Winter Haven Senior Softball

Friday November 25, 2016  Field D

Black Friday was anything but Black at the old ball park (Diamond Plex) in Winter Haven Florida.  Bright sunny sky and temp around 72 at game time.  Some of the fellows had too much turkey and others were out of town visiting family for the Holiday.  Field D had two team of 10 players each.  Teams were managed by Fabian for the visitors and LaMay for the home team.  Fabian’s Flyers flew out of the batter’s box with Denny, Burns, Laffoon, Levesque, Remington, Jones, Morton, Wells, Dudley and Fabian.  LaMay’s Loffers batted in this order, Hite, Marino, Capozzi, Aufiero, S. Hill, Waddell, Roy, Kline Lapointe and LaMay. 

First inning the Flyers loaded the bases but were unable to push across any runs. The Loffers after one out had six hits in a row and tallied 4 runs.  Second inning only run that crossed the plate was by the home team.  Then the slug fest was on with the Flyers and Denny having 4 for 7, Burns 5 for 6, Laffoon 5 for 7, Levesque 4 for 7, Remington 4 for 7, Jones 4 for 7, Morton 4 for 7, Fabian 4 for 7 and Wells and Dudley each had 3 hits.  The Loffers with Hite going 4 for 6, Marino 5 for 6, Capozzi 4 for 6, Aufiero 6 for 6, S. Hill 6 for 6, Waddell 6 for 6, Roy 3 for 6, Lapointe 5 for 6 and Kline and LaMay each added 2 hits.

That pretty much tells the story, but after trailing by a score of 13 to 6 the visitors came alive with 7 runs in the 5^th to tie the game.  The home team came back with 5 runs in each of the next 3 innings to get a comfortable lead.  Again the visitors turned to their hot bats and pushed across 8 runs.  Home team came back with 3 runs in the bottom of the 8^th and the never give up Flyers added another 6 runs in the top of the 9^th and the game ended 29 for the visitors and 31 for the home team.  That was a good way to run off some of the turkey and stuffing from our Thanksgiving dinner. 

Home runs for the day were Aufiero (2) and S. Hill (2) and Morton.

Great day guys.

 

Write Up By Don LaMay