August 11, 2014

Nabf regional tournament

Ft. wayne at Carrington field

Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. The Portland rockets concluded the 2014 season Friday, winning the morning qualifying game 11  1  over the south bend Yankees,  then losing the semifinals in the evening 7-1 to the berea blue sox.

The rockets made it to the final 4 of the 8 team field but came up short, eventual winner, the ft. wayne jackers beat the berea blue sox, 7-6.  jackers advance to world series in battle creek.  Rockets finish season with a very impressive 27-16 mark.  Remember back in june when Portland was  7-7.

Rockets faced elimination fri morning but responded with a resounding 11-1 win. Justin miller went 6.2 inn with a 3 hitter, 7 ks.  Travis gray, just back from southern  ohio league, struck out the last man.  Dalton tinsley went 4for4 with a single, a double, and 2 triples,  Dalton tinsley knows I love triples.  Tinsley distinguished himself by going 11-26 in tournament play.  Next would be geoff bowers and billy geeslin with 6 hits.

Rockets had 2 hits in game one from logan hug, Thomas mccowan, and cody krumlauf.

Portland, berea, ftwayne jackers and expos, in the semifinals,

Berea blue sox pitcher jeff salay was a tough customer, he gave up 5 hits, with 13 Ks,

Rockets lose 7-1 in the 9 inning late game,  2 hits by geoff bowers.

Matt helm took the loss, tyler Reynolds pitched well in relief 6 ks in 4 inn. Giving up 2 runs. Travis gray 2 inn with no runs

Atta boy travis with his mom and dad on hand. Kurt gray coach at norwell hs.

Portland had early in the year been a regional selection in Cincinnati, but that did not happen and they had just 4 teams I am told. Will have to investigate,\

We know that portland’s team will show up and play you tough,

In 1994 portland was in regional play in canton and at Thurman munson stadium 8^th inn. Score 2 2 vs. Anderson Yankees , officials reported Portland with ineligible player, joe zanola was on our team just released from Miami marlins. 

I promised mom, betty miller we would not let that happen again.  It happened again this weekend, to the champion jackers,  we kept it straight up.

We are proud of the dedication in such a long season of nearly all our players. Just one of our important players did not show up to play, disappointedly.

We play more games than most

Berea ends their season 32-5, rockets 27-16

Special thoughts go out to one of the nicest ballplayer ever to play against us

Joe mccomb from ft. waynes mccombs construction passed away at age 72. joe was a class act, I remember marveling as he hit a home run at age 51.

Rockets have lots of thank yous to pass along.  To our parks dept. and administration, to our sponsors and helpers, to gary Bernard and the buffalo bar and grill for our ice, to  all those rocket rooters

Love ya in Portland, I can still hear Samantha Thomas yelling, “are there any rocket fans out there!!!”

I love the thrills and spills at the ball park.

Happy birthdays to Kelly knapshafer, phil miller and keith pensinger this weekend.

Rocket stats will be posted for the season in the new news items slot later this week.

Remember our rocket rally golf outing September 28^th at 1000 am at the Portland golf club.

Another fine season in portland

Randy miller pg 14

 last years mark, 2013 33-8 

2012 31-13

2011 35-13