Dan Dreyer runs to 1st during his single

Eamonn McDonough fires away

DJ Johnson catches a pop up

The open division’s post season tourney began on Saturday, August 8th at Spurgeon Field @ Memorial Park. The 2 pm game matched the Braves against Haynes. The two teams were even in head-to-head play during the regular season. The Braves struck quickly plating 4 runs in the top of the first off of Haynes’ starter Shawn Martinez. Haynes then rebounded; scoring a run in the 1st and 3 more in the 2nd off of Braves hurler Eamonn McDonough. Deadlocked after 3 complete, Haynes took the lead in the 4th when Will Jackson led off with homerun to left field. The Braves tied the score in the top of the 6th, but that was short lived as the Black & Gold sent 2 more home in their turn at bat. Trailing 5 -7 after 7 compete, the Tribe scored in the 8th to cut the lead to one. However, Martinez shut the team down 1-2-3 in the top of the 9th to earn the complete game win, while McDonough pitched 8 complete in the loss. In a nutshell the game was won and lost on errors. While Haynes played virtually error-free, a few slight errors in the field by the Braves allowed their opponents to advance on bases, get into scoring position, and take advantage with key hits. This, added by a few base running mishaps, was the true difference in the contest.

Honorable mention goes out to DJ Johnson who was 2-for-3 in the contest with double, a walk, a run and 2 RBI. Dan Dreyer and Mike Acosta each scored twice for the Brave. The team is now matched up against the Athletics and play on Tuesday, August 11th at Wasson Park at 6:30. The winner of that contest will play again on Friday evening.