June 18, 2012 rockets sweep lima buckeyes
Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. The Portland rockets sweep
a doubleheader beating the lima buckeyes, 5-0 and 9-2 Saturday at runkle-miller field.
Mitch waters on the mound and he set the tone for the day. The Italian stallion shut out the buckeyes on just one hit, retiring 15 of the last 16 he faced one walk, 7 Ks . the rocket veteran, threw just 74 pitches and completed duties in 1hr 38 min.
A billy wellman 2 run double to the fence in the 3rd scored logan hug and Justin Marrero and that was all mitch needed, rockets win 5-0. chris miller his battery mate, also hit a home run and a double. Thomas mccowan also had 2 hits/ billy wellman had 4 hits on the day . had a nice visit with rich wellman I am sure he had a happy fathers day. We learned that his daughter Danielle wellman was named area player of the year. She will continue her softball career at grace college.
Rockets continued taking care of business with a 9-2 win in game 2. eathan daggett went 5 inn and he too struck out 7 with no/zero walks and allowed 3 hits. Justin miller finished out the contest. 1 hr 52 min. 5 of the lima club play baseball at ohio northern university nickname …..polar bears crazy name on a 94 degree day speaking of hot, adam Wilson had 3 hits in game 2, in fact every rocket starter had a hit 2 each by wellman and jose Gonzales of carrucus venezeula
Many were in attendance====hey we even found a spot to claim for don and marilyn maloy on the bleacher pad ,,,,,,hey thanks for making my day with the generous donation –love ya in Portland guys
We had the music blaring and the lunching pad was cooking---tony minch used to help josh Gibson run that thing in the day, but Saturday he was being dad to his son Sheldon; over in the golf cart with her pseudo roster in hand, Vicki tague was rooting for the home team, eric rogers picked up a cool rocket jersey. Former rockets larry chittum, and paul minnich on hand. A special visit to the rocket dugout by former rocket and teammate and friend mike Ashley he was in town for the Portland high school reunion
My favorite rocket story, mike Ashley married the prettiest girl in Portland lana but on that special day he played rocket ball and went 4-4 before excusing himself to go get hitched---we were still in the second game when their procession came honking thru the parking lot.
Sat eve capped off at the American legion for our Portland high school reunion many friendly old faces and several former rockets on hand. What year you might ask, well I will tell you, we are great we are cool were the envy of the school, were the class that;s really true were class of 72
Rockets win 2 record 9-4
Big game tonite 7 pm at runkle-miller
Ft wayne jackers vs dan bollenbacher jackers the best club of ft wayne
Old rivals shady nook
Coach kyle gould of taylor will be in attendance.
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