Carp Goes 1-1 the Week of June 25th

Carp Goes 1-1 the Week of June 25th
Loses 6-0 to Ottawa Team Easton Thunder and beats Quyon Flyer 5-2
from Shawn Williams

Two different nights, two different games. On Wednesday night, Carp visited Ottawa Team Easton Thunder at Alexander Grove Park in Stittsville. The Thunder, recent winners of the International Softball Congress (ISC) II Eastern Canadian Qualifier in Sydenham, Ontario proved once again why they are deserving champions with a 6-0 victory over Carp that was shortened to five innings by the league mercy rule. Then on Thursday night, the Victory bounced back with a 5-2 win over the surprising Quyon Flyers, avenging an earlier loss last week in Quyon.

In the Wednesday game, Trevor Wood (2-1) took to the mound against Dan Konkle (6-0-2). Team Easton jumped out to an early lead when Dave Tubman walked and advanced to second on a wild pitch. After Kevin Chevrier struck out, Cory Morrison hit an infield single and was called safe on a very close play at first with Tubman moving up to third. Morrison stole second and the throw down from Carp catcher, Al Read was off the mark allowing Tubman to score from third for the first run of the game. Ottawa did more damage in the second when Pat O’Connor singled and Scott Marion was hit by a pitch. O’Connor was then out at third on a fielder’s choice on a nice play by Wood allowing Lukas Kamps to reach first. Then with two out and Tubman at the plate for the second time in two innings, he launched a three run home run to right centrefield to put Team Easton up 4-0. Carp tried to get back in the game and had a runner at third in the second inning and runners at second and third in the third inning but could not cash any of them in.

The Thunder put it away in the bottom of the fifth. After Tubman popped out to Kyle Gourgon at short and Chad Milne, who had replaced Chevrier at second, flew out to right, Cory Morrison got his second hit of the night with a double. Then with veteran hitter, Randy Peck at the plate, he hit a home run to right to make the score 6-0 and send the Victory home with the loss.

For Konkle, on the mound, he gave up no runs on two hits, he walked three had three wild pitches and struck out five. Easton had no errors on the night.

For Carp, Wood threw five innings and gave up six earned runs on five hits, walked two, had one wild pitch, hit one batter and struck out four. Carp made no errors.

At the plate for Team Easton, Tubman was 1-2, with a home run, a walk, three RBI’s and two runs scored. Morrison was
2-3 with a single, a double and a run scored. Peck was 1-3 with a home run, two RBI’s and a run scored. Easton left two runners on base.

For the Victory, Read and Wood were both 1-2. Carp left five runners on base.

In the second game of the week, things went much better for I4C Victory. Neil Cooke (4-1-1) was in the circle for Carp while Quyon countered with Matt Greer (4-1). Cooke was in control of his pitches all night and threw a tidy four hitter.

Carp got off to a much better start in this game when in the bottom of the first, Mike Money led off with a single and stole second base. After Gourgon struck out, Brooks Paziuk hit a fly ball down the leftfield line that dropped in scoring Money from second and with Paziuk hustling, he made it into third with a stand up triple, his first of the year. Read followed Paziuk with a single scoring him from third and making it 2-0 Carp after one. In the bottom of the fifth, Gourgon led off with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Paziuk. Read singled to put runners at the corners and then with two out, Eric Colvin laced a triple to the gap to score two more and it was 4-0 Carp after five. In the top of the sixth, Bucky Fleck led off the inning for Quyon with a single and after Steve McCord popped out to Russ Mitchell at second, Dennis McCleary attempted a sacrifice bunt that went off the end of Casey Poldervaart’s glove putting runners at first and second. Joe McCleary then singled to score Fleck and move brother Dennis to third. Nick Armitage stepped to the plate and hit a ball to Gourgon who erased Big Joe at second allowing younger brother Dennis to score making it 4-2. But that was it for the rally as Cooke bore down and got Greer to strike out to end the inning. Carp put its final run on the board in the bottom of the sixth when Money hit a one out triple and scored on a Gourgon single. Cooke then struck out the side in the top of the seventh.

Cooke had an excellent night on the mound giving up two runs, one earned, on four hits. He walked none and struck out 10. Carp had one error in the game.

Greer threw a complete seven innings giving up five earned runs on eight hits, he walked four, had a wild pitch and struck out five. Quyon committed two errors.

Offensively for Carp, Money led the way going 3-4 with two singles, a triple, a stolen base and two runs scored. Read was
2-4 with an RBI and a run scored and Colvin was 1-2 with a triple, two RBI’s and a walk. Paziuk pitched in going 1-2 with a triple, an RBI, a run scored and a sacrifice. Carp left eight runners on.

For the Flyers, Joe McCleary was 1-3 with an RBI and Fleck was 1-2 with a run scored.