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Posted Jun 27/11 - Rockets good enough thur,fri sat not sun

Rockets defeat van wert 13-5 fri, napolean sat. 1-0, 4-1  drop to at Warsaw 3-5, 1-2

 

Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. Rockets go 4-2 over weekend stretch, down goes Decatur 5-1, down goes van wert 13-5, down goes napolean riverbandits 1-0 and 4-1 but rockettrain kinda ran out of gas in Warsaw,. Doubledipped 5-3  and 2-1.

Fri. rockets rallied from a 3-1 deficit and put up 7 runs in the 9th to defeat van wert twisters 13-5 in van wert.  Brad benbow the winning pitcher in relief of  eathan daggett, Trevor kill closed out.  4 hits by brady roundtree, 3 hits by new rocket cody Campbell from cowan and bsu, a monster home run by nate clem,

Sat at runkle-miller field the rockets sweep the napolean riverbandits 1-0 and 4-1. pitching and defense ,  eric van matre throws a 3 hit shutout 1hr 23 min, masterfully done the eric of old extended himself and was a swing and miss pitcher they swing they miss, 6 Ks.  Geoff bowers 2 out single in the 1st scored Thomas mccowan for the only run.

Game 2 more pitching, more defense-- 6 inn by tyler Holloway , a save for kill and rockets beat a good club 4-1.  1 hr. 26 min on this one-rockets outhit em 7-4 nate clem 2 hits----riverbandits who leave for an Alaska baseball trip this week, were 21-3, now 21-5. 

Samantha Thomas of wpgw, did profiles of each player and she is a media specialist.  She works also for the ft. wayne tincaps.  Hey larry hiatt thanks for coming out  and sharing with us.

Ray cooney, local sports editor, was on hand in the rocket dugout .  just as we were talking, a shot in the hole at short was tagged and ran down by rocket ss brady roundtree, like a wild west gunslinger, cooney shot from the hip his camera ripped off 4 pics of the catch.. impressive!

Happy birthday geoff bowers, 23 .  happy birthday orie poole, the Johnny cash of jay cou nty

Sunday the rockets play games 5,6 in 4 days at grace college vs. Warsaw Indians.  We split with them last week.  Game 1 tyler Reynolds throws 5 shutout innings, but that 2nd inning with his right contact lens giving him fits, they score 5 times—the rocket rally comes up short and we lose 5-3,,,,both teams had 6 hits but they had most of theirs in the fateful 2nd. Ben smith provides instant offense with his 4th home run of the season.  Ben had 2 hits in both games. Rockets muster only  5hits in game 2 vs. warsaw’s best pitcher elliot rowe of bethel college.  Being league leaders, we often see teams best.  Rowe wins 2-1.  rockets struck out 7 times. Our pitcher did a remarkable job, craig martin gave up just 2 runs and was a damage control specialist going 5 innings scattering 6 hits.  Dan bollenbacher threw 1 inn. In relief.  Rocket Dalton tinsely tripled to lead off the 7th and scored on brad benbow’s groundout. But there was no more.  The rockets suffer their 6th one run loss of the season.

Record 14-7 league 9-4.

Rockets return to league action tues 7pm at smiley park, van wert.  Wed. home game at the corner of blaine and western vs. the ohio warhawks. 

Note:  sparky Anderson, longtime manager of the Detroit tigers, had his number 11 retired yesterday in Detroit. Sparky would sign autographs and would say thank you. Always.  He was a man who knew to appreciate.  To paraphrase a comment he made and make it fit this report-----you don’t have to live in Portland to know it’s a great town,,,just go to a ballgame.  So bring your lawnchair and see a great game wed. in Portland.  Thank you Portland.

 





 


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