Bourne Braves Take the Cape
August 24, 2009 • By Amy Gwaltney, The Breeze
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Three Madison pitchers made history over the summer and helped lead the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League to its first ever championship win. Juniors Trevor Knight, Kevin Munson and Turner Phelps all contributed to a victory the town of Bourne, Mass. has been anticipating for 21 years.
CCBL is the top amateur baseball league mainly for competition among top college baseball players from around the country. The league runs mid-June through mid-August.
The Bourne Braves played the Cotuit Kettleers for the best two of three in the championships. After a game shortened by fog, the Braves won the first game 15-5. The Braves took the title August 12 with a 5-1 sweep over the Kettleers.
The Kettleers made the first run in the second inning, but the Braves make a quick comeback with three runs in the third inning. The Braves continued to hold the lead with two more runs in the fifth and sixth inning while the Kettleers failed to ever make a comeback.
According to Munson, the Kettleers were playing down, as some players had already gone home leaving few pitchers left; yet the braves were playing with a full pitcher roster.
With a town waiting for the title since 1988, the Braves had a stadium full of supporters, some of whom had “been following the team their whole lives,” Munson said.
Munson pitched the final inning and with the last out, he said “I guess Turner and Trevor were the first two people out there and Turner tackled me.” With a scene comparable to the dog pile when James Madison took the 2008 CAA Conference title, Knight said it was exciting and that “we were just like a bunch of kids out there having fun.”
Phelps went 3-3 over 37 innings pitched with a 4.62 ERA, Munson went 0-1 over 15 innings with a 1.80 ERA and Knight, who joined the team halfway through the season, went 2-0 over 9.1 innings pitched with a 2.89 ERA.
Contact Amy Gwaltney at breezesports@gmail.com
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