Molly Sherman Memorial (Elkland, PA)

from Bill Sherman

3rd Annual Molly Sherman memorial

The NY Bombers of Cortland NY repeated as champions at the 3rd annual Molly Sherman memorial held in Elkland Pa with a record of 4 and 1. They defeated the Ricola Cough Drops of Morris Plains, NJ for the 2nd year in a row and this was Ricolas 3rd trip to the championship game in 3 years. We had great weather and great teams that equaled out to great ball games. Here are the game by game results.

Saturday's pool play game results

GM 1
ESA 3 Beverage barn 0
WP- Brad Porter 17 Ks
LP-Denny Reed

GM 2
Busters 8 NY Bombers 7
WP-Bill Kaslavick
LP-Chuck Smith
Save- Jeff Tombs

GM 3
Knoxville/Ontario 4 ESA 0
WP- Craig Hollinsworth
LP- Bill Sherman
Scott Bebe 2-3 2 RBIs

GM 4
Ricola 13 Ormrod 2
WP- Paul Furlong
LP-Rick Skladowski

GM 5
Rise 12 Beverage Barn 0
WP- Darrin Strange
LP- Trevor Hall
Strange faced 9 batters and struck out 9 for a perfect 3 inning mercey rule game

GM 6
Ricola 10 Busters 3
WP- Barry Vanhooser
LP- Jeff Tombs
Fred Kent went 3 for 4 with # RBIs for Ricola

GM 7
Knoxville/Ontario 7 Beverage Barn 0
WP- Craig Hollinsworth
LP- Frank Phillips

GM 8
Bombers 7 Ormrod 3
WP- Sean Sampson
LP- Carl Crankord

Game 9
Rise 12 ESA 0
WP- Mike Smith
LP- Brad Porter
Matt Daley went 2 for 2 with 1 HR

Game 10
Bombers 6 Ricola 4
WP- Sean Sampson
LP- Paul Furlong
Jeff Carr went 3 for 4 with a walk off 3 run home run to win it in the bottom of the 8th

GM 11
Ormrod 2 Busters 1
WP-Jeff Hess
LP- Bill Kaslovick
Jeff Hess had 11 Ks and scored the game winning run in the bottom of the 9th

GM 12
Rise 8 Knoxville/Ontario 0
WP-Darrin Strang
LP- Craig Hollinsworth
Zack Fullman went 3 for 3 with 3 RBIs

Sundays single elimination games

GM 13
Ricola 5 ESA 3
WP- Paul Furlong
LP- Bill Sherman
Mike Rapicioli went 3 for 4 with 2 runs scored

GM-14
Knoxville/Ontario 11 Ormrod 5
WP-Craig Hollinsworth
LP- Rick Skladowski
Kip Adams went 3 for 4 and drove in 2 runs in the top of the 8th

GM 15
Ricola 3 Rise 2
WP- Barry Vanhooser
LP- Mike Smith
Mike Rapicioli went 4 for 4 with 2 RBIs and Brett Delcastro had 4 assists and 3 put outs at short stop

GM 16
Bombers 12 Knoxville/Ontario 5
WP-Sean Sampson
LP-Craig Hollingsworth

Championship Game
Bombers 11 Ricola 2
WP- Sean Sampson
LP- Paul Furlong
Bruce Hackett went 2 for 4 with 2 RBIs