A’s advance to Langsdorf League finals
Posted: July 30, 2012
Synoposis: The Sheboygan A’s recorded a 6-5 win over the Kenosha Bobcats at Wildwood Park Sunday night to avoid elimination and will take on the Kenosha Kings in the best of three series for the 2012 championship of the Langsdorf League of Southeastern Wisconsin.
All too often one synopsis doesn’t tell the story at all. Such was the case Sunday night.
Synopsis Two: The Bobcats took a 2-0 first inning lead; the A’s rallied to take a 4-2 lead; the A’s bumped the lead to 6-2; the Bobcats got some smart at bats against a tired A’s starter, scored three runs and nearly snatched a victory before the A’s got some sterling relief pitching to hold on for the win.
Still the bottom line is that while it was certainly far from clean or convincing, it was a win and the A’s are in the finals.
Brendon Schulz led off the game with a home run and teammates followed with laser like liners to give the Kenosha Bobcats a 2-0 lead after one. After that shaky start, Derek Loomas was terrific, lining up six goose eggs on the board.
Meantime the A’s rallied for four runs in the fourth with Harry Steldt, Trevor Theissen, Justin Hunt, Grant Evans and Jon Capasso contributing hits and Matt Bromley a sacrifice fly to the rally. They added two more in the seventh on hits by Drew Pearson and Tim Patzman and a 2-run triple by Steldt.
But the ‘Cats wouldn’t go away and an obviously tired Loomans was stuck with two hits, three walks, a hit batsman, a wild pitch, three runs and had the bases loaded before manager Kyle Trewyn removed him.
Mitch Gardner came on and got the final out of the inning, and Brandon Winfield pitched a clean ninth for the save.
Capasso finished with three hits, and Steldt and Theissen each two for the A’s. Shawn Miller had two hits for the Bobcats.
The A’s, 31-22 overall, play a critical Northeastern Wisconsin League game at Menasha Monday before starting the Langsdorf final series Tuesday night at Kenosha. The series returns to Sheboygan Thursday and concludes (if a third game is necessary) at Kenosha Saturday. Then the A’s play their final NEW and Wisconsin State League regular season game Sunday August 5 at Manitowoc.
Winfield is scheduled to start in Menasha tonight.
The Sheboygan A's are members of the Wisconsin State League and Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League. The A's have helped develop more than 43 players that have reached professional baseball, including 2002 World Series Champion Jarrod Washburn (Anaheim Angels). All Sheboygan A's home games are played at Wildwood Baseball Park in Sheboygan. Connect with the A's on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
