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Friday, October 24, 2008

Congrats

Congrats on a good season boys. Let's plan a get-together this off-season.

Final Results and Standings Fall 08

8/18 Highlands #3
8:00 (H) Dirtbags (W, 12-7)
9:00 (A) Dirtbags (W, 14-8)

8/25 Highlands #3
6:00 (H) Mexicali Blues (W, 11-4)
7:00 (A) Mexicali Blues (W, 14-4)

9/8 Quincy
6:30 (A) Ninos (L, 9-8)
7:30 (H) Ninos (W, 15-3)

9/15 Highlands #3
8:00 (H) Dukes (W, 12-8)
9:00 (A) Dukes (L, 11-10)

9/22 Quincy
6:30 (A) Stardust (L, 20-7)
7:30 (H) Stardust (L, 21-10)

9/29 Highlands
8:00 (H) Fifth Base (W, 14-12)
9:00 (A) Fifth Base (W, 8-3)

10/6 Barcroft
8:30 (A) PubZ (W, 14-5)
9:30 (H) PubZ (L, 18-11)

10/13 Barcroft
6:30 (H) Spon Needed (W, 14-11)
7:30 (A) Spon Needed (L, 9-6)

10/20 Barcroft
8:30 (A) CC Sember (W, 19-15)
9:30 (H) CC Sember (L, 11-10)


Final Standings As Of Oct. 24

1 Carib Breeze 14-4-0
2 Dukes 14-4-0
3 Stardust Lounge 13-5-0
4 Sponsor Needed 12-6-0
5 Stars & Stripes 11-7-0
6 CC Clouts 9-9-0
7 Fifth Base 8-10-0
8 Ninos 8-10-0
9 PubZ 8-10-0
10 Mexicali Blues 5-13-0
11 Dirtbags 4-14-0
12 CC Sember 2-16-0

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Review from Tom

I want to thank the 9 players who interrupted their Columbus Day holiday to play last Monday: the three Als (Boyd, Peterson and Schneider), Chris Boniface, David Buttner, Mike Chapman, Jeff Donald, Ed Reich and Patrick Semmens. I particularly thank Jeff Donald, who brought his family to the field, and Al Schneider, who gave up participation in another previously scheduled event to play. With me at catcher, we were able to cover all 10 positions.

We won the first game 14-11, but then fell in the second 9-6. As usual, our night started off with singles by David and Chris, setting the stage for a solid offensive effort in the first game. Al Boyd cracked two home runs on the night, including a monster that cleared the trees behind the left center field fence. When Pubz walked Al intentionally after his second homer, Patrick made them pay by crushing his first home run for the team. Patrick also had a stand-up triple and several other hits on
the night. In fact, all of our players, except me, hit well. However for some reason, in the second game we couldn't string enough hits together to score many runs.

Defensively, both our infield and outfield did a superb job. Jeff Donald displayed amazing range at shortstop and filled in ably for Jeff Morris. Al Schneider made several very strong plays at second, including a couple that drew compliments from Pubz players. Patrick had a large number of fielding opportunities at third, all of which he handled cleanly, following up with strong throws. Al Boyd played his usual
tremendous first base, making a key fielding play and helping the other infielders avoid errors with his adjustments on their throws to first.

In the outfield, Mike Chapman made an important, difficult catch right in front of the fence deep in the left field corner. Mike, Al Peterson and Chris did an excellent job of cutting off hard line drives hit into the gaps. Dave Buttner, playing right field, had more activity than most of our right fielders have had all season. He handled every opportunity flawlessly and several times threw quickly into the infield to prevent batters from taking extra bases on singles.


Ed Reich again pitched two excellent games and helped his own cause with a couple of timely hits.

Despite a couple of injuries to our teammates, we have had a solid, successful season, much more rewarding for me than the Spring . I look forward to seeing everyone again Monday night for our final games this Fall.

Friday, October 03, 2008

Last Week's Review

Last week we won both games against Fifth Base, a new team to me, although some of the faces looked a little familiar. Game scores were 14-12 and 8-3.

