Winter 2024 Standings - Sun City Grand Softball Club

Winter 2024 Standings

White League Winter 2024 Game Summaries & Standings

WYYERD WINS THE WINTER SEASON! CONGRATULATIONS !!!

White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday April 11, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	15	5	0	0.750
	Property Sisters	11	9	0	0.550
	Thunderbird Auto	10	9	1	0.525
	Liberty Buick	10	10	0	0.500
	The Colonnade	8	10	2	0.450
	Treedah Magee Realtor	4	15	1	0.225



Liberty Buick 11 WYyerd 10
Liberty: Liberty Buick trailed Wyrred Fiber 10-4 entering the bottom of the last inning and rallied with 7 runs scored to finish off an 11-10 victory. Filling in for an injured Dennis Vance, sub Brad Johnson went 3 for 3 with a double, triple and 1 RBI, Johnson also made a key play in the top[ half of the 7th inning to hold Wyrred to one run; and his leadoff double in the 7th started the 7 run rally. Curt Rhoades was 2 for 2 with a walk and a RBI, Tim Schiewe with a RBI, Glenn Griffin with a RBI, Don Cole, Bob Snelling, Greg Martin with a 7th inning RBI, and sub Dan Wood with a 7th inning RBI each added a hit. Ken Shick hit an inside the park homerun and batted in a second run in the 7th inning with a long sacrifice fly, Sub Howard Sumner made his 2nd hit on the day good with a three run inside the park homerun to cap off the 7 run 7th inning. Ted Schroeder picked up the win. Thanks to Scott Piemeisl and his college of wounded coaches: Roger Neumann, Bill Tierney, and Dennis Vance.
WYyerd: Our WyYerd squad finished off their highly successful season on the short end of an 11-10 game Thursday as the Liberty Reds tallied 7 in the bottom of the 7th to pull it out. All of our 11 starters had at least one hit with the recently red hot Gary Finer going 3-3 and Paul Jinneman powering up with a double and triple. David Brenenstahl and the afore mentioned two led in RBI's with 2 each. Ted Koch and Wayne Weidenbach both pitched well and were backed by the strong infield play of Gary Armstrong at 3B, SS Greg Roehm, 2B Paul, and our rookie rover, Dave. It was a team effort as it was all season long as we finished in first place with an impressive 15-5 record. Great job pulling together in good times as well as bad times, guys!

Thunderbird Auto 17 Treedah Magee 11
Tbird: Thunderbird finished off the season with a win to finish with a winning record. Leading the way going perfect at the plate were Dick Nunez and Dave Swanson 4/4. John Nicodemo and Ted Grove 3/3. Jim Jozwowski was 2/3. Mark Beckner and Bob Tarr were 2/4. Brian Martin was 1/3 but had a big double and a sacrafice fly. Greg job everyone; it was a pleasure being your manager!!!
Treedah: The Treedah Magee Realtors survived a rocky top of first inning, falling behind 5-0 to Thunderbird Auto. In the bottom of the first, Treedah Magee responded with four big runs, and that score (5-4) held through three innings. In the top of the fourth, Thunderbird Auto came back with another five runs while holding Treedah Magee scoreless. Then the Treedah Magee Realtors came to life with five runs of their own in the bottom of the fifth for a score of 10-9 in favor of Thunderbird. Both teams scored one run each in the sixth (11-10). In the unlimited top of the seventh, Thunderbird exploded for six runs and Treedah Magee could only muster one run in their half of the seventh - final score 17-11 for Thunderbird Auto. Offensively, Vern McLean had two hits (double) and scored once, David Maligro ripped three hits and scored once, Tom Rinehart collected two hits and scored two runs, Jeff Heary banged two hits (double) and scored twice, pitcher JT Templeton was a perfect 4/4 and scored twice, Bruce Lowe knocked a single and scored once, Frank Plahutnik pounded two hits (double) and scored once, Tom Yurkunas slugged two doubles, shortstop Kevin Katsuki stroked three hits (double) and scored once, and Dick Hansen lined a single. Best wishes for everyone to have a terrific summer. See you in the fall if not sooner.

