News and Announcements
Game Announcer s and Scorekeepers Needed
Parents, we need your help. Our team moms will be getting your help with field work day and concession duty in the coming days. But, we also need help on game day. At practice this week, we will be handing out instructions on announcing and keeping score in the pressbox for the coming games. We have thirteen families on the team and 16 slots left. We would love for each family to take one or two of the slots. Announing is the easier of the two because you just have to announce the players names. Keeping score involves keeping track of the scoreboard. Our scorekeeper will keep the main book. Please consider what game you will help with.
Royals Head into Break with Exciting Win
The Royals head into Spring Break with a 2-1 come from behind wind in brutually cold April weather at Fleet Park. The Royals scored in the bottom of the fifth to tie the score before scoring the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the sixth.
In the fifth, Sam Beasley led off with a walk. He eventually stole home on a straight steal with two outs.
In the sixth, Hayden Gerloff led off the inning with a walk. After a hit by Ned Darden and an intentional walk to Zach Milligan to load the bases, Gerloff scored when Stephen Davis hit a perfectly placed ball between first and second base to score the winning run. We are learning as a team that good things happen when we swing the bat and put the ball in play.
The Royals got another great pitching performance and several outstanding defensive plays. Stephen Davis started and went two innings striking out two giving up one hit and one run. He was added by stellar defense by Ned Darden at second, Ryan Ludvik at short and Sam Houle at first base. The Red Sox lone run came on a wild pitch in the second inning. The second inning ended with a great catch in centerfield by Dante Venvertohl, who provided a textbook effort in drop stepping on a fly ball and catching it with two hands on a well hit ball in the left-centerfield gap.
Zach Milligan pitched the final four innings striking out 11 and walking one while giving up one base hit. Ryan and Ned came close to turning a 6-4-3 double play in the fifth inning on a slow hit ball to shortstop. Sam Beasley did an excellent job behind the plate over the last four innings making several great block behind the plate on balls in the dirt.
In addition to the scoring effort above, Brett Schulwolf, Ned Darden and Stephen Davis had great hits in the first, third and fourth innings, respectively.
This was a great game to see and be apart of, especially because it only took about an hour and ten minutes. Great game Royals.
The Royals will return to game action on Tuesday, March 21 vs. the Mets at 6pm at Fleet Park.
The Royals opened the 2009 season with a 7-0 victory over the Braves. The team was led by the pitching of Ethan Richter and Markey Howlett. Ethan pitched four strong innings striking out eleven while only giving up one hit. He walked four Braves and worked out of a first inning based loaded situation with back-to-back strikeouts. Markey pitched the final two innings striking out three while only throwing 17 pitches. What a great way to start the season on the mound for the Royals.
At the plate, the team was lead by Stephen Davis who was 2-3 with two doubles and four RBIs. Jimmy Hurley was 1-2 with a double and RBI in his major division debut.
The team returns to action on Tuesday, April 7 versus the Red Sox.
