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Emo’s Turns the Lights Off on KOOP

Monday, July 27th, 2009

What started off as a practical joke nearly cost Emo’s the game, as one fan from the stands thought it would be funny to turn off the lights to the field. However, a half hour and $40 later, the lights were back on and so was KOOP (2-6) vs. Emo’s (3-4), in what will surely be remembered as an Alternative Softball League classic. KOOP Radio, leading for eight innings by as much as 8 runs, is up to bat in the top of the ninth, leading 12-11. After a post-game rundown by statistical genius and Wheatsville SKU captain Mike Crissey, his interview with Emo’s pitcher, Jason Sabala, and third-basewoman Erin Pennington, suffers the same fate that the game nearly did.

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KOOP Radio Breaks Off SXSW

Monday, July 20th, 2009

After an unfortunate forfeit their previous game, KOOP Radio (2-6) recruits some new players and comes out swinging against South by Southwest (3-6), winning 17-10. BookPeople captain Mandy Brooks and I speak with KOOP left-fielder Long Le after the game.

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C3 Presents the ‘Chronicle’ With a Tough Loss

Friday, July 17th, 2009

History repeats itself as league leaders C3 Presents (7-1) prevail in a tough defensive matchup against the Chronicle (6-3), winning 9-6, just as they did in their previous game against BookPeople. BP captain Mandy Brooks catches up with Chronicle team leader Mike Bartnett afterward for some post-game reflection.

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Filthy Animals Take Waterloo Records for a Spin

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

After a four-game losing streak, the BookPeople Filthy Animals are back in the win column, rejuvenated by the return of shortstop Jamie Reaves, who suffered an ankle injury earlier in the season, and first basewoman Jennifer Morris, who had been working abroad. BookPeople (3-6) authoritatively put down the South Division’s Waterloo Records (6-3), 20-9, and we were there for post-game commentary with an all-star BookPeople cast: captain Mandy Brooks and third baseman Bryan Sansone.

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Donkeys Kick BookPeople in the Teeth

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

On Friday, July 26, the Brentwood Donkeys entered their matchup with the BookPeople Filthy Animals sporting a dismal 0-6 record. BookPeople was struggling as well, having won only two games out of the six they have played after competing for the 2008 ASL championship, where they fell short to The Austin Chronicle. What transpired Friday night – a stunning 23-22 BW walk-off victory – would seem impossible to some of the league’s faithful. But we have footage to prove it. Enjoy this video shot by Mike Bartnett of the historic ninth inning …

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C3 Presents Beats Brentwood Donkeys, Wheatsville

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

C3 Presents' Michael Feferman steps into the box (Photo by Logan Youree)

As much as many of us Alternative Softball Leaguers would like to lay claim to being the most sandlot, I think these guys own it.

The Brentwood Donkeys.

During one of their recent games, I noticed they had one bat and one ball. They may have also had a gloveless player or two.

I can almost hear them during practice (if they do).

“Nice hit, Hartstein, now we can’t play anymore.”
“Don’t blame me. I’m outta here.”
“What do we do now?”
“Where’s the beer?”
“Hartstein had it.”
“It’s five dollars for another ball.”
“That’s almost a six-pack.”

The Brentwood Donkeys stayed with C3 Presents for half the game, teetering on the verge of their comeuppance, but couldn’t stop the Presenters. They lost 18-5 on May 13.

Tied at 4 in the top of the fifth, C3 Presents surged ahead with 14 runs on 20 hits, while holding Brentwood to one run one four hits in the final four innings.

C3's Steven "Headhunter" Chandler (Photo by Logan Youree)

C3 Presents struck first with a sacrifice fly by Charles Attal to drive in lead-off batter Steven Chandler (3-for-4) who reached on one of his two doubles of the game.

Brentwood took the lead with 3 runs in the second inning. David Hartstein led off the inning with a single. Jonny Mars (3-for-4, 2 2B) and Chris Olsen (2-for-4, 2 2B, 2 RBI) then had back-to-back doubles for a 2-1 Donkeys lead.

After the first out of the inning, Brian Pope (3-for-5, 2B, RBI) doubled to drive in Olsen.

C3 Present took a 4-3 lead in the fourth inning with Attal’s two-out single, a single by Bryce Fegley (3-for-4, 2 2B, 3 RBI) and Aly Ehlinger’s double to drive in Charles Attal. Zach Bruce then hit a double to drive in Bryce Fegley and Aly Ehlinger.

