Lebanon, PA<\/p>\n
The Mid-Atlantic Fastpitch Travel League opened it’s doors for business
\nthis past weekend in Lebanon PA, with Lancaster County Motors taking the
\nChampionship Game on Sunday with a 5-2 win over the KMV-Rise. 23 games in
\nall were played, with 10 teams vying to advance to Sunday’s Championship
\nround. Lancaster won Division 1 with a 3-1 record, their only loss of the
\nweekend coming at the hands of the Rise. Key AC of Maryland took top honors
\nin Division 2, also with a 3-1 record. The Rise from Div 1 advanced to
\nSunday by virtue of a 2-2 record, edging out Keatings and South Lebanon on
\nthe ISC runs-allowed rule. The Salisbury MD Shockers finished 2nd in Div 2,
\nneeding a win in their final game of pool play to advance. They came
\nthrough in a big way, downing Hagerstown MD 21 Nichols, 12-4.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s single elimination rounds matched Lancaster and Salisbury in the
\n9:00am game. Lancaster sent veteran Earl Rutledge to the circle, and he
\nresponded with 5 solid innings, allowing 3 runs on 6 hits. Jason McClune
\nfinished up for Rutledge, pitching 2 scoreless innings. Lancaster continued
\ntheir torrid hitting attack, as 4 players connected for 5 HR’s. The 8-3 win
\npropelled them to the Championship game, awaiting the outcome of the
\nKMV-Rise vs Key AC game. The Rise dominated this 11:00am game, as they
\nbanged out 11 hits for a 10-0 victory. Tom Vogel took the win in this 5
\ninning contest, allowing 5 hits and striking out 4. This put the Rise in a
\n1:00pm match-up with Lancaster for the Championship. Lancaster sent Dave
\nStokes to the mound, hoping to avenge an earlier 7-6 loss to the Rise. The
\nRise countered with Canadian Tracy Woolridge, who despite an arm injury
\npitched 4 gutsy innings. The Rise drew first blood with 1 run in the 1st, a
\nlong blast to left by Bart Fenstermacher, his 2nd HR of the weekend off
\nStokes. The Rise made it 2-0 in the 2nd with Chad Walters hitting a
\nlead-off 2B, scoring on 2 ground outs. This was all that the Black and Red
\nwould muster in the game, as Stokes settled down to allow 2 hits the rest
\nof the way. Lancaster got to Woolridge in the 3rd, as Stokes connected for
\na 2-run HR to left, and took the lead on an Earl Rutledge rbi single.
\nLancaster would tack on 2 more in the 5th, as back to back 3B’s following a
\nBB would end the day for Woolridge. Vogel relieved, and escaped a 2nd and
\n3rd jam. Stokes came on strong as he set the Rise down in order in the 6th
\nand 7th innings, finishing with 6K’s for the game.<\/p>\n
All-in-all, the 1st weekend of the MAFTL was a huge success, as teams were
\npretty much evenly matched in their divisions. By virtue of their finish in
\nDivision 2, Key AC and Salisbury MD Shockers will move up to Division 1 for
\nthe next MAFTL weekend, June 17-19 in Willow Street, PA (Lancaster). South
\nLebanon and Landis Markets will move to Division 2 for the Willow Street
\nweekend. Scheduling and division alignment will be made available shortly,
\nso stay tuned.<\/p>\n
