Tuesday, March 7th
The game on Field D was one of the most exciting and unpredictable games of the season in the National league.  Simon's Yankees were the home squad vs Black's Nationals.  The Yankees had a strong start and  after 7 innings led 23-13.  Black's Nationals stormed back in the top of the eighth inning to score 10 runs and tied the contest.  They sent 14 batters to the plate in that comeback inning.  The Yankees went three and out in the bottom half of the eighth and the score was tied going into the ninth frame.  Incredibly, both squads put up donuts in the ninth and a tenth inning was played.  The Nationals scored seven unanswered runs and secured the win. The WP was Hal Ridley.  Final score was Black's Nationals 30 and Simon's Yankees 23. This game was hard fought on both sides and both teams showed great sportsmanship. Submitted by Jeff Simon

Tuesday, March 7th

Fabian's Flyers took the field against Bloom's Giants. The Giants took the lead with 3 in the top of the first, but the Flyers came back with 5 in the bottom and the race was on for 5 run innings.  Both teams got 5 again in the 2nd but then Bloom's Giants put up back to back goose eggs while the Flyers scored 4 in the 3rd and another nickel in the 4th and led 19-8. The last 5 innings, the Flyers got 3 more nickels and ended up scoring in every inning. Bloom managed 3 and another 5 and another 3, but got blanked in the 8th and 9th for a final of Fabian 32 and Bloom 19. 

As you will see there were many hits and consequently both teams played very good defense. About a total of 8 cleared the short fence and when they weren't flying out, it's like the ball had eyes for many hits. 

Bloom's Giants

Kriger.          4-5

Bloom.        5-5    

Herb O.       5-5

McClellan.  4-5

Bess.           3-5

G. Andrews. 4-5

Cathy MacDonald 4-6

Fabian's Flyers

A. Andrews.     5-5

Boswell.           4-5

Laffoon.           4-4

Schapeler.       4-5

Knox.               4-5

LaPointe.          5-5

O'Callahan.      4-4

Write up by Loren Fabian. 

Friday, March 3rd

On Field A, The Giants(Bloom) and The Braves(Powell), played a close game right to the last inning.

The Braves  scored 5 runs in the first inning to take the lead. The Giants tied the game in the third inning at 6-6. The Braves took the lead again in the next three innings . The Giants tied the game in the top of the sixth inning, but the Braves scored 5 runs in the bottom to retake the lead. The Giants had one more chance in the seventh inning but were held to no runs. Final score was 18-13. The Braves have now won seven games in a row to climb out of the cellar.

Hitters for the Giants. Kriger -3-4, Herbie O--3-4, one double, Bess-2-3 , one walk, Bill McLellan-3-4, one double.

Hitters for The Braves: Duff Hill -4-4, 2 doubles, Fred Dampier-4-4, 3 doubles, Larry Powell-4-4.

Winning pitcher was Larry Powell

Submitted by Larry Powell

Friday, March 3rd

An exciting game was played today between the Tigers and Yanks.  Game was tied 15-15 after 5 innings.  The Yanks went ahead in the top of the 8th only to be tied again after the Tigers scored 7 in the bottom of the inning.  In the 9th inning the Yanks could not score and the Tigers responded with a lead off single by Stevie Hicks and scored the winning run on a 1 out double by Doug Ford.  There was plenty of hitting with the Yanks hitting 4 home runs by Ojeda, Keller, and Doerbaum (2) over the fence.  The Tigers had one hit by Miguel Gonzales.  A number of great defensive plays by Bob Z, Jose Rivera, Dave Doerbaum, Les Jacobson, Vidal Villalba, and Doug Ford.  Final score was 28-27 Tigers.

Good game both sides!

Tigers

Hicks  5-6

Villalba 4-6

Ford 3-5

M. Gonzales 4-5

Scarbrough 4-5

Farinas 3-5

Denny 5-5

Torok 4-5

Ayers 4-5

Yanks

Rivera 6-6

Constantine 3-5

Ojeda 4-4

Doerbaum 2-2

Glenn 3-6

Keller 5-6

Rey 3-5

Zelazny 3-5
Write up by Joe D'Herin

Friday, March 3rd

The Tale of The Hurricane

You will probably read about the wind in most of the game recaps for 3/3, this one included. I will take it one step further and base the entire write up on the weather. Indeed, our first March game had some gusts of wind, the weather service called for 15-20 MPH and we hit it, along with the softball. As you know, Florida is the sunshine state and we get plenty of rays, at least we had a beautiful sunny day to play ball. On an average Florida averages over 100 clear sunny days a year. The Apalachicola region, in the panhandle, leads the state of Florida for the clearest days with sun, with 128. Yuma, AZ, in comparison, gets 242 clear, sunny days a year. Florida is known to be the consistently warmest state, in the continental US.