Brentwood tied the game in the top of the fifth with back-to-back two-out singles by Geoff Frost and Paul Gordon and a double by Mike Kriegshauser.

C3 Presents broke away with six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Five days later it was déjà vu all over again.

Wheatsville and I met C3 Presents at the Krieg Softball Complex on May 18, hoping to cling to the top of the North division and give the South a divisional leader.

We didn’t want to do it this way.

We stayed with the Presenters, playing to a 5-all game at the midpoint but couldn’t stop C3 after that. C3 Presents won 13-5.

'Chronicle' Sports blogger Mike Crissey sets a bad example for the kids (Photo by Bob Kinney)

They held us to 12 hits and handed us our second straight loss. Winless Brentwood managed 17 against them.

We took a 2-0 lead by the top of the second inning on Kevin “Dr. Krankenstein” Johnson’s double in the first to drive in Nate Lineback and a single by Trae Branham (2-for-3, 3 RBI) in the second to drive in Jimmy Evans, who reached with a triple.

C3 Presents took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the inning on singles by Aly Ehlinger, Laura Hundley Ritts, Michael Feferman, and Andrew Blank.

We tied it up in the third on Beth Beutel’s groundout to the pitcher, which allowed Bruce Cloud to score.

C3 Presents took a 5-3 lead with a single by Quinn Donahue in the third inning and a single by either Michael Feferman or Caroline in the fourth.

Trae Branham had a 2-run homer in the top of the fifth inning to tie the game and give Wheatsville our last runs of the game.

C3 Presents sealed the gamed with four runs on five hits in the bottom of the fifth. Jeff Lawson, Brad Kaye , and Steven Chandler all singled for the go-ahead run.

After the first out, Houston Powell hit a double to drive in Kaye and Chandler, and Fegley singled for a 9-5 C3 lead.

Chandler and Quinn Donahue both batted 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. And Hundley Ritts and Feferman each batted 4-for-4 with 2 runs scored.

-Mike Crissey

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Keeping Softball Alternative

Friday, June 5th, 2009

KOOP's David Pernell (Photo by Logan Youree)

We have served the dark will of cooperation for three decades. Skin as pale as soy milk in the moonlight … eyes blood-shot … showerless. The personal guard to Ronnie Earle’s refrigerator; the food-fighting elite. The deadliest softball force along all of Guadalupe … the Wheatsville SKUs.Wheatsville marched through the Alternative Softball League’s northern division, defeating South by Southwest, BookPeople, and the 2008 Champions, The Austin Chronicle, on our way to a 4-0 record.All that stood in our way of divisional domination was KOOP Radio.

The odds seemed stacked against KOOP. They were outnumbered. We had four women to their two (hobbling them with an automatic out). Our bleachers groaned under a screaming sea of green-clad berserkers; theirs were empty.

We had won four games in a row, KOOP had dropped two.

A KOOP player prepares to smash it (Photo by Logan Youree)

But KOOP fought hard and rallied for 3 runs in the eighth inning to beat us 21-19 and grab their first win of the season on May 4.Trailing 18-19 in the top of the eighth, Peter “Iceman” Heck (5-for-6, 4 runs, 2 2B, 2 RBIs) led off with his second double of the game and David Youmans hit him to third with a single.

After a line drive fly-out, David Pernell (3-for-5, 3 RBIs 2B, HR) hit a double off an outfielder’s glove to drive in the tying run. Ben Barthy followed him with another double for the game-winners.

KOOP held us to two hits in the final two frames to seal the game.

Wheatsville struck early, building a 7-1 lead in the second inning, but it was the largest lead of the game. KOOP Radio cut our lead to 7-6 in the third inning, setting up a seesaw battle where neither side led by more than two runs.

Trailing 10-12 in the fifth inning, KOOP surged ahead, scoring eight runs on nine hits, including doubles by Peter Heck, David Youmans, Long Le and David Pernell.

We chipped away at KOOP’s lead with four runs in the fifth and tied the game in the sixth before Kevin “Dr. Krankenstein” Johnson gave us a 19-18 lead with a two-out triple in the seventh inning.

