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DCCA extends winning run to 10
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Posted on Jan 21 2009
Defending champion Department of Community and Cultural Affairs is still unscathed in the men’s division of the 2008 Inter Government/Business Softball League claiming its 10th win in as many games Friday night at the Capital Hill Ballfield.
An 18-3 demolition of the Commonwealth Health Center put DCCA halfway from sweeping the regular season. There are 20 teams vying for the men’s championship this year and the defending champion is the lone unbeaten squad in the big field.
Centerfielder Julian Camacho and catcher Jun Saralu had one homer apiece in DCCA’s easy win with the latter going 3-for-3 at the plate and scoring three runs and three RBIs. Saralu was only 2-for-4 at-bat, but he made four RBIs.
First baseman Jonathan Tenorio was perfect at-bat hitting 3-for-3, while second baseman Joey Dela Cruz went 3-for-4, had two doubles, and two RBIs.
DCCA was 21-for-30 at the plate for an impressive batting average of .700.
CHC, which absorbed its seventh loss in 10 games, fared poorly at-bat going only 9-for-28 for an average of .321. It never scored more than one run in an inning.
Shortstop Bradley Nginaki put CHC in the scoreboard at the top of the first on a Henry Reyes double.
But DCCA answered with a seven-round bottom of the first, highlighted by Saralu’s two-run homer to take the lead.
The defending champions never looked back from thereon, adding five runs in the second, three in the third, and three more in the fourth, courtesy of Camacho’s round-tripper.
CHC had to bleed for runs in the succeeding innings, making only one in the second on a Tom Diaz single, which drove Rick Kaipat home. It’s third and last run came in the fourth inning on Al Ngiraibuich’s sacrifice fly.
The game concluded after only four and a half innings when CHC’s first two runners were thrown out on a 1-3 putout play and a fly out. CHC’s third batter Vince Rabauliman advanced on a pitcher’s error, but was stranded on first when Kaipat flied out to center for the third out.
The two other games Friday night were cancelled due to rain.
DCCA was supposed to collide with CHC in the women’s division game, while the other men’s match was to feature the Beach Boys against Law & Order.
