Black Blasts Purple in the Heart, 24-16

There are several story lines to Team BS' 24-16 victory over Purple Tuesday. The game started with Purple missing four of their top hitters including a couple of starting outfielders. We could hardly tell because of the thick fog - who could see who was out there?

After a shutdown top of the first, Brian Black made them pay on the leadoff Black Shirt AB. He sent a ball over the left fielder for a round tripper, and the race was on (in his second AB, Black hit a triple, causing this writer to wonder if anyone had ever hit for the cycle in reverse order).

The first half could be called the Roger Gawne Game. He came up in the third and the fifth with three runs already in, and sent all four remaining runs home with a single and a double. He also started a 5-11-3 double play in the second that Gerry Dasey at rover was in the middle of and yours truly picked the quick throw out of the dirt.

The score was but 8-6 after Purple put up six in the fourth, and then Black (the pitcher) got a strike three looking. And this welcomed in the Sandy Camp Show. In the sixth Camp moved to rover and turned a rover unassisted to first double play. She moved to catcher in the seventh, and snared a foul tip just over the batter's head for one out and then received a throw from the outfield from Art Miner to SS Steve Rousso to home to nail a would be scorer. In the next inning she moved to first base and finished the run off by corralling a foul pop up. The curtain was dropping on Team Purple.

This was because Team Black Shirts put up five spots in the fifth, seventh, and eighth. In the fifth it was the top of the order, Black, Dave DeWitt, Darren Bobrosky, Miner, and Dasey with consecutive hits. In the seventh, the big blow was a Miner home run, and in the eighth it was doubles by Curt Wade, Greg Mathers, Rousso, and Leo Kay. Kay also had a home run and tied Gawne with a team leading four RBIs.

Purple made a valiant rally in the ninth, putting up a touchdown to close to the final score but it came up short by another touchdown and a two point conversion. All in all, three BS players had four hits and six more had three and everyone had at least one.