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1st Game, August
14th
Fairfield, Conn Sounders 10
Troy, MI Jet
Box
9
Jet Box trailed 9-0 after 2 innings, but
chipped away trailing 9-8 after 8 innings. In the 9th,
Fairfield scored 1 run and Jet Box did the same in the
bottom of the 9th. The tying and winning runs were on base
when on long fly ball was caught for the final out. Andy
Roman had 3 hits and 3 RBI's. Andy Whitney had 1 solo HR and
a single.
2nd Game, August
15th Jet
Box
13
Addison, Ill
Braves 12
Jet Box, leading a see-saw game 8-7 after
8 innings, gave up 5 runs in the top of the 9th, but scored
5 runs in the bottom of the 9th after 1 out. Vic
Breithaupt's single with bases loaded, 2 outs, scored John
Lierman with Jet Box's 13th run. Breithaupt had 4 hits. Rick
Tavormina, Andy Roman, and Matt Viggiano hit HR's. Derek
Kraemer was the winning pitcher in relief.
3rd Game, August
16th Jet Box 7
Brooklyn, NY Cubs 1
Winning pitcher, Dave Marcon, a former
Toronto BlueJay, scattered 6 hits and 1 run in 6 innings.
Mark Jacob, a former Detroit Tiger farmhand, pitched 3
scoreless innings in relief. Dave Cooper started his 40th
birthday with 3 hits. Viggiano and Lierman each had 3 hits.
4th Game, August
16th
Jet
Box 15
Springfield, OH Giants 1
Winning pitcher, Mark Fleming pitched 8
2/3 innings, struck out 10 and allowed 5 hits. Cooper ended
his birthday with 3 more hits. Roman had 3 hits, including a
3 run HR.
5th Game, August
17th Jet
Box
8
FINAL
Fairfield, Conn Sounders 3
Jet Box scored 7 runs in the 1st 4
innings. Viggiano hit a 3 run HR, Whitney a solo HR, and
Captain Rick Vormina was 5 for 5, 1 HR, 1 2B. Bob Bell was
masterful completing his 8 hitter with a called strikeout
ending the game. Fairfield only scored in 1 inning. After a
long wait, this was Jet Box's 29th season, the Box is
National Amateur Federation CHAMPS! Jet Box finished NABF
runner-up in 1976 and 1989. Jim Corte, manager, wants the
nearly 300 former-Boxers to share this championship. 1998
our 30th season will see a reunion of all Box players and a
visit to Cooperstown, NY to play an exhibition celebrating
30 years and current NABF champs. John Lierman, making Jet
Box team through our Gong Show tryouts in April-May, proved
hard work pays off by winning The Most Valuable Player award
in the tournament. Lierman had 4 hits in the championship
game.
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