June 20, 2016 PORTLAND
ROCKETS SWEEP INDIANA
BANDITS 14-8 AND 12-1
Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. And it was certainly a great week for our
friends across the border in ft recovery,,, a fantastic jubilee celebration,
Must say I even won one of the duck races and always a great
visit with yakow and neal spencer, .
Portland rockets had a
jubilee celebration at home plate this weekend, scoring runs in bunches,
defeating the Indiana
bandits 14-8 and 12-1. in front of a
large crowd sat. at runkle-miller field, a rocky start for lefthander Andrew
bobeck from bethel college found the the Indianapolis/Greenfield team up 5-1 in
the second ---this club beat us in the may 28th, but the rockets tallied 9 times in the 4th
and cruised to the 14-8 win. Zach tanner
clubbed a monster home run in the fateful 4th and Kevin sharpe, 1st
year guy from indy clubbed his first homer a grand slam . as sports editor chris schantz pointed out
the top four hitters in the Portland
lineup-10 hits. BY THE WAY great front
page article on the rockets in sat. the CR.
Tinsley, geeslin,tanner and
waters, Enough to allow rocket reliever d’qaun Blackmon to go 5 inn for the
win. Dquann a Muncie south guy allowed 3 run 4 hits.
Rockets nailed down game 2 12-1 in 5 inn. Dan bollenbacher
another strong outing 4 inn 8 ks. 83
pitches
5 hits on the day for Dalton
tinsley 4 each for billy geeslin and zach tanner, 3 for mitch waters,
Kevin sharpe a homer and a double, geoff bowers from lima had 2 hits
Rockets welcomed aboard new catcher ben breymier from indy.
Ben plays ball in mobile Alabama
and his dad, ron breymier bought a rocket hat.
What karma, bens dad is a 1970 graduate of Portland
high school and here he is Portland,
his son a rocket.
Guess what year I
graduated from Portland
high school, here is a hint
Whe are geat, we are cool were the envoy of the school
Were the class that’s really true were the class of ‘72
Rockets win 2 over the bandits making it a 7 game winning
streak. Rocket record 9-2
Next action wednite at taylor
university 7 pm vs. the twin city bankers.
Rockets also will be on
the road sat, sun in south bend
Winners of 2 sat. rockets roll
Randy miller pg 14 |