Kelly’s Pub Molson Bulldogs 6–The Bigs 3
Kellys Pub Molson Bulldogs won the St John’s senior men’s fast pitch softball title last night. They defeated The Bigs 6-3 to win the best of seven final four games to one. They win their fourth straight senior softball title.
Sean Cleary the playoff most valuable player tosses the win on a five hitter and 15 strikeouts. Stephen Strapp belted a two run homer for the winners.
Kelly’s Pub Molson Bulldogs RUNS:
2R 2nd: Trailing 1-0 Heading To The Bottom of the 2nd Inning: Jon Kelly walked, Kelly advanced to second base on a Stephen Strapp SAC, Strapp out 1-4 on the play and With 1-Out: Kelly advanced to third base on a wild pitch, Liam Myers walked, Andrew Wade singled to right-field to score Kelly, Liam Myers advanced to third base on the play and Stephen Dobbin grounded out 6-3 to score Liam Myers.
3R 3rd: With The Game Tied 2-2 Heading To The Bottom of the 3rd Inning: Daniel Dalton led-off the inning with a walk, Dalton stole second base, With 1-Out: Blair Ezekiel reached on an error, Dalton advanced to third base on the play, Jon Kelly grounded out 6-3 to score Dalton to give the Kelly’s Pub Molson Bulldogs a 3-2 lead and With 2-Out: Stephen Strapp hit a 2R Home Run to straight away centerfield to increase the Kelly’s Pub Molson Bulldogs lead to 5-2.
1R 4th: Leading 5-2 Heading To The Bottom of the 4th Inning: With 1-Out: Joel Whelan singled to centerfield, Whelan advanced to second base on a wild pitch and Daniel Dalton tripled to centerfield to score Whelan to increase the Kelly’s Pub Molson Bulldogs lead to 6-2.
Members of the Kelly’s Pub Molson Bulldogs Championship Team
Shane Boland, Sean Cleary, Liam Costello, Daniel Dalton, Stephen Dobbin, Blair Ezekiel, Jon Kelly, DJ Lake, Mark Lewis, Liam Myers, Scott Myers, Stephen Strapp, Andrew Wade, Joel Whelan and Jim Dunphy-Coach.
The Bigs Pitching Stats:
LP: Mark Power 6IP, 6R, 4H, 6BB, 9K
The Bigs Top Batters:
Andrew Evans 2-3, 1R, 2 Doubles, 1RBI
Bryan Clarke 1-2, 1BB, 1RBI
Shane Kelly 1-3, 1R
Geoff Evely 1-4, 1R, Triple
The Bigs RUNS:
1R 1st: Geoff Evely led-off the game with a triple to centerfield and Andrew Evans reached on an infield hit that allowed Evely to score and give The Bigs an early 1-0 lead.
1R 3rd: Trailing 2-1 Heading To The Top of the 3rd Inning: Andrew Evans led-off the inning with a double to left-field and Bryan Clarke singled to left-field to score Evans to make it a 2-2 ball game.
1R 7th: Trailing 6-2 Heading To The Top of the 7th Inning: With 2-Out: Shane Kelly reached on an infield hit, Kelly advanced all the way to third base on an error and scored on another error to make it a 6-3 ball game, but that was as close as The Bigs would get on this night.
2016 Senior League Playoff Awards
Most Valuable Player
Sean Cleary (KPMB)
Pitching: 6-1, 44IP, 13ER, 2.07ERA, 87K
Batting: 9-24 .375BA, 10R, 2HR, 4BB, 9RBI
Top Batter
Daniel Dalton (KPMB)
7-14 .500BA
2016 Final Playoff Standings
1. Kelly’s Pub Molson Bulldogs 7-1
2. The Bigs 4-4
3. NTV Hitmen 0-3
4. The Dance Academy Dodgers 0-3
