Made Famous By Three Frog Night!!
After six innings VPS had a 14-12 lead, but then all the players on PPB put their hitting shoes on and put on a barrage of 18 runs.
Leasing the way with 6/6 each were Phil McCabe & John Syminski. David Ward had 5 hits, 5 RBIs & a triple. Four hits each were Rich Lavacot, Craig Wheatcroft, Teddy Badillo, Rich Reynolds and Dan Frye. Three hits for Joel Kudren & Mark Lehman. Brenda Lehman was 2/6 with 2 RBIs. Everyone on the team scored at least 2 runs. 4 RBIs for Teddy Badillo, Rich Reynolds, Phil McCabe, John Syminski and Mark Lehman. Home runs by Rich Lavacot and Phil McCabe. Craig Wheatcroft had 2 doubles. Teddy Badillo and Rich Reynolds had doubles. Teddy Badillo came on as a relief pitcher for Brenda Lehman and got the win.
Hitting stars for VPS with 4 hits was Dan Smith. Adding 3 hits each were Larry Weinberger, Rick Shaw, Laurie Mills, Donato Domaguin, Delta Farrington, Jeff Payton, Roger Tesi, Karen Smith and incredible Bob Peters.
Super job of umpiring by Jimmy Martin, who umpired a long 3 hour game.
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. “
Another op’nin, another show. OK, so the start of the senior softball winter season is not what Cole Porter had in mind in Kiss Me Kate, but for the 140 or so softball players in the NCSS, it had the same level of excitement.
Worden Williams took the stage in the season opener against That Pizza Place and came away a 19- 11 winner. Though the teams remained deadlocked through six innings, the turning point came in the final three innings when WW surged ahead, outscoring TPP by eight runs to secure the win. While most of the offensive punch by WW was provided by the top of the lineup, the bottom half was a very important contributor. The last five batters were a combined 7/15 (Kemp, Thorne, Pardo, Vivrett and Baptista) while the top 8 batters combined for an impressive 24 for 28, an .857 clip. WW had 4 batters who were all 4/4 (Buscher, Porter + 4 RBI’s, Cameron and Tahimic) alongside another four who only made one out (Heinz, Hartzog, Loperena + 4 RBIs, and Delgado).
But it was WW’s defense that kept the game close through
six, especially the standout performance at third base by Oscar Delgado, (doing his best to emulate Manny Machado), and the entire WW outfield.
TPP, clearly a team not to be taken lightly with a very capable and dangerous starting lineup, were led by Gene LaChimia’s home run and Dennis Rayford’s and Ken Auerbach’s 3/4 day at the plate. Despite TPP’s solid defense throughout the game, it was WW’s hitting in the late innings that overcame TPP’s strong defensive display.
Only 35 more games to go.
Much thanks to Jack Schwarzel for providing umpire duties.
A beautiful opening day at Alga for softball. A very low scoring game from both teams that were still hung over from Christmas and New Year's celebrations.
Great defense on both sides but Jim Goertzen (Hennessey) made several outstanding catches in LC that robbed Nucci's hits. Nucci's had a great double play in one inning. Sheree Parsons blasted a hit over LC for an RBI and it would have been a homerun but we only needed 1 run to close that inning out.
It was a pitchers duel with Steve Berry (NU) and Harry Peacock (Hen's) performing great pitching.
Nucci's: Al Castenada 2/3, Dennis O'Hern 3/3, Robert Kroger 2/3 with 4 RBI's, Rich Berkeley2/3, Ron Silverman 2/3,Steve Berry 2/3 David Bentley, 3/3
Hennessey's: Great defense: Jim Goertzen and Mark Pedote at 3rd base
Byes: The Draft
Gaspar
This first game of the year, at Calaveras, looked like a couple teams trying to find their groove. Great pitching by CBI's Rod Johnson and PG's Rich Keefer, plus some solid defense on both sides kept this a low scoring affair.
In fact, CBI had four scoreless innings and PG had five and the most runs scored in any inning was four. That was in the 4th inning when PG got two runners on followed by Oscar Castillo's in-the-park home run and Leo McFall's homer over the left center fence.
Gene Smith, Randy Agadoni and Rod Johnson were each 3 for 4 for CBI.
Oscar Castillo and Leo were both 3 for 4 including their homers, Rich Keefer was 3 for 3, and Oscar Lara and Steve Newberg were each 4 for 4. Steve's final hit, following four straight singles in front of him, was the game winner in the bottom of the ninth.
Thanks to Skip Moyer for umpiring and to Dave Hempy for subbing for a short-handed CBI.
Standings are posted after all scores have been received (in a timely manner)
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