Championship Title !!

The Prince William Yankees have captured their 3rd Cooperstown Championship defeating the Staten Island Bombers 6-4 at Double Day Field.

Will Somerindyke pitched a complete game for the victory, the Yankees got on the board first powered by a Chip Kislack Homer to left field. The Yankees opened up the 4th inning with a bunt single by LF Jamien Payne and a walk by SS Tim Nargi followed by 3B Logan Springers single, the big blow then came from C Barry gauch who tripled to right and the Yanks took a 4-0 lead.  The 5th inning saw more power from the Yankees as DH Rob Pettigrue homered to left moving the Yankees ahead 5-0.

Staten Island di not lay down an mounted a 3 run 7th inning to trim the Yankee lead to 2, the Staten Island eighth saw a homer by Jay Parisi and the Yankee lead was only 5-4, Staten Island then put runners on 1st and 2nd when the Yankees turned an interesting double play to get out of the inning, Somerindyke fielded a grounder then nearly threw it away but shortstop Tim Nargi scooped it up and threw on to Jon Bybee at first who scooped the low throw and wend the Staten Island threat.

With the Yankee lead now trimmed to 1 run ion the 7th  Rob Pettigrue came through with a clutch 2 out 2 strike single to left giving the Yankees an insurance run and lead 6-4. Staten Island would not go away and mountged yet another threat in the 8th, with one out and 2 on a ground ball to 2nd baseman Matt Huff which looked like a routine double play nearly turned disastrous as Mat threw the ball wild to Nargi covering but he managed to dive and come up with the ball and get the out and end the threat.

Matt Huff  recovered and  got the final out of the game giving the Yankees thier third Hall of Fame Classic Title.

The Tournament Officials named  DH Rob Pettigrue MVP for his 2 for 3 game including the homerun and cluthc 2 out hit to secure the win, they named  SS Tim Nargi the Gold Glove winner for the above mentioned plays and several other stops he made denying Staten Island players singles.