Sportsman Wightman Booms 3 HRs
<Dan Wightman:player#6851> went yard three times in a <St. Louis Sportsman:team#10> victory over the <Louisville Sluggers:team#18> at Louisville Park today.

"I was in a groove," he said. "Every pitch they tossed up there looked like a grapefruit."

For the day, the <St. Louis:team#10> first baseman went 4-for-6 against <Louisville:team#18> with 9 RBIs and 4 runs scored in a brilliant display of power hitting that led the Sportsman to the 14-8 win.

"I tell you what. I'm shocked because I didn't think that last ball had enough to get out," he told BNN reporters in the clubhouse following the game. "I thought it was just going to be a long out."

<Dan Wightman:player#6851> flied out in the 1st, hit an RBI single in the 2nd, hit a two-run home run off <Manny Pacheco:player#9871> in the 3rd, hit a two-run home run off <Manny Pacheco:player#9871> in the 5th, struck out in the 7th and hit a GRAND SLAM off <Eric Plummer:player#11674> in the 8th.

This season <Wightman:player#6851> is batting .397 with 36 RBIs, 31 runs scored and 11 home runs.