Results
from the 2001 Carl Flowers Memorial TournamentResults
from the 2001 Carl Flowers Memorial TournamentThe Antiques completed a 3-peat by beating the Sacramento Solons 14-13 in the finals.
We went into the bottom of the ninth in the championship game down by 5 runs. We engineered another improbable, come-from-behind win by scoring 3 runs on 2 hits, an error, a walk, and a hit batter to bring up Tom Squier with two on and one out. Tom turned around a 2-1 pitch from Tag Demment for a three-run, walk-off home run.
Here's Lanny Ropke, tournament director, presenting Denny the trophy.
First things first though.
We opened against the Tri-Valley Diamondbacks. They had beaten us for the championship of the Memorial Day tournament in Santa Rosa. They also beat us in the round-robin of the TriValley Tournament on the July 1 weekend. But this time we dealt them a 11-2 loss. Denny Brown started and gave up nn runs in 3 2/3 innings. Hank Bataille came in and went the final 3 1/3. Offensive highlights included ...
In the second game, we beat the Redwood Empire Indians 17-2. Ron Monks started and went 4 innings, giving up nn runs. Clyde Jones finished the final 3 innings. Offensive highlights included ...
So, we finished the first day exactly where we hoped to be: 2-0 with only minimal work for any of our pitchers.
On Sunday morning, Rich Battiato locked up with the Solon's Carl Boyer in an old-fashioned pitchers' duel. It was x-y in the 5th? inning when we brought Denny in with runners on 2nd and 3rd and nobody out. After getting one out on a popup, the Solons executed a text-book double-squeeze, scoring two runs on a squeeze bunt. By the time, the inning was over, we were down xx-yy. But we battled back to tie the game at xx-yy in the ?th.
Nobody scored in the 7th and 8th, and then we reached the time limit. So the game ended in an 8-8 tie.
On Sunday night, we struggled to beat the Greenwood Ridge Vineyard Dragons, 14-13. Zach started and after an easy first, got in trouble in the second.
Phil drew a walk to load the bases for Mingo. Mingo cracked a line drive to the wall in left center and Phil raced around the bases to score the winner and guarantee a place in the championship game.
So, to get back to the championship game...
Top row: Ron Mingo, Rich Battiato, Hank Bataille, Jesus Williams, Harold Thomasson
(behind Jesus), Sandy Speier, Phil Montes, Ron Monks, Terry Cunningham, Zach
Jones (in front of Terry), Bones Newman.
Front row: Robin South, Mike Johnson, Clyde Jones, Tom Squier (in front of Clyde),
Denny Brown, Steve LaFirenza, Ashley Jones (in front of Steve), Sal Esposito,
Gus Manning.