When the Wayne County Men’s Softball League semifinals get underway next Tuesday evening, Joe’s Ranch House will be among the last four teams still standing.

This week, the Beach Lake lads closed out their quarterfinal series with a 5-2 win over Radio Shack of Hamlin.

With this victory, Joe’s moves on to the semis where they will square off against Wargo Flooring. Game One of this best-of-three set is scheduled for Tuesday night at the Hamlin Elementary School diamond.

Solid Showing
Joe’s Ranch House wasted no time getting on the scoreboard in this one.

The visitors plated two runs in the top of the first and never looked back en route to a solid 5-2 victory.

Scotty Beilman led off the contest by ripping a solo homer to dead center. Three batters later, Brett Hopkins trotted in courtesy of a Pete Steffen sacrifice fly, giving the Ranch House an early 2-0 lead.

Craig Ciarrocchi delivered the big blow in a 4-run fourth. Ciarrocchi collected a pair of RBIs when he lashed a triple. Craig’s clutch hit plated Justin Swanick and Ray Steffen.

Rob Spaulding was the start-er and winner for Joe’s Ranch House. The veteran southpaw turned in a complete game ef-fort, scatterig nine hits over the course of seven innings.

Lloyd Swisher toed the rubber for Radio Shack and suffered the hard-luck loss.

Hopkins and Swanick paced the Ranch House attack with two hits each. Eddie Figueroa led the Hamlin squad with two hits in three at-bats.

Score by Innings...
JRH  2  0  0  3  0  0  0 - 5
RSH  1  0  0  1  0  0  0 - 2