(From Owensboro)  The Owensboro Oilers are the 2014 Regular Season and Postseason Champions of the Ohio Valley Summer Collegiate Baseball League. The Oilers followed up their League-best regular season record of 27 wins and 13 losses with a four win playoff run. Owensboro took the best-of-three third round Championship series in sweeping fashion, two games to none, finished on Tuesday night with a 4 to 1 score over the visiting Hopkinsville Hoppers.
     Tuesday night's game was scoreless through the top of the 4th inning. The Oilers took the lead with three runs in the bottom of the 4th inning. Morgan Grisham led off the home inning with a single. Alfredo Bohorques reached on an error. Jake Wilson reached safely on a bunt to load the bases. Tyler Rachel delivered a deep RBI sacrifice fly, scoring Grisham and moving Bohorques and Wilson respectively to third base and second base. Christian McHatton followed with a 2-RBI single that brought in both men ahead of him.
     Hopkinsville narrowed the lead with a lone run in the top of the 6th inning. Mitchell Gallagher reached on a fielder's choice that put a walked batter out at second base. Parker Cash followed with a single as Gallagher went to second base. A fly out later, Taylor Ellis RBI singled to plate Gallagher and push Cash onto third base. A foul fly out ended the Hoppers rally.
     Owensboro answered with an equalizing run in the bottom of the 6th inning. With one out, McHatton singled. Braxton Brinkley followed with a double, putting runners on second base and third base. Harold Diaz reached on a fielder's choice that put Brinkley out. Dalton West delivered the two-out RBI single to bring McHatton across. At the end of six complete innings the score was 4 to 1 in the home team's favor. The same score held to become the final.
     Starter Jordan Kesson collected the Chamionship win, throwing six strong innings for the Oilers. Cable Wright and Kevin Meyer combined to attest to Owensboro's deep bullpen, holding down the 7th and 8th innings. League-leading closer Mark Chemello notched the save in the top of the 9th inning , working around a lead-off hit to face just four batters in retiring the last side. Hopkinsville starter Jake McAdams took the season-ending loss. Well-wishes to all the Hopkinsville Hoppers, heading home after this series. The best to all the other OVL franchises as well.
     Owensboro will look back with fondest memories to the talented young men who have been the Owensboro Oilers of 2014. These are the players who claimed the 200th franchise win. They never lost more than two consecutive games all season, and now hold the highest season winning percentage in Oilers franchise history. They have the combined OVL championships an achievement other teams will only be able to match, but never top. They should rightly be proud of themselves, and all Owensboro proud of  them.
     Their on-field success comes because of -- not in spite of -- the hard work of the Owensboro Oilers organization. Congratulations to anyone and everyone who participates with the Oilers. In the league's largest, often most distracted city, dedicated people continue to contribute to keeping the Owensboro Oilers on the field.    
     Winning is appreciated. Championships  are memorable. The true motivation, season after season, for the people behind the Owensboro Oilers is in providing young men the opportunity to characterize themselves through the game of baseball. The 2014 Owensboro Oilers season stands as a lasting testament to a roster of players who did that, and the Oilers baseball fans, who encouraged it happening game by game.