Colonnade 18 Property Sisters 9
Colonnade: The Colonnade closed the season with two wins in a row and stayed in the middle of the pack (standings) by defeating The Property Sisters 18-9. Many thanks to Megan Word and The Colonnade for sponsoring our team. We played great defense and hit the ball rather well going 31/44 .705 avg. and .955 slug %. No defense was needed today for Catcher Dan Newman, but his offense was en fuego, going 4/4 with 2 doubles and a triple, scoring 4 and adding 2 RBI. Also perfect at the plate was 3rd baseman Brad Johnson as he was 3/3 with a double and a walk while scoring 3 and adding a couple of RBI's. Three more Colonnade players were perfect at the plate including Super-Sub Pitcher John Recob who went 3/3 with a run , a sac. fly plating 2 runs, the other Super-Sub was 1st baseman Bob "the Golfer" Hudson who was 4/4 with a double and 2 RBI and 2nd baseman Dan Davidson made a couple of nice defensive plays and was 4/4 with 2 runs and 2 RBI rounding out all of our "perfect hitters. Our other great player in the game was RC Tim Brown who made 2 outstanding catches and was 4/5 with 2 doubles, scoring 3 and driving in one. Contributing 2 hits were LC Gary Kuhlman (2 RBI) also with a nice catch, RF Dave Dompier (2 RBI), Kim MacQueen (RBI) and Danny Wood (RBI) also with a nice catch robbing Prop. Sis. sub Mike Wunsch of a hit. Ray "Ray" Gibson completed the offensive barrage with a triple and an RBI. Thanks to John Recob for filling in for Don Trenda for 4 games and pitching great and today's sub for Fred Jensen, Bob Hudson. Season long thank you's to all of the umpires, but especially today's Jeff Watson and Gary Finer. We are assuming Dennis Vance was in the tower as it was so perfect we never even needed to look up. Thank you commissioners Don F. Cole, Rick Armentano and sub-commissioner Ted Schroeder for keeping us in line all season. Ted, thanks for the Wisconsin hot dog cook-out for the White League last week (and saving me some during my absence). Thank you to all of The Colonnade players for making it a very successful season despite the won-loss record as everyone had a great time.
Sisters: The Colonnade team jumped out to a 5-0 lead today and went on to defeat the Property Sisters team 18-8. Big Jon Chlebeck ended the season with a bang going 4/4 with a double, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Dan Blaney was 3/4, scored 2 runs and had an RBI. Sub Ted Koch was 3/3, scored a run and had an RBI. Sub Mike Wunsch was 2/4 including a triple, scored a run and had an RBI. Ken Krzeminski was 2/4 with a double, scored a run and had an RBI. Randy Van Wagner was 2/4 and had 2 RBI's. Thanks to our subs Ted, Mike, John Blevins, and David Power. Jerry and I want to thank everyone on the Property Sisters for always giving their best efforts and supporting each other as a Team. We wish you a Happy and Healthy summer.

White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday April 9, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	15	4	0	0.789
	Property Sisters	11	8	0	0.579
	Thunderbird Auto	9	9	1	0.500
	Liberty Buick	9	10	0	0.474
	The Colonnade	7	10	2	0.421
	Treedah Magee Realtor	4	14	1	0.237



Liberty Buick 15 Property Sisters 11
Liberty: Liberty Buick scored 5 times in each of the 2nd, 3rd and 7th innings en route to a 15-11 victory. Roger Neumann went 2 for 2 with 3 RBI before leaving the game in the 3rd inning after sustaining an injury; his replacement Gary Finer drove in one run with a sacrifice fly and made two fine defensive plays to keep Property Sisters off the boards. Tim Schiewe 3 for 4, Glenn Griffin 4 for 4 and Ken Shick 3 for 3 each had 2 RBI. Dennis Vance went down with a season-ending injury in the 2nd inning and was replaced by Vern McLean who went 2 for 3 with a triple and RBI. Bob Snelling 3 for 4, Curt Rhoades 3 for 4, Don Cole with 2 walks and a sacrifice fly, and Greg Martin 3 for 4 each added a RBI. Winning pitcher Ted Schneider went 3 for 4 and scored twice. Sub Greg Roehm 2 for 5 started the game in the outfield and finished the game with solid play at Shortstop after the injury to Vance.
Sisters: Howard was 3/4 for 4 RBI’s and a home run. Krzeminski was 1 for 4. Johne is 4 for 4 1 home run and 2 Rbi’S. Blevins was 2 for 3. VanWagner is 1 for 3 with 1 RBI. Blaney 3 for 4 with 2 RBI’S. Wunsch 2 for 3 1 RBI. Chlebeck 1 for 4 and 1 RBI. Koch 1 for 4. Willoughby 1 for 3. We had too many zeros. There were times we had players on base, but just didn’t get them in. The final score was Liberty 15 Property Sisters 11 Thursday we need to turn in our jerseys. See you all then.We play Collanade at 9:45. We are at home again. All of you have a great summer!

