Shire defeats Mordor, 10-6

MINAS MORGUL - With a capacity crowd of 45,000 in attendance at Blackfield Park, the visiting Shire Conference All-Stars wrecked the Mordor squad, 10-6, narrowing the Mordor lead in the All-Star series to 5-4.

The Shire stepped out to an early lead when Bucklebury's Samwise "The Bat" Peatfingers launched a 370-foot homer into deep right field, scoring Bree's Arwildoc Belebrindil. Mordor came right back with their own pair of runs in the bottom of the 1st with a single from Dagorlad's Moraudoc Leguden scoring hometown hero, Isilborn Imrilron, and another RBI off the bat of Rohan's Thudor Nadrierion that scored Isembard Ploughman of Dagorlad.

In the 2nd, back-to-back homers off the bats of Carrock's Nolak Gnollslurper and Minas Tirith's Binus Anvilworker made it 4-2 Shire.

Then, in the 4th, the Shire exploded for 5 runs to put the game out of reach. An Anvilworker single drove in Old Forest's Gollauman Gandihil, making it 5-2. Then, pinch hitter Mo Catsquisher sent a rocket to the gap in right-center for a double, scoring Gnollslurper and Anvilworker, making it 7-2. Balin Bloodspear of the Titans singled home Catsquisher with the 8th Shire run. Finally, Belebrindil doubled home Bloodspear, and the score was 9-2.

Tina Legàl of the Slayers drove home Lothlorien's Razrhot the Smasher in the bottom of the 4th, making it 9-3.

In the 6th, pinch hitter Hudash "Rolling Thunder" Elfprodder of Old Forest sent a solo shot to deep right, giving the Shire a 10-3 lead.

The Mordor team fought back in the 8th when Weathertop's Gorema Gollailob launched a 491-foot, 3-run homer down the left field line, scoring Fosco Bramble of Dunharrow and Minas Morgul's Tanta Chubb. This made the score 10-6, which was the final.

The winner was Lake Town's Geadriel Gamialf. The loser was Parin Saphirecryer of Dagorlad. Binus Anvilworker was named the Player of the Game.

Posted at March 27, 2006 11:00 PM | more from All-Star Game, more from League News