Winter Haven Senior Softball

Friday August 5

A very well played 3 team game between King's Kruisers, Fabian's Flyers and Zelazny's Zingers. The Kruisers put 0's in the first 3 innings while the Zingers and Flyers each had 7 and then put up back to back goose eggs. The Kruisers put up a nickel in the top of the 6th so it was 7-7-7 when the Flyers took to the offense with 3 in the 6th and 2 more in the 7th while the Zingers put up 2 more goose eggs. Final.  King 7 Fabian 12 Zelazny 9. 

Kruisers consisted of Pepin, Rad 2-4, Crowell 2-3, Reagen, King, Marino, Hapeman 2-3, Thompson, Dudley, L. Baker and Simon

Flyers were made up of Hicks 4-5, Witmer 2-4, Lafoon 3-3 w/HR, Shirer 2-4, Boswell, Hite, Mohan who has been on a hitting terror going 4-4 AGAIN, Morton 2-4 and the Winning Pitcher, Fabian and Meritt. 

Zingers were manned with Jose Rodriguez 4-4, Dampier, Coffman 2-4, DeRidder 2-4, Zelazny, Lopez 3-4, D. Hill, Barnes, Moots and Wells. 

There were some interesting plays led by Johnny Merritt charging into 3rd base and getting his feet tangled at the base and taking a nose dive nearly to the dugout. He did sustain a scraped and bloody nose, sat out an inning but returned to finish the game behind the plate. Don Witmer got peppered by many balls at SS and made them all. There were 2 hot line drives hit at Fabian at 2nd base on 2 consecutive pitches by lefties Hapeman and Thompson. Fortunately he snagged them both and someone said there was actually air between his feet and the ground. I wonder!!!

  

But the play of the day and maybe of the summer was made in the 7th inning on speedy Steve Hicks. Steve hit a shot to the center field fence and wanted a HR. By the time Bobby Z. ran it down, he relayed to Dampier who relayed to Barnes who had went out who fired to  Duff Hill who turned and threw a strike to the plate to get Steve by a step. WOW!

Duff comes in the dugout boasting "you don't run on this arm". Man that was fun. 

Only one fan in the stands. Pat Merritt. She had to play nurse for Johnny after his spill at third base. 

Write up by Loren Fabian.