Double Day Classic

Cooperstown NY, July 3-6, 2004

Prince William Roster

 Tim Nargi (MGR)
 Rick Fisher (Asst)

 Rich Abela
 Tim Acors
 Gary Fisher
 Mike Kay
 Joe Kearns
 Jack McCuen
 Kane McCuen
 Ed Pearson
 Dave Shadbar
 Rob Speck
 

 

SS
C

3B/2B
P
P
1B
LF
RF/P
IF/P
CF/P
DH
C/3B

 

271
 Results
  3 July 2002
4 July 2002
GAME 1   Oneonta  4:00 pm
 PW Yankees 12  
 Southhampton 4  
Boxscore  
  WP - Acors (1-0),  H - Lamarr P.
GAME 2  Beaver Valley  12:30 pm
 PW Yankees 3  
 Brooklyn 3  
Boxscore  
  Pearson  (cg)
 5 July 2002
   5 July 2002
GAME 3   Little Falls 9:00 am
 Mayfield 7  
 PW Yankees 8  
Boxscore  
  WP - Acors (2-0)
Semi-Final  Laurens  5:00 pm
 Mohawk Valley  2  
 PW Yankees   3  
Boxscore   
  WP - McCuen, J (1-0)
 5 July 2002
  6 July 2002
Semi-Final  

GS

 Murphys Green Sox   4    
 Middlesex Bears 

6

 
   
  
Final   Double Day  1:30 pm
 PW Yankees   14  
 Middlesex Bears  2  
Boxscore   
  WP - Acors (3-0) H -Fisher,G- McCuen K

"18 A Division Pool B"

TEAM W L T PT RA
PW Yankees (2) 2 0 1 5 14
Brooklyn Dodgers 1 1 1 3 17
Mayfield 1 2 0 2 17
Southhampton 1 2 0 2 22

"18 A Division Pool A"

TEAM W L T PT RA
Middlesex  (1) 3 0 0 6 17
Murphy's  (4) 2 1 0 4 23
Union Knights 1 2 0 2 39
Meridan A's 0 3 0 0 37

"18 A Division Pool C"

TEAM W L T PT RA
Mohawk Valley (3) 2 1 0 4 10
Medford Mustangs 1 1 1 3 20
NY Thunderdogs 1 1 1 3 25
Lancaster 1 2 0 2 21
Play-off seeding in (-)
 


Cooperstown, NY---July 6, 2004

The Prince William Yankees are the 2004 Cooperstown Doubleday Classic Champions. The Yankees downed the Middlesex Bears 14-2 to win their second Doubleday Classic title.  Gary Fisher, who was unanimously voted the Championship Game MVP, led the Yankee 17 hit attack going 3 for 4 with 5 rbi's behind a bases clearing double and a  two-run Homerun. Lead off batter, Ed Pearson, charged the Yankees going 4 for 5 and Jack McCuen and Tim Nargi also added 3 hits apiece. Tim Acors picked up the win going 5 innings allowing only 2 hits, Gary Fisher relieved for 3 innings, no runs on one hit and Kane McCuen got the final 3 outs to secure the Prince William Yankees Cooperstown Championship.


Laurens, NY---July 5, 2004

In the Semi-final game the Yankees were short on pitching having exhausted the bullpen in the game earlier, so Jack McCuen stepped up, took the ball and pitched a complete game 3-2 win over the Mohawk Valley All-Stars. Jack scattered 6 hits and struck out 9. The Yankees found themselves down 1-0 going into their half of the sixth, Tim Nargi singled followed by a Rick Fisher single, both runners moved up on a grounder to third then with two strikes on LF Joe Kearns, Joe lined a single to left center for a Yankee 2-1 lead, the Yanks added a run in the eighth when Ed Pearson and Jack McCuen doubled for a 3-1 lead, the Yanks surrendered a run in the 9th and with  Mohawk tying run on third  an outstanding play by second baseman Rich Abela too record the 3rd out sent the Yanks to the Championship game.

