Competition Heats Up in Washington

Kristen — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:10:19 +0000

The sun was out as our teams, individual batters and an abundance of volunteers gathered on July 20^th at the Washington Wild Things at Consol Energy Park. The 5^th derby of the season kicked off with local Representatives Brandon Neuman and Robert Matzie going head to head to see which team would claim official bragging rights over the other. They decided that the losing team would have to wear the pink boa on the House floor in order to bring awareness to the Take a Swing Against Breast Cancer® competition. With the help of 8 home runs (7 coming from one batter alone!), Neuman’s Crew won for the second consecutive year, and Rob Matzie will soon be seen publicly in the pink boa, all in the name of breast cancer awareness!

Thanks to all of our teams and spectacular volunteers at the Washington Wild Things. Check out the lineup of teams and individual batters below:

Neuman’s Crew – 2,050 points (Washington Winners!)
Bill Klenoshek’s Team – 1,425 points
Representative Rob Matzie’s Team – 955 points
Washington Financial Bank – 930 points
Individual Batter Bill Klenoshek – 675 points

And our home run hitters included:

Joe Oliphant from Neuman’s Crew — 7
Nick Bridge from Neuman’s Crew — 1
Individual Batter Bill Klenoshek–1

Congratulations to batter Bill Klenoshek, who is currently our overall individual batter winner with 675 points and of course our 7-home-run-batter Joe Oliphant! Thank you to everyone who came out to the Washington Derby, and special thanks to the staff at Consol Energy Park for your support and entertainment throughout the day! Our volunteers truly appreciated the dance music in between batters! Everyone that was there made this a very energetic, silly and successful event for the PBCC. View all the photos from our day at the ballpark here.

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Competition Heats Up in Washington