For the last vote of the year, the WEP committee had a problem. In a collective performance that saw their team coming back from a 0W-2L deficit, which player is the most valuable? To avoid a bad answer and because there is no rule against, we have chosen to honor all the members of the Rouen Huskies, not just one, who participated to the victories in games 3, 4 & 5 and in particular for these crucial plays:
– Joris Bert’s outfield assist (relayed by Quentin Becquey) in game 3, that cut a runner at home plate in the first inning
– Luc Piquet’s 2-RBI double in game 3 that gave the lead 2-0
– Jordan Crystal 2-run ball with 8K in game 3 that preserved the Huskies chances
– Owen Ozanich 1-run ball in game 4
– Keino Perez’s save that closed the door in the 8th and 9th in game 4, that tied the series 2-to-2
– David Gauthier’s home run in game 5 that broke the tie
– Rickey Thomas 3-for-4 in game 5 with 2 RBI
– Kenji Hagiwara’s outfield assist (relayed by Luc Piquet) in game 5, that cut a runner at home plate in the 7th inning and preserved the 4 to 3 lead
– Boris Marche, the catcher and captain, that hold the ball despite the runner’s collision
– Anthony Piquet who pitched 2 shutout innings to finish game 5 and gave the title to the Huskies
For all those individual feats and the improbable comeback, the WEP18 is the ROUEN HUSKIES…
Previous Winners:
- WEP 1: Mathieu Brelle-Andrade (Senart Templiers)
- WEP 2: Patrice Briones (Pessac Panthers)
- WEP 3: Frederic Hanvi (Senart Templiers)
- WEP 4: Ernesto Martinez (Senart Templiers)
- WEP 5: Eric Deblanc (Savigny Lions)
- WEP 6: Will Musson (Paris UC)
- WEP 7: Joris Bert (Rouen Huskies)
- WEP 8: Pierrick Lemestre (Savigny Lions)
- WEP 9: Anthony Cros (Montpellier Barracudas)
- WEP 10: Patrice Briones (Pessac Panthers)
- WEP 11: Maximin Monbeig (Paris UC)
- WEP 12: James Murrey (Stade Toulousain)
- WEP 13: Kevin Atkinson (Senart Templiers)
- WEP 14: Pierrick Lemestre (Savigny Lions)
- WEP 15: Owen Ozanich (Rouen Huskies)
- WEP 16: Laurent Andrades (Montpellier Barracudas)
WEP
A committee composed by French Baseball fans Nicolas Millet, François Colombier (Rouen), Nicolas Chalhoub (writer for Honus), Sébastien Verger (umpire and statistician), Pascal Maitrot (statistician for the FFBS, in charge of Elite), Gaëtan Alibert (webmaster and player from the PUC) and Thomas Dormard vote each week for the Week-End-Player.