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BY MATT HICKMAN
HERALD/REVIEW
BISBEE — The Bisbee Copper Kings criss-crossed the state on Thursday to take aim at perhaps the best team in the National Baseball Congress tonight and Saturday.
The Havasu Heat, based in Lake Havasu City, were last season’s NBC national champions and this year, they are 17-1 and ranked No. 2 in the association’s national poll.
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“Casa Grande was able to win one game against them,” Kings’ manager Butch Hammett said. “It’s going to be a challenge. But, if we play at the top of our game we’ve got a chance. Only time will tell.”
The Kings will send Jason Kimzey, who has started every game one of every weekend series so far this season, to the hill in tonight’s 4 p.m. opener.
In the nightcap, Hammett will send Jarod Dumont, a pitcher from Sonoma State University (California) and friend of Copper Kings’ pitcher Jason Gustavson to the mound to face the Heat at 7 p.m.
The friends met up at Lake Havasu earlier in the week and will meet their Copper Kings teammates there.
Hammett plans on starting former Buena pitchers Jacob Thomas and Calen Pennington in Saturday’s doubleheader.
“From there, we’re just going to staff it and do the best we can,” Hammett said.
The Kings will also be without Sergio Davila, who is starting a new job with the Customs Department Monday and can’t travel, and they’ll be missing starting center fielder Richard Hummel who is getting married in Sierra Vista Saturday.
