Announcement
ALL STAR GAME
18AAA All Stars-Wednesday, December 19, 2012—North 12 South 6
(Royal Palm Beach)—The South, featuring Wild West Wranglers, Tigres and Hurricanes All Star players, blitzed the North squad, headed up by a half dozen Beach Bums, joined by the Badgers and Titans, 12-0 at Seminole Palms Park. The Wrangers are now in first place, but were in second behind the Beach Bums back on December 2, the date for All Star allotments based on position in the league standings.
Four pitchers combined on a two hit shutout, but the big story on offense for the South was catcher Melvin Bruno, who had four hits, including two doubles, a sacrifice fly and three runs batted in to earn the game's Most Valuable Player award.
Steven Hibbs, Danny La Perna and Drew Davis, all from the Wranglers, posted a combined ten strikeouts, and Bruno got the final out of the game, which ended as time approached the three hour limit and lights went off just before 10PM.
Hibbs pitched a hitless three innings, fanning three. LaPerna gave up the three North hits, and fanned five in his three inning stint, and Davis also pitched no-hit ball while registering five K’s.
Starters Hibbs and Nick Renault (Beach Bums) battled through a scoreless first three innings, with Renault yielding only a first inning double by Bruno, a walk and eight strikeouts. The South, though, cracked through against Beach Bums’ manager Charles Sano, who was also hampered by a porous defense in the fourth inning when two unearned runs scored.
Bruno’s second double started the inning, but back to back errors enabled Bruno to score, and Ryan McDonald (Wranglers) also tallied on a one out fielder’s choice by LaPerna, both runs scored as unearned. The South added another in the fifth on a walk and two steals by Max Johnson of the Wranglers, who scored on Bruno’s RBI hit to left.
The South broke it wide open with four runs in the 7th and 9th innings, sandwiched around one run in the 8th. An RBI triple by Davis, followed by a Bruno RBI hit, a single by the Wranglers’ Ryan McDonald, a throwing error and an RBI double by Luis Mejia (Tigres). Bruno’s sacrifice fly in the 8th scored Chris Hanna (Hurricanes) who walked and reached third on an outfield error on a ball hit by Johnson. Hanna knocked in two more in the 9th with a single, Johnson plated another with a triple to right, and Johnson scored on a fly ball to center that was dropped for an error.
The South also pulled off an unusual triple play in the 7th inning. With two runners on, both hit by Davis’ pitches, Luis Gonzalez (Badgers) hit a comebacker to Davis, who fired to second for a routine 1-6-3 double play, but Hibbs alerted fired to third base where the Beach Bums’ Ryan Togher got caught in a rundown with Hibbs crossing the diamond to apply the tag for the third out.
Andrew Hansack (Beach Bums), Omar Hernandez (Badgers) and Dave Salley (Beach Bums) had the only hits for the North, both singles. LaPerna drove in two South runs on infield grounders. In addition to Bruno’s four hits, Johnson, Davis, McDonald, Mejia, LaPerna had one each.
LaPerna received credit for the pitching win. Sano (3IP), the second of four North hurlers, took the loss, with teammate Dave Salley (2IP) and Hernandez also appearing on a staff, depleted by the absence of four Twins’ players, including two pitchers. Two eligible Hurricanes and a White Sox’ representative also missed the game.
18AA All Stars—-Wed.,December 19, 2012
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
South 0 0 0 2 1 0 4 1 4 12 10 2
North 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
SOUTH (12) AB R H BI W K NORTH (0) AB R H BI W K
Max Johnson(Wranglers) 4 3 1 1 2 2 Dave Salley(Bums) 4 0 1 0 0 1
Drew Davis(Wranglers) 5 1 1 2 0 4 Nate Palmer(Bums) 4 0 0 0 0 2
Melvin Bruno(Tigres) 5 2 4 3 0 1 Nick Renault(Bums) 2 0 0 0 1 1
Ryan McDonald(Wranglers)6 2 1 0 0 2 Andrew Hansack(Bums) 3 0 1 0 0 0
Francis Dinzey(Tigres) 5 0 0 0 0 0 Ryan Togher(Bums) 2 0 0 0 0 1
Luis Mejia(Tigres) 3 1 1 1 1 1 Junior Reyes(Titans) 2 0 0 0 0 1
Danny LaPerna(Wranglers)3 1 1 2 2 0 Luis Gonzalez(Badgers) 3 0 0 0 0 1
Ariel Adames(Tigres) 4 0 0 0 0 1 Omar Hernandez(Badgers)2 0 1 0 1 1
Chris Hanna(Hurricanes) 4 2 1 2 1 1 Eduardo Godines(Badg.) 3 0 0 0 0 3
Steven Hibbs(Wranglers) 0 0 0 0 0 0 Charles Sano(Bums) 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 39 12 10 11 6 12 TOTALS 25 0 3 0 2 11
LEFT South 8,North 4 ERRORS-Hibbs,Bruno,Gonzalez,Palmer,Reyes,Hansack.Togher
TRIPLE PLAY-South DOUBLES-Bruno 2,Mejia TRIPLES-Davis,Johnson
SB-Johnson 3 CS-Johnson SAC.FLY-Bruno,Davis WP-LaPerna,Hernandez 2
HIT BY PITCH-Togher(by Davis), Reyres (by Davis)
SOUTH PITCHING IP H R ER BB SO NORTH PITCHING IP H R ER BB SO
Steven Hibbs 3.0 0 0 0 1 3 Nick Renault 3.0 1 0 0 1 8
Danny LaPerna (W) 3.0 3 0 0 1 5 Charles Sano (L) 3.0 3 3 1 1 1
Drew Davis 2.0 0 0 0 0 2 Dave Salley 2.0 4 5 5 2 1
Melvin Bruno 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 Omar Hernandez 1.0 2 4 3 2 2
Managers-Rob Wiley (Wranglers, South), Charles Sano (Beach Bums, North)
Umpires-Bernie Ginsburg (P), Hector Cruz(B)
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER-Melvin Bruno (Tigres, South)
Time of Game-2:57
