Team effort guides Armena to improbable comeback
Posted May 31, 2013
Despite a bumpy start, the Armena Royals managed to hang in a game that looked like might spin out of control early, and came from behind to win 7-4 Thursday night in Armena.
Landon Miller got the start for the Royals, sporting a 1.96 ERA in a couple appearances coming in. However, a misconstrued batter’s box by Royals’ manager Jason Buzzell got in his head early and after working out of trouble in the first, he walked four straight and the Royals looked dead in the water.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | X | 7 | 6 | 1 |
In came knuckleballer Ian Sherbaniuk looking for his fourth win of the season and he found a way to stop the bleeding. But brotherly duo Mark and Ryan Walker kept the Armena bats at bay most of the night with stellar pitching as well.
It wasn’t until the bottom of the fourth inning when last year’s rookie phenom Zenan Sherbaniuk struck with an unlikely two-out two-run homer to put the Royals within one at 4-3 did the Royals seem to show any life offensively.
Brother Ian Sherbaniuk did well to make his way into the sixth inning but the patented Leduc Milleteers rally was beginning and it was time to call in long-time Armena hurler Joel Boettger to try and shut things down.
And he did.
The Royals then mounted a four-run sixth capped by a bases clearing single by Royal Dean Prpic as the ball skipped to the fence by the outfielders and Boettger shut the door in the seventh for the victory.
The Royals now host Holden then Leduc again next week in a triactor of top teams so far in the Powerline standings.
