Tuesday, May 11, 2010

“Patriots pick up three wins in four games” plus 1 more

“Patriots pick up three wins in four games” plus 1 more

Patriots pick up three wins in four games

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:19 AM PDT

 YUTAN – The Platte Valley baseball team got in four games last week and won three while improving their season record to 7-11.

 The Patriots opened the week with a narrow 6-5 win over Omaha Roncalli in six innings in Omaha on April 27.

 The Patriots scored a pair of runs in the first inning, but Roncalli answered in their half with three to take the lead into the third inning.

 The Patriots scored four runs in the third inning after getting run-scoring base hits from Austin Allington, Brandyn Smith and Jake Koenig. Roncalli added a pair of runs late on a long home run and a double, but the Patriots were able to hang on for the win behind starter Tyler Peitzmeier.  Peitzmeier didn't have his best stuff, but still managed to strike out 10 in six innings while allowing seven hits and five runs.

 The next night the Patriots remained on the road to take on Arlington.

 The story of the game was the work done on the mound by starter Nick Pease.  Pease struck out six and allowed just one hit and one run in five innings of work.

 Offensively Reid Beranek and Nate Raver sparked the Patriots. Beranek scored a pair of runs and Raver finished with a base hit and RBI.

 "We should be able to put teams away better, but I am still happy with the win and effort of the kids," said Patriot Coach Kurt Finkey.

 It was a rough night for the Patriots on April 29 when they played host to an improved Crete team.

 Crete pounded Platte Valley by a score of 11-0.

 "The score pretty much speaks for itself in this one.  We did not compete at all. I thought our kids were flat and had no fight in them for this one," added Finkey.

 Ryan Ambrose finished with the Patriots' lone hit.

 To the team's credit they bounced back with a convincing win over Omaha Benson in Omaha on May 1.

 "We put together a great effort against Benson. Tyler dominated and everybody was hitting the ball," stated Finkey.

 Every Patriot starter finished with a base hit with Raver leading the way with a double and triple.

 Peitzmeier struck out 10 and allowed just two base runners.

 


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MONAHAN: Bohman, kids are shooting for a cause

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:01 PM PDT

When Eisha Bohman played basketball, she displayed an all-encompassing devotion to the sport. That included practices in addition to games.

Bohman, the CIF San Diego Section player of the year in 1997 and '98 at Rancho Buena Vista High and later a star at Colorado, is taking her passion for the game above and beyond her job as the girls coach at Santa Fe Christian. She's trying to help the world through basketball.

Last Saturday, Bohman joined forces with "Hoops for Hope" in its efforts to build a school, a dormitory and two medical facilities in Zambia by staging a free-throw shooting contest for kids from fourth to eighth grade in Solana Beach.

"It's a different world over there,'' Bohman said. "Some of the kids walk seven or eight miles to school. They live so far away they can't walk home and make it back to school the next morning, so they sleep on the ground at the school until the end of the week.

"I wanted to help open the eyes of these kids in Solana Beach here to just how good they have it and how the rest of the world isn't like here. We complain about things that, compared to what kids of the same age in Africa are experiencing, just aren't that important.''

The Hoops for Hope program, billed as the world's largest shoot-a-thon, was the brainchild of Mesa, Ariz., resident Austin Gutwein in the spring of 2004. After watching a video about children in Africa who had lost their parents to AIDS, Gutwein, then just 9 years old, decided to help.

In the inaugural Hoops of Hope event, Gutwein shot 2,057 free throws and raised almost $3,000, which was donated to help eight children orphaned by AIDS. The organization has raised more than $1.8 million in the last six years.

Bohman, who lived for basketball when she was competing, felt the same calling when she heard about the project four years ago. Under her direction, 70 players in the Solana Beach Cats club program shot free throws for an hour. They raised more than $7,000.

"They shot between 300-350 free throws in that time frame,'' said Bohman, who turns 30 in June. "As small as some of them are, those were all jump shots.

"Most of these kids think everyone lives like they do, without a care in the world. All they know is what happens to them at home and at school.

"Life isn't quite that simple everywhere else.''

Bohman said she wants to make this event an annual affair for the Solana Beach Cats.

Contact staff writer Terry Monahan at 760-739-6648.

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