Eight teams of underhanded longball launchers laced up the cleats for Monday night\u2019s opening of Inter-Government Slow-Pitch Softball League\u2019s single-elimination playoff round, but the women of Finance pulled off the most dramatic win of the night when they rallied from an eight-run deficit to down the Lt.\u2019s Chikas, 21-16.<\/p>\n
Charlene Cabrera pulled all of the purse strings for Finance at the plate by slugging 4-for-5 with four singles, four runs batted in, and four plate crossings in the contest, while \u201cLego My\u201d Bego Camacho equaled the feat with three singles, a triple, and five runs batted in.<\/p>\n
Cabrera also had a strong outing on the mound as Finance\u2019s starting pitcher before Camacho came in to relieve her late in the game, and their team responded by scoring 21 runs off of 22 hits to advance to the championship round tomorrow night.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeamwork\u2014the key is always teamwork no matter what sport you play. It\u2019s not only veterans, it\u2019s also the rookies. We play together and that\u2019s how it happens,\u201d said Cabrera.<\/p>\n
Liz Lebria echoed Cabrera\u2019s comments saying that it was a combination of things that led to the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell I think that everybody\u2019s played well. The pitching, the hitting\u2014it\u2019s teamwork,\u201d said Lebria.<\/p>\n
With the exception of a close match between the Division of Environmental Quality and the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation, all of the games in the men\u2019s division were blow outs, as the Governor\u2019s Office inflicted four more years of fear on the Department of Public Works in a 21-10 spanking, and the Division of Agriculture introduced a bill of whoopin\u2019 to the Legislature in their 20-8 affair.<\/p>\n
With the exception of the longball aficionados, the slaughters were not as exciting as the walk-off single in the bottom of the eighth that sent CUC surcharging into the next round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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