Tuesday September 28th

Games are on. 


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 RECAP FOR THE WEEK OF 9/21-9/24

Tuesday, September 21st - National League 

We got another game in Tuesday for two National league teams that was shortened to 7 innings due to lack of interest in umpiring, coaching bases and on deck batters being ready. 

First the hitters. 

4 hits.   Herb O and BJ. BJ was also the  Winning pitcher

3 hits.    Hill, Capozzi, Grabb, Ken G

2 hits.    Ouding, Spitaleri, Pete G, Skidmore.

                Lopicollo, Muniz. 

The managers were Spitaleri and Capozzi and neither team scored in the 1st inning. In the second Capozzi scored 2 and Spitilari scored 1 of their 2 runs with the other coming in the 5th inning. Capozzi scored 2 in the 3rd, 5 in the 4th and 4 more in the open 7th inning. The final was 13-2. Marino made a fine catch in right center and off the bat of another, a line drive was headed his way until Fabian actually left his feet to make a backhanded grab. 

It was hot 🔥.  But we got 7 in. 

See y'all Friday weather permitting. 

Write up by Loren  Fabian

Tuesday September 21st - American League

We had 20 players today in the American League so the Commish decided to catch for both teams. Joe D'Herin was back from Michigan and he wanted to umpire home plate. We had a new young guy today, John Russell. John pulled a hamstring in the third inning so the Commish took his place and John caught for a couple of innings before the pain got to him. The game started out fairly even but by the fifth inning the visiting took a commanding lead and never looked back. We flip flopped in the eighth and ninth inning and the visitors were ahead by 9 runs when the game concluded. 

Friday, September 24th - National League

National League had a very good 9 inning game today. Managers  were Zelazny and Spitaleri. The game started slow and was 1-0 after 2 innings. Then the Spitaleri team turned on the gas posting nickles in the 4th and 5th, 1 in the 5th and a 3 spot in the 7th for a total of 15. Zelazny struggled with 2 in the 4th and 1 each in the 5th and 6th to create a possible flip flop game at 15-5. Neither team scored in the 8th for the flip flop game and  the Z team managed 3 in the open inning for a final of 15-8. 

We welcomed back veterans Bill Rutan and Ray Levesque as well as 2 more newbies Brad Swenson

and Ed McNulty who is the commander at American Legion Post 8. Another newbie was Casey who umped the plate for the entire game. He did state he is going to start playing Tuesday. Casey came from NY where he was an official for many sports including senior softball. 

The hitters today

   4 hits.    Spitaleri

   3 hits.    Levesque. Vandenberg. Zelazny. 

                  Hill. DeRidder. Castilleja. Wells. 

   2 hits.     Capozzi. Marino. Lopicollo. 

                   Constantine. O'Callaghan. Brad  

See y'all Tuesday 

Write up by Loren  Fabian. 

Friday, September 24th - American League

We had 21 Players today in the American League. The Commish caught for one team and umpired the whole game. Wally Wallace managed the visiting team and Tony Q managed the home. The home team brought their hot bats with them today while the visiting team brought their "atom" bats. It seemed that every ball the was hit hard, was hit right at someone on the other team. We did a flip flop. The home team batted in the eighth and ninth innings but still couldn't catch the visiting team. Final score was the visiting team ahead by 10 runs.

Friday September 23

Games are on. Two fields available B and C


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Tuesday September 21st

Games are on.


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 RECAP FOR THE WEEK OF 9/14 TO 9/18

There have not been many posts lately because of the rain and we still don' have a lot of people interested in doing write ups. Hopefully that will change when we get more people here this fall. We are looking forward to our Canadian friends returning this year. We certainly missed them last year. We were rained out on Tuesday but we still held the monthly board meeting. It looks like we are going back to some traditional shirt colors this year. The plan is for a Maroon and Navy Blue shirt and still use the same hats that we had last year. The hats were pretty expensive and the plan last year was to use the hats for two years. When you come to Florida this year, bring your hat with you. We will have hats for sale for $12.00. Our player sign ups have been going slow. If you know you are coming to Florida to play ball this year, get your application in a soon as possible. The fee is still $40.00. We will need to order new shirts in mid November and need to have a good count on the number of players that we will have for the 2022 season. Now on to the ball games.

