Buck’s runners-up in softball
By Kevin Sjoberg
Sports Reporter
PRESQUE ISLE — Griffeth Ford won all four games it played to capture its third consecutive Caribou-Presque Isle Men’s Softball League playoff title.
Staff photo/Kevin Sjoberg
RUNNERS-UP — Members of the men’s softball tourney runners-up Buck Construction team, based in Presque Isle, are, in front from left, Brian Andrews and Aaron Hutchins. Middle row, Mike Patenaude, Marshall White, Sam Harris, Tony Baker and Brandon Bell. Back, Derrick Kinney, Ron Doughty, Ken Cameron, Corey Belanger, Steve Spooner, Jeremy Tarr and Richard Kinney.
In the championship game, played Aug. 6 at the pool field, Griffeth Ford made easy work of Buck Construction with a 16-1 victory.
The winners put together three-run rallies in both the second and third innings and then completed the rout by scoring eight times in the top of the seventh.
Philip St. Peter, Stephen St. Peter, Seth McCrossin, Butch O’Clair and Cameron Anderson had hits to fuel the second-inning outburst, while Clinton St. Peter and his sons, Philip and Stephen, had consecutive safeties an inning later.
Stephen St. Peter’s two-run home run and Brian Morrison’s three-run blast spearheaded the offense in the final frame.
Buck’s lone run came across in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI hit off the bat of Tony Baker. Their offense struggled throughout most of the game as they logged only eight hits.
Philip St. Peter went 4 for 4 to lead Griffeth Ford at the plate. Anderson and Stephen St. Peter notched three hits each.
Jeremy Tarr was the lone repeat hitter for Buck Construction, notching a pair of hits.
Griffeth Ford beat Buck’s in its first game of the tourney, played Aug. 3 in Caribou, and also topped the County Boys that evening.
They recorded a victory over T.W. Willard in a battled of undefeated teams the following afternoon in Presque Isle before awaiting Buck’s, who won four in a row after that initial loss to make it to the championship.
