June 15-16

Wednesday morning in Quarryville for lunch with Jenny, at the ballpark in the evening the Barnstormers continued their series with Sugar Land. The Skeeters broke on top 2-0 in the first, in their half of the inning the Stormers evened it quickly. Travis Witherspoon walked and scored on a Caleb Gindl sacrifice fly, Kevin Ahrens singled and scored on Sean Halton's RBI triple to make it 2-2. In the fifth Ahrens went yard to put the Barnstormers ahead, the lead grew to 6-2 in the seventh on an RBI double by Gindl and a two-run single by Josh Bell. A six-spot in the eighth put the game out of reach thanks to a Mike McDade solo home run, a K.C. Hobson RBI double, a two-run single from Witherspoon and Bell's bases-loaded walk, the last run scored on a double-play. The Skeeters picked up a cosmetic run in the ninth to make the final score 12-3, starting pitcher Tanner Peters (Oakland A's system) earned the win with relief support from Pete Andrelczyk and Cory Burns. Rain moved through the area on Thursday morning and early afternoon, by mid-afternoon the radar was encouraging although it was still very overcast. At 5:30 Don and I talked it over, we decided to proceed with game #1 of the West finals at the rink. It was misting lightly at 6:00 (despite the clear radar and forecast for 0% chance of rain) but by game time at 7:00 it was gone, the game went on without incident. The Killbots won over the Misfits to take a 1-0 series lead, game #2 is set for Monday the 20th. Saw on the Internet where the Barnstormers lost the rubber game of their series on Thursday, they are back home on Thursday the 23rd. Take care, thanks for reading.