Kevin Johnson batted 4-for-4 with a double and a triple and drove in three runs, while Carla “Rasquacha” Vargas and Miranda “MC2Tall” Robinson each went 3-for-4 and drove in three runs for Wheatsville.

Will Evans from Emo's Alternative Lounge (Photo by Logan Youree)

Meanwhile, The Austin Chronicle combined stingy defense and a late-game offensive burst to beat Emo’s Lounge 10-8 the same night.

The Chronicle had the lead for most of the game until Emo’s took a 6-5 lead in the seventh inning.

The unlucky Loungers looked like they may get their first win, but the Chronicle powered ahead with five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take the lead for good.

Jeff Schlamb batted 3-for-4 with three doubles and three runs scored, and Kevin C. and Bill Corsello homered for Emo’s Lounge.

Michael King went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, a gentle reminder from one of the league’s founding graybeards that softball is not actually a youngster’s sport. Billy Jenkins batted 4-for-4 with a couple more RBIs and Jeff Carlyon batted 4-for-5 for the Chronicle.

New Bro's Rye Rye (l) and Twistworthy (Photo by Logan Youree)

Some of us had been waiting for this game since last season, since the Muntiny on Red River when Joe “Johio” Holzheimer left Emo’s Lounge for Transmission Entertainment and took some of the Loungers best players with him.

New Bro's Brian C. (Photo by Logan Youree)

Johio, a 2008 ASL All-Star, took a bounty with him: fellow 2008 All-Star and teammate Brian Campbell and workhorse pitcher Mark Twistworthy. He also scooped up All-Star Eric “the Swede” Seaholm from Waterloo Records. Some of the most able company of the ASL.

Johio seemed to be sitting pretty under the Tahitian-like sun in New Brohemia with his new crew of Nihilist Fucking Eagles.

Guilty Dave with Sabala in the background (Photo by Logan Youree)

Meanwhile, Guilty Dave and the remaining Lounge loyalists left last season determined to rebuild, “notwithstanding [their] miserable and almost hopeless situation” (as Captain William Bligh may have described it).

But neither squad had found safe haven this season. The Nihilist Eagles lost their first three games before beating the winless Brentwood Donkeys 15-5 in the Alternative Animal Cage Fight.

Emo’s Lounge was also winless with a 1-run loss to Waterloo Records, and a 2-run loss to The Austin Chronicle.

Both teams were hungry. Both teams were determined. Only one could win.

Eric “the Swede” Seaholm homered – and tripped over his own feet on the base paths – twice and Johio channeled Kirk Gibson and had a hobbling 3-run homer as New Brohemia beat Emo’s Lounge, 13-7, on May 11.

Emo’s had a 4-2 lead in the top of the fifth when Johio (2-for-3, 2B) smacked a deep line drive over the left center fielder’s head with two runners on. Despite a creaky knee, Johio limped his way around the diamond before the ball reached home.

To Johio’s credit, he did invoke Kirk Gibson before the game in some e-mails among team captains. Gibson is most well-known for hitting the game-winning pinch-hit home run in his only at bat during the 1988 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics with a stomach virus and two bum legs.

The Dodgers won Game 1 5-4 on Gibson’s two-out, two-run homer in the ninth, on their way to win the World Series, 4-1.

Butcher Bear entertains the crowd (Photo by Logan Youree)

Johio was also cheered on by Butcher Bear, a roughly 6-foot tall baby blue plushy monster with a gaping maw full of sharpened felt teeth that allegedly can play a musical instrument or sing. He’s in a band named for him, Butcher Bear & Charlie. To get that kind of billing, you gotta be good, right?

Paul Somebody had a two-run homer in the sixth inning for Emo’s to tie the game at 6.

Eric “the Swede” Seaholm (3-for-4, 2 HR, 5 RBI) had a solo homer to spark New Brohemia’s 3-run seventh inning, which sealed the game, and hit a 3-run home run in the ninth.

Johio batted 2-for-3 with a double and five RBIs, while Brian Campbell batted 3-for-4 and added two RBIs for New Brohemia (2-3, 2-2).

Kevin C led Emo’s hitters, going 4-for-4 at the plate.

“Don’t fuck with David Pernell.”

That’s BookPeople manager Jeff Rose’s summary of a record-smashing slugfest between the Filthy Animal’s and KOOP Radio on May 12.