Ed Reich pitched two excellent games, and the first game wasn't as close as the final score since we were the home team and didn't bat in the last inning. As he has all season, David Buttner got on base virtually every at-bat, setting us up for lots of runs. Mike Chapman, Al Boyd, Patrick Semmens, Jeff Morris and Lee Defibaugh all
contributed several big hits.

Dan Meehan gave the right fielder a major workout with many long drives, but unfortunately all stayed in the park and many were caught. All of Dan's at-bats resulted in our players on base being able to at least advance one base. Alan Peterson, playing left center, had the defensive play of the night on a slicing ball hit over his head almost to the fence. His catch saved us at least two runs
in a very tight game.

Our record to date is 8-4, with two of the losses by only one run. We have three more nights of games, all of which are scheduled for Barcroft.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Last Week's Review

Last week in the first game at Quincy Park, we led 8-5 going into the bottom of the last inning. With two outs and runners on first and second, a late-arriving player for the Ninos lofted a ball over the center field fence, causing us to lose 9-8.

In the second game, we jumped on them early, scoring 4 runs in the first and 8 in the second. We won by 10 after 4.5 innings, 17-7. Chris consistently set the table, and Al Boyd and Dan Meehan just as consistently drove them in. Lee also had a bases-loaded triple, and we had hits throughout the lineup.

Our defense played very solidly, turning two more infield double plays on
the night, and Al Peterson pitched two very solid games.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Stripes Keep Rolling

Keep it up guys, good wins last night.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Stripes Start Season Right

A good sweep of the dirtbags on Monday. Can't remember the last time we started a season 2-0. Keep up the good work gentlemen.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Season Begins Monday

Good luck this fall season Stripes.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Final Results and Standings Spring 08

4/14 Highlands #3
6:00 (H) Stardust (L, 13-10)
7:00 (H) Stardust (L, 12-0)

5/5 Highlands #3
8:00 (A) Sponsor Needed (L, 13-12)
9:00 (H) Sponsor Needed (L, 15-10)

6/2 Gunston
8:30 (H) PubZ (W, 12-11)
9:30 (A) PubZ (T, 14-14)

6/9 Gunston
8:30 (A) CC Clouts (L, 7-6)
9:30 (H) CC Clouts (L, 7-6)

6/23 Highlands #3
8:00 (H) CC Sember (W, 8-6)
9:00 (A) CC Sember (L, 11-10)

6/30 Highlands #3

8:00 (H) Sliders (W)
9:00 (A) Sliders PPD

7/7 Virginia Highlands #3
6:00 (A) Dukes (L, 10-9)
7:00 (H) Dukes (W, 8-7)

7/12 Highlands #3 @9, #4 @ 3
9:00 (H) Sliders (W, 7-0*)
3:00 (H) CC Sember (W, 7-0*)
4:00 (A) CC Sember (W, 7-0*)

7/21 Gunston
6:30 (A) Breeze (L, 24-4)
7:30 (H) Breeze (L, 15-6)


Standings

1 Dukes 13-4-1
2 Caribbean Breeze 13-5-0
3 Sponsor Needed 12-5-1
4 CC Clouts 12-6-0
5 PubZ 8-7-3
6 Stardust Lounge 8-8-2
7 Stars & Stripes 7-10-1
8 CC Sember 5-13-0
9 Sliders 0-18-0

Monday, June 09, 2008

The Kessler Split

While we managed a "Kessler split" (a win and a tie) last week against
Pubz, the way we accomplished both left us feeling pretty good, and the
Pubz players disgusted. In the first game, as home team we entered the
bottom of the last inning trailing by 4 runs. Our first batter grounded
out to the third baseman. Our second batter, Al Peterson, grounded the
ball between third and shortstop. The third baseman cut the ball off on
a good play, but Al's hustle to first caused an errant throw that pulled
the first baseman off the bag. Dave Buttner laced a double down the
right field line, moving Al to third; Chris Boniface singled to right,
scoring Al and moving Dave to third. John Thompson singled to right,
scoring Dave. Al Boyd then tripled to deep left center, scoring Chris
and John and tying the game. Pubz intentionally walked Patrick Semmens
and Mike Chapman to load the bases with one out and hopefully get a
force out at home. Lee Defibaugh foiled their strategy when he calmly
lifted a fly ball to medium right center, driving in Al Boyd from third
to win the game 12-11.

