The NEW MBC 15's came out Sunday and collected more hits than Frank Sinatra and Elvis combined. It was a site to behold. TWENTY ONE hits, SIX doubles and THREE balls off the fence. In addition to the hits that fell in cleanly there were line drives and hard hit balls a'plenty. This team swings the bat.
The two doubles each from Tino Peleti (2-5, 3 RBI) and Jake Hawken (2-4, 5 RBI) were no surprises to regular spectators of this team, but it looks like these two will have long ball competition from Quinn Burcham (4-4, 4 RBI and a deep Sac Fly) all year long. There were 12 RBI between these three!
Nick Salle, Nick Reeves, Stuart Fairchild and Riley Duffy each had two hits as well.
The team played fairly solid defense, especially when one considers they had not seen a ball diamond for months.
Excitement also had to be generated over how well this team threw the ball. This team added six new pitchers over last year's roster while loosing just two. And don't forget this team discovered a secret weapon pitcher in Mitchell Smith late last year.
After watching this team in their first outing Coach Cougan was reminded of Karen Moyer's comment at try-outs, "Wow, you have a lot of talent coming to the 15's this year, I expect a lot of wins from this team".
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