Elkhart, Iowa

 Albaugh, Inc. ofElkhart, Iowa opened up the 2009 season this past weekend by competing in theQuad City Memorial Day Tournament in Walcott, Iowa.

 Albaugh, ranked 8^thin the ISC Pre-Season rankings, finished 2^nd with a record of 4-1.

 We playedshorthanded this weekend as Terry Luster (Team USA), Chris Miljavac (injury)and Jason Wandler (coaching commitment) were gone for the entire weekend.

 Additionally, BenFjelland, Roman Foore and Jason Darling weren’t able to play the entire weekenddue to commitments.

#8 Albaugh 10 LampLiter (Walcott, Iowa) 1, 6 innings

Alb 021 205-10 121

LL    010000-1     3 2

Darren Dubsky, Karl Gollan (6) and Brian Lammers

Jimmy Hartman, Jerry Ralls (6) and Dave Sabel

WP-Dubsky (1-0)

LP-Hartman

HR-Lucas Goring(1), Tom Owen (1), Albaugh

Lucas Goring, 2-2,2 R HR

Cory Christiansen, 3-4, 2 2B

Tom Owen, 1-3, 3 R HR

Ben Fjelland, 2-4

Matt Darling, 3-3, 2 2B

Darren Dubsky, 5 IP, 11 K

Karl Gollan, 1 IP, 2 K

Homers by Goring and Owen keyed the victory.

 

#8 Albaugh 6 #22 Thomson Area Merchants (Thomson, Ill) 0

Alb   000 303 0-6 60

Tho 000 000 0-0 13

Karl Gollan and Brian Lammers

Andrew Putnam, Rob Bennett (5) and Scott Beal

WP-Gollan (1-0)

LP-Putnam

HR-None

Lucas Goring, 2-3, RBI

Roman Foore, 1-3, RBI 2B

Karl Gollan, 7 IP, 3 K, 1 H, 28 Batters Faced

Albaugh took advantage of 3 Thomson errors which resultsin 4 unearned runs

 

#8 Albaugh 7 New Image (Monfort, Wisc) 4

NI    100 003 0-4 12

Alb 201 013 x-7 94

Bryan Lathrop, Jeramie Holman (6) and Jeff Jahn

Darren Dubsky and Brian Lammers

WP-Dubsky (2-0)

LP-Lathrop

HR-None

Lucas Goring, 2-4

Tom Owen, 3-4, 2B, 3 RBI

Darren Dubsky, 7 IP,13 K, 1 H

New Image tied the game in the 6^th on a pairof Albaugh errors but Tom Owens 2 RBI double proved to be the game winner

With the win Albaugh earned the top seed in Pool B

 

Semifinals

#8 Albaugh 5 #17 Quad City Sox (Bettendorf, Iowa) 0

QC 000 000 0-0 1 0

Alb 103 100 x-5 12 0

Al Rebling, Rusty Parkhurst (4) and Rodney Doak

Karl Gollan and Brian Lammers

WP-Gollan (2-0)

LP-Rebling

HR-Lucas Goring (2), Karl Gollan (1), Albaugh

Jason Darling, 3-4, 3B

Lucas Goring, 3-4, HR, 2 RBI

Tom Owen, 3-3, 2B

Karl Gollan, 1-3, 2 R HR, 7 IP, 7 K, 1 H

Home runs by Goring and Gollan in the 3^rd putAlbaugh up 4-0

 

#5 Midwest Stampede (Bondurant, Iowa) 10 #8 Albaugh 3, 6innings

Alb   003 000-3 8 1

Mw 040 141-10 10 2

Darren Dubsky and Brian Lammers

Sean Whitten and Bob Rostenhauser

WP-Whitten

LP-Dubsky (2-1)

HR-Brian Lammers (1), Albaugh

Tom Owen, 1-3, 3B

Brian Lammers, 1-3, 2 R HR

Matt Darling, 2-3

Roman Foore, 2-3

Darren Dubsky, 6 IP, 3 K

Stampede scored 4 runs with 2 outs in the 2^nd.

Albaugh struck back in the next inning behind a 2-runhomer by Brian Lammers but Midwest was too much

 Albaugh wouldlike to thank Tom Owen and Mark Reitz for helping us out this weekend.

 Albaugh now takesa very long break as we are off until June 26-28 for the Eau Claire Classic inEau Claire, Wisconsin.