Wyyerd 16 Treedah Magee 8
Wyyerd: It was fun at the old ballpark playing in perfect weather made even better for the orange boys as they recorded a 16-7 win over Treedah behind the pitching and hitting of Gary Armstrong. Armstrong was backed by solid defense, and he helped his own cause with a pair of gappers and 4 RBI. A four for four day by the top two in the order, Wayne and Jim Courtney certainly didn't hurt and Jeff Watson, Gary Finer, and Rod were also perfect on the day as we hit the ball really well. Defensively Murray and Greg switched spots, and both played a strong defensive game as did Paul Jinneman(2-3) at 2B. Our rookie, Dave Brenenstahl had a pair of hits as did the always reliable Bob Lessard. Our championship team has had 4 different pitchers pick up a win this season and we wrap up the season Thursday vs Liberty.
Treedah: The Treedah Magee Realtors came out of the blocks like gang busters against the first place and championship WyYerd team scoring five runs in the top of the first inning. Alas, our hitters went from hot to cold over the next five innings while WyYerd steadily caught and passed the Treedah Magee team with sixteen runs over the first six innings. That was all they needed to claim a 16-8 victory. The Treedah Magee offense did manage to briefly come out of their slumber with three runs in the top of seventh. Defensively, the Treedah Magee Realtors struggled most of the game; however, Tom Rinehart and Vern McLean made some outstanding plays in the outfield. Vern even threw a runner out at the plate from center field with an assist from JT Templeton. Offensively, fleet-footed Vern McLean also had an outstanding day at the plate with three singles, an inside-the-park home run, and two runs scored. David Maligro drilled two singles and scored twice. Tom Rinehart slugged three singles and scored twice. Jeff Heary pounded two deep doubles. JT Templeton slapped a single and scored once, Bruce Lowe lined two singles, Frank Plahutnik nailed two singles, Tom Yurkunas ripped a single, Kevin Katsuki stroked three hits, Dick Hansen blooped a single and Becky Holliday connected on a single. “We’ll get 'em next time!"

Colonnade 15 Thunderbird Auto 14
Colonnade: The Colonnade scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th to break their 6 game losing streak defeating Thunderbird Automotive 15-14. LC Gary Kuhlman 3/4 knocked in the winning run and finished with 2 RBI. RC Tim Brown was 4/5 scoring 4 runs while knocking in 2. SS Ray Gibson was 3/5 with 3 RBI including a triple and the game tying RBI in the 7th. Catcher Dan Newman was 4/5 with a double and an RBI, but more importantly, he caught 3 pop outs in his catcher position. 3rd baseman Brad Johnson was 4/5 with an RBI, Dave Dompier was 3/4 with an RBI, while 2nd baseman Dan Davidson had 2 hits as did Fred Jensen. Becky Holliday subbed for the injured Fred Jensen at 1st base after 5 innings and she led off the bottom of the 7th rally with a hit and she advanced on a hit by super-sub pitcher John Recob who was 3/3 for the game with 2 RBI. Following up the hit parade with a hit was Rover Kim MacQueen and LF Danny Wood, both also with an RBI each. Thank you to the umpires and commissioner for handling the game and the great Paul Jinneman in the tower. Once again, super scorekeeper Christina Silva kept a perfect book allowing us to concentrate on the game for a win that was 3 weeks in coming!
Tbird: Thunderbird lost a close one to Colonnade in the bottom of the 7th. Leading hitters going 4/4 were John Nicodemo and John Blevins 2 doubles and 2 triples. Going 3/4 were Jim Jozwowski triple and Bill Parker double. Going 2/4 were Dick Nunez and Mark Beckner.

