August 8, 2014 nabf regional ft wayne
Good morning baseball fans. It’s a beautiful day in Portland. The Portland rockets are
battle tested and battle approved.
Tournament time is the time to shine.
Guess we got waxed. Rockets lost in the ft wayne nabf regional tournament. Twice.
Although are schedule says regional-cincinnati. We received word from national
office in july we would be playing in ft. wayne.
Our draw –the ft wayne
jackers on a thurs 1230 start . tyler
reynolds, Justin miller and connor milligan kept it close, down 4 0 in the 3rd
rockets rally to close the gap to 4-3,in the 6th , Justin Marrero 2 long doubles to the fence
driving in all 3
Then the jackers hitter hakes hit his 2nd home
run and the jackers win going away 13-3
On this work day being a thurs. big dan bollenbacker who
took the jackers into 9 inn. Last weekend in the Portland tournament. Was unable to pitch the
day game. But dan was there for the night game. Rockets lost to the Chicago clout 3-1
Great drama great suspense and well played, but not able to
string together a single rocket rally. Alex delk homered in the last inn. To
account for the only run. Rockets had 6
hits, 2 by logan hug and 2 by leadoff man Dalton tinsley. In fact in
the 2 games tinsley had 5 hits, on base 6 times but only able to score one
run.
Bollenbacker went the distance, 96 pitches and after giving
up 3 runs in 3inn, retired the last 15 of 16 clout hitters. Dan walked one,
struck out 2 and gave up 8 hits.
Dan bollenbacher answered the call, wants the ball, and
gives his all
You may sometimes question the heart of some of our boys of
summer, but never dan bollenbacher.
The Chicago
coach was very complimentary of the big right hander pitching throughtraffic
and adversity. He also acknowledged our fine defensive play, notabley the ss
play of Justin Marrero. I concur. That guy plays at another level. great crowd with larry and donna chittum and
the maloys on board. Even a visit from mike overmeyer, our catcher in 1985 from
Muncie.
Rockets are on the brink of elimination. After 2 loses and 2
jackers wins, the portlands play today at Carrington at 2 pm vs. the south bend
Yankees.
Justin miller our starting pitcher. It is great news that travis gray , our
closer from earlier in the year who was called to pitch for the southern ohio copperheads , is
back.
Rockets need to win and have some help when matt ousley
and the jackers have to club the clout.
If we score in bunches we could possibly be in the 8 oclock game .
Rockets drop 2 in tournament. But play at 2 today.
Rocket record now 26-15
Happy birthday today
to rockets coaches mark Flueckiger, now coach at Huntington university, and Jason murray at
liberty university
Hear our cheer Olivia
Rockets rockets are the best
r-o=-c-k-e-t-s
randy miller pg 14 |