JP's Crew Drops Their First Game of the Season
Facing an 0-2 count (after Saukie and BlackHawk were already in use), the Moline sophomore field came through to allow for Veto League Baseball to return to play after things failed to get going on
Sunday.
It was a day where the Goonies wish that a field would not have been found as the Vandals hammered out 20 hits en route to a 15-5 thumping of the Goonies.
The Goonies were troubled by the pitching of Jeff Kilgard, whose Roger Clemens style heat caused confusion up and down the Goonies batting order.
Kilgard, pitching from the stretch of the Moline sophomore field mound, also had some nice defensive help behind him on the day as well.
At the plate, Kiel Engstrom was a pain in the Goonies side all day. Engstrom only was 2-for-6 from the plate, but scored both times he reached base and batted home four RBI. Josh Francque, Bob Zerull and Brett Carlson all had three hits on the day and combined to knock in five runs and score eight.
Jon Escajeda led all batters with four hits in six at bats. Addison Boughton made his VLB debut and after grounding into a double play, Boughton came to life and finished the day 2-for-4 with a pair of runs and two RBI.
Double plays were the theme of the day. A combined three double plays were turned on the day, which some wondered if it was a VLB record.
Ruling from the commissioner is to be awaited. (Commissioner's note: Though we do not keep defensive stats on file, I seem to feel this ties a record from a very defensive 2003 World Series between the Heartbreakers and Meteors.)
The Vandals pounded out six runs to break a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the second. The Goonies appeared to get a rally going in the top of the fifth when Ryan Holtmann came to the plate. Holtmann ripped a pitch into the right-center field gap and appeared to have an easy double.
Holtmann then showed that he had been removed from the game for over two years when he tried to test Engstrom’s arm, who easily gunned down Holtmann before he reached second and killed the Goonies rally.
Trailing 15-3 entering the night, the Goonies started another rally and plated two runs. The rally, and the game, ended on the day's theme of a double play. With the win, the Vandals improve to 3-0 and the Goonies fall to 4-1. For the Goonies, Josh Traub went 3-for-5, and Mitch Heckenkamp and Scott Ellefritz both had two hits and an RBI a piece. Action continues on Wednesday when the Vandals meet the Eskimos at 5:30 p.m.
Facing an 0-2 count (after Saukie and BlackHawk were already in use), the Moline sophomore field came through to allow for Veto League Baseball to return to play after things failed to get going on
Sunday.
It was a day where the Goonies wish that a field would not have been found as the Vandals hammered out 20 hits en route to a 15-5 thumping of the Goonies.
The Goonies were troubled by the pitching of Jeff Kilgard, whose Roger Clemens style heat caused confusion up and down the Goonies batting order.
Kilgard, pitching from the stretch of the Moline sophomore field mound, also had some nice defensive help behind him on the day as well.
At the plate, Kiel Engstrom was a pain in the Goonies side all day. Engstrom only was 2-for-6 from the plate, but scored both times he reached base and batted home four RBI. Josh Francque, Bob Zerull and Brett Carlson all had three hits on the day and combined to knock in five runs and score eight.
Jon Escajeda led all batters with four hits in six at bats. Addison Boughton made his VLB debut and after grounding into a double play, Boughton came to life and finished the day 2-for-4 with a pair of runs and two RBI.
Double plays were the theme of the day. A combined three double plays were turned on the day, which some wondered if it was a VLB record.
Ruling from the commissioner is to be awaited. (Commissioner's note: Though we do not keep defensive stats on file, I seem to feel this ties a record from a very defensive 2003 World Series between the Heartbreakers and Meteors.)
The Vandals pounded out six runs to break a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the second. The Goonies appeared to get a rally going in the top of the fifth when Ryan Holtmann came to the plate. Holtmann ripped a pitch into the right-center field gap and appeared to have an easy double.
Holtmann then showed that he had been removed from the game for over two years when he tried to test Engstrom’s arm, who easily gunned down Holtmann before he reached second and killed the Goonies rally.
Trailing 15-3 entering the night, the Goonies started another rally and plated two runs. The rally, and the game, ended on the day's theme of a double play. With the win, the Vandals improve to 3-0 and the Goonies fall to 4-1. For the Goonies, Josh Traub went 3-for-5, and Mitch Heckenkamp and Scott Ellefritz both had two hits and an RBI a piece. Action continues on Wednesday when the Vandals meet the Eskimos at 5:30 p.m.