With steady 10-mph winds and gusts as high as 21 mph at their backs, BookPeople and KOOP Radio combined for and ASL record 11 home runs and a record 60 runs scored. Maybe 18 doubles in a game is a record, maybe 36 extra-base hits is too.

BookPeople won the game 37-23. They never trailed. They now own the record for most runs scored.

But David Pernell hit a record four home runs, most of them off of Jeff Rose’s body. (David Parnell coincidentally had the only over-the-fence home run last season against BookPeople.) He also batted 5-for-5 with a triple for good measure and 7 RBIs.

His legend grows. “Don’t fuck with David Pernell.”

BookPerson Jennifer Morris sparked the barrage with her first career homer, a 3-run shot to right field, four batters into the first inning. She also batted 4-for-5 – just a little something to remember her by before she left town for Africa.

Three batters later, Jamie Reeves hit another 3-run home run. Jamie Reeves (4-for-5, 2 2B, 2 HR, 6 RBI) added another 3-run homer as part of BookPeople’s 9-run fourth inning.

Jeff Rose (4-for-5 had a 2-run homer in the fourth inning and Patrick “Your Mom …” Lloyd had a 2-run homer in the eighth inning.

BookPeople's Tacocat (l) and Sally Brooks are all smiles (Photo by Logan Youree)

Sally Brooks was flawless at the plate, batting 5-for-5 with a double and an RBI for BookPeople.

Ben Barthy(?) batted 5-for-5 and hit for the cycle with a 3-run homer in the fourth for KOOP (1-3, 1-3 North). Rick hit a 2-run home run in the third.

-Mike Crissey

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SXSW Softball Squad Shuts Down ‘Chronicle’

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Your devoted ASL blogger and Wheatsville Captain Mike Crissey with the 'Chronicle's Mike Bartnett behind him (Photo by Logan Youree)

“Pitchers never get any credit,” according to South by Southwest pitcher Charlie “Spinderfella” Sotelo.

I want to believe him, but how much do the other nine beer-fueled ballplayers on the field play a role?

He made a pretty strong case for all the underhanders in the Alternative Softball League by holding the The Austin Chronicle to one run on 10 hits as South by Southwest (2-3, 1-3 North) cruised to an 11-1 win on April 30.

Sotelo accounted for nine outs, including two strikeouts, and lured his former team into hitting nine pop-ups. The Chronicle batted for a season-low .290 average with two extra base hits.

In three games so far this season, they had batted for a .520 average with 26 extra base hits, including four homers.

South by Southwest also showed some stout defense. In the third inning, first baseman Matt Mandrella snagged a line drive by Samantha Jenkins and tagged out Shannon Stott who had left the bag.

Meanwhile, South by Southwest scored eight runs in the first two innings and built an 11-0 lead by the sixth with blistering shots on the edges of the field and Texas leaguers.

It was a different ballgame after The Chronicle (2-2, 2-2) settled down defensively. After the third inning, they held South by Southwest to a manageable three runs on 11 hits.

The Chronicle averted a shutout in the eighth inning with a little love and marriage. With two outs, Billy Jenkins singled and then Stott singled him to third. Samantha followed with a single to drive in her husband.  Wyc Coming batted 4-for-5 with a triple and two RBIs for South by Southwest, enough to excuse getting caught in a rundown between second and third base in the fourth inning.

Darin Klein drove in three runs, going 2-for-4 with a triple, and Matt Mandrella added a pair of runs, batting 3-for-3 with a double.

Only Billy Jenkins and Shannon Stott could withstand Charlie Sotelo’s spin doctoring. They each batted 2-for-3.

So far this season, Charlie Sotelo has pitched for an 11.2 ERA in five games, slightly behind Wheatsville’s southpaw Trae Branham with a 10.0 ERA in three games and Dirk Stahlnecker from C3 Presents, who has an 8.75 ERA in four games.

Meanwhile, the Nihilist Fucking Eagles of New Brohemia emerged victorious from the Alternative Animal Cage Match, beating the still winless Brentwood Donkeys 15-5 on April 30.

Trailing 3-1 in the fifth inning, the Nihilist Fucking Eagles (1-3, 1-2 South) strung together four hits and a sacrifice fly to take the lead for good.

