Aug 4. 2014 world baseball congress results
Ft. wayne jackers win world
baseball congress tournament in Portland
this weekend.
The jackers defeated the summit city sluggers 5-1 Sunday to
take the title.
The portland
rockets were defending champs, the last 2 yrs. But not to be this year.
The rockets played their guts out and were running on fumes
at the end. The boys of summer played 3 games and they were exciting. 3 games and all went extra innings.
Never have eaten tums before . bet I do today. The field was
the most competitive it ever has been. Tournament director kurt rammel from
ft.recovery put it together, and it was a classic.
Ft wayne
jackers record now 26-11
Summit
city sluggers now 30-10
Portland
rockets now 26-13
Miami
valley wolverines now 25-13
Our best team was our workers , angi, brad krisite
susan our public address announcer
Samantha Thomas drew rave reviews from a great crowd each day.
Really, people went out of their way, to say how grand the
sounds and sights were at the ballpark and I agree. It really was a buzzin at the corner of
western and blaine, and I loved it when
Samantha Thomas revved em up. She would yell, yes yell at them, are there any slugger fans out there, any jacker fans out
there, and when she yelled for rocket fans, they cheered and it was noteworthy,
goose bump noteworthy.
Atta girl sam.
Rockets even had a special visit from the maloys who made
the weekend
As did baseball fans chuck and Kathy etlzler. A visit with
tim devoss, david lyons, and chris hearn will always brighten your spirits. From
ft. wayne we had kudos from bob sharluka ,
former editor of the Decatur
daily democrat who was very complimentary on the tournament.
Rockets fought tooth and nail all weekend, mitch waters and
connor milligan got it done fri nite. Rockets win in 8 inn 4-2 . late in the game heroics by Dalton tinsley and 3 straight Ks by connor
milligan with runners on.
3 hits by billy geeslin, the last one a bunt single that was
botched rockets win
Saturday 4 games at runkle-miller field, and they went long. None longer than rocket games
with the jackers and the sluggers.
Game 2 dan bollenbacher went all 9 inn, 146 pitches 9 Ks 0
walks, gotta like that, 3 hits by tj lindstrand but the jackers got 3 runs on
dumpy hits over a drawn in infield 3 times.
Rockets lose in 9 inn 3 2, then lose the nightcap to the
sluggers 3-2 in 8 inn.
Yes the boys got a little feisty, mitch waters ejected on a
strike 3 call. Bad call I might add. In
fact umpire assigner eric harmon made a call to his crew to make sure things
tightened up. Tempers flared a couple of
times as benches emptied. A jacker runner tried to take out catcher Justin
Marrero, he lost. And was tossed.
Rockets mounted a last inn. Rocket rally to come back and
tie the game. Bases loaded 0 out, logan
hug scored one on a double play ground out, and tinsley singled in lindstrand
to dramatically tie the game. They score in the 9th and we don’t.
In the night cap, rockets had just 4 hits and waste a fine
pitching performance by tyler Reynolds he goes 6 inn giving up just 2 runs,
Justin miller goes 2 inn and does not give up a hit, but one walk and an error
and rockets go down 3-2
Season record now
26-13
Now rockets go to nabf regionals in ft wayne,
we enjoyed our trips last 2 yrs to Louisville
and Cincinnati, now this year to ft. wayne
8 team field in Portland
bracket we play 1230 vs ft wayne jackers, then 6
pm vs Chicago
clout, then fri at 2 vs. south bend Yankees.
Other bracket is Mishawaka
brewers, ft. wayne
expos, south bend cardinals and berrea blue sox.
Winner goes to world series at battle creek Michigan.
Can we win this regional???
We are in the pool of death, and we will take em one game at
a time
Now an answer, a resounding YES!!!!
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