Thursday, September 16, 2021 Winter Haven visited Solavita for two games match up.

It was evident that the rain outs we had the past two weeks took its toll on our play. Missed pop ups, drop balls, and mishandled grounder all showed their ugly heads in both games. The team’s hitting also took a beating as the .487 average was nothing to brag about.

We lost both games but Don Fee did show power with 2 hrs in game 2.

Game 1 was 13-5 and game 2 was 22-12.

We look forward to playing Solavita in October in our place hoping for a better out come..

Thanks to all who played.

Johnny Ojeda

Don Fee

Eddie Hurn

Dana Ferrande

Jose Rivera

Jose Rodriguez

Tony Quinones

Radley Pcholinski

Rawlinson Santaella

Mark Tutrani

BJ Kallister

Rob Miner

Lou Guzman

Write up by Lou Guzman

Friday, September 17th

We had 37 players show up to play ball this morning. We had our normal three team game with one team having 13 players. JD Davis is back to Florida so he managed one team along with Wally Wallace and Robert Spitaleri. After only playing 1 of 5 games the last 3 weeks,  we finally got to play a 3 team game Friday. It is the only time I can recall ever seeing a 3 team game where no team reached 10 runs. The Spitalari  team had a hard time getting started as the score after 5 innings was JD 6, Spitilari 2 and Wally 7. JD and Wally both put up goose eggs in the 6th but #2 team scored 4 with Spitalari, Gutenberg, Boswell and Tony Q all scoring. So entering the open inning it was JD 6, Spitilari 6 and Wally 7. JD put up 3, Spitilari 0 and Wally 2 for a final tally of JD 9, Spitilari 6 and Wally 9. One very fine catch was made in left center by Chris Lynch charging in hard on a high blooper everyone thought would drop in except Chris who went to the turf to come up with a super basket catch including grass stains. 

See y'all Tuesday

Write up by Loren Fabian. 

Saturday, September 18th

We didn't play ball today but some of us umpired a lot of ball today. The annual GATOR REDLEG FIKE MEMORIAL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT was hosted by the Winter Haven National Guard at the Diamondplex on Saturday. This is a charity tournament and the money raised from this tournament is used to Honor and Recognize past and present United States Field Artillerymen. WHSS supports this tournament by providing umpires at no cost to the National Guard. I want to thank all of the guys that volunteered their time on a Saturday to provide support for this worthy tournament. A GREAT BIG THANKS TO: JD Davis, Loren Fabian, Tim Gallagher, Steve Hill, Robert Spitaleri, Mark Tutrani, Bob Vandenberg and Don Witmer.

  

Friday September 17th

Games are on. Several fields available. Lets play ball.


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Tuesday September 14th

No Games today. All fields have standing water. Board meeting is still on. I still need volunteers for the National Guard tournament this weekend. Please let me know if you can be there.


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 ATTENTION     ATTENTION     ATTENTION     ATTENTION

THE GATOR REDLEG CHAPTER-UNITED STATES FIELD ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION from the Winter Haven National Guard is holding a fundraiser softball tournament at the Diamondplex on Saturday, September 18th. from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM. They need volunteer umpires to help reduce expenses and allow more of the proceeds to go to Honor and Recognize past and present Field Artillerymen. 

Winter Haven Senior Softball has always supported this cause by providing volunteer umpires. Please step up to the plate and volunteer your time next Saturday at the Diamondplex. You do not need to be there all day but can come and umpire a few games.  It will be fun to support this worthy cause. The sign up sheet will be at the sign in desk on Tuesday. 

Thanks. 

Don Witmer, Commissioner

  

Friday September 10th

No Games today. All fields have standing water. They won't dry by game time. See you Tuesday.


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Tuesday September 7th

Games are on. Lets play ball 


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Friday September 3rd

No Games today. Fields are to wet. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend. See you Tuesday. 


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