Dyersville Tournament Preview

The Ramblers (23-14) travel to Jenk Field to play the Farley Hawks at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in first round action of the 60th annual Dyersville Tournament. It will be the fifth meeting of the season between the two teams. Key West has taken three out of the first four contests.

Cole Boge will take the mound for the second straight game for the Ramblers, who have been off since Monday night's victory over Dyersville. Boge threw a nine-inning complete game against Dyersville to pick up his fourth win of the season. He lowered his ERA to 3.55.

Key West last played Farley July 30. Farley dominated that game, winning by an 11-0 score. The Ramblers won the first three meetings, each by just one run. Key West has had success against Farley the last several seasons, however, the Ramblers dropped four of six to Farley in 2009, losing by a combined total of seven runs in the four losses. In the most important game pitting the two teams, Key West beat Farley in the Prairie League semifinal game.

Farley has been hot of late as they beat Balltown 9-0 Thursday and drubbed Cascade 12-3 on Friday. Kevin Corkery picked up the win over Balltown, while Russ Bolibaugh earned the victory against Cascade. This perhaps gives Farley the option of throwing ace pitcher Andy Seabrooke in Sunday night's date with Key West.

The Ramblers will counter with a lineup that boasts four regulars with batting averages of at least .336: Jared Munson .402, Dan Spain .396, Tim Carty .341 and Chris Briggs .336. Briggs leads the team in home runs (6), RBI (29) and total bases (67).

Should Key West win Sunday, it would advance to play the winner of Cascade/Balltown Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.

On the opposite side of the bracket, Dyersville, Peosta, Zwingle and Bernard all won first round games played Thursday and Friday.

Saturday games:

Dubuque vs. Rickardsville, 7 p.m.

East Dubuque vs. Bellevue, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday:

Cascade vs. Balltown, 6 p.m.

Key West vs. Farley, 8:30 p.m.