I am elated. The Phillies took the NLCS and will go on to the final four and will play the Dodgers starting on Thursday.  Jimmy Rollins leads off with a home run. Pat Burrell came up big with two home runs and he also had a inside out single and hit the ball down the first baseline that would have been a double for any other player. Blanton gave up a Home Run to Prince Fielder in the 7th innning as he hit a hit 450 foot home run. It didn't  matter. I knew the Phillies were gonna win the game. Phillies will now have the Home Field advantage in the next round. I am the luckiest man on the  face of the earth.  The Phillies will go all the way. I want to march down Broad Street when the Phillies win the World Series. I want the Phillies to play the Red Sox. I want Phillies to be losing by 3 to teh Red Sox and have Coast hit a Grand Slam off Johnathan Papelbon in the top of the ninth inning over the green monster at Fenway. Then, Brad Lidge comes in and retires the Red Sox as he strikes out Kevin Youkalis on three pitches to save the game and clinch the series. October 21st, 1980 when Tug McGraw strike out Willie Wilson at 11:29 PM at the Vet to Win the World Series. The bases were loaded with a 4-1 lead with 2 outs. Tug strike him out swinging. That was the happiest day of my life. Todays game, this is one of the happiest days of my life. Hopefully there will be more great days to come.

Jerry Horgan 

   Chris Cannatelli threw a complete game allowing 8 hits over 7 innings with 2 K's and 0 walks. Chris Cannatelli was supported by great defense by Eddie Eckenroad who had two "plays of the week" by laying and robbing two Canada Dry players of basehits in center field and getting an assist at second for the first play of the game. Marc Decaro had 3 Rbi's for Home budget.  R.T. Plumski banged out 3 hits and Brian Testa had a double for the Bottlers. 

Game 4 is tonight at Banning Park at 7:00 PM.

Projected starters: 

Home Budget: Anthony Cimabue  RHP

Canada Dry:    Steve Spiese         RHP

    Canada Dry took the second game of the series and took a commanding 2 - 0 lead over Home Budget with a 4 - 0 win on Monday night at Banning Park.  Matt Klaciewicz threw a complete game shut out with the offensive help of R.T. Plumski who had a triple with an RBI and Tommy Gallagher that was 2- 4 with a triple and a double and 2 RBI's.

   Game 3 is tonight at Eder Park at 7:00 PM.

    Tommy Gallagher hit a two run homerun in game one to finish off a 4 - 0 win against Home Budget at Eder. Tommy Gallagher hit one which was estimated at well over 400 feet (Google Earth Ruler) to punctuate solid complete game shut out for Brett Urban.  Brett Urban pitched 7 complete innings and continues to baffle the Home Budget offense.

   When I asked Brett for a comment about friday nights game he stated, "Don't worry, I won't be pitching on Monday, You might have a chance." You gotta like his game.

   Phil Aviola hit a 2 out double in the top of the 7th inning to knock in Joe Bolinski to give Home Budget a 4 - 3 lead. Phil Aviola came in to complete the save opportunity in the bottom of the 7th inning which prove to be the series deciding game to send Home Budget on to face Canada Dry in the best of 7 series for the Delaware semi Pro baseball League Championship series that starts this Friday at Eder Park at 7 PM.  Mark Wilhelm hit a 3 run home run in the second inning to put Home Budget up 3 - 1. Cecil came back in the 6th inning to score twice to tie the game a t 3 - 3.

   Packer Larson picked up the win for Home Budget in a game that found Max Beheler using every available pitcher to give Home Budget the chance to pick up the win.

   Home Budget will play Home Games at Banning Park and Canada Dry will play thier Home Games at Eder Park during the Champioship series.

   This was a great series that could have gone either way for either team and I personally would like to comment on the Cecil team and how well they played the game and carried themselves on and off the field. This new team proved to be a great team that has a lot of class and composure. Great job and good luck with all that you guys do now and in the future.

Mark "Williestick" Wilhelm

   Josh Culler tossed a 2 hitter to take the semi final series from the upstart Hy-Point Dragons. Culler fan 9 enroute to the win with offensive support from Matt Folke, Alex Carter, Pat Smith and Aaron Lewis who all contributed with 2 hits a peice. Matt Folke had 2 RBI's for the Canada Dry team that exploded with 4 runs in the 6th inning before closing out the game with a 7 - 1 victory.

   The Dragons played a great series and deserve the respect of being a tough team and I am sure we will see good things from them next year.

   Jordan Oncay had 2 hits and 3 RBI's to lift the Budgeteer's to an 8 - 5 win over Cecil. Clutch pitching from Anthony Cimabue in the 5th inning (after trying to pick a ghost runner off third base and being called for a balk) as he struck out the next two batters to keep the 2 runners stranded. Cimabue went on to finish with 4 K's in 2 innings of work.  Chris Cannatelli threw 4 1/3 innings and picked up the win for Home Budget. Phil Aviola came in and struck out the last two batters of the game in a non-save situation.

   Cecil is now faced with a must win game tonight against Home Budget at Banning Park at 7 PM.

    R.T. Plumsky stroked a walk off home run in the bottom of the 7th inning to put Canada Dry up 2 - 1 in the series. Canada Dry was down 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh when Brandon Crist hit a sac fly with men on first and third to tie the game up at 3 a piece. R.T. Plumsky  knock a walk off 2 run homer to clinch the game.

    Rich Odonald threw 6 and 2/3 innings while only giving up 3 hits and then was relieved by Tommy Gallagher who came in and struck out one and picked up the win with 1/3 of an inning of work. Ryan Buckland pitched a great game in a losing effort while only giving up 5 hits to the Canada Dry team in 7 innings.  

