSilva a 2 run HR and Dave Brownhill a 3B and2 singles<\/p>\n

Waterdown in Classic final<\/p>\n

Game 24
\nBridgeport Braves 9 Scarborough Wolverines 3 <\/p>\n

Scarborough Juniors 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 6 0
\nBridgeport Braves 4 0 2 1 1 1 x 9 10 1
\nRick Johnson was game MVP for Bridgeport with 4 RBI’s Jodie Schnarr hit a lead off HR for Bridgeport in the 1st inning. Rick Johnson followed 4 players later with a 3 RBI HR of his own. Ross Herald has 2singles.<\/p>\n

Bridgeport in the finals agaist Waterdown.<\/p>\n

Wonderful weather in Waterloo this weekend for a great ball tournament. The 6 teams in the Tournament of Champions in Wisconsin in two weeks got a great tune up, and the two great Junior teams representing Ontario in the Canadian Junior Men’s CASA championships in Owen Sound tested their bats and pitching against some great senior ball clubs and did not disappoint the fans at Hillside<\/p>\n

Next Hillside event is the OASA intermediate championship on labour dayweekend.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Wisconsin Braves, Cubs, Outlaws, Hammer, Brewers, and CPI,
\nEnjoy Owen Sound Elmira and Scarborough Juniors<\/p>\n

Congratulations Brad Thomson and the Cubs on a great tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

courtesy Al Doran Editor’s Note: A big THANK YOU to Dennis Dosman for outstanding reporting all weekend long from Hillside Park in Waterloo. Waterdown Hammer win the Cubs Classic in Waterloo over the home town Bridgeport Braves 6 to 5. The Hammer took 9 innings to beat the Braves in the championship final. Tied at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}