E.A.S.T.

The October Albany tournament is set. October 15 and 16 at the same hotel. Stay tuned for Draft times as we may draft Wed or Thur the week of the tournament.
Hotel:
Best Western Albany Airport
200 Wolf Road
Albany, NY
12205
Rooms are $75 per night. CODE: stratomatic east

The next tournament is Pittsburgh. It will be happening Sep 24/25. Here are the details!

Event address is Calvary Lutheran Church Community Center:
4751 Old William Penn Highway, Murraysville, PA 15668.

The contact person for the event room is Dave Cicek. 412-600-6591.

There are a number of hotels within 10 minutes of the gaming room.
There are 3-2 star hotels that are currently under $100.00.
(Days Inn by Wyndham $72, Red Roof Inn Plus 80$, and Super 8 by Wyndham.81$)

IN:
Paul F
Gary D
Alllen
Shannon
Gene
Dave Squared
The Leong Bros
Dave C
Frank L
John K

POSSIBLE:
Brian F
Jerry
Rolando
Vic 50/50
Bill F
Rob L.
Jeremy K 10%

Congratulations to Ben and Don as they beat Frank in 6 games to win Pittsburgh.

Game 1 – Manoah pitches 7.1 innings against an all lefty lineup in LA-NL giving up only 2 runs (a Leurys Garcia 2 run HR!). Frank gets a leadoff walk and single** off CSeager Xchart in the 9th to bring the tie run to the plate then strikeout and double play with Harper on deck against R Rodriguez. We win 5-2.

Game 2- Frank hits 3 HRs in the first inning vs Lynn. Lynn continues tired and gives up 2 more HRs, Frank slaughters us 10-0 behind Buehler.

Game 3-Frank slaughters us again 13-3 behind 6 HRs (2 by Harper)

Game 4- Don takes over the rolling since I lost 2 in a row. G Marquez hits a Double *** on the hit and run in the 2nd and scores later. Wade hits 3 run HR in the 7th. Machado hits a 3 run HR in the 9th to win going away .We win 10-2.

Game 5- We get an unearned run off F Peralta to take a 2 run lead in the 7th. In the bottom of the 7th, Rondell Actuna gives up single on the Xchart with two outs, nobody on. Then Adames hits a triple so he’s the tie run on third. A walk and Joe Kelly’s tired. We bring in Diaz vs Matt Olsen who walks. Frank pinch hits Varsho with Zunino who strikes out with bases loaded. Goldschmidt hits an insurance HR in the 9th so we win 7-5.

Game 6 – After giving up 3 HRs in the first inning game 2, Lynn has a no-hitter going into the 7th. Frank gets a hit in the 7th and we end up a one-hitter. We hit 5 solo HRs to close out the series 6-0.

Pittsburgh is next up.  This will be a joint East/Jasper region.  Please make sure to declare which region you want it in.

Draft will be held Thursday May 19th at 7pm via Skype.

Hotel info:
Holiday Inn Express Murrysville – Delmont
6552 Route 22, Delmont , PA, PA 15626
724-468-1050

Tournament Info:
Lamplighter Restaurant (right in front of hotel)
6566 William Penn Hwy, Delmont, PA 15626
(724) 468-4545

Please contact Tim (timfinfan@aol.com) to let him know if you are coming!

The Strat-O community is very saddened to hear that one of our avid fellow gamers and long time dear friend, Dave Bengert, of Chicago Illinois, passed away due to complications from acute pneumonia, on Monday, April 18th.  We will never forget Dave’s competitive spirit and support of the game we all love so dearly. He is a genuine soul and we will miss him so much.  Anthony Rizzo just lost his biggest fan.  In lieu of flowers, donations to myotonic.org would be much appreciated.

Visitation is Sunday Apr 24th from 2-6pm at Anthony & Dziadowicz Funeral Homes.  4404 Cameron Ave. Hammond, IN 46327.  (219) 931-2800.  The funeral will be held Monday at 11am.

Norm took the finals over John 4-0.  It was closer than that as the last 3 games were 1 run affairs that ended 4-3 (walk-off single from Matt Chapman in b9), 5-4 (Bryant with a bases loaded walk in t9) and 4-3 (a Goldie bases loaded walk in t5 is the winning run).

After the PM, I was 13-7.  John and Mark were 12-8.  Tim lost a 4-3 heartbreaker to Jeff in PM game 3 where he stranded the tying run at 3^rd in the 9^th to finish with a 10-9 record or he could have forced his way into a shoot-out by winning game PM game 4.  John beat Mark 3-1 in the semis.

Congrats to Norm!