   Game 4 is tonight at Eder Park at 7PM in Elkton.

   Clint Khul picked up the win after coming in and shutting the door on Cecil when Chad Siemendinger got into a little trouble in the 6th inning.  Jordan Oncay knocked in what turned out to be the game winning run in the top of the 9th inning after Joe Bolinski laid down a perfect bunt to move Eddie Eckenroad over to third base. 

   Game 3 is tonight at Banning Park at 7 PM.

    Hy-Point pulled of a last inning win against Canada Dry last Friday to even the series at 1 - 1. Billy Cecconi trhew 7 innings allowing only 3 hits and stricking out 4. A bad hop allowed the winnning run to come in for Hy-point off the bat of Ryan Sweetman in the 7th innings. Matt Folke had a double for Canada Dry. Game 3 is Monday August 11th at Eder Park. Game time is 7:00 PM.  

    Game one of the Semi-Finals for the Donofrio Division is on Thursday, Augsut 7th, at Eder Park at 7PM. This is a best of 5 series that will go from Thursday to Wednsday every week night at Eder.

    The Hickman Division Wild Card final Game is Tonight at Banning Park at 7 PM. Gildea Stars will take on Cecil County in the rubber match deciding game that will send the loser home and the winner onto the Semi-Finals against Home Budget Center.

     A pretty good season for Mike Walls is an understatement. Mike has been on fire since the beginning of the season when he started off at a 1 for 10 stint. That went away pretty quick. Mike continued throughout the season to drop duck farts, missles, gay'zers and bombs on route to finishing the season with an incredible batting average of exactly .500. What a great season for an unassuming player that quietly ended a great season being 200 points above good.   

    The all-Time Regular Season Batting Average goes to Ralph Conrad who hit .579 for Parkway in 1962.

    Bucco's and Hy-Point met last week at Rockford Park and had a marathon of hits. So many hits, that it is a new record for "Most Hits in A Game Between Two Teams". 34 hits were compiled between the two teams last Friday. Bucco's had 12 hits and  Hy-Point had 22. The previous record was held by two teams. In 1966, Parkway beat Canada Dry 26-6 and 32 hits were banged out in this game. C. Wallace Insurance and Canada Dry also had 32 hits in 1993 in  a single game.

    Most Hits by a Team in a single game is 26 by Parkway in 1966.

   Andre Duffie needs two more Triples to set the record for most Triples in a season. He set the Freshman Record at Delaware with 9 and had 3 in one game vs. Hofstra May 1, 1995.

Gildeas beat Fedlock 2-1 to get into the quarter  finals. Chad Jenkins (Cecil County) threw seven innings and compiled 11 strike outs along the way. Raiders went on to dominate the rest of the tournament by beating Fairfax Heat 7-2, Greenbriar 19-4 and winning the championship in impressive manner with a 16-2 win over Fedlock.

Cory Holliday, Jason Wyatt, Dan Cleary, Adam Mulderig all had successful offensive stats throughout the tournament. Matt Blazinski, Josh Kreummer. Doug Eitelman, Brett Underwood and Jimmy Conroy also helped Gildeas to take the title for the Tallgren Games Tournament for Leukemia.

  Andre Duffy was there but did his best impression of Barbaro (Sorry all you horse fans) and gimped his way back to the dugout. He is expected to heal, so they will not have to put him down any time soon.  Get better soon.

Mark

Foul Ball Counter: 1050 and counting

Banning   Left  325'     Center  402'    Right  325'

Delcastle  Left 325'      Center  405'    Right  325'

Canby      Left  311' (to the hill)     Center (Tree) 347'     Right  (Parking Lot) 588'

Rockford  Left  338' (road)      Center  (Trees) 530'     Right  (Parking Lot)  465'      Tower  551'

18th and Van Buren    Left (BBall court)  369'      Center (Softball field)  414'    Right (Trees) 306'

     WILMINGTON - After many years of changing the face of baseball in upstate Delaware, Bob "Goose" Gildea has been inducted into the Delaware Baseball Hall of Fame.

     "It's about time brutha haa, know what I'm sayin' ha . . . . . . this ain't my first rodeo haa, haa!" said Gildea, who has coached the Gildea's Raiders for over a century. "Every year we play an integral part in the preparation of World Championship Major League Baseball teams and they're run for a world title. I mean, if we didn't schedule these teams, know what I'm sayin', I mean they would be in no way be able to adjust for the season, know what I'm sayin' brutha, haa!"

     Each season, the Gildea's Raiders make their annual Florida spring training trip and play professional teams to prepare for the season. Several Gildea's players have signed professional contracts during the trip.

     "It's all about a good time brutha, haa. It's all about the pride of wearin' that orange shirt daddy," added Gildea. "The orange is legendary with hard nosed ballplayin' and killer times in the Florida sun brutha! The trip is about winning and having a good time daddy, meetin' on the tarmac and rollin' out to play some ball. We don't even worry about practice, we just rip brutha - lock and load, know what I'm sayin' huuuh huuuh!"

     "I'm proud to be a part of the hall - truly daddy, I mean I've been to the mall, now I been to the hall, haa! said Goose, who is now enshrined in the hallowed halls of baseball forever.

THIS ARTICLE IS FICTITIOUS IN NATURE (BUT GOOSE WOULD'VE SAID THIS STUFF ANYWAYS) CONGRATULATIONS GOOSE (WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF YOUR LEGEND). 

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