The Alexandria Attakids knocked the Washington Gray out of first place in the WARBL AA Division, beating them 8-6.

The Tenleytown Brewers won another close game, 4-3, defeating the Northern Virginia Knights. 

The Fairfax Astros offense kept putting the ball into play against the Alexandria A's, and handed the A's only their second loss of the season - but it was a doozy, 11-1.  Both Lohrmans spent time on the mound for the A's and both were ill treated.  The Astros' Tokarz went 8 innings and allowed only 4 hits to get the win.

The Metro Storm struck quickly against the Falls Church Baron last night and took a 1-0 lead in the first inning.  After that, both offenses went quiet.  The Storms' Julian no-hit the Barons until the bottom of the 7th.  The Barons duo of Rice and Davis held their own, allowing no runs after the first as they combined for 10 K's.  The score remained 1-0 in favor of the Storm until the bottom of the 8th when the Barons' Mageras, bad hamstring and all, smacked a bases loaded double to give the Barons their first lead of the game. The Barons left the 8th with a 4-1 lead and Davis closed out the top of the 9th with 3 quick strike outs preserving the Barons 4-1, win.

No other action last night proved as competitive as the NV Blues beat the Senators Baseball Club, 19-5, the Alexandria/Arlington Senators defeated the Vipers, 11-3, and the DC Cardinals won against Murphy's Green Sox, 10-3.

The Alexandria A's and the Falls Church Newshounds have had some real battles over the years, and today was pretty much the same. The A's got a 2 run homer from Omeir as part of a three run first inning. They needed that as the teams played even the rest of the way, with Whippich going 8 for the Newshounds who just could not overcome that first inning, and lost, 5-2.

Murphy's Green Sox also fought hard today, gaining a split with the NV Blues while playing with only 8. Green Sox took the first game, 8-7 behind a strong pitching performance from Murray and great offensive performance from Cain. The second game was dominated by solid Blues pitching, and an 11-2 Blues win.

The Falls Church Barons took on the AAA Fairfax Astros today and played them even, as the teams tied at 2 after 10 innings. The Barons struck first in the bottom of the 3^rd when Hussey doubled to left and scored off a Rodriguez groundball hit to the right side of the field. The Astros responded quickly in the top off the fourth when Berio scored of a double by the Astros' Lee. The Barons' Nelson and the Astros Ryan then hooked up in a scintillating pitchers duel. The Barons threatened once again in the top of the 7^th, but were unable to muscle any runs in after having the bases loaded. The Barons did breakthrough in the 8^th when Hussey singled and eventually scored from third on an errant throw from the Astros' catcher. The Barons' Nelson took his 1 hitter into the bottom of the 9^th trying for a complete game win. But the Astros' Viczorek singled to start the inning. The Astros then got men on 1^st and 2^nd with one out. Nelson, tiring a bit, managed to induce what seemed to be the game ending double play ground ball but an error on the throw to first allowed Viczorek to score and tie the game. Extra innings saw both teams threaten but neither was able to push the winning run in. Time limit ended the game in a 2-2 tie.

The Alexandria/Arlington Senators took two from the Alexandria Attakids, 9-3 and 6-5.

The Tenleytown Brewers took two from the DC Cardinals, winning the first in 9 innings, 5-4, after the Cardinals took a 4-3 lead in the top of the ninth.  In the second game, the Brewers got three runs in the second as a result of a dropped fly ball, and that was the margin of their 4-1 win.

The Northern Virginia Knights beat the Metro Storm, 4-2.

Are the Alexandria A's peaking too soon?  A's 15, Senators Baseball Club 2.  Lohrman got the win, and T. Bell hit 2 HR, including one over the scoreboard in centerfield.  Omeir added another HR for the A's.

The NV Blues and the Fairfax Astros had another of their closely fought games with the Blues winning, 6-3.

