RR loses to Sight and Sound to end fastball season

Emmanuel Moutsatsos

The Chicago Bulls accomplished it in the early 90s and again later in the decade. The Toronto Maple Leafs did it in the early 60s, while the Oakland Athletics attained the footnote in the early 70s.
And with their 8-5 victory over Rainy River last night, Sight & Sound accomplished the rarely seen “three-peat.”
At 8:02 p.m., the lights at VanJura Stadium came alive and so did Sight & Sound, as their starting pitcher, Harvey Flamand, sat down three straight Rainy River batters and got his team on the scoreboard first in the top of the second inning after stepping across the plate from a triple from Marcel Pagée.
Sight & Sound, who came into the playoff as the third seed, didn’t look back, but moved forward by scoring two runs in the bottom of the third and a Gary Noga moon shot made the score 5-0, as his homerun also brought in Pagee, who once again reached base from a triple.
“I squared for the bunt and Murray [Armstrong—Rainy River’s starting pitcher] threw it to the outside, and Murray had it in his head that I was going to bunt, and I thought, ‘It’s not to often that I get into Murray’s head,’” Noga recalled on the play.
Rainy River got on the board in the top of the fifth when Flamand mistakenly hit Blight, which brought in Cam Hanson, who occupied third base for a bases loaded scenario for Rainy River.
Things didn’t look good for Flamand, as the bases were still loaded with nobody out. But Carlson made a nice grab at third base off of a Chorney grounder and then fired a bullet to his catcher, Grant Swire, to tag out Rainy River’s Matt Bartlett.
Marty Armstrong would then pop up a ball into foul territory that was snagged by “Beeker” Watson, who came over from his shortstop position to make the second out. Flamand would cease a single tally after a throwing error brought in Gouliquer to make the score 5-2.
But Flamand would settle down and strikeout Murray Armstrong to end the inning and put Sight & Sound to the batter’s box. It was in the bottom of the fifth where they essentially sealed the win and showed that even when things looked bleak they can turn up blissfully positive.
Vold was up first and made it third base, but only after a mishandle from Rainy River catcher, Gouliquer, who dropped the ball after a strikeout swing from Vold, who geared it towards first base and made it to third after a throwing error.
Swire would strikeout, but Watson was able to put a sacrifice pop-up to right field that would enable Vold to tag up on and score, and then strode Carlson to the plate.
Having already notched two homeruns in the playoffs, Carlson was looking for his third and got it.
“We were missing a couple of our key guys,” said Murray Armstrong, who mentioned Donnie Gall, an all-star catcher, and Matt Ashworth, both of whom had to work.