Bay City Independents

June 19, 2010

Bay City vs. Kent B.B.C.

Carroll Park, Bay City, MI

Bay City 15, Kent 3

It was a beautiful day in the city by the bay, when the Kent wagon train arrived.  No sooner had they unpacked, then the umpire for the day, Dishonorable Dan Decuf, called the captains for the Kents and Independents together for the coin toss.  The Kents won the toss, and chose to take the field allowing the Bay Citys to take to striking, and strike they did.  The Independents sent 7 strikers to the dish in their first innings, and tallied three aces for themselves.  The Kents would answer with one run in their portion of the first innings, and at the close it was Bay City 3 and Kent 1.

Both clubs would trade some whitewash in the second innings, and the score remained unchanged until Ray “The Banker” Banister blasted a howitzer to the long field that allowed him to easily make his second.  Banister was followed in the order by Fred “Twinkle-Toes” Brissette who promptly smashed a drive deep to the second sacker for  the Kents who promptly over threw the first base tender, which allowed Brissette to make his second and Banister to tally his ace.  Brissette would be moved over to third by a fine daisy-cutter to the long field by Adam “Little Train” Johnson, and would later score after a dribbler by the club Captain Jayme Johnson was put away by the first sacker without assistance.  The Kents would also tally two more aces of their own by rallying after losing their first two hands of the innings, and after 3 complete innings the score would stand at Bay City 5 and Kent 3.

The Independents exploded for four runs in the fourth innings when three successive singles by Al “Kid” Garcia, Justin “Doc” Garcia, and Jason “Buttons” McInerney were followed by a colossal blast to the garden by Brian “Butterfly” Beceril that cleared the bases and allowed the lepidopteron to make his third.  Beceril would later tally on a nicely placed liner by Brandon “The Rope” Revette.  The Bay City defense would skunk the Kents in their fourth innings and the score would now stand at Bay City 9 and Kent 3.

Fine defensive plays dominated the the rest of the contest with Bay City whitewashing the mighty Kents for the remainder of the match, while the Bay Citys would add another run in the seventh innings, and after another Beceril triple the Independents would push across five more aces in the eighth innings.  The closing of the ledger saw Bay City walk away with the trophy ball with a tally of 15 runs to 3 for the Kents.