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y-Cougars

17

4

-

.810

x-Bums

14

7

3.0 .667

Irish

2

12

11.5 .143

Sea Bass

2

12

11.5 .143


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Cougars Walk Off With a Win

     For the first time in the 2006 regular season, the arch rivals Colehamer Cougars and Poestenkill Bums faced off.  The Cougars were in search of their 40th win in franchise history, and the Bums had their eyes on a half game lead in their division.  An important game it was, and also one where you wish nobody had to lose.  Today set history.  The first walk-off home run in wiffleball history, and the farthest home run was also hit today, as well as the first triple play...one player accomplished all this.  If you missed it, well, shame on you.

    Scott Fitzpatrick took the hill for Colehamer, and Fischer for the Bums.  Early, the Bums jumped ahead on an RBI single into the gap which brought home two runs in the first.  The Cougars came to the plate flat.  Three up, three down in the first.  Again, the Bums tried to pile on the lead.  After scoring another run in the top half of the second, Mike Triscari took his first hacks of the game for Colehamer.  The first pitch, he took over the centerfield wall and across the street.  It was measured at exactly 150 feet, 4 inches, longest in wiffleball history.  An absolute rocket started the Cougars offense for the game.  Poestenkill knocked in one more in the third and after a routine bottom half, went silently in the top of the fourth.  With the score 4-1, Connor Dowd drew a walk and Scott Fitzpatrick followed with a base hit leaving the tying run at the plate.  The Cougar faithful watched intently as slugger Mike Triscari stepped into the batters box.  Fischer served up a good pitch on the inside corner that Triscari just ate for lunch.  The ball was crushed into the upper deck and the game was tied, just like that.  As Scott Fitzpatrick got into his groove, the Bums failed to score in the fifth.  After a few errors, Triscari drove home yet another RBI and the Cougars now led the contest 5-4 after five.  Fitzpatrick once again mowed down the Bums lineup and got them out of the sixth unscathed.  Fischer got back on his game though, preventing any further damage in the bottom half, as we headed into the final three frames of the ballgame with the score at 5-4. 

     In the seventh, the Bums finally got to Fitzpatrick and brought home the go ahead run on a rally put together by Poestenkill.  The Cougars went down without much of a fight in the seventh, and got out of the top of the eighth without any further runs scored for the PoeBums.  The Cougars then had a runner on first and were five outs away from defeat.  Then, the ghosts came out, as they have many times for the hometown Cougars.  A rally was strung together, and after an RBI single for Connor Dowd, the game was tied in the ninth inning.  Could this be the first extra inning game in the history of wiffleball? 

     The only certain thing was that someone was going to leave this game a hero.  But who?  Nick Haggerty led off with a single.  Followed by a Nick Hendrickson infield base hit.  No outs, runners on first and second.  They were sure to score.  Next came the most amazing and clutch play in Cougars history that succeeded in getting the Cougars out of the inning without any runs scored.  A line drive, falling fast, was hit to the gap between second and third. Mike Triscari snagged it as a shoestring catch and recorded the first out.  Both runners ran on contact, assuming it would fall in, and Triscari tagged second and fired to first.  Nick Hendrickson scrambled to return to the base, but was not in time to beat the throw.  The first triple play ever recorded was by Mike Triscari.  He led off that next inning and a new spark was in the Cougar dugout.  The first pitch he saw was a blast that ended the game.  Yes that's right, can you say walk-off.  The first walk-off home run in the history of the GKWL, the first triple play in the history of the GKWL, and the longest home run in GKWL history, all accomplished in nine innings by one player.  The first thing that comes to my mind is Hall of Fame.

    A day for the ages was the game that was played today.  Unbelievable.  Scott Fitzpatrick pitched a complete game giving up six runs and striking out seven.  Good job.  Congrats to the Bums for putting up a heck of a fight to stay in that game.  Matt Fischer was outstanding on the hill and the Bums had 17 total hits but managed only 6 runs in a thriller at Triscari Field.