Saturday, May 10, 2008

Giants Rebound Against Evanston Rebels in the First of

Four Scheduled in Tourney Play
EVANSTON, Wy. (JHYB)
By, Chris Moulder

Giants Lineup-
1. Colter Huhn 3rd Base
2. Charlie Wild 2nd Base
3. Grant Smith 1st Base
4. Sky Garnick Center Field
5. Carlos Toledo Catcher
6. Bryn Windle Right Field
7. Lucas Moulder Pitcher
8. Patrick Renz Shortstop Starter Lucas Moulder dominated from the mound
9. Dusty Treick Left Field

Substitutes-

Cord Schultz Andy Renz

Ian Chapman Paul Vik
Ethan Moulder

Giants fans were a little nervous

showing up to the Evanston High School
Baseball Field after a long car ride down
in the morning. The question everyone
was asking; can our hometown heros get 3rd base coach Jeff Bedford gives a complicated signal to the batter
their rythmn together and start playing their game the way they have in the past? The previous
weeks performance was still fresh on the minds of fans as they speculated about the days events
prior to game time and although everyone wore optimism on their faces, they still had concern in
their eyes.
The visiting Giants started the inning with Colter Huhn executing a perfect bunt down the
3 base line and easily beating Evanston Rebel 3rd sacker, Hicks’s throw by a step. Returning
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from Laramie for the summer, veteran Giant Charlie Wild followed Huhn and was hit by a wild
pitch and got a free pass to 1st. Grant Smith followed Wild and as well, waited for a delivery to
 swing at that never came from the
Rebel Pitcher, Colangeld who
seemed to be plagued with the
same mysterious ailment our
Jackson pitchers had in Montana
the week before.
Now with the bases
loaded, clean-up hitter Sky
Garnick approached the plate and
drove the first pitch into deep
right-center field for a stand up 2
RBI double. The Jackson faithful
Colter Huhn gets congrats from 1st base coach Matt Wild after his successful
were finally able to breath a sigh of
bunt
relief and then got downright silly
as Carlos Toledo crushed a triple
to deep left-center scoring
Garnick. The pitcher Colangeld
must have been rattled as he
walked Bryn Windle who was
followed by Lucas Moulder.
Moulder also watched the first two
pitches as they were off of the
strike zone before going to the
opposite field with an outside
strike doubling and scoring
Carlos Toledo relaxes after reaching 2nd safely
Windle. The merry-go-round
didn’t stop there as #9 hitter Dusty
Treick was able to load the count and force another walk out of Colangeld. Batting around for
the first time of the season, Colter Huhn shot a dying quail over 2nd baseman Mike Woody’s
head scoring Moulder from 2nd. Charlie Wild up for the second time in the 1st inning hit a deep
sacrifice fly to right field scoring both Treick and the zippy Huhn. The inning ended with Grant
Smith hitting a high chopper to the 3rd baseman who converted the throw to an out to end
Evanston’s early inning woes…..defensively. Offensively, the Rebels had no idea what they
were in for as Lucas Moulder took the mound with a determiniation to redeem himself from the
awkward outing in Three Forks, Montana the week before. The first victim, Colangeld went
down swinging with 3 straight strikes.
Moulder tried mixing up his pitches with the #2 batter, Hicks and walked him bringing up
Ochinero who looked at 3 and sat down. Rebel clean-up hitter, JR Woody hit a routine ground
ball to 3rd where Giants 3rd sacker Colter Huhn casually scooped it up and threw a rope to 1st
baseman, Grant Smith to retire the side.
 With a 9-0 lead after the first inning our Hometown Heroes settled into the 2nd inning
confident to pack more runs on and pack them on they did with a lead off double from Garnick,
an RBI single from Toledo, Bryn Windle reached base on an error from Rebel first baseman,
Gary Richardson and was followed by a slow rolling infield base hit by Moulder. With the
bases full, Dusty Treick again proved too patient for the Rebel pitcher and walked for the second
time thereby scoring Bryn Windle, resulting in an RBI the easy way for Treick. Later, the #2
hitter, Charlie Wild hit a beautiful RBI single scoring Moulder which tacked on a total of another
4 runs before the Giants were retired.

Returning veteran Charlie Wild hits a single in the gap

When the Giants took the field, they weren’t there long as Moulder made quick work of
the lower end of the Giants order sitting down three of the next four batters as they looked at
each other wondering what had just happened. The rest of the game was more of the same
offensively with the Giants commanding the bats by way of more hits from Garnick, Toledo,
Renz, Moulder, Windle, Wild and Smith. The Giants outhit the Rebels 20-5 in the game
resulting in an amazing .556 team batting average.

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Figure 1Grant Smith reaches out and touches the ball for Charlie Wild gets a head start on the hit and run, while 1
a single base coach and big brother Matt looks on
Wrap-up-

Notable hitters for Jackson were Sky Garnick who had a perfect game at the plate going 5
for 5 with 3 singles and 2 doubles. Rookie sensation Carlos “The Torpedo” Toledo also went 5
for 5 hitting 3 singles and 2 triples. Lucas Moulder faired well at the plate hitting 3 for 4 with 2
singles, 1 double and a walk.
Defensively, Lucas Moulder held court over the Rebels striking out 9 and only giving up
2 hits before being replaced for the last 1/3 of the 4th inning by reliever Sky Garnick who
promptly hit the first batter he faced, perhaps sending him a message but exactly what the
majority of Garnick’s messages are, usually remain a mystery. After delivering the telegram,
Garnick then got the Evanston #1 hitter to fly out to right field, which was the only ball hit out
of the infield by the Rebels.

Box Scores-

Player AB R H RBI SO BB E SB B.AVG

Huhn 5 2 2 3 2 1 1 0 .400
Wild 3 1 2 4 0 2 0 0 .666
Smith 5 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 .200
Garnick 5 5 5 2 0 0 0 0 1.000
Toledo 5 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 1.000
Windle 3 3 1 0 1 2 1 0 .333
L. Moulder 4 3 3 2 0 1 0 0 .750
Renz 3 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 .333
Treick 1 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 .000
Vik 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000

Team Batting Average- .556

Game Score- Jackson Giants (visitors) 22

Evanston Rebels (home) 3

Pitcher Statistics-

Pitcher W/L/S IP AB R H SO BB HB

L. Moulder W(1-1-0) 4 2/3 17 1 2 9 4 0

Garnick -(0-0-0) 1 1/3 10 2 3 1 3 0
It appears that last weeks on-field practices and drills were exactly what was needed to knock the
rust off of our Hometown Hero, Jackson Giants. This was a very important win for the Giants
as it bolstered the teams confidence and enthusiasm and it became very apparent that last
weekend is truly in the past.

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Sky Garnick taunts the pitcher with a lead off 1

Sky Garnick laughs as he delivers a strike Lucas Moulder and Colter Huhn share a quiet moment while
traveling back to Jackson to escort their dates to Prom