July 23, 2015 rockets
5 ft. wayne
panthers 4
Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. And by golly Bernard reitz, it truly is a
fine summer day, a stretch of dry weather-the first time we have had 7 days
without rain since april as stated by curtis smith of channel 21 .
Portland rockets finished the
regular season last nite on a winning note, rockets 5 ft. wayne panthers 4. rockets won on a walk off single in the last
inning alex delks high chopper just over the second basemans head enough to
score colin Affolder from third base for the winning run. Alex delk also had earlier hit a 3 run bomb,
his 3rd homer in 3 games and alex delk also was the winning pitcher,
how about that.
Delk 2 hits, Affolder 2 hits and billy geeslin 2 hits.
Jagen millspaugh had an rbi single as Portland pounded out 8 hits to their 6
Rocket starter Austin
branock went 3 inn, chandler ingle 2 geeslin and delk 1 each;\
Delks 3 run homer
down the line in left put Portland
ahead early and a run in the 3rd made it 4-1 but the st. francis
group tied the score in the 5th,
Rockets finish the regular season with a 16-5 mark.
Note it was billy
geeslin birthday .25 years old, our gal
Kristie Delaney even had a birthday cake, billy has been around us for a long
time, even when he was 8 years old, singing take me out to the ballgame, and he
had some good karma going last nite, 2 hits and some clutch pitching, he came
in and with bases loaded fanned 2 batters of the 3 he faced. And the crowd
loved it,,,wow we have a golf cart display at the park and I love it.
Special thanks to denny Affolder for his hard work on our
foul lines . also to our team of workers
in Portland howard ontropf and teddy ferguson. Thanks field is
talking shape it slowly dries out. Our field of dreams is getting ready for
tournament action
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand
of time. Quote by Voltaire
Tournament time and Portland
is the host. Been doing regional
tournament play in Portland
since 1991
Runkle-Miller field will host the world baseball congress
tournament starting Friday nite.
The rockets will play the ft wayne
jackers at 6:15, the game following will be the michiganarea
braves from Saginaw vs the Miami
valley wolverines of Dayton.
This is the 7th year for our border wars
tournament, we have Indiana Michigan and ohio
represented, former winner from Chicago the Illinois jayhawks
dropped out last minute.
Quite a competitive field, Saginaw,
Dayton, ft. wayne
and Portland.
Rockets will start dan bollenbacher vs. the jackers fri
nite. They are our rival and it will be a big game atmosphere, strangely we played them 11 times last
season, not played them once this year.
Rockets will also play Saturday two games. As all teams will
play each other in round robin fashion, winners will play the championship on
Sunday at noon.
Portland vs michiganarea
braves sat at noon then Portland vs Dayton around 7 30 at
nite
Portland rockets thank all of our fans for a fine season and
we truly have a special thing going in Portland, thanks to my good friend and mentor Robert
freemeyer for his contribution, and to also dave lyons. Love ya in Portland guys.
Now load up the cooler,
stick in an extra for the old coach at third base and when Samantha
Thomas rocks out the house and says are their any rocket fans out there, lets
here ya..
Rockets win wed and are hungry for tournament here in Portland.
Remember ya cant beat fun for a good time
Randy miller pg 14 |