Championship Title !!

The Prince William Yankees have captured their 3rd Cooperstown Championship defeating the Staten Island Bombers 6-4 at Double Day Field.

Will Somerindyke pitched a complete game for the victory, the Yankees got on the board first powered by a Chip Kislack Homer to left field. The Yankees opened up the 4th inning with a bunt single by LF Jamien Payne and a walk by SS Tim Nargi followed by 3B Logan Springers single, the big blow then came from C Barry Gauch who tripled to right and the Yanks took a 4-0 lead.  The 5th inning saw more power from the Yankees as DH Rob Pettigrue homered to left moving the Yankees ahead 5-0.

Staten Island did not lay down an mounted a 3 run 7th inning to trim the Yankee lead to 2, the Staten Island eighth saw a homer by Jay Parisi and the Yankee lead was only 5-4, Staten Island then put runners on 1st and 2nd when the Yankees turned an interesting double play to get out of the inning, Somerindyke fielded a grounder then nearly threw it away but shortstop Tim Nargi scooped it up and threw on to Jon Bybee at first who scooped the low throw and wend the Staten Island threat.

With the Yankee lead now trimmed to 1 run ion the 7th  Rob Pettigrue came through with a clutch 2 out 2 strike single to left giving the Yankees an insurance run and lead 6-4. Staten Island would not go away and mounted yet another threat in the 8th, with one out and 2 on a ground ball to 2nd baseman Matt Huff which looked like a routine double play nearly turned disastrous as Mat threw the ball wild to Nargi covering but he managed to dive and come up with the ball and get the out and end the threat.

Matt Huff  recovered and  got the final out of the game giving the Yankees their third Hall of Fame Classic Title.

The Tournament Officials named  DH Rob Pettigrue MVP for his 2 for 3 game including the homerun and clutch 2 out hit to secure the win, they named  SS Tim Nargi the Gold Glove winner for the above mentioned plays and several other stops he made denying Staten Island players singles.

Logan Springer went 6 strong innings limiting  Keagan  to 3 hits as the Yankees routed the Growlers 10-0 in the Semi-Final Game to move on to the Championship. Matt Huff provided the Offensive punch going 3 for 3 with a Homerun and a double 3 rbi's, Mark Sterling and Ed Pearson each knocked in two runs to complete the 10-0 mercy rule.

The Yanks came out sleep walking in this one until manager Tim Nargi's 3rd inning meltdown with the Base umpire got the blood boiling as the Yankees over came 2 run deficits twice and proceeded to put up an 8 spot on the board in the 5th to pound the Staten Island Bombers 10-4 at Little Falls.  Eddie P. picked up the win after settling down retiring Bomber batters with zero damage in the 3rd through 6th innings.

Double Day Field saw the Yankees take an early 7-3 lead behind a great pitching performance by Jon Bybee, Jon went 7 2/3, his longest outing of the year before tiring and giving away to Logan Springer to save the game and a Yankee win 10-7. Every Yankee starter had a hit including a Homerun and Double by Barry Gauch in yet another 14 hit parade by the Yanks.

Game 1 of the Hall of Fame Tournament saw the Yankees destroy the Gloucester Diamond Jaxx 10-0 behind the pitching of Will Somerindyke. Homeruns by Pearson (1), Somerindyke (1) and  Springer (2) never gave the Diamond Jaxx a chance as the Yankees pounded out 14 hits in all.