The A’s took on the Angels to see who could best conquer the wind and win the game today. The A’s started the game with a breeze in their sails, we scored 9 runs in the first three innings. The Angels were tossed like a kite in the wind and crashed several times into the ground. After 3 innings, the score was 9-2, in favor of the A’s.

In the 4^th inning the Angels brewed up a storm of their own, scoring 7 runs to tie the game. Guzman, Busch, Wiltshire, McCollough, Reponen, Wise, JD , Thirey and Shipley provided the gust that was needed to score the runs. After 4 innings, A’s: 9- Angels: 9.

Over the next several innings both teams were caught in a whirlwind. The game stayed tight until the 8^th inning. That is when the whirlwind became a tornado, with the Angels at the vortex. They scored 5 runs in the bottom of the 8^th ,while having shut out the A’s in the top of the 8^th. After 8 innings, the score was A’s: 15- Angels: 20. Storm Warning: This was the quiet before the storm for the A's.

The real storm made landfall at the DiamondPlex in the 9^th inning. The A’s hit like a hurricane. Shirer, Quinones, Matta, and Essenmacher started the storm surge with hits. Then Book came up in the eye of the hurricane and blew the barn roof off, with a bases clearing triple. Carp, Coffman, Reagen, Bailey, Goose, Alumbaugh, Stier all littered the field with debris, in the form of hits and sacrifice flies. We had worked our way through the lineup, but the storm persisted. It was another round of hitting again with Shirer, Quinones, Matta and Essenmacher reaching base. Finally, the winds of rallying died down and the hurricane passed. The damage was done though, the A’s scored 13 runs. The Angels bats hit a cold front in the bottom of the 9th and the game ended with the final score of A’s: 28-Angels: 20.  

More weather phenomena: Kirk Coffman was the storm chaser. He made several good defensive plays, while playing as the middle fielder.

Special thanks to chief meteorologist, Ron Pepin ,for umpiring the game. Pep did a great job.

Players swinging hot bats for the A’s:

Alumbaugh: 4/6.

Stier: 4/6.

Shirer: 4/6. Double

Quinones: 4/5 and a SF.

Matta: 4/6.

Essenmacher: 6/6.

Book: 4/5. Triple

Carp: 4/5.

Coffman: 4/5.

Reagen: 3/5.

Bailey: 3/5.

Players swinging hot bats for the Angels:

Shipley: 3/5.

Brock: 4/5.

Guzman: 3/5.

Busch: 5/5.

Wiltshire: 4/5.

Reponen: 4/5.

JD: 4/4. Double.

Write up by Nick Matta

Fr. Mar. 3rd. Todays game was probably the craziest game I have been involved with in my

21 yrs. of WHSS. Fabian's Flyers and Black's Nationals should of both been chomping at

the bit to win, as it was an important game to win for both teams, but then all games are important.

The score looked like this:

Inning    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    Total

Flyers     4    0    0    0    5    1    5    0    2      17

Nats        2    2    5    1    1    1    0    1     5     18




Hitting:

Flyers                                                      Nationals

                                                               


Andrews    3/5                                         King       3/4  Hr. T     Also good hitting Bill

Boswell      3/5                                         Lopez    4/5    ( turned a HR. into a triple )  

Lafoon        5/5   Good game Jim            Ridley     4/5

Don Schapeler  4/5 D                               Hawbaker   3/5 D

Kline           3/4                                         Guspyt        3/5 D Drove in the winning run

Note: This is my last write-up as we finish with 3 road games and the home team does the reporting.

In my 21 years, this has been the most enjoyable bunch of guys I have ever played with.

Thanks a million guys.

Submitted by Elmer Black

Tuesday, February 28th
The temperature was hot on this last day of February and so were the bats of Freddie's Angels as they took on Toro's Yankees on Field C. Every batter on the Angels hit at least .500 and the team average was  over .650 for the day. In addition to hot bats, the Angels had a hot defense as they held Toro's great hitting Yankee's to just 12 runs. Felix Navarro returned to the team today (slightly injured) and pitched a great game. Thanks to Don Torok and Randy Luttrell for helping the Angels win the game today. Final Score Angels 17 and Yankees 12.
Write up by Don Witmer