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August 17, 2012

Area Sports Briefs

Anonymous Daily Star The Daily Star Fri Aug 17, 2012, 03:30 AM EDT

Miller/Jack's wins men's softball title

Miller Financial/Jack's Pub won its first playoff championship in the Oneonta City Men's Softball League with a 23-16 victory over Ruffino's/OBGC on Thursday at Field 4 in Neahwa Park.

Regular-season champion and top-seeded Miller/Jack's opened the best-of-3 championship series Aug. 7 with an 11-7 defeat of Ruffino's/OBGC, which forced a tiebreaker with a 10-9 win in Game 2 this past Tuesday.

Ruffino's/OBGC entered the playoffs as the No. 2 seed.

Baseball club to play at Doubleday

The Mutual Base Ball Club of New York will play the Bethpage Village All-Stars in a vintage baseball game at 5 p.m. Saturday at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown.

The Mutuals stand first in the Mid-Atlantic Base Ball League's Union Conference.

The Bethpage All-Stars will feature select players from the three teams that play weekly at Old Bethpage Village Restoration _ the Brooklyn Excelsiors, the Manetto Hill Surprise and the Mineola Washingtons. Bethpage also will be captained by 1974 Oneonta State graduate Bill Bogatz.

For more information about the Mutuals, visit the website nymutuals.com.