Winter Haven Senior Softball

 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.