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August 17, 2006 |
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Fleetwings' high fives knot series
A five-run fifth inning against
Coplay forces a Game 5 showdown.
By Keith Groller
Of The Morning Call
Two evenly-matched, quality teams; gorgeous,
Chamber-of-Commerce weather, and the Lehigh Valley’s version of the “Field of
Dreams” have made this year’s Tri-County championship series so special that it
would have been a shame for it to end early.
And, it won’t thanks to Woodlawn’s riveting 5-4 win over Coplay Wednesday night
at Limeport Stadium.
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The Fleetwings (31-16) overcame a 1-0 deficit with five runs in the bottom of
the fifth inning and survived a Reds rally in the top of the seventh to even the
best-of-five series at two games apiece.
The fifth and deciding game will be played at 7 p.m. Friday at Limeport.
“It has been a competitive season and it’s good for the league to go five
games,” said Fleetwings’ player/manager Jeremy Arner.
The seventh inning wasn’t good for Arner’s nerves, however.
Trailing 5-1, the Reds (32-14-1) refused to go passively. Mike Bortz and J.R.
Graver singled and both scored on John Curreri’s triple to left-center. Curreri
also scored on the play via a throwing error.
Joe Bubba rekindled the rally with single and was sacrificed to second by Kirk
Mueller, bringing up red-hot Brandon Leslie and Kevin Thompson with the tying
run at second and one out.
Was Arner tempted to remove ace pitcher Scott Bolasky?
“Not at all,” Arner said. “Bolasky’s a bulldog. We weren’t going to take him out
with the game on the line. I don’t think he would have ever talked to me again
if I took him out. I was still confident in him. He gets stronger as the game
goes on.”
Leslie, who was hitting .563 with 11 RBIs in the postseason, grounded sharply to
third for the inning’s second out.
Then Thompson (.424, 12 RBIs in the playoffs) took several healthy cuts, but
popped out to second baseman Scott Garger to end it.
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SCOTT GARGER scores one of the Fleetwings' five fifth-inning runs
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“I saw Leslie coming
up and I was thinking about pitching around him, but fortunately, we got
him out and then I got Thompson on a curveball,” said Bolasky, who is
2-1 with a save in the postseason.
“Coplay had hit the ball hard earlier in the game.
Every mistake you make, they hit hard. Matty Marcks [the Fleetwings’
center fielder] is a pitcher’s best friend and ran everything down out
there. I just wanted to battle and give my team everything I had.”
Bolasky kept his team close until Woodlawn strung
together five hits and took advantage of shaky Reds defense to score
five times in the fifth.
Garger and Marcks singled in runs, a double-steal
plated another Fleetwing and a throwing error made it 4-1. Then Matt
Godusky’s pop-fly single to left on a ball that should have been caught
by someone, produced what would prove to be the deciding run.
“One bad
inning and that’s all you need to lose to a team like that,” said Coplay
manager Shawn Andrews. “There were balls that should have been caught,
but you can’t harp on that. The Fleetwings have hit the ball hard all
series, and, in that one inning, they found some holes.”
Coplay could have had more than an early 1-0 lead.
Mike Bortz was thrown out at the plate trying to score on Graver’s
single in the second and the Reds stranded a runner in six separate
innings.
Now, after playing four games over the last five
days, both teams get a day off before a one-game showdown to close the
season.
Ryan Palos will go for the Fleetwings and either
Kevin Reese or Paul Giovannoli will get the ball for the Reds.
“We’ve played a lot of games this summer, why not
one more,” Andrews said.
Coplay
000 100 3 — 4 10 1
Fleetwings 000 050 x — 5 11 1
Fassl,
Medina (5) and Calarco; Bolasky and
Arner.
keith.groller@mcall.com
610-820-6740
From The Morning Call --
August 17, 2006
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The Morning Call
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