Jug Hedd, Joe Holzheimer, and Jim “White Van” Turner, each had singles to load the bases. Rye Bredd hit a sacrifice fly and Brian Campbell had one of his two triples of the game to drive in the go-ahead runs.

New Brohemia piled on three runs in the sixth and four runs in the seventh and eighth innings, while holding the Donkeys to five hits in the last four innings.

The Brentwood Donkeys (0-3, 0-2) took their only lead of the game with a sacrifice fly by Martin in the second inning; and ”Darth” Mader’s solo homer and Hartstein’s run-scoring single in the third.

The Donkeys got a close as 5-7 in the sixth inning on “Darth” Mader’s triple and ”Captain” Gordon’s single, which each drove in a run.

Jug Hedd batted 4-for-4 with an RBI for New Brohemia, while Rye Bredd (1-for-3, 2B), Brian Campbell (2-for-4, 2 3B), and M.T. Elliott (2-for-3, 3B) drove in three runs each.

“Darth” Mader (3-for-4) batted a single short of the cycle with a homer in the fourth, a triple in the sixth and a double in the ninth inning and drove in two runs for Brentwood.

You can keep up with all the games, trash talk, and your favorite teams and players through the league’s MySpace page at www.myspace.com/alternativesoftballleague.

Follow the ASL on Twitter at www.twitter.com/altsoftball.

-Mike Crissey

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Outwit. Outplay. Oulast.

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Wheatsville's Trae Branham

Kevin “Dr. Krankenstein” Johnson legged out a 2-run homer in the eighth inning to lift undefeated Wheatsville Food Co-op to an 11-9 win over South by Southwest during a nail-biter on Thursday, April 23.

His in-the-park home run to right field, capped a 4-run, 2-out rally as the unsinkable SKUs (4-0, 3-0 ASL North) and I had our second straight come from behind victory.

South By Southwest (1-3, 0-3 North) scored eight runs in the first four innings and stayed ahead for the entire game until their undoing in the eighth inning, although they never led by more than three runs.

We held them to one run from the fourth to the eighth innings, but South by Southwest’s stingy defense – forged in a city-league season and featuring Charlie “Spinderfella” Sotelo on the mound – looked like they could hold us off. My teammate Clifford Bagley led off the inning with a single, but the next two batters struck out and popped up to second base.

Greg Hull then hit a double to cut the lead to one run and Nate Lineback had a triple to drive in the tying run before Kevin Johnson’s homer gave us the lead.

South By Southwest threatened to score in the ninth inning after loading the bases with three singles, but Wheatsville pitcher Trae Branham had an unassisted double play to end the threat.

Cassie Wright hit a fungo along the third baseline, which Trae Branham caught and then tagged out George Majewski who was running for home. A popup ended the game.

Nate Lineback led Wheatsville batters, going 4-for-4 with two triples and four RBIs, while Kevin Johnson batted 2-for-3 with a sacrifice fly, a homer and three RBIs. Trae Branham went 2-for-3 with a double, triple and two RBIs.

South by Southwest leadoff hitter Wyc Comming went 3-for-4, including a 3-run homer in the third inning. Matt Mandrella batted 3-for-4 with a 2-run triple in the first inning.

Wheatsville also won a squeaker 14-10 against BookPeople (1-2, 1-2 North) with a six-run two-out rally in the ninth inning on Sunday, April 19.

You can keep up with all the games, trash talk, and your favorite teams and players through the league’s MySpace page at www.myspace.com/alternativesoftballleague.

Follow the ASL on Twitter at www.twitter.com/altsoftball.

-Mike Crissey

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Wheatsville Bags BookPeople

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

BookPeople's Jeff "Tacocat" Freeman (Photo by Bob Kinney)

“I still love you, but I’m not in love with you.”

Those little 11 words strung together are as powerful as a slap in the face, a sucker punch, a stab in the heart. They can inspire all kinds of emotions from fragility to ferocity, from confusion to clarity, from revulsion to relief.

The Wheatsville Food Co-op and BookPeople softball game on Sunday lived up to its verbose title – The “I Still Love You but I’m Not in Love With You” Classic – with all the drama of two ex-somethings running into each other at the bar they both agreed was off-limits.

The scrappy Wheatsville SKUs (3-0) and I had a six-run, two-out rally in the ninth inning as part of a late-game offensive burst to beat our divisional frenemies 14-10 on a soggy – and for me, well-soused – Sunday morning.

