Winter Haven Senior Softball

Friday, January 26th

There Should Be A Law Against Such Crimes.

Due to a tournament in the area, the WHSS, AL, games were rearranged in a pick-up player fashion. The game was billed as the Outlaws vs. The Wild Bunch. It turned out to be the Bulldozers vs. the Wild Flowers, judging by the score. There is no way to build the drama for this game. I doubt that famed writer, Tom Clancy, who wrote The Hunt For Red October, and other great novels, could build drama for this game. Maybe if Jack Ryan and Captain Marco Ramius were in the line-ups, Clancy could have done the job.

The Outlaws: Hicks, Thiry, Shirer, Quinones, JD, Matta, Denny, Busch, Cobb, Aufiero, Coffman, Morty and Wells.

The Wild Bunch: Rivera, Guttenburg, Alumbaugh, Scarbrough, Carpenter, Zelazny, Guzzo, DeRidder, L. Debrock, Crowell, T. Debrock and Pinnick.

The Wild Bunch took the early lead, 1-0 on an Alumbaugh, HR. That was the only highlight and the only lead the Wild Bunch would experience. Although I should mention that Steve Pinnick doubled and scored in the 3^rd inning. Those were the only runs the Home team scored. If this were a Colombo TV show, the famed sleuth would have solved the case by the 4^th inning when the score was 14-2.

As the game progressed things got a good deal worse for the Home team. The only other high point in the game came when Dave Shirer, who played for the Visitors, brought out his beach chair. Dave placed it outside of the 3^rd base dugout, so he could coach and wave runners around the bases. Dave was like a Beach Boy, he could have sung, I Get Around; “Round, Round, get around, we get around”. As the Visitors raced around the diamond, scoring runs. Help Me Rhonda, would have been an appropriate song for the Home team. After Dave folded up his chair and the game ended, the final score was 26-2.

Thanks to Scott Seguin for umpiring the game.

Outlaws who refused to be cuffed:

Hicks: 3/5

Thiry: 3/4

Quinones: 4/4 with a double.

JD: 3/4.

Matta: 4/4.

Denny: 2/3 and a SF.

Busch: 3/ 4 with a triple.

Cobb: 3/ 4.

Aufiero: 3/4.

Morty: 3/ 4 with a double.

Wild Things who hit for the Wild Bunch:

Scarbrough: 2/3.

Pinnick 2/2 with a double and a walk.

Written by Nick Matta.