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April 28 - May 4, 2005 Edition
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SPORTS April 28, 2005 By Don Lyons Jordan Hoehn makes the long throw from the third to catch D/Y's DH, Chris Marsh, in the sixth, the only time Marsh failed to reach base in the morning game. Photos by Ralph Stewart Jacques Penicaud struck out six Dolphins and went the distance in the first game of Saturday's double-header. He walked five and was touched for eight hits. Dolphin Drake Deluga eats the dust but beats the throw to third. Home at last! Baseball arrives at MVRHS After playing its first six games on the road, the MVRHS baseball team began a four-game home stint with a double-header, Saturday, versus D/Y, a team coming off an impressive win over Barnstable. Jacques Penicaud took the hill for the Islanders in the first game and put the Dolphins down in order with two Ks in the first. MV was also scoreless with two Ks. D/Y batted around in the second, scoring three runs on three hits, two walks, and an infield error. In the bottom of the second, Billy Panek had a two-out single and went to second when Steve Cotterill walked. But Panek was caught off base to end the inning. D/Y added two more runs in the third on two hits, two walks, and an error. MV played catch-up in the bottom of the third. Todd Hitchings began it with a double into right. Penicaud reached on an error at short. Herman drove in Hitchings with a line drive into center. After Hoehn popped out, Goldberg’s double scored Penicaud and sent Herman to third. Johnson’s Texas-Leaguer drove in Herman and Goldberg. After three, D/Y led, 5-4. Both sides were scoreless in the 4th. But D/Y took full advantage of infield and outfield errors, scoring three in the 5th, and two more in both the 6th and 7th. Goldberg homered over the center field wall in the fifth and scored again in the seventh. After reaching on an infield hit, he came home when Johnson’s line drive into left was misplayed. Final: D/Y 12, MV 6. The second game of the twin bill was a pitchers’ duel with the score tied 2-2 after seven innings. Matt Kurth, whose ability to play was in question due to a recent injury, was deemed able to pitch but not bat and pitch he did! He held the Dolphins to four hits and two runs in seven innings. But D/Y had the last laugh with a monstrous homer and three runs in the eighth. MV outhit the Dolphins, 8-4. Kurth was the tough-luck pitcher Tuesday, when Harwich came to town. Matt fanned a dozen, walked one, and allowed four hits, but lost the game, 3-2. The Vineyard’s runs came late in the sixth inning. Penicaud and Goldberg drove in MV’s two runs with singles. Jayvees The MV junior varsity’s record stands at 1-4 with losses to Sandwich, Falmouth, Bourne, and Greater New Bedford and a 3-1 defeat of the Sandwich freshmen. This Tiger beat the throw to third in Tuesdayıs Major League game with the Mets. Little League openers The Little League seasons opened Monday, the majors at Veira Park, Oak Bluffs, the minors at the West Tisbury school and Manter’s Field, West Tisbury. At Veira, the Dodgers won in a laugher, shutting out the A’s, 10-0. William Stewart went the distance for the “Bums,” striking out 16 of the 23 batters he faced. He gave up one hit — Cole Bilodeau’s Texas-Leaguer in the bottom of the sixth — and walked six. Meanwhile the Dodgers scored three in the first, two in the third and fifth, and three more in the sixth off the offerings of starter T.J. VanGerven, and relievers Ryker Maynard and Harry West. The heart of the Dodger lineup was especially productive. Chris Morris reached four times without a hit and scored three runs. Stewart helped his cause with three hits, including a double and scored three times. Taylor Smith was 3-for-4, drove in two, and scored three. Tuesday, at Nunes Field, the Tigers chewed up the Mets, 17-4. Two minors, too Also Monday, the minor league began play at the West Tisbury School and at Manter’s Field. The Twins crunched the Orioles, 14-2, behind pitcher Eric Perzanowski and a grand slam by Yannick Gonzalves at the school. The Rockies shut out the Reds at the firehouse, 3-0. The majors schedule calls for six teams to play 45 games from April 25 to June 10. The five minor league teams have a 30-game schedule from April 25 to June 2. Softball Also beginning their season, Tuesday, the Babe Ruth softball Red Sox edged the Phillies in a slam-bang cliffhanger, 16-15. Linda Wood of the Vineyard and The Times earned third place money in womenıs singles. Robert O'Sullivan has his eye on the prize. He took second in menıs singles. A deluge of darts A total of $3,045 in prize money was awarded at the 27th annual MV Dart Tournament, sponsored by Budweiser and the Holy Ghost Assn., at the PA Club, Friday-Sunday. Off-Islanders absconded with most of the loot, but some of it remained on-Island. In Friday night’s Luck-of-the-Draw, for instance, Steve McGuire of the South Shore had the good fortune to be yoked with The Times’ own Linda Wood and the team finished in third place. Linda also was third in the ladies’ singles competition, Sunday. Robert O’Sullivan was second in the men’s singles, the highest finish for an Islander in men’s singles in 27 years. Other Islanders finishing in the money in various events were Tim Fullin, Dave Bettencourt, and Laurie Maciel. The tourney’s top winner was Corey Jewett of Hawthorn, N.J. He took home four first-place purses. All told, 84 darters competed. League note Tim Fullin, Joe Andrade, Peter Searle, and Cindy Griesser took home the money April 7 and 21 beating the Furtaw Folk 10-1, and the Bettencourt Bunch, 8-3. On April 14, the winning team was Steve Furtaw, Mike Lipinsky, Tim Corner and Dave Herrmann with an 8-3 licking of the Jarda Kral Combo.

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