In an emotional day that started with a moment of silence for our fallen teammate Anthony Paschal (very nice eulogy Don), we succumbed to the beefed up Wolfpack 24-16 to end our winter season. In many ways it resembled the season - we were short players (I won't even say how much we miss Anthony on and off the field), and we just didn't hit our best, so we came up short. You have to have your best game against the likes of the Wolfpack and the Hornets.
There were a few highlights. In the second, Howard Reese made a great catch on a little flair over his head on the mound, and when the Pack runner ran halfway home assuming the ball would drop, Howard threw to third for an easy double play. Two innings later, Don Devencenzi came in hard for a sinking line drive in right field, followed by 2B Lamont Thompson ranging far to his left to snag a grounder ticketed to right field to get the third out and keep the damage that inning to two runs.
On offense, Charlie Pastor led the team with four hits. Barry Walter hit a three run homer in our first five run inning. Reese hit a line drive beauty down the right field line with the bases loaded in the sixth and ended up standing on third base in our other five run inning. All in all not a terrible offensive game - everyone had at least two hits - but other than those two innings and the ninth when we started with five straight singles before making three straight outs - we just couldn't string together enough rallies. In five innings we scored a grand total of one run.
The good news is that this team has fun win or lose, and no one gets on each other's case. We will press on with a few new players in the summer, and the Crows will keep cawing and clawing.
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