Oilers say goodbye to Wichita

Sedalia sends Alaskans packing

Wolford and the relief corps kept it close, but the
Oilers' bats couldn't come from behind.

The year is finally over for the Peninsula Oilers, who were bounced from the NBC World Series tournament this morning by the Sedalia Bombers of the MINK league by a final score of 5-3. Alaska's lone representative of the ABL will be packing it in for another long off-season.

This Oilers were roughed up early as Ryan Wooley surrendered four runs in his 4.2 innings pitched. The team's relief corps was largely effective, but the Peninsula crew failed to put enough runs on the board to catch up. Several of their biggest bats -- Wittels, Gebhart, Bermudez, Charles, and Theunissen -- went hitless on the day.

The devastating blow comes less than a day after the Oilers kept their championship hopes alive with a wild 4-3 victory over the League City Hornets. The Alaskans snatched the victory with a ninth-inning walk-off single from the bat of James Lilley. All of that was for naught, though, as today's loss seals the team's fate.

On that note, I would like to congratulate the Peninsula Oilers on a great season. It may not have ended the way they had hoped, but this is a vastly improved club from last year and they deserve all the praise that can be heaped upon them. Well played, Oilers.