Finance blanks CHC in women’s softball

Finance capitalized on a lethargic Commonwealth Health Center to post a 13-0 shutout win in the women’s division game in the 2008 Inter Government/Business Softball League Friday night at the Miguel “Tan Ge” Basa Pangelinan Ballfield.

CHC had not played in more than a month and was really off in Friday’s game, making only four hits and was a step slower getting on bases. Finance had a shorter break and was more active with its defense catching flyballs and beating CHC runners.

Lilian Pangelinan gave Finance a good start connecting on a two-run single at the bottom of the first. Finance scored three more runs to take a 5-0 lead.

CHC had its best chance to make it to the scoreboard when first baseman Sheena Sablan reached third base. With Sablan on third and Natalie Reyes on second and with two outs, pitcher Meng Yamada swung and hit her target, but was beaten to first base on a 6-3 putout play.

In the next three innings, Finance pitcher Bego Camacho allowed only three hits and had three strikeouts, and the rest of his teammates hustled out for the ball.

Finance improved to a 3-4 record, while CHC dropped to a 1-5 slate.

Centerfielder Liz Lebria was perfect at the plate for Finance, hitting 3-for-3 and making a solo homer in the fourth inning. Charlene Cabrera connected on the other homer of the match with her roundtripper in the third inning.

No Zone 22, PSS 5[/B]

In the men’s division, No Zone also had a walk in the park against Public School System cruising to a 22-5 victory.

It was No Zone’s seventh win in nine games putting the team in a tie for third place with the Joeten Motor Jets. PSS remained at the bottom half of the 20-team field with its 2-6 slate.

Ned and Bruce Norita was spotless at-bat going 4-for-4 with the latter scoring six RBIs. Bruce also had two doubles, while Ned had a solo homer in the fifth inning and three RBIs.

No Zone had a field day in the first two innings making six at the top of the first and 10 runs in the second. It added four in the third, was shut out in the fourth and nailed two in the fifth.

The most that PSS could score was two runs in both the third and fourth inning. It failed to score in the first and fifth inning, and was held to a run in the second.
[B] PIC 13, Customs 8[/B]

In the last game of the night, Pacific Island Club shut out Customs in the last two innings to eke out a 13-8 win.

PIC was leading by only one, 9-8, after five complete innings, when pitcher Rueben Olgeriil allowed only one hit, walked one, and had one error to preserve the victory.

On offense, Olgeriil made a two-run double at the bottom of the sixth inning allowing PIC to widen the lead, 13-8. Olgeriil and Tommy Kennington scored the two other runs for PIC.

At the top of the seventh, the closest that Customs could get was on first base. The first two batters flied out, third baseman Ray Renguul singled, but was stranded on first, as fourth batter and second baseman Vince Sablan flied out.

PIC gained only its second win in eight games tying their victim, PSS, and CHC, for the 15th to 17th place in the team standings.