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Academy of Music Movie Premiere
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On Saturday February, 11th @ 7:30pm Corey Moquin and Joe Paul will present "In The Valley" at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton. Corey is the son of Kyle Moquin of the Southwick Dirt Dogs. See below for ticket information.
2011 Central Mass. Fall Classic
The Tobacco Valley Cubans headed out to the rain soaked fields of Leominster on the weekend of October 1st/2nd to take part in the Central Mass.Fall Classic baseball tournament. The Cubans were hoping to make it back to the finals where they lost to the Central Mass All-Stars in 2010.
Despite a valiant performance by Ron Viens who pitched both scheduled games for the Cubans on Saturday, they could only manage a split. In the first game Viens came in relief of Cuban starter Steve Fluery who after only 9 pitches snapped the elbow in his pitching arm while delivering a curveball. Viens pitched well enough to win but the Cubans could only manage 5 hits and in a 3-1 loss to the Whalom A's.
In the second game Viens got much better support as the Cubans jumped all over the Lithium Indians by plating 3 runs in the first inning and 5 more in the second inning. Kyle Moquin,Mike Maier and Ralph Edwards had 2 hits each to lead the Cubans. Viens pitched 4 scoreless and hitless innings.The game would be shortened due to rain.
On Sunday the Cubans would need a victory over the Mass. Minutemen to advance to the playoff round. After surrendering a 1-0 lead in the first inning the Cubans would score 4 runs of their own in the second inning. Kyle Moquin started things off with 1 out when he was drilled with a 22mph fastball to advance to first base. Mike Whatley and Dan Pankowski would then hit back to back singles to load the bases for Matt Coz would drove in 2 runs with a single of his own. The Cubans would plate 2 more runs after hits by Teddy Davis and Randy Shoemaker. That would be all for the Cubans though as they were held scoreless for the remainder of the game. the Cubans held the lead until the 5th inning until the Minutemen scored 5 times on some well placed ground balls,some errors and a long double erasing any hopes the Cubans had of returning to the championship. The Minutemen added 2 more runs and went on to an 8-4 victory. Mike Maier pitched very well despite the loss. The Minutemen would eventually go on to win the Championship.
Dan Pankowski(.667,3 runs),Mike Maier(.429), Ralph Edwards(.429,2 rbi's),Kyle Moquin(.429,3 runs), Mike Whatley(.429, 3 rbi's) and Matt Coz(.400,4 rbi's) led the Cubans hitting attack.
Dirt Dogs Capture 2nd Title in Three Years
September 26, 2011 – 10:33 PM —
McKenzie Field, Holyoke, MA - The Southwick Dirt Dogs overcame an early 3-0 deficit to defeat the Enfield Warriors 13-8 and claim their 2nd WMWBL Title in the past 3 years. The Dirt Dogs, who won the regular season championship were the #1 seed in the playoffs. They defeated the Palmer Knights 2 games to none to move onto the League Championship Series. The Warriors, the #5 seed, defeated the Westfield Wolverines and the Springfield Senators on their way to the series. This was the third consecutive year that the rivals have met in the finals. Southwick took game 1 behind the strong pitching of Bryan Biuso, 7-4. In game 2, Enfield turned a 3-3 game in the sixth into a 9-3 advantage by scoring 6 runs with timely hitting and with the help of some Dirt Dog miscues. In game 3, the warriors jumped out to an early 3-0 lead. Southwick would come back to tie the game at 3. The teams would then exchange leads again before the Dirt Dogs erupted for 6 runs in their half of the 6th. Adam Parisien came on to pitch the final 4 innings for the Dirt Dogs and shut the Warriors down.
Finals Game 2
Enfield 11 Southwick 3(series tied 1-1)
Finals Game 1
Southwick 7 Enfield 4 (Southwick leads series 1-0)
Playoffs 9/15:
Enfield 6 Springfield 4 (Enfield wins series 2-1)
Playoffs 9/14:
Southwick 13 Palmer 11(Southwick wins series 2-0)
Playoffs 9/13:
Enfield 16 Springfield 14(series tied 1-1)
Playoffs 9/11:
Southwick 1 Palmer 0 (forfeit, Southwick leads series 1-0)
Springfield 9 Enfield 4 (Springfield leads series 1-0)
Playoffs 9/9:
Enfield 10 Westfield 1 (Enfield wins series 2-1)
Cape Cod Classic
This past Labor day weekend two teams from the WMWBL represented Western Massachusetts at the 17th annual Cape Cod Classic. The Tobacco Valley Cubans and The Harwichport Helmsmen each played three games on the well manicured fields of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
The Helmsmen in their C.C.C. debut were made up of 1/2 Western Mass.players and 1/2 Cape players. They were coached by Ted Davis of the Agawam Bullies and Scott Doncaster of the Cape Cod over 30 baseball league.
