Thursday, July 30, 2009

A fair share of home runs at the Reading Phillies

Summer has finally arrived in Pennsylvania. What would a beautiful summer day be without a Home Run Derby? The PBCC crew and volunteers took First Energy Stadium by storm today and pumped everyone up for the Derby! PBCC Lehigh Valley Vice President Sandy Cray was on hand to be the voice for the day to lead our teams and volunteers toward the homers.

A total of eight teams came out today to take a swing against breast cancer. Quite a few batters hit home runs! I'll get to that list later. But take a look at the team scores!

Fleetwood Bank - 3.075 points
Reading Express Indoor Football Team 1 - 1,805 points
Reading Express Indoor Football Team 2 - 1,555 points
Berks County Bar Association - 1,415 points
Team Rep. Dave Kessler - 1,285 points
Team Kristyna Eagle - 1.185 points
Tyson-Schoener Elementary School - 1,175 points
The Reading Hospital Regional Cancer Center Radiation Avengers - 935 points

On the Fleetwood Bank team, all four batters hit home runs! Dewey Oriente hit 6, Cody Kulp and Mike Bisenius hit 5, and Tyler Mertzer hit 2! Check out the team with their pink and white home run baseballs! Carmelo Ocasio and Matt Sola from Reading Express Indoor Football Team 1 both hit one homer. And Ian Cooper from Reading Express Indoor Football Team 2 hit one out of the park too!

Screwball from the Phillies hung out with the crowd for a bit. He even went out and fed baseballs into the pitching machine! Thank you to everyone who came out today in Reading! It was a blast! Check out all of the photos on Facebook!

That is all for now!


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