July 25, 2014 portland
rockets 14 ft. wayne
marlins 3
Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. A 9 run ninth
inning broke
Open a close 5-1 lead and the Portland
rockets cruised to a 14-3 win over the ft. wayne marlins thurs. nite at Carrington
field. Portland
wins the red Carrington league title with a 11-3 mark. The rockets who have won 17 of the last 20,
and 9 in a row now move to 24-10 on the season.
Rocket lefthander Justin miller who attends Manchester university, handled the bulk of
the pitching duties. Justin went 8 inn. Giving up 1 run on 5 hits, he struck
out 5 and gave up 5 hits, 128 pitches,
atta boy Justin. He is leaving
today for Louisville to pick up some bats then
will join the club in Cincinnati
this weekend.
Wesley hibbard finished up on the mound.
The rockets lead just 3-1 in the 7th but broke
through with 2 in the 7th, 2 in the 8th, and 9in the 9th
. Dalton
tinsley smacked 4 hits scoring 3 runs. Billy geeslin and collin affolder had 3
hits, mitch waters and Justin miller had 2 hits.
Here is one for the books, catcher cody crumlauf from auburn
got plunked 4 times. Hit by the pitch 4 times, take off the bulls eye
cody,
Krumlauf will miss sat. action in Lawrenceburg as he will be
at a ceremony to receive a
$3000 scholarship. Atta boy cody
Surveying the field last nite we noticed the rockets had 4
players on the field who are fresh out of high school. usually players in this league require some
seasoning in the college ranks, but an atta boy to these guys, collin affolder
from berne, josh selvey and Wesley hibbard from jay county, and kyle witwer who
is a soph at bellmont.
Rocket road trip to Cincinnati
Sat Portland will play the Yorkville yaks at south Dearborn high school.
Sun Portland will play the cinci chiefs at Lakota west high
school.
Tonite we will attend the community center event with the
dunkin diesels.\
Next week Portland
will host the world baseball congress tournament regional .
Teams from Chicago, Cleveland,
cinci, Dayton, indy and ft wayne have expressed interest.
Pretty cool, Portland
has that kinda pull.
Rocket road trip to Cincinnati
Rockets win league title with 14-3 win over marlins,
Win streak continues
When your hot you’er hot, when your not, you’re not –jerry
reed
Randy miller pg 14 |