In the second game, as visitors we found ourselves in pretty dire
straits trailing by 7 runs entering the top of the fifth inning, and
with only 9 minutes left in the game. To make matters worse, Al Boyd had
strained his left hamstring trying to beat out a grounder to shortstop
in the second inning. In the top of the fifth, we scored two runs, both
driven in by Patrick. So we entered the bottom of the fifth with less
than five minutes left and still trailing by five runs. We did
everything in a hurry, rushing onto the field without any warmups. Our
pitcher, Ed Reich, threw nothing but strikes, and set Pubz down in quick
order on two fly balls to left and a fly to right center. We came off
the field with less than a minute remaining in game time, still trailing
by 5 runs.

Andrew Kessler led off the inning with a walk, but then was forced at
second on a grounder by Ed. Mike Mattoon and Al Peterson followed with
singles to left to load the bases. Dave singled again to drive in Ed and
Mike. Chris singled to load the bases again. John worked a walk to drive
in our third run of the inning, keeping the bases loaded. Then Al Boyd,
batting despite his strained hamstring, lofted a sacrifice fly to left
center, scoring Dave, but leaving us still down one run with two outs.
Patrick wasted no time in tying the game with a solid single to left.
Our next batter finally grounded into a force play, third to second.
(For the night we hit 13 grounders to the third baseman, resulting in
two double plays, ten single outs and only the one very important error
in the first game).

So we entered the bottom of the sixth and final inning tied 14-14 and
needing an excellent inning to escape with the tie we had worked so hard
to earn. Once again, Ed threw nothing but strikes and worked a 1-2-3
inning. The first and third batter both grounded back to Ed.

For the night, Dave Buttner, batting leadoff as always, went 8 for 8,
with 5 runs scored and 3 RBI. Chris, batting second, was 6 for 8, with 6
runs scored. John, batting third, was 4 for 6, with 2 walks and 5 RBI.
Patrick also had 5 RBI and Al Boyd had 4. The last 4 batters in our
lineup scored 8 runs between them.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Why do we even bother

Postponed again. See you next week.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What Else is New

We always lay an egg in our first series of the season. It's inevitable. Maybe we should start getting together before the season starts, get the rust off. Maybe it wouldn't matter.

Game 1 wasn't too bad. Despite some towering home runs from the former Vox Sox, We took the lead in the bottom of the 4th, 10-8. But Stardust (can't write that without laughing) came back with 5 in the top of the 5th, and we were unable to answer.

Game 2 was just crap. We could never get it going at the plate, and when we did, with bases loaded and 1 out, we grounded into the rare 1-2-5 double play.

Glad we got that out of our system, can't remember the last time we were shut out. Anyone know?

See you next week, let's bring the bats with us.

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Wow, That Sneaked Up on Me

Schedule is posted.....

Season Starts this Monday. See you there.

Sunday, March 09, 2008

We're Baaaaaack

Well, tryouts are soon enough, and the Early bird tournament is around the corner. Hopefully some of you (unlike me), are starting to knock the rust off.

Stay tuned for the schedule to be released.

Please Please Please, we NEED a sponsor this year. I will talk to a few places, but f you know of anyone, go talk to them. Or tell me and I will.

Top (L to R): Mike Mattoon, Dave Buttner, Alan Boyd, Al Peterson, Dan Meehan, Tom Meldrum (El Hefe)

Bottom: Al Schneider, Jeff Donald, Lee Defibaugh, Andrew Kessler, Chris Boniface, Jim Foti

Not Pictured: Mike Chapman, John Gulisano, Jeff Morris, Ed Reich

Fall 2006