The Antiques made the playoffs, but lost to Vallejo in the semifinals. Final record was 2-2.
In the opener, the Antiques beat Watsonville 7-4.
Sam Modrall went 6 1/3 and Harold Thomasson got the final two outs to seal the win.
The Antiques scored two in the second to open the scoring. Zach Jones drove in Jesus Williams and Robin South with a single. Both had reached on singles of their own.
In the 3rd, Mingo's base hit drove in Danny Moore. After a walk to Harold, Jesus knocked a 3-run HR to give us a 6-0 lead.
Watsonville battled back in the 4th, putting up 4 runs. Joe Diaz helped his own cause with a two-out, two-run single to cap the 5-hit inning.
The Antiques added an insurance run in the 6th. Rod Colvard got on by getting hit, stole second, and scored on Danny Moore's two-out single.
Watsonville made it interesting in the bottom of the 7th by drawing two walks from a tiring Sam. Harold came in and got a K and a flyout to shut the door.
In the second game, Rod Colvard earned a complete-game, 13-4 win over the Dragons from Santa Rosa.
The key to the game was a 7-run third inning. Danny started the inning with a triple. After 5 more hits, a walk, and a Dragon error, Danny drove in the seventh run of the inning on another error.
In the third game of the day, we lost to Benicia 7-4.
We opened the scoring in the top of the first. Mingo drove in Tom Squier and Jesus drove in Sam. Benicia got one back in the bottom of the first and tied it with another in the 3rd. Benicia took a 4-2 lead on Corsey's two-run single in the 4th. Benicia put up 3 insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth. Big blow of the inning was Terry Cunningham's two-run double. Denny Brown relieved Harold with two out in the 6th and got the final out. The Antiques weren't done though. Tom's two-out two-run single drove in Harold and Danny. But that was the last noise we could make.
We then went to the barbecue to find out who would be the wild-card playoff team. Our 2-1 record put us in the hunt, and our low runs allowed gave us hope. Turned out there was only one other 2-1 team, San Jose, and their runs allowed was higher than ours. So we made the playoffs, joining division winners Vallejo, San Leandro, and Benicia. The draw for Sunday's playoff games was Antiques vs. Vallejo and Benicia vs. San Leandro.
The Antiques-Vallejo game was a true donneybrook. Eight times in seven innings a team lost a lead or tie, 4 times for each team.
Denny started for the Antiques and gave up no runs in the top of the first, one of only 4 scoreless half-innings in the game. In the bottom half, Phil got on via a strikeout, stole second, and scored on Mingo's single. Tom forced Mingo at second. Then, on Sam's double to left, Tom was nailed at the plate by a great relay throw from Tim Fitzpatrick.
Vallejo got two in the top of the second, highlighted by Elgin Williams' HR.
Harold tied the game back up with a leadoff HR in the bottom of the 2nd. After a walk to Robin and base hits by Zach and Gus, Rod Colvard put us ahead with a grand-slam.
Vallejo scratched for a run in the top of the third, and shut out the Antiques in the bottom.
A couple of hits, a couple of errors, a walk and a hit batter in the top of the 4th sent Denny to the showers. Jon Westmoreland put out the fire, but not until Vallejo had scored 6 to take a 9-6 lead. Unfazed, the Antiques came right back. Mingo's two-run single, followed by Tom's two-run double put us back ahead 10-9.
That didn't last long, however. Vallejo put up a 5-spot in the top of the 5th, putting them up 14-10. The Antiques got two back in the bottom half on nearly identical two-out infield choppers beaten out by Rod Colvard and Danny.
Jon shut out Vallejo in the top of the sixth (the third goose-egg of the day). In the bottom, Harold got to Cho Santos for a two-run homer to tie the game at 14-14. This was Harold's second homer of the game, if you're counting.
So after 6 innings, nothing was decided.
In the top of the 7th, Dave Biama's two-run double was the big blow. Dave then stole third and scored on an overthrow to put Vallejo up by 3, 17-14.
In the bottom, Cho Santos put up his first goose-egg of the game, getting the Antiques out 1-2-3.
That shutout inning was an omen of things to come, though. Santos followed the victory over the Antiques by pitching a complete-game shutout victory over San Leandro in the finals. Final score was 3-0. Vallejo scored its first run when Dave Biama again stole third and scored on an overthrow. A couple of innings later, Steve Azevedo popped a two-run HR. Vallejo escaped an early jam when San Leandro hit and ran into a bases-loaded triple play in the second.