For complete boxscores and game info, visit Lebanon, PA<\/p>\n The KMV-Rise Fastpitch Club (ISC II # 9) finished out the 1st weekend in Championship game to Lancaster County Motors, 5-2. The Rise opened play The KMV-Rise will be in Niagara On The Lake, Ontario June 3-5 for the For more info on the KMV-Rise Team, visit Here’s the Game recap. (R-H-E)<\/p>\n Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6 KMV-Rise Top Performers submitted by Tom Vogel From: “Tom Vogel” <\/t><\/http><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lebanon, PA The Mid-Atlantic Fastpitch Travel League opened it’s doors for business this past weekend in Lebanon PA, with Lancaster County Motors taking the Championship Game on Sunday with a 5-2 win over the KMV-Rise. 23 games in all were played, with 10 teams vying to advance to Sunday’s Championship round. Lancaster won Division 1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe Mid-Atlantic Fastpitch Travel League
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\nwith a 3-3 record, losing in the <\/p>\n
\nFriday, losing 5-1 to South Lebanon TNT. Game 2 slated the Rise against
\nLancaster County Motors, winning 7-6. The Rise then took on Landis Markets
\nand dropped a close one in 8 innings, 7-6. Needing a win to advance to
\nSunday’s single elimination round, the Rise came on strong as they defeated
\nKeatings Fitness (ISC II # 6) 11-1 in 5 innings. That propelled them
\nagainst Division 2 winner, Key AC. The Rise continued where they left off,
\nhanging a loss on Key 10-0. That set-up a rematch against Lancaster, who
\nadvanced with an 8-3 win in their semi-final game. The Rise was to be
\ndenied the Championship, as newly acquired pitcher Dave Stokes limited the
\nRise to 2 runs on 4 hits.<\/p>\n
\nSnappers Shootout, and return to the MAFTL June 17-19 in Willow Street, PA.<\/p>\n
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\nSouth Lebanon TNT 5-8-1
\nKMV-Rise 1-4-1
\nWP: Scot Adams 7IP 1R 1ER 4H 8K 3BB
\nLP: Daryl Martin (L) 4IP 3R 3ER 6H 1K 4BB
\n Tom Vogel 3IP 2R 1ER 2H 4K 2BB
\nHR: Bart Fenstermacher (Rise)
\n Lutz (TNT)
\n S. Long (TNT)<\/p>\n
\nKMV-Rise 7-10-0
\nLancaster 6-10-3
\nWP: Tom Vogel 7IP 6R 6ER 10H 5K 1BB
\nLP: Dave Stokes 7IP 7R 4ER 10H 5K 1BB
\nHR: Bart Fenstermacher (Rise)
\n Chad Sensenig – 2 (Lancaster)<\/p>\n
\nKMV-Rise 6-11-3
\nLandis Markets 7-11-2
\nWP: Willie Weiler 8IP 6R 4ER 11H 1K 1BB
\nLP: Daryl Martin 3IP 6R 6ER 7H 1K 1BB
\n Tracy Woolridge (L) 4 2\/3IP 1R 1ER 6K 0BB
\nHR: John Hurst (Rise)<\/p>\n
\nKMV-Rise 11-11-0 ISC II # 9
\nKeatings Fitness 1-5-0 ISC II # 6
\nWP: Tom Vogel 5IP 1R 1ER 5H 2K 1BB
\nLP: Jim Yates 3IP 7R 7ER 7H 4K 1BB
\n Bill Hillhouse 2IP 4R 4ER 4H 3K 0BB<\/p>\n
\nKey AC 0-5-6
\nKMV-Rise 10-11-0
\nWP: Tom Vogel 5IP 0R 4K
\nLP: Andy Berryman n\/a
\nHR: Chad Walters<\/p>\n
\nKMV-Rise 2-4-1
\nLancaster 5-9-0
\nWP: Dave Stokes 7IP 2R 2ER 4H 6K 0BB
\nLP: Tracy Woolridge (L) 4 1\/3IP 5R 5ER 9H 1K 0BB
\n Tom Vogel 1 2\/3 IP 0R 0H 1K 1BB<\/p>\n
\n.309 Team Batting Average
\n7 Home Runs
\n3 Triples
\n13 Doubles
\nBart Fenstermacher 11-18 3HR 3\/2B 9Runs 8RBI .611 BA
\nChad Walters 7-18 2\/3B 2\/2B HR .389 BA
\nChad Oeschle 7-20 4\/2B .350 BA
\nNate Mosser 6-19 2\/2B 6Runs .316 BA
\nJohn Hurst 6-19 2HR 6Runs .316 BA
\nTom Vogel 3-0 22IP 16K 6BB 8ER 2.55 ERA<\/p>\n
\nVPres MAFTL \/ site admin<\/p>\n