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Gold Hits Stride; Advances to Semis |
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Written by Macgregor Perkins
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Saturday, 07 August 2010 11:27 |
Monarchs Gold took Pool A winners, Kingsbridge Knights’ best shots in their Quarterfinal bout Saturday morning. The Monarchs continued their recent scoring binge early and never looked back outslugging the Knights 17-7 and advancing to the Semi-Finals on Sunday.
The Knight’s pitcher was all over the place and the Monarch batters made him pay. Corey Lehman got it started with a leadoff walk and was moved over on Adam Yunker’s sac bunt. Drew Kuns was hit, and Casey Winckowski brought home the first run of the morning with a first pitch single to score Lehman. Ricky Lizcano belted a two run double in the inning as well to give the Monarchs the early 3-0 lead. In the second, Adam Yunker brought home Eric Yunker on an RBI triple to add to the lead.
The Monarchs began trading punches with the Knights. The Knights scored two in the bottom of the second. Gold responded with two of their own in the top of the third. Lehman skied an RBI sac fly to score Brian Bilius, and Adam Yunker was able to come home as well on a Kingsbridge error. The Knights countered with a three run blast off of starter Ryan Mouch, but again in the fourth, the Monarchs came roaring back. Winckowski recorded his second and third RBIs of the game on a double, and Jake Cappelletty brought him home on a single to right. The Knights however again responded with two runs to put the score at 9-7 in favor of the Monarchs after the 4th inning.
Gold scored again in the top of the fifth on an RBI single by Brett Howard and finally shut down Kingsbridge for the first time since the first inning. Pouring it on, Gold exploded for six more in the sixth. Lehman, Kuns, and Lizcano (2) all got RBIs and two more scored on a dropped fly ball. Kingsbridge seemed to run out of gas as the Monarchs kept it full throttle scoring another run in the seventh on Adam Yunker’s RBI.
Brett Kuebler, who relieved Mouch after the third inning, pitched through the seventh giving up the two back in the fourth. With a score of 17-7 after the seventh inning, the game ended via run-rule. Dating back to last game, the Monarchs Gold have scored in nine consecutive innings, as they appear to be hitting their stride at the right time.
The Monarchs will be off the rest of the day, but will play in the Semi-Finals Sunday morning at 11:00 am.
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