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Finance cashes in with comeback
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Posted on Oct 18 2005
Eight teams of underhanded longball launchers laced up the cleats for Monday night’s opening of Inter-Government Slow-Pitch Softball League’s 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.’s Chikas, 21-16.
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 “Lego My” Bego Camacho equaled the feat with three singles, a triple, and five runs batted in.
Cabrera also had a strong outing on the mound as Finance’s 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.
“Teamwork—the key is always teamwork no matter what sport you play. It’s not only veterans, it’s also the rookies. We play together and that’s how it happens,” said Cabrera.
Liz Lebria echoed Cabrera’s comments saying that it was a combination of things that led to the win.
“Well I think that everybody’s played well. The pitching, the hitting—it’s teamwork,” said Lebria.
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’s division were blow outs, as the Governor’s 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’ to the Legislature in their 20-8 affair.
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.