Despite some good pitching early in the tournament the Helmsmen would finish 0-3 dropping games to Washington Ct.5-0 and the Middlesex Thunder 6-0. Their final game was not meant to be as the Helmsmen were pounded by Club Franz 16-1. Dan Pankowski(.500 two triples) led the Helmsmen in hitting while Mike Maier and Andre Conde provided solid pitching.
Despite the 0-3 record the tournament could be considered a success based on the number of libations consumed by the Helmsmen during the three day weekend.
The Cubans finished the tourney at 1-2 and had the opposite problem of the Helmsmen. Their hitting was pretty solid but the pitching never showed up.
The Cubans started the tourney by get pounded in both games of a doubleheader on Saturday. In game one against the Ct. Top Hats they fell quickly behind 7-0 after two innings and never caught up. Top Hats 14 Cubans 3. In game two Gavin Clark kept the Cubans in the game for 6 innings against a very good hittting Scituate team before running out of gas in the 7th. Clark left the game in the 7th trailing 5-1. Mike Whatley came in for Clark and clinched the win for Scituate by allowing two sacrifice flys in the seventh and nine runs in the 8th to give the Twins a 16-1 blowout victory.
The weekend would get better for the Cubans as they would face the two time defending tournament champion Framingham Orioles. The Cubans openened up a 7-2 lead in the 3rd inning and watched it quickly fade away as the Orioles added 8 runs in the bottom of the 3rd. The Cubans however would run away from the Orioles after that inning adding five runs in the 4th inning,six runs in the 5th and one run in the 6th to take a commanding 19-10 lead. Adam Parisien shut the Orioles down after the 3rd inning for the next three innings and picked up the win but the Orioles showed why they are the 2 time defending champs by rallying for 5 more runs in the last inning before the final out was recorded on a rundown between 2nd and 3rd base. The Orioles went on to their third straight C.C.C. championship defeating the Middlesex Thunder in the finals 8-6.
Mike Chiarizio(.667, 7 runs),Adam Parisien(.417, 3 rbi's),Jeremy Taylor(.375, 2 doubles,3 rbi's) and Gavin Clark(.333, 5 rbi's) were the hitting stars for the Cubans.
Playoffs 9/1
Palmer 15 Agawam 9 (Palmer wins series 2-1)
Playoffs 8/31:
Enfield 10 Westfield 3 (series tied 1-1)
Playoffs 8/30
Palmer 6 Agawam 5 (Series Tied 1-1)
Playoff games 8/28
All playoff games for Sunday 8/28 have been cancelled. Check the schedule for make up dates
Playoff Results 8/26
Westfield 6 Enfield 5 (Westfield leads series 1-0)
Playoff Results 8/24
Bullies 18 Knights 12 (Bullies lead series 1-0)
Games for tonight (8/25/2011) have been postponed
Games for tonight (8/25/2011) have been postponed and rescheduled for tomorrow night (8/26/2011) same times and locations.
2011 Playoffs
August 21, 2011 —
The first round of the playoffs have been determined. The Bullies will host the Knights beginning on Wednesday 8/24 at St. Joe's Field @ 7:00pm. The following night Thursday 8/25 the Wolverines will host the Warriors at St. Joe's at 7:00pm. For the remainder of the first round playoff schedule click on schedules in the lefthand column. The rest of the playoff schedule has yet to be determined.
Southwick Dirt Dogs 2011 League Champions
August 21, 2011 —
Congratulations to the Southwick Dirt Dogs. The Dirt Dogs(14-6) edged out the Springfield Senators(13-7) on the last day of the season to win their 2nd WMWBL regular season championship.
Cooperstown Classic
On Saturday June 4th a team of players representing the Western Mass.Wood Bat League traveled to Cooperstown N.Y. to take on a team representing the Quabbin Valley Over Thirty Baseball League at historic Doubleday Field. The aluminum bat wielding Quabbin team would prove to be too much for the men of maple as they took down the WMWBL 7-5
The WMWBL team got behind early when the Quabbin team put up a five spot in the second inning on some well placed singles and a couple of errors. The WMWBL would cut that lead in the next inning on a single by Elias "Vene" Madrid that would score Adam Parisien and Tim Trembley making the score 5-2. That score would hold up until the 6th when Quabbin added two more runs to open up a commanding 7-2 lead. The Western Mass. team would not give up easily however as Mike Whatley got things going in the 9th with a line drive single to left with one out.Casey Brown would follow up with another line drive single. Ted Davis Jr.then drove Whatley and Brown home with a line single to right field that would be misplayed by the rightfielder allowing both runners to score and sent Davis to 3rd base. Davis would score on a fielders choice closing the gap to 7-5 but thats as close as it would get as the rally ended with a fly ball out to right field.
It was a great time had by all and a great experience to be able to play at such an historic venue.
Representing the WMWBL were: Tim Trembley,Casey Brown,David Parkhurst,Ted Davis and Ted Davis Jr.from the Bullies. Elias"Vene"Madrid,Ben Burnett,Alex Flores and Mike Whatley from the Senators and Adam Parisien from the Dirt Dogs.
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