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Finance schools PSS in softball finals
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Posted on Jun 24 2004
Finance figured out a way to beat the pennant champs last Thursday, rallying for five runs in the final inning as they took down PSS, 16-14, in the championship game of the 2004 Inter-Government Women’s Softball Slowpitch League at the Oleai Sports Complex.
The bean counters racked up 19 hits over the seven-inning contest, including three homeruns, en route to their upset victory over the regular season champs. Liz Libria had two of those homers and also batted in eight runs in her 3-for-4 performance at the plate. Gina Wesley also stepped it up in the championship, reaching base in each of her four plate appearances. Wesley had a pair of singles, a triple, and scored four times to help lift her team to victory. Finance was also the beneficiary of a Bert Camacho homerun in the fifth inning that tied the game at eight runs apiece.
PSS lit up the board with 19 hits of their own, aided by solid hitting from Eileen Babauta and Vanessa Mobel. Babauta went 4-for-5 at the plate and scored three times, while Mobel hit 3-for-5 and scored twice.
It is hard to believe that a team that commits eight errors in the field would have a shot in any championship game, but that’s just what PSS did. Perhaps it was because their counterparts erred an unthinkable 14 times.
It was a hard-fought game that went back and forth all night long. The game had six lead changes and had several changes in momentum. Just when you thought it was over for one of the teams, they would come back with a five or six run explosion.
That was the case for PSS in the third when they were down 7-1 and rallied for five runs. They were able to ride the wave of momentum into the fourth inning as they score two more runs to take the 8-7 lead. Then it was Finance’s turn to rally, scoring four runs off of two homers in the fifth to go up on the school-pool 11-8.
Again the lead would change when PSS gave a period of instruction to the Finance, crossing the plate six times to wrench back the 14-11 lead. The three-run advantage would only last until Finance returned to the plate. The mathematicians tallied five in the seventh to secure the lead for good.
