Doncha love the smell of softball in the morning?

 Just a brief note. Our good friend, teammate and all around great guy Bobby Allen is currently under intensive care and could certainly use some help just now.  Please keep Bobby and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Field C

 The American League game was between three evenly matched teams (on paper anyway). Team Hamilton was anchored by a pretty impressive early line starting with Kurt Coffman , followed by Juan Toro, Jimmy Laffoon, Don Held, Bob Zelazny, and Tommy Hamilton. But it was the bottom of their line up that managed to score ten or their fourteen runs. It was clearly the bats of Tommie Wise, John Byrd, Miguel Gonzalez, and Dennis Borowicz that provided the power.

Hey, we'll take fans wherever we can get 'em

The Angels had an equally impressive line up with Ron Butler, Steve Hill, Donnie Scarborough, Les Jacobson, Denny Shaffer, Russ King, Freddie Gonzalez, and Nick Matta leading off to provide the energy and power to score runs. Alas, it was not to be as they were held to just five runs the entire game. A big part of the lack of production could have been as a result of great pitching by first timer Miguel Gonzalez who started a little shaky but held the Angels to two runs the rest of the game.

Catchin' a little pine time

The game was ultimately won by the bats of Team Kline. The lineup read like murderer's row and they did exactly that as Jose Riviera, Frank Jacobs, Raul Torres, Chuck Duff, Joe  D'Herin, and Dean Schapler scored thirteen of their teams sixteen runs. They had built an impressive lead and it held up as they were the home team and did not have to bat in the ninth.

Jeff & Eddie enjoyed the day

Key performances were turned in by:

Kirk Coffman     4 for 4

Tommie Wise     3 for 3

Miguel Gonzalez     2 for 2 while allowing only  5 runs

Dennis Borowicz    3 for 3

Frank Jacobs     4 for 4 with 3 doubles

Chuck Duff     3 for 4

Friday before the games, Dennis Holder will hold a brief clinic on umpiring. Please plan on attending.

Denny teaches umpires ... who knew?

Field B

We had a great turn out for the National League on a beautiful, sunny, spring day. Captains Moots and Taylor had their hands full having 13 & 14 players respectively To accommodate everyone, five outfielders were utilized for part of the day.

Richie watches one of Elvis's shots

Team Moots banged out 25 hits which was closely  followed by team Taylor with 22 safe hits. Scoring started out with 9 runs in the first inning leaving Moots ahead by one run which ended up to be the winning difference.  The game was closely played with Moots' team gradually building up a lead into the eighth when they took command with five showing  a what seemed comfortable lead of 17-10.

Vassearl drives one

Seven straight hits for Taylor's team which was highlited by a grand slam by Hill. The score at this point was  17-16 with no one out and men on 2nd & 3rd. At this point team Moots slammed down great defense and the tying run died on second.

Every member of team  Moots contributed at least hit. Mundy & F. Miller both were four -four and Altomose & Thompson contributed three hits each.

Taylors stats showed Bess,Remington,Abney, Hill & Taylor all with three hits. 

Run Ted! Run!

Good work by all and good sportsmanship was enjoyed by all.   RDT