More than a few BookPersons grew mustaches in my honor. I wore my BookPeople blue jersey (No. 57) from the “So Long Shawn Badgley Classic” of the former Unofficial Shadow League of Local Businesses.

Maybe we should have gone for bon mot: “Look What You’re Missin’, Mister!” Classic.

I tried to drown my sorrows with a shot of bourbon before every at bat and appear confident with my new team, hoping BookPeople (1-2) wouldn’t catch me staring into their dugout from time to time. (The Jeffs, sigh. The Brookses, swoon.)

I almost felt like I was cheating on People of Book. I was an orphan in the inaugural season of the Alternative Softball League because I couldn’t get a team together. The Filthy Animals took me in and raised me as their own.

Undaunted by two days of torrential rain, we finally played a game this year after two preseason rain outs.

Wheatsville enjoyed a brief lead in the third inning, but trailed for most of the game until we got the lead for good in the ninth.

Leading 10-8, BookPeople allowed a couple singles but also got two quick pop-ups and seemed to have the game in hand.

Wheatsville pitcher Trae Branham (4-for-4, 2 3B, 4 RBI) had his second triple of the game to drive in the tying runs, and catcher Beth Beutel (1-for-3, 2 RBI) drove him in with a single for the go-ahead run.

We scored three more runs with four consecutive singles for a comfortable 14-10 cushion. It was Wheatsville’s second comeback of the game.

Maybe my former teammates took pity on my new team and me, but we had twice as many hits (15) and almost four times as many runs (11) in the last four innings than in the first five (7 hits for 3 runs).

After BookPeople jumped to a 6-3 lead, Kevin “Dr. Krankenstein” Johnson had a three-run homer in the sixth inning to tie the game.

Trae Branham drove in a run with his first triple and scored on Beth Beutel’s sacrifice fly in the seventh for a two-run Wheatsville lead.

BookPeople took the lead again in the bottom of the inning with Brett Holomew hitting a triple with one out and coming home on a single by Jamie Reeves (2-for-3, 2 RBIs). Bryan Sansone knocked in Jamie with a double and Jim Brooks followed up with a 2-run homer for a 10-8 Filthy Animals’ lead.

Sansone went 2-for-2 with a double, a triple, a sacrifice fly and 3 RBIs, while Jim Brooks went 3-for-3 and also drove in three runs.

Alex had a great alternative homer-killing over-the-shoulder catch on Nate Lineback’s line drive to left field to keep the game scoreless in the eighth inning.

South By Southwest (1-2) will try to stop Wheatsville’s win streak in a game scheduled for Thursday, April 23, at 8pm on Krieg No. 10.

Meanwhile, Mike ‘the Monster” Bartnett homered twice and drove in six runs as The Austin Chronicle easily handled winless KOOP Radio 16-4 on Sunday night.

Bartnett had a two-run homer in the fifth and a three-run homer in the seventh to give the Chronicle (2-1) the only runs they would need to win the game.

Shawn “Goggles” Badgley went 4-for-5 with four doubles and four RBIs in his debut this season after he missed the Chronicle’s first two games politicking for a mayoral candidate. Travis Rinehart (3-for-5, 2B, RBI) also homered for the Chronicle.

KOOP Radio (0-2) struggled offensively, batting .371 as a team and suffering from an automatic out for being one woman short. They managed only 13 hits against the 2008 ASL Champions.

KOOP kept it close through the first six innings – they trailed 4-7 after the sixth frame – before the Chronicle pulled away with a 7-run seventh inning, highlighted by Bartnett’s three-run shot and Travis Rinehart hitting a solo homer right after him.

Peter Heck (2-for-4) got KOOP started in the first inning with a double to drive in Jay Robillard who reached on a double of his own. In the fourth inning, David Youmans had a sacrifice fly to drive in a pair of runs. Mac EnCheeze (2-for-3) used some heads-up running in the fifth inning to score KOOP’s last run on shortstop Shawn Badgley’s bad throw to second baseman Shannon Stott.

The Chronicle has beaten KOOP Radio in each of their last three meetings dating to last season. The Chronicle held KOOP to 14 hits to win their first game 10-5 (July 13, 2008) and won the second game 9-6 (August 11, 2008).

-Mike Crissey

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