White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday April 4,2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	14	4	0	0.778
	Property Sisters	11	7	0	0.611
	Thunderbird Auto	9	8	1	0.528
	Liberty Buick	8	10	0	0.444
	The Colonnade	6	10	2	0.389
	Treedah Magee Realtor	4	13	1	0.250



Property Sisters 18 Treedah Magee 16
Sisters: The Property Sisters team led throughout the whole game and defeated Treedah Magee by a score of 18-16. Going into the top of the seventh inning we had a 17-16 lead. That is when sub John Blevins sent a ball over the left field fence to give us an 18-16 lead. Then Dave Anthony shut them down to get the win. The Property Sisters team had 28 hits today. Our leading hitter was Howard Sumner going 5/5 including a triple and scored 2 runs. Dan Blaney was 4/5 including a double, scored 4 runs and had an RBI. Dave Anthony played his last game before returning to Canada . He had a great game going 4/5 including a triple, scored a run and had 4 RBI's. We will miss you Dave. Ken Krzeminski was 3/4, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. John Blevins was 3/5, scored 3 runs and had 2 RBI's. Randy Van Wagner was 3/5 including a triple, scored 4runs and had 3 RBI's.. Sub Gary Armstrong was 3/4 and had 2 RBI's. Thanks to our subs John, Gary and David Power.
Treedah: The game between the Treedah Magee Realtors and The Property Sisters was an interesting and fun game to play and watch. The Property Sisters jumped out early and led the whole game, although Treedah Magee Realtors lurked in the background and never gave up. The Treedah Magee Realtors battled from behind and almost caught the Property Sisters in the bottom of the seventh. Trailing 18-16 in the bottom of the seventh, Treedah Magee Realtors loaded the bases with two outs and needed more hits but it was not to be. Final score: 18-16 in a hard fought game. Defensively, Frank Plahutnik flashed his Gold Glove again at second base making all three putouts vs. the Property Sisters in the top of the seventh inning as well as making other fine plays. Offensively, Vern McLean ripped three base hits and scored twice, David Maligro stroked a single and scored once, Tom Rinehart lined three base hits and scored three times, Jeff Heary slugged two doubles and a single while scoring three times, JT Templeton nailed three hits (double) and scored twice, Bruce Lowe pounded two singles and scored once, Frank Plahutnik cranked three hits (double) and scored once, Tom Yurkunas nailed a single and a double and scored once, Kevin Katsuki slapped three hits (double), Dick Hansen collected two walks and scored once, and Becky Holliday drilled two singles and scored once.

Liberty 21 Colonnade 10
Liberty: Colonnade scored 5 runs in the top of the 1st and 2nd innings and were held scoreless ove the remaining frames; while Liberty Buick also cored 5 runs in the bottom half of those innings and eleven more on the day to emerge with a 21-10 victory. Every Liberty Buick had at least two hits as the team pounded out 32 hits, including forur doubles and a triple. Curt Rhoades 3 for 4 with 2 doubles and 4 RBI led the way. Bob Snelling 4 for 4, Don Cole 3 for 4 with a double, and winning pitcher Ted Schneider 3 for 4 each added 3 RBI. Tim Schiewe with a double and triple and Roger Neumann with 2 hits each drove in 2 runs. Rick Armentano 3 for 4, Glenn Griffin 3 for 4, Greg Martin 3 for 4, and Ken Shick 2 for 3 each had a RBI. Dennis Vance went 4 for 4 and scored twice. After some early defensive misadventures, the team benefited by some key plays by Martin, Vance, Schick and Snelling.
Colonnade: It was a close game for 2 innings, both teams scored 10 runs. Liberty continued scoring, Colonnade stopped. Ray Gibson, Brad Johnson and Dave Dompier had a great day at the plate. Everyone was smok'n hot in the first two innings.

