Friday, June 15th, 2012 - Week 10
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Player of the Week Feature

Barco Construction is hot and so is Brett Moritz. Congratulations as Brett is the Over the Hill Gang Player of the Week and Barco has won 3 straight games. Moritz had a perfect 4 for 4 night, driving in 4 key runs as Barco beat Lockie & Nowachek Family Chiropractors (L&N) 15-11 to lift them into a first place tie with L&N in the National League.

7:00pm - Paradox Café versus LaCorte Family Auto - 60ft field

Paradox Café played LaCorte Family Auto as the schedule wrapped around for their second meeting of the year. Don Carlin started the game for Paradox driving a single for the first RBI. LaCorte was quick to post 3 runs of their own in the first inning as the blazing, setting sun affected both teams on the right side of the field. In the fourth inning LaCorte had pulled out to a 7-2 lead as Paradox’s Bruce Kubart hit a triple in the gap to drive in a run and start a rally. Bob Kirk then hit an RBI single as Lenny Balestrieri and Don Carlin followed with RBI hits of their own. Paradox was back in the game and down by 1. Fighting to stay in the game, Al Celeste made some rally killing catches in right center as he was backed up against the fence. Walter Hasemann was busy in left field while James Mignone snuffed a few balls at second as the sun screamed in his eyes. Bob Kirk dug one deep out of the hole at short to cut a man down at third base as Lenny B. made a nice catch crossing over from left to right center. The strong Paradox fielding and good pitching by Don C. allowed Paradox to grab the lead in the 7th inning.

With the based loaded, Brian Mulcahy, Al C., Mickey Newbeck and James M. all singled to bring in runs as the score was now 10-7 in favor of Paradox. Mitch Maghakian added a 2 run home run in the 8th inning and Paradox capped it off with one more in the ninth. With the score now 13-7, LaCorte had their final at bat and made it interesting with 4 runs, but it was not enough as Paradox hung on for a 13-11 victory.

7:00pm - Zwanger Pesiri versus Bar-Boy - 90ft field

It seemed like neither Zwanger Pesiri Radiology (ZP) or Bar-Boy wanted to win Friday night. Both teams played shaky defense to put it mildly, but in the end, ZPs 6-run 8th inning rally lifted the team to a 17-13 win. With his defense committing error after error, ZP pitcher Brian Tinney had the patience of a Saint and took matters into his own hands making several nice stops on the mound. Behind him, there were a few outstanding plays. Vinny Foppiano and Tyrone Clark had a pair of fine running catches in the outfield. At the plate, Foppiano belted a 2-run homer in the 4th to help ZP hold a slight lead for most of the game. But Bar-Boy pushed ahead 12-11 after 7 innings to set the stage for a rally.

In the 8th, Anthony Nicolich started with a single and one batter later, Art O'Neill, Pete Mendelson, Jerry Mazza, Foppiano and John Hernandez strung together singles. But the big blow came off the bat of rookie Sean O'Flynn. He doubled with the bases loaded to drive in 3. With Manager T-Ball living the good life in Iowa, the book was very messy, but the totals for the night look like this: Three hits each for Mazza, Foppiano and Mendelson. Two hits for Hernandez, Clark, O'Neill and John DeFalco. Special thanks to Tom '"T" Ball and Rich D'Amico for hosting post-game festivities the last two weeks. The team sends its best wishes to Joe Trainer who is recuperating from back surgery. Everyone looks forward to his return to the coaching box later this season.

9:40pm - Barco versus Lockie & Nowachek - 90ft field

In conjunction with Brett Moritz' "Player of the Week",  Barco scored runs in all but 2 innings to keep the pressure on L&N. Barco scored 2 runs in the first, second, fourth, sixth, and eighth innings with a 4 spot in the 5th on Kevin Moloney's big grand slam. At that point, Barco led 10-1 and it looked like it was going to be an easy win. In the bottom of the seventh, L&N put up 4 runs, followed by another 3 in the bottom of the 8th to make it 14-9. Barco added 1 more run in the top of the 9th. In the bottom of the 9th things got a little hairy, with L&N adding 2 more runs before Barco finally ended their rally with the tying run at the plate. It was a very big win for Barco aided by solid pitching and fielding from Gary Jambor and a good defense. Offensive leaders this week were Tim Dorman 3 for 4, Dennis Ryan 3 for 4 and Kevin Moloney with his game changing grand slam.