June 13, 2014  portland rockets 7 ft. wayne expos 3

Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. Happy Friday the 13^th.

Thurs evening the Portland rockets made their first trip this year to ft waynes Carrington

Field.  And for when the one great scorer comes to mark against your name, he asks not

If you won or lost, but did you beat ft. wayne? Yes indeed. Rockets 7 expos 3.

Skies cleared, beautiful full moon, and an old recipe for victory, good pitching, defense

And timely hitting.  And a sizeable contingent of rocket fans on hand including Charlie and Vicky tague

Rockets plate 3 runs in the 1^st inning and cruise to a 7-1 lead, 2 run single by billy geeslin, his first game back in 2 weeks after a shoulder injury, kyle marker from Celina

Also had 2 rbi, and chris miller had 2 hits.  Goeff bowers scored 3 runs in the game.

Portland outhit ft. wayne 6-4.

Rocket pitchers mitch waters, matt helm from marion, and connor milligan, struck out 10 batters, scattering 4 hits.

Congrats to billy geeslin’s team, the coldwater cavs for their state baseball  championship.

And good luck team Indiana in their tournament trails.

Rockets win in ft. wayne moves the season record to 4-4

Portland will play Saturday at 1pm, dh vs northeast kekionga the Indiana tech college team. It will be persimmon ridge day as Jamie is taking them out to the ballgame, just like we sang yesterday.;  we had a chance to visit our friends at persimmon yesterday, and they are rocket fans.

Tyler Reynolds and travis gray will be the starting pitchers.

Rockets will travel Sunday to ft wayne to face our rivals, the ft wayne jackers.

Mitch waters and dan bollenbacher will be the starters.

We are expecting big things this weekend.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

See ya sat at runkle miller field

Randy miller pg 14