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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.

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