Author: mightyeskimo

Ducks Win

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Ducks 6, Bulldogs 2

James Fago pitched six strong innings, and James Teyssier earned the save in relief as the Ducks took a 1-0 series lead over the Bulldogs.

If our stats were up, Mike Cinefra would be putting up MVP numbers. In today’s game, he stole four bases, scored twice and drove in a run for South Oakland.

The Bulldogs were short-handed and threw the ball around a little.

Mike Martin made two spectacular catches in left for the Bulldogs.

For the Ducks, DeFilippo drove in two runs. In the second, Gwin stole third and scored after the catcher threw the ball into center field on an attempted pick off. Rob Cool singled and scored as well.

The Ducks have outscored their opponents 33-2 this post season and have allowed 1 earned run in four games.

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The Militia upset Elliot 5-4, once again winning in dramatic fashion, scoring the go ahead run in the top of the 8th after Wes White of Elliot made some rediculous play in shallow left to save a run.

Elliot and the Militia will finish their series tomorrow before the start of game 2 of the Ducks, Bulldogs series.

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Playoff Gameday [3] Ducks at Bulldogs

2011 Ducks Baseball, Bulldogs

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side

at

North Boro Bulldogs

2pm, John Herb Field

We’ll get the Bulldogs ace today, and they will be well rested.

If we can put up 7 on Rafalski without Cinefra or Scioscia in the lineup, we should come in to this one confident we can put up runs on anyone.

Sources say Mike Martin will be in the lineup for North Boro.

The Bulldogs are still looking for the first playoff win in franchise history.

Defending champ, South Oakland has won 7 straight post season games.

Fago is on the hill today.

Bad News for the Bulldogs

Semifinal Schedule Released

2011 Ducks Baseball

Ducks vs. Bulldogs

League Semifinals.

Game 1: Saturday 7/30 John Herb Field 2pm

Game 2: Sun 7/31 Woodland Hills High School 3pm

Game 3 (if necesary): Sun 7/31 Woodland Hills High School 5:3o pm

This will be the first ever post-season meeing between the Ducks and Bulldogs. Despite a dominant regular season winning percentage over the last several seasons, the Bulldogs are still in search of their first playoff victory.

On the other side of the bracket,

Jeremy Barchie leads a resurgent Monroeville Militia team against Elliot.

The Militia have come from behind to win to close games in the playoffs thanks to Barchie’s veteran leadership, and John Tremmel (sp.) being a beast.

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Congrats to the Express on a strong showing in the playoffs after winning only 6 games in the regular season.

The Express upset the 4 seed Black Sox and nearly took out the Militia last Sunday, losing 6-4 or something close after leading for most of the game.

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My one beef with the commisioner is that we haven’t recieved our championship t shirts from last year’s championship, nor was the trophy allowed to sit in Guthrie’s living room all summer.

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Playoff Gameday [2]

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Ducks

vs

Hurricanes

8pm

Volunteer Field

BP at John Herb Field

6pm.

we will leave for Volunteer Field at 645

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South Oakland has defeated the Hurricanes 1-0 twice this season.

I don’t think either team had all their starters for those two games. Certainly the last game of the year wasn’t a good gage of either team.

Whatever problems the Canes have with the league have nothing to do with us, or tonight’s game.

The Ducks will show up and play baseball.

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Correction: Tomorrow’s Game vs Hurricanes, 8pm Volunteer Field

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I got bad info on the start time.

Ducks vs. Hurricanes

8pm

Volunteer Field

BP  6pm at John Herb

We will leave for the field before 7pm

If we didn’t want the chance to beat one of the best pitchers in the league in order to advance there’d be something wrong.

I’ll reply to the comments on the previous post shortly, but in general, regardless of what kind of a job you think Joe does as commisioner, I don’t see anyone else dying to step in and take his place.

quack

Ducks Advance, Drill Oilers 15-0 in 5 Innings

2011 Ducks Baseball, Ducks win, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball

South Oakland of the North Side (1-0) defeated the Hebrew Oilers 15-0 at Woodland Hills this afternoon.

Mike Fletcher pitched (1-0) pitched four scoreless innings for the win, and Rob Baumgartel pitched a perfect 5th to preserve the shutout.

For the Ducks:

James Fago was 3 for 3

Tim Lipp had most of our RBI going 2 for 2 with a sac fly.

Mark “Captain America” Guthrie was 0 for 0 with an rbi walk, and a sac bunt.

Gwin and Berdine each doubled.

and

Jim Teyssier went 1 for 1 with 2RBI

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In other news, Cranberry nearly upset the Militia. Jeremy Barchie was the hero in that game I’m sure.

The biggest upset of the day saw the Express eleminate the Black Sox, winning 5-4.

No way does Carrick take out Barchie and the Militia in the next round.

Something was off with the Sox this season.

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In a match-up of the last two league champions, the South Oakland Ducks will face the Hurricanes Monday night 8:30 pm at John Herb Field for the right to advance to the semi’s.

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Playoffs Start Sunday July 24th

2011 Ducks Baseball, pittsburgh NABA

Ducks, be ready to play at one of the following locations and times:

We open the playoffs with the Oilers then, should we beat them, we’ll get the winner of the Hurricanes Sharks game.

NH    Sun    7/24/11    3:00 PM    5:30 PM
NP    Sun    7/24/11    12:00 PM    2:30 PM
NP    Sun    7/24/11    3:00 PM    5:30 PM
WH    Sun    7/24/11    10:00 AM    12:30 PM
WH    Sun    7/24/11    1:00 PM    3:30 PM


the bracket above is unofficial and probably hard to read.

No team has repeated as Pittsburgh NABA champs and no team has won a third title. We can do both this summer.

Quack

Ducks Take Two Over the Weekend. Clinch 3rd Seed in Playoffs

2011 Ducks Baseball, Ducks win

James Fago pitched a complete game, allowing 0 earned runs for the win over the Black Sox on Saturday night, and on Sunday, Mike Fletcher allowed 3 runs over four strong innings of work against The Express, as the Ducks swept the season series’ against both Brookline and Carrick.

It got a little hectic at the end of the Express game, but we kept our composure.

Good thing we raked, collectively. Lots of doubles.

We play the Fightin’s Monday night at 9pm, and finish with Elliot on Wednesday, 6pm at Herschal

No word on the sharks game being rescheduled. If I don’t hear from their coach its a forfeit win for us.

There could be some scenario that allows the Bulldogs to fall to second in their division, while holding a better overall record than us, but that would mean a team with a worse overall winning percentage than the Bulldogs would win the Allegheny, get the two seed, and then the Bulldogs would beat us out for the 3rd seed because of a better overall won-loss. So technically we haven’t clinched, but I have faith in those guys to beat the Oilers.

The flaw in the current playoff system is that the division standings are based only on division record, and the rest of the playoff seeding is determined by conference record.

I think it should just be overall won-loss for everything.

Give the division winners the #1 &#2 seeds based on overall record and rank teams from there. I think it’s the way it is now to compensate for the A teams or something, but eventually there won’t be any inter-conference games.

The Militia split a double header with Elliot today.

I’m ready for the playoffs to start.

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South Oakland Looks to Sweep Brookline for The First Time in team History

League Champion South Oakland Ducks

We’ve never finished the regular season with a better record than Kenny Powers and the Sox.

A win Saturday will assure that and all but clinch us the 3 seed in the end of season tournament.

Now some extended East Bound and Down highlights.

Quack.