Wed, Jun 18, 2003
 

Sixers test their metal

By JESSE HORNE
Journal staff


The Stevens Point American Legion baseball team reinvested its stock in precious metals on Tuesday night. After playing in a wooden-bat tournament in Minnesota over the weekend, the Sixers returned to using aluminum bats and romped Rothschild-Schofield-Weston 9-3 at Leo "Cub" Mancheski Field.

Stevens Point (3-3) was retired in order after three innings before the bats woke up with four singles in the top of the fourth, including a two-run base hit by Eric Schipferling off Post 492 starting pitcher Derek Olsen.

"It took us a little while to get adjusted back to our aluminum bats," Sixers coach Brad Wysocki said. "Early on, guys were ahead of the pitches and they were popping it up. But, I knew that once we started hitting, we wouldn't look back from there.

"(Olsen) was a little bit slower, but he was one of those guys that we knew we were going to hit hard off of the second time around."
Brad Heeg delivered a crushing blow for Stevens Point in the fifth inning with a two-run homer over the left-field fence.

Brandon Ganoni fanned six RSW batters, walked four and went the distance for the Sixers' victory.

"He had a couple rough innings and got behind guys," Wysocki said. "He has to throw more first-pitch strikes to be more effective, but he is coming around and will be just fine."
Each of the Sixers' three losses have been by a single run. Wysocki said the team is beginning to come together and mesh the way he had hoped.

"We had a good chance this weekend in Minnesota to get reacquainted and get on the same page," he said. "We now know where we need to be and how to tackle this season."
The Sixers travel to Oshkosh today before returning to Bukolt Park to host Plover on Thursday.


Stevens Point 9, RSW 3
RSW 002 000 1 - 3 7 2
Stevens Point 000 432 x - 9 10 0
Leading hitters: RSW - Brown 2x4; SP - Domaszek 2x3, Printz 2x4, Carter 2x3. 2B: RSW - Muraski; SP - Carter. HR: SP - Heeg.

IP H R BB SO
RSW
Derek Olsen 4.2 7 7 1 0
Joel Pergolski 1.3 3 2 0 1
Stevens Point
Brandon Ganoni 7 7 3 4 6

Article courtesy of the Stevens Point Journal www.stevenspointjournal.com

 

RSW at Sixers
Score By Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
RSW 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 7 2
Sixers 0 0 0 4 3 2 0 9 11 0

Sixers 9, RSW 3
SixersRSW
 abrhbi abrhbi
Nate Domaszek cf 4 3 2 0 Brown, Andy cf 4 1 2 2
Ryan Blomlie 3b 3 0 1 2 Witter, Matt 1b 4 0 2 0
Randy Printz c 4 2 2 1 Nohelty, Matt rf 3 0 0 1
Brad Heeg 2b 3 2 1 2 Plisch, Ryan 3b 4 0 0 0
Eric Schipferling ss 3 1 2 2 Matonich, Mike dh 3 0 0 0
Donny Carter dh 3 0 2 1 Wodalski, Mike lf 2 0 1 0
Justin Pezewski rf 3 0 0 0 Rutta, Chris ss 3 0 1 0
Kyle Lepak 1b 3 1 1 1 Zeihen, Zach 2b 1 2 1 0
Charlie Staszek lf 2 0 0 0 Rhode, Mike c 2 0 0 0
(b6) Nick Pratt ph 1 0 0 0 Olsen, Derek p 0 0 0 0
Brandon Ganoni p 0 0 0 0 Zblewski, Mitch p 0 0 0 0
TEAM TOTALS 29 9 11 9 TEAM TOTALS 26 3 7 3

E: Plisch, Ryan, Rutta, Chris. LOB: Sixers 5, RSW 7. 2B: Eric Schipferling, Donny
Carter, Witter, Matt. HR: Brad Heeg. SB: Nate Domaszek(3), Randy Printz. CS: Nohelty,
Matt. SB: Ryan Blomlie, Rhode, Mike.