Wyyerd 14 Thunderbird Auto 2
Wyyerd: In the early morning game in beautiful weather our WyYerd team showed no early morning cobwebs and wrapped up the white league championship as we played a great game all around in a 14-2 five inning victory over Thunderbird Auto. After spotting T-Bird a pair of runs in the top of the first, we shut the visitors down the next 4 innings in a 45 minute contest. We pounded 24 hits in the 4 plus innings that we batted with Wayne, Rod, Jim, and Gary Finer all perfect on the day. Subbing, Vern(2-3) had a pair of doubles and played good SS while Jim and Wayne added doubles and Bob a triple. Gary Armstrong had a nice day in the rover position turning 2 DP's and was 2-3 at the plate and Mr Lessard stayed hot going 3-4. The defensive play of the day had Greg Roehm flagging down a hard grounder and went to Armstrong starting one of our DP's that we turned. Jeff had his second shoestring catch in LF for another highlight. Paul Jinneman played his usual steady game on both sides of the ball driving in the run that gave us the lead in the bottom of the first in front of family and friends. Ted had the guys aggressive on the bases as usual. Great season guys!
Tbird: It started out great! John Nicodemo 2/2, Dick Nunez, 1/2, and Bill Parker 1/2 all rifled singles then a sac fly form John Blevins 1/1 produced 2 runs. We never scored again! In fact, we only had 4 more hits the rest of the game, 2 by Brian Martin who was 2/2, Wyerd on the other hand was playing great on both sides of the ball. Well placed hits and stellar defense ended this game in 5. Wyyerd showed themselves to be worthy champions. Congratulations!!


White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday April 2, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	13	4	0	0.765
	Property Sisters	10	7	0	0.588
	Thunderbird Auto	9	7	1	0.559
	Liberty Buick	7	10	0	0.412
	The Colonnade	6	9	2	0.412
	Treedah Magee Realtor	4	12	1	0.265



Wyyerd 11 Property Sisters 8
WYyerd: In a battle of the two top teams in the standings, it came down to the last batter before Rod flagged down a smash up the middle killing a furious Property Sisters 7th inning rally sealing an 11-8 win. Our WyYerd squad took control early in the game scoring 4 in the first and another 5 in the second as we jumped out to a 9-0 lead. In the first, it was 2 RBI smash by Gary Finer(2-3) that was key while Jim Courtney hit a gapper scoring two runs in the second inning. While a 9-0 looks comfortable, we knew that Property Sisters is a tough team and would not go the away. Good defense by Paul Johne and Howard of the Sisters team led to 4 zeros in the middle innings for our squad and we went into the 7th ahead 9-7. Consecutive singles by Gary Armstrong, David Brenenstahl, and Wayne Wiedenbach followed by a 2 RBI single by Courtney led to a bit of a cushion and an 11-7 lead going into the bottom of the 7th and we were then fortunate to hold home team squad to one run in the bottom despite their opening the inning with 3 or 4 hits. Finer was again busy in this game in the OF recording numerous outs and adding an assist while Jeff Watson made a running catch in LF. Offensively, Wayne drew two walks and had a hit filling his leadoff role to a "T" while Dave stayed hot going 3-3 on the other end of the order. Armstrong drew a walk and had a hit and Watson(2B) and Courtney were clutch going 3-4.
Sisters: Property Sisters fell behind the league leading Wyyerd by a score of 9-0 after two innings. We fought back but lost by a score of 11-8. We had many chances but left 14 runners on base. Howard Sumner was our leading hitter going 4/4 and scored 2 runs. Paul Johne put on a good performance for his family and three grandkids going 3/4 with a double, scored a run and had an RBI. Randy Van Wagner had a granddaughter watching him go 3/4 with a double and an RBI. Steve Willoughby was 2/3 with a double, scored a run and had an RBI. Sub Brad Johnson was our RBI leader with 3 and was 2/3. Dan Blaney was 2/4 and scored a run. Sub Mike Wunsch was 2/4 and had an RBI. Thanks to our subs Brad, Mike and Bruce Lowe. Also to today's umpires John Hardy and Jon Nelson.

Liberty 16 Thunderbird Auto 13
Liberty: Liberty Buick yielded 6 runs in the final frame but held on to win a 16-13 decision over Thunderbird Auto. Liberty was led by our Commissioner, Rick Armentano, with 4 hits including a double and 4 RBI. Winning pitcher Ted Schneider 2 for 4, Dennis Vance 3 for 3 with a sacrifice, Glenn Griffin 3 for 4, Don Cole 2 for 4, and Roger Neumann 2 for 4 each drove in 2 runs. Ken Schick 3 for 4 with a triple and RBI excelled in the field as well with several key plays, including a game-saver. Tim Schiewe 2 for 4 added a RBI. Greg Martin went 2 for 4 and Bob Snelling had a hit and scored once as every regular player had at least one hit in the contest. Special thanks to sub Gale Hiser 4 for 4 who kept the line moving and had a solid game at 1st base.
Tbird: Thunderbird made a valiant effort, but could not overcome a 9 run lead. Leading hitter was Ted Grove 4/4/ Bill Parker was 3/3. John Blevins was 3/4. John Nicodemo, Mark Beckner, Ted Grove, and Brian Martin were all 2/4. Great effort by all!

