Tom's Review

Last Monday the team did a great job in earning a split with the Owls,
despite being very short-handed. Somehow, we lost a couple of people
during the day, and at gametime I had only 8 players. Despite my still
very injured hamstring, I had to start at first base. Our starting
lineup was Ed at pitcher, dave at catcher, me at first, Chris Boniface
at second, Lee at shortstop, Al Boyd making his organizational debut at
third base, Joe in left, Al Peterson in center and Dan in right.
Fortunately Dan was able to call a friend who lives close to the field,
and he showed up in the top of the second inning before I had to bat or
have any balls hit at me. Chris Steele showed up just in time to bat in
the bottom of the second and take right field, allowing Dan to move to
first.

As has happened on a number of occasions this season, we started out
fairly slowly at the plate in the first game, but picked up momentum at
the end. Meanwhile the Owls were hitting the gaps in the outfield. So we
lost that game 19-10. In the second game, both teams were scoreless in
the first inning. In the top of the second we went scoreless again, but
the Owls scored 3 in the bottom. Then in the third inning our bats
started to come alive, culminating in a long grand slam home run by Al
Boyd. However, in the bottom of the inning, the Owls laid a six spot on
us to take a 9-4 lead. In the top of the fourth, we responded with 7
runs of our own, with a triple by Chris Boniface and Al's second home
run the highlights, to take an 11-9 lead. But the Owls came right back
with five runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 14-11 lead, with
only 4 minutes left before the time limit.

In the top of the fifth inning, Chris lead off with another triple, Al
Boyd singled him in, Dan hit a homer, Lee singled, Al Peterson singled,
Joe walked, Chris Steele tripled, Ed singled, Dave singled, Chris
Boniface hit his second triple of the inning and his third of the game
and Al singled to drive in Chris. We scored 10 runs in succession, and
somewhere along the way forced the Owls to change pitchers. So entering
the bottom of the fifth, with time well expired, we led 21-14. The Owls
11th batter doubled to lead off the inning, and we committed an error on
the next batter. Ed then buckled down to get the next three batters out,
on a pop-up to Al at third, a fly ball to Chris Boniface now playing
right, and a hard liner to Dan at first to end the game. Final score
21-14, and enough excitement for one night.

I finally realized that I am out a lot of money because I never asked
for participation fees from anyone for either the Spring or Fall,
although Ed offered and has paid me for the Fall. I am asking for $60.00
from everyone who played in both the Spring and Fall seasons, and $30.00
if you played only one season. This will leave me still a little out of
pocket, but it is well worth it.