Sixers IP H R ER BB SO
Brandon Ganoni W 7.00 7 3 3 4 6
RSW            
Olsen, Derek L 4.00 8 7 6 1 0
Zblewski, Mitch 1.33 3 2 2 0 1

WP: Brandon Ganoni.
RSW - Top of the 1st:
Brown, Andy lined out.
Witter, Matt struck out looking.
Nohelty, Matt walked, caught trying to steal 2nd.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Sixers03 - Bottom of the 1st:
Nate Domaszek flied out foul.
Ryan Blomlie grounded out.
Randy Printz flied out.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
RSW - Top of the 2nd:
Plisch, Ryan struck out looking.
Matonich, Mike struck out swinging.
Wodalski, Mike walked.
Rutta, Chris flied out foul.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Sixers03 - Bottom of the 2nd:
Brad Heeg flied out.
Eric Schipferling flied out.
Donny Carter grounded out.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
RSW - Top of the 3rd:
Zeihen, Zach walked, batted forward to home.
Rhode, Mike sacrifice bunted.
Brown, Andy singled, batted forward to home, 1 RBI.
Witter, Matt singled, advanced on FC to 2nd, batted forward to 3rd.
Nohelty, Matt grounded out, 1 RBI.
Plisch, Ryan grounded out.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Sixers03 - Bottom of the 3rd:
Justin Pezewski grounded out.
Kyle Lepak grounded out.
Charlie Staszek grounded out.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
RSW - Top of the 4th:
Matonich, Mike grounded out.
Wodalski, Mike struck out swinging.
Rutta, Chris singled, walked forward to 2nd.
Zeihen, Zach walked.
Rhode, Mike grounded out.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Sixers03 - Bottom of the 4th:
Nate Domaszek singled, stole 2nd, batted forward to home.
Ryan Blomlie flied out.
Randy Printz singled, walked forward to 2nd, batted forward to home.
Brad Heeg walked, batted forward to home.
Eric Schipferling singled, batted forward to home, 2 RBI.
Donny Carter singled, advanced to 2nd on error, batted forward to 3rd, 1 RBI.
Justin Pezewski reached on fielder's choice, forced out at 2nd.
Kyle Lepak reached on fielder's choice, 1 RBI.
Charlie Staszek flied out foul.
4 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
RSW - Top of the 5th:
Brown, Andy flied out foul.
Witter, Matt struck out looking.
Nohelty, Matt flied out.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Sixers03 - Bottom of the 5th:
Nate Domaszek reached on error, stole 2nd, batted forward to home.
Ryan Blomlie sacrifice bunted.
Randy Printz singled, stole 2nd, batted forward to home, 1 RBI.
Brad Heeg hit 2-run home run, 2 RBI.
Eric Schipferling doubled, batted forward to 3rd.
Donny Carter doubled.
Justin Pezewski grounded out.
3 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
RSW - Top of the 6th:
Plisch, Ryan grounded out.
Matonich, Mike grounded out.
Wodalski, Mike singled.
Rutta, Chris flied out foul.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Sixers03 - Bottom of the 6th:
Kyle Lepak singled, batted forward to home.
Nick Pratt struck out looking.
Nate Domaszek singled, stole 2nd, batted forward to home.
Ryan Blomlie singled, batted forward to 2nd, 2 RBI.
Randy Printz flied out.
Brad Heeg flied out foul.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
RSW - Top of the 7th:
Zeihen, Zach singled, advanced to 2nd on wild pitch, batted forward to home.
Rhode, Mike struck out swinging.
Brown, Andy singled, batted forward to 3rd, tagged out going to home, 1 RBI.
Witter, Matt doubled, batted forward to 3rd.
Nohelty, Matt reached on fielder's choice.
Plisch, Ryan flied out.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.

This file was created with Fixed It! Baseball ScoreBook on 6/17/2003 at 23:13:38