The Falcon Baseball and Softball teams are licking their wounds as they make the turn into the second half of the league season. Promising records (22 wins between the two teams, including the boys' early season victory over Junction City) had this reporter as well as fans thinking that this would be the year where the Falcons would challenge for post season opportunities. But a strange and common thing happened to both teams... Marist and Junction City.
The girls were beginning to show chinks in the armor in their last victory as lowly Siuslaw rallied from a 10 run deficit before falling 11-10. Unfortunately, the Lady Falcons would see crooked numbers posted against them in their one game against Marist and a double header at Junction City, wilting 11-0 to the Spartans and falling 14-1 and 13-2 to arch rival JC.
The boys' coming to earth was no less frustrating. First was a 10-2 loss at Marist where pitching phenom Tyler Feltz seemed rattled by a squeezed strike zone. Marist got up early and cruised to an easy victory. That was nothing compared to the debacle at Junction City. Many of the fans said it was the worst defensive inning any had seen.
After staking the Falcons to a 1-0 lead on a Bryson Estrella RBI sacrifice ground out, the Tigers then preceded to take the better part of the next hour elongating the bottom half of the first inning into something grotesque. Forensics on the results were a smorgasbord of errors, passed balls, walks and timely hits that wound up totaling 14 runs as part of a gruesome 20-1 shortened blow out.
The nightcap was perhaps more gut wrenching as Elmira rallied to take the lead in the top of the six 5-4 as Tyler Feltz scored on a passed ball. However, again the bottom of the inning payed no dividends as the Tigers hung a six spot and a sweep of the double header.
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