Cypress Belles?

Most United States cities have slogans. Lakeland’s is “Close To Everything, Away From It All”.  That motto is quite appropriate for the city’s central location between the Atlantic and the Gulf, between Orlando and Tampa. Winter Haven’s slogan, “The Chain Of Lakes City”, ok, I get it. The old slogan for Winter Haven was “The City Of Beautiful Girls”, back in the day when Cyprus Gardens was going strong and young maidens strolled through the park. Since that time, you guys either married those pretty maidens, or chased them off.

I am going to give appropriate slogans for the three teams that played in Friday’s WHSS game. Team One, Hitting Team: Pepin, Shaffer, Witmer, Reagen, Capozzi, Marino, Wells, Bess, Merritt and Gibson. Their slogan, “The Spoilers; We Won’t Win The Game, But Neither Will You”. The Spoilers were a light hitting bunch, only scoring eight runs, in the seven inning game. However, their defense and pitching stopped the Sitting Team from scoring many runs, which kept them from winning.

Team Two, Sitting Team: Coffman, Hamilton, Butler, Matta, D. Hill, Hite, Leggett, Simon, Spitaleri, and L. Baker. Our slogan, “Close To Scoring, Far From Winning”. A few guys on the team brought their bats and set up some scoring situations. While a few other guys, better think about buying a new bat, because the one that they are using must have a hole in it. (“Lisa, if you are reading this, I need a new bat.”). With men on base we just could not get a key hit. Give credit to Team Spoiler and the pitching of Josh Wells for keeping us down. In the field, we did play good defense turning three double plays against Team Three.

Team Three, Home Team: Constantine, Gonzalez, Laffoon, T. Smith, Thompson, Davis, Lopez, Moots, Straight, and G. Baker. Their slogan, “Freddy’s Angels; Nobody Clips Ours Wings!” Although they hit into three DPs, the Angels still had enough key hits and wing power, to fly around the bases and score 17 runs. The artist, Michelangelo said, “I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Freddy’s Angels kept carving up the field with their bats, until they had enough runs to win the game.

Final Score: Team One: 8-Team Two: 11- Team Three: 17.

Here is a good softball slogan for us all to keep emblazoned in our hearts: “Throw, Hit, Catch, Smile and Repeat.”

Diamond Plex, Diamond Players:

Team One:

Pepin: 3/ 4.

Witmer: 4/4 with a double.

Reagen: 3/ 4.

Wells: 4/4 with two doubles.

Team Two:

Coffman: 3/3 and a Sac.

Butler: 3/ 4.

Hite: 3/ 4 with a HR and a triple.

Simon: 3/4.

Spitaleri: 4/4.

Team Three:

Constantine: 2/4 and a walk.

Gonzalez: 3/ 4 with two doubles.

Laffoon: 3/4.

T. Smith: 3/3 and a walk.

Thompson: 3/ 4.

Davis: 3/3 and a walk.

Straight: 3/ 4 with a triple and a double.

G. Baker: 3/ 4.

WP: Thompson.

Written by: Nick Matta