The AA contest was the better game.  The squads were very evenly matched with neither team ever leading by more than one at any point and the lead changed hands about as often as it could have done.  The score stood 0-0 until the VA side took a 1 run lead in the fourth on a rundown play that allowed the runner from 3rd to score.  After 4 shut out innings, the Barons' Hussey turned the ball over to his teammate Lord in the 5th. The WARBL team quickly took advantage of the pitching change to produce 2 runs and a 2-1 lead.  Both teams scored again, and WARBL led 3-2 going into the 7th.  However, in the 7th, the VA side made all three outs on non batting plays; two caught stealing and one picked off.  The VA side capitalized on the momentum gained after WARBL ran itself out of any chance of scoring in the seventh by scoring the tying run on a Barons' Caylor RBI single.  VIRGINIA then took the lead on a SAC fly by the Storms' Chavez, when the WARBL catcher could not quite handle the throw from the outfield that actually beat the runner, but was just a little off line.  The Barons closer Mardeusz took the mound in the 9th and quickly K'd the first two WARBL batters.  However things got dicey from there.  A Grays hitter smacked a  hit into Right Field and after a walk and a hit batter, the bases were loaded.  But then Mardeusz struck out the last WARBL batter swinging at three straight fast balls to earn the save.  The Barons' Nelson got the win in the thrilling 4-3 VA AA victory.

In the AAA game, the VIRGINIA side got two in the first inning on a botched play.  With a runner on second, the VIRGINIA batter hit a comebacker to the WARBL pitcher who turned and had the runner hung up between second and third.  However, in the ensuing rundown, an errant throw from the second baseman allowed that runner to score and the hitter to advance to third.  The next VIRGINIA batter hit a fly to right that was just deep enough to be an RBI SAC, and WARBL started the second inning down 2-0.  Those two proved to be all the VIRGINIA side needed, although they scored two more late in the game.  The VIRGINIA pitchers keep WARBL from generating much on offense.  In WARBL's only real chance of scoring in the third inning, Havrilla had a nice defensive play in center field, easily gunning down Leonard as he tried to score from 2nd on Saul's single.  Saul had a couple of hits for WARBL, but VIRGINIA's Berio was the Game MVP, going 3-3 with 1 RBI, 2 SB, and 1 R.  Tharp got the start and the win for VIRGINIA, and Bell and Sandoval each struck out the side in their 1 IP in 4th and 9th, respectively.  Casagrande, Dugan, and Bruton also pitched, with all VA pitchers combining for the shutout and 15 K's in the 4-0 win for VIRGINIA.

In the Home Run Derby after the game, Tommy Bell edged out Greg King in the final round playoff.

The Falls Church Barons got two today against the Washington Grays.  Game one was a battle of Ace's.  Nelson of the Barons threw a 1 hitter and the Gray's Lazeroff threw a 4 hitter.  But two of the Barons' hits were dingers.  Maradeusz hit a 3 run shot and Pearson had a solo, and the Barons took the first game, 5 to 0.

The Barons' Hussey went the distance in game 2, and he also helped himself at bat, combining with Rodrigues and Davis for 5 RBI as the Barons won the second game, 9 to 5.

The Alexandria A's got two early, but that was all they got as Lohrman hooked up with the NV Blues' Dugan in their game at Cora Kelly.  The Blues got one in the eighth and a couple of runners on in the ninth, but could not catch up, and the A's won, 2-1.

The Tenleytown Brewers' Johnsen hit a 2 run HR in the first against Murphy's Green Sox, and that was all the Brewers needed as Chwert tossed a one hitter for a 5-0 win.

In the second of the Brewers/Green Sox DH, Sargeant and Smith combined for a 2 hitter, and the Brewers completed the sweep with a 5-1 win.

The D.C. Bears pulled to within a half game of first place in the WARBL AA Divison by taking two from the Alexandria Attakids, 10-1 and 18-2.

The DC Cardinals finally got some offense going, beating the Senators Baseball Club, 10-2.

Tharp went the distance for the A's tonight, but it was almost too much.  The teams each had leads early until the A's went up 5-2 in the seventh, and that was the score going into the bottom of the ninth.  However, the Blues got two in the ninth and had the tying run at second and the winning run at first before the game ended, 5-4, A's.  Wagner got a clutch go ahead RBI in the seventh that put the A's up for good.