En Fuego wins 2009 Riverside Fall League

RIVERSIDE, IL - En Fuego was the best team on the field on Saturday averaging over 25 runs a game in the playoffs to win the 2009 Riverside 12 Inch Fall League Championship. En Fuego easily topped Mercenaries and Rumors before taking on R2D2 in the championship game. En Feugo took an early lead and R2D2 fought back to make it a 1-run game at the end of 3 innings but it was not enough as En Feugo went on to win by a score of 15-11.

En Fuego was led by the top two batters in their lineup, both Pete Wengerski and Dan Cashin scored 8 runs between the two of them. Cashin added 2 HR and 8 RBIs in the championship game to finish with 6 HR and 17 RBIs while batting .800 for the playoffs to take home the Playoffs MVP.

News and Notes

-This is the 2nd championship for En Fuego in the 4 years they have been in the league. Their previous championship was in 2007.

-En Fuego finished the playoffs with 15 HR, the most by a team since 10 by R2D2 in 2005.