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In a nice end of a challenging year for the Dawgs, the K-9's outslugged the boys from Beit Shemesh on a pleasent Oct 20th Monday night at Kibbutz Gezer, slamming in 12 runs to Tri-United's 5. The game featured solid pitching by starter Shmuel (after a few walks in the beginning), graceful fielding by almost every Dawg on the field (I think there was only one true Dawg error) including a beee-youteeful back-handed relay from SS Eli Krantman to 2B David Sommer, and closing pitching by our amigo, Yechezkel Gantz, the Dawgs showed what they can do in the field. This time, they also showed what they can do at the plate. Notable were Yossi Glickman's two-run in-the-park homer in the 3rd, in addition to Arthur Sarkovitz's 2-run blast in the 2nd. This writer also remembers Eli Krantman's aggressive baserunning in the 5th, stealing 2nd, 3rd, and scoring, each on different pitches, and each time sliding in to the base. After the game, Eli said that his knees hurt. Gee I wonder why. __________________________________________________________________ The Dawgs now go on Winter Break, which means we're doing nothing, folks, until about the first (yes, first) week in January, 2004. That is also about a week after Channukah. At that point, we will start up our weekly practices once again at Rishon. This will give us at least 8 sessions (minus rain-outs) to get ready for what promises to be a successful year for the Dawgs in 2004. Photo, taken after the game: Standing, ltr: Lowell Blackman, David Sommer, Yechezkel Gantz, Danny Epstein, Jon Dym, Yossi Glickman. Front row: Shmuel Goldstein, Robert Even, Albert Sarkovitz, Eli Krantman. In front: Yaniv Gohary