 

Little Falls, NY---July 5, 2004

Come from behind victory! The Yankees were in a must win in order to advance to the play-offs, the Yanks got down early as the Mayfield Braves bats were hot scoring 3 times in the top of the first. In the fifth inning the Yanks finally got something started, Rich Abela was hit by pitch and pinch hitter Tim Acors singled to make it first and third, Ed Pearson hit a sac fly to center to make it 3-1 Braves. With 2 outs Tim Nargi singled home the Yanks second run then Rick Fisher blasted a two-run homerun over the center field fence for a Yankee 4-3 lead. The Braves scratched a run in the 7th to tie it at 4. the Yankee Bullpen tired and surrendered 3 runs to the Braves in the top of the ninth. the Yanks were trailing by 3 going into their half of the ninth when Rich Abela got things started once again by being hit by pitch,, Tim Acors reached on an error as did Ed Pearson, with basses loaded Tim Nargi had an rbi sac followed by a clutch 2 out ground-rule double by Rick fisher to tie the game at 7, with Fisher on second Jack McCuen grounded a single up the middle and the Yankee comeback was complete winning 8-7 and advancing to the semi-finals.

 

Beaver Valley, NY---July 4, 2004

Eddie Pearson threw a complete game striking out 14 Dodger batters, but the Yanks had to settle for a 3-3 tie in Pool A action. The 3 Yankee runs also came from Ed Pearson's 2 hits and a key 2 out single by Rich Abela and a perfect bunt single from Mike Kay and a well executed sacrifice by Gary Fisher. This puts the Yankees at 1-0-1 and still in contention for the play-offs.

 

Oneonta, NY---July 3, 2004

The Prince William Yankees took game one in the Doubleday Classic downing the South Hampton Pilots 12-4. Tim Acors went 6 1/3 innings of no hit ball before the Pilots managed 4 hits and 4 runs, but the Yankees had already taken a commanding 9-0 lead behind a key 2 out double by Dave Shadbar and 3 consecutive 2 out hits. Paul Lamarr came on in relief and thre 2 2/3 of shut out ball as the Yanks prevailed.

 

Player

GP AB R H RBI AVG 2B 3B HR SLG BB HP SAC SF SB CS K RE OB OB AVG
                                         
Abela, Rich 5 12 5 2 1 .167 0 0 0 .167 4 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 8 .444
                                         
Acors, Tim 5 5 2 1 0 .200 0 0 0 .200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 .400
                                         
Fisher, Gary 5 10 3 3 6 .300 1 0 1 .700 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 4 .333
                                         
Fisher, Rick 5 23 4 7 6 .304 1 0 1 .478 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 7 .304
                                         
Kay, Mike 5 17 2 3 0 .176 0 0 0 .176 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 .176
                                         
Kearns, Joe 5 13 3 1 5 .077 0 0 0 .077 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 4 .250
                                         
McCuen, Jack 5 21 2 9 5 .429 2 0 0 .524 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 12 .500
                                         
McCuen, Kane 5 9 4 2 1 .222 1 0 0 .333 4 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 6 .462
                                         
Nargi, Tim 5 22 6 10 4 .455 0 0 0 .455 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 11 .458
                                         
Pearson, Ed 5 23 7 10 3 .435 2 0 0 .522 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 11 .478
                                         
Shadbar, Dave 5 9 1 1 2 .111 1 0 0 .222 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 .200
                                         
Speck, Rob 5 10 1 1 0 .100 0 0 0 .100 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 .100
                                         
Other 2 2 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000
                                         
Total 5 176 40 50 33 .284 8 0 2 .364 15 3 3 3 3 1 26 3 71 .360
 
Player AP W L S H   IP R ER H BB HP K BF ERA OP AVG K/9
                                   
Acors, Tim 3 3 0 0 0   12.0 6 3 6 14 0 6 54 2.25 .150 4.5
                                   
Fisher, Gary 1 0 0 0 1   3.0 0 0 1 1 0 1 12 0.00 .091 3.0
                                   
McCuen, Jack 1 1 0 0 0   9.0 2 1 6 3 0 9 37 1.00 .176 9.0
                                   
McCuen, Kane 2 0 0 0 1   5.1 4 4 9 0 0 5 25 6.75 .360 8.4
                                   
Pearson, Ed 1 0 0 0 0   9.0 3 0 7 3 1 14 38 0.00 .206 14.0
                                   
Other 2 0 0 0 1   6.2 3 3 8 0 0 5 28 4.05 .286 6.8
                                   
Total 10 4 0 0 3   45.0 18 11 37 21 1 40 194 2.20 .215 8.0
 
Prince William, VA---June 28, 2004

The Prince William Yankees are returning to Cooperstown for the 4th straight year and are hoping to capture this years title after blowing a 5 run lead in the 9th in last years Championship Game.