The Dimona Mean Judeans knocked Penticon from the ranks of the undefeated this week with a 6-4 victory.
Also, Shimshon Hi Tech downed the Dawgs 22-4, the Galil Twisters drubbed the Cerveceros 24-5 and Ziontours beat ReMax-Ra'anana 15-7.
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On Tuesday, Dimona jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a lead-off home run by Ovade Ben Israel and never lost the lead. Yarone Ben Israel (five strikeouts) outpitched Ami Baran (seven strikeouts), surviving a last-ditch Penticon rally.
In the seventh, after scoring one to close the gap 6-4 on an RBI single by Etai Mayerfeld, Penticon had runners on second and third with one out, but couldn't push the tying runs across.
On Monday, Shimshon Hi Tech started slowly but their offense eventually came around, led by the power hitting of catcher Stu Shrader who singled, tripled and mashed a home run over the new left field fence at Kibbutz Gezer.
Rafi Goldmeier had three singles, three runs scored and 4 RBI's against Dawgs slow pitcher Shaul Daya. The defensive play of the game was by 2nd baseman Baruch Tannenbaum ranged into short right field to nab a looper.
Menorah leading light
Sholom Menorah pitched effectively for the Beit Shemesh team and also legged out two infield hits. For the Dawgs, Yigal Rozval hit a three-run home run, and soldier Michael Moronov tripled.
On Tuesday, the B Pool Galil Twisters raced out to a 16-0 lead after two innings over the undermanned B Pool Cerveceros and then cruised to any easy 24-5 victory.
Micah Winston led the Twisters offense going 4-4 with a triple and 4 RBI's, while Tomer Molovinsky was 3-4 with a pair of doubles and drove in 4.
Natan Tamari was 3-4 with a triple and 3 RBI's and Avishai Gross was 2-2 with 4 runs scored.
Kobi Daya allowed 3 runs in 4 innings while striking out 4 while Cerveceros pitcher Yosi Ajzenwaser pitched well but suffered from lack of defensive support as numerous fly balls fell or were dropped behind him.
Bali Bali and Bernardo Esquivel each tripled for the Cerveceros.
On Wednesday, Ziontours' Jeremy Shai turned in his second straight solid performance for Ziontours to beat veteran ReMax-Ra'anana southpaw Dave Leichman. Tom Haskell and Noam Zwilling each banged out a pair of hits for Ziontours. For ReMax, Leichman twice followed hits by son Alon with hits of his own.
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