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Prince William Stadium
--July 18,
2007
DC Wood All-Stars came into Prince William
Stadium tonight convinced they had a better team, brought
with them several top notch pitchers and were going home
with a win over the Blue & Gray All-Stars, but again for
another year Blue & Gray proved who are the "BIG
DOGS" in
Northern Virginia Baseball sending DC Wood packing 7-3.
B&G took advantage of a first inning error as Matt Orner
of the 1st Horizon Blues
reached and the burning up of the base paths started
immediately as Orner stole second moved to third on a wild
pitch and scored on Ermi's Baseball Club, Frankie Ramirez' ground out to take the
lead 1-0 after one.
The B& G second saw Skagit Longhorn Marcello Trejo lead off with
a singles move to second when Potomac Hawks Galvin Dent reached on a
catchers interference, Lorton Phillies Chris Mothershed then put
down a perfect bunt and beat it out to load the bases for
Ermi's Steve Smith who grounded out to short but more
importantly brought home the run for a 2-0 B&G lead.
DC Wood cut the lead in half taking advantage of a B&G
error as DC Woods Saul drove home their first run of the
game.
The fourth inning is when B&G started to run at
will, Mothershed earned a walk and Longhorn pinch-runner
Jamien Payne came on and immediately stole second and third,
swiping 4 bases in all on the night, then scored easily on
another Steve Smith ground out for a 3-1 B&G lead after
four.
Frankie Ramirez led off the 5th with a
single, he stole second, moved to third on a bad pick off
attempt and came home off of Prince William Yankee's Logan Springer's blast
who just missed home run by inches as DC Wood left fielder
Fisher with a stellar catch by leaping to the top of the
wall to bring it back, but B&G lead after five 4-1.
DC Wood scratched a run in the 7th after a wild pitch
allowed Bell to score from 3rd and the lead trimmed to 4-2.
B&G stormed back in the 7th as Ramirez led off with
another single, stole 2nd again and scored on Logan
Springers single, NV Dodgers Chris Gray then singled to left,
pinch Runner GT Hitt of the Fredericksburg Seminoles pinch-ran for Gray and
B&G pulled off a double steal as GT took second and Springer
stole home!! ---DC Wood battery had no answer for the speed
on the B&G squad; as on the night B&G stole 10 bases in all
!!!! GT later scored on Seminoles Greg Kirsch's ground out
putting B&G out front 7-2 after seven innings.
DC Wood picked up an unearned run in the 8th capitalizing
on a throwing error, but on the play B&G right fielder Matt Orner of the backed up the play and gunned
down the 2nd DC Wood runner trying to score on the error at
the plate and ended the threat.
Other defensive highlights were a 4-6-3 double play
turned by Chris Mothershed and Steve Smith,, GT Hitt picked
a runner off of first with a nice tag by NV Red Sox Pete
Schourek, and PW Yankee catcher Barry Gauch gunned down a DC
Wood runner, Fisher, trying to steal second.
Pete Sullivan of Ermi's Started the game earned the win
with allowing only 1 base runner and struck out two,
even though DC Wood touted some top pitching talent it was B&G
pitching that dominated this game, GT Hitt was the 2nd B&G
pitcher and he went 3 innings, 1 unearned run, striking out
2, Brandon Weaver of the Virginia Diamondbacks and Bobby Collier of the
Blues did let in a run each but only surrendered one hit a
piece to the DC Wood supposed dangerous lineup, and PW Yankee
Closer, Logan Springer got the final three outs of the game
with no damage done, and a final score of Blue & Gray 7 DC
Wood 3.
B&G now moves to 2-0 in the All-Star series having won
last years contest in a shellacking 12-3 score.
See you next year !!!
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