Treedah Magee 23 Colonnade 13
Treedah: In a 4-3 game after two innings, the Treedah Magee Realtors broke out with four runs in the third and five runs in the fourth for a 13-7 lead over The Colonnade. Treedah Magee continued to add on three runs in the fifth and seven runs in the unlimited seventh inning for a 23-13 win! For the Treedah Magee Realtors, the defense played well and the offense was able to stack hits that led to big innings. Diving second base man Frank Plahutnik made the most spectacular of the day ranging behind second base to backhand a hard hit grounder, falling to the ground and somehow pulling himself together to toss the ball to sub rover Mark Beckner covering the bag! You had to see it to believe it. Speaking of sub Mark Beckner, he was amazingly efficient at rover, tracking down many well-hit balls and getting outs all around the infield. Vern McLean also made some difficult catches in left center. Becky Holliday pitched an excellent game and had a good day at the plate (see below). Offensively, Vern McLean led off with two singles and scored once, Sub Mark Beckner slugged two doubles and two singles and scored four times, Tom Rinehart playing in front of a large and supportive family in the outfield connected on three hits (double) and five RBI and scored three times, Jeff Heary slammed three hits (double) and two RBI, JT Templeton ripped four hits (two doubles) and scored three times in front of his admiring family, Bruce Lowe hammered five hits (two doubles) in as many at-bats (3 RBI) and scored twice, Frank Plahutnik pounded two singles, Kevin Katsuki lined two singles (RBI), Dick Hansen collected two singles and a walk and scored twice, Becky Holliday stroked two hits (double, RBI) and scored twice, and sub Fred Lubs cracked three singles (RBI) and scored twice. A big thank-you goes to subs Mark Beckner and Fred Lubs for their contributions today. Appreciation also goes to Brian Holliday and Kris Koch for keeping the scorebook and Mike Wunsch coaching at the hot corner. It was a good all-around team effort.
Colonnade: The Colonnade went down to defeat to the mighty sluggers of Treedah Magee Realtors 23-13 in a 7th inning flip. New sub pitcher John Recob went 4/4 with 3 RBI's and pitched a nice game despite the porous defense in his first pitching start and Tim Brown was also 4/4 making several nice catches in RC. Other hitters include 3rd baseman Brad Johnson 3/4. The entire lineup had at least one hit and Fred Jensen, Dan "Birthday Boy" Davidson, Gary Kuhlman (2B & 3B), Danny Wood (2B), Ray Gibson and Kim MacQueen all added 2 hits. Solo hits by Dan Newman and Dave Dompier rounded out our offensive attack. Thank you John Recob for subbing and pitching. We had 25 hits in 45 AB's to hit .556, most of the time giving you a chance to win. . . .but not when you give up 23 runs. Many thanks to Tim Schiewe and Pete Semenak, not only for umpiring, but all the hard work in preparing the field from the overnight rain. Also standouts on the field crew were Jim Opyd, Tom Gibbans and John Hammel. . . .thanks for prepping the field. Thanks to Kenny Schick for the last minute sub in the Tower. Once again, Christina Silva kept a great scorebook.


White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday March 28, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	12	4	0	0.750
	Property Sisters	10	6	0	0.625
	Thunderbird Auto	9	6	1	0.594
	The Colonnade	6	8	2	0.438
	Liberty Buick	6	10	0	0.375
	Treedah Magee Realtor	3	12	1	0.219


Sun City Grand Softball Winter 2024


Wyyerd 12 Colonnade 4
WYyerd: WyYerd made it 2-0 on the week with a 12 4 win over Dan's Colonnade squad behind solid defense and enough hitting with each player contributing at least one hit. Lots of infield action defensively and the infield of 3B Greg, SS Murray, rover Gary A, and 2B Paul fielded the grounders nicely and Bob handled all of the one hop throws at 1B. In the OF, Wayne made a nice running catch while his sidekick Gary F had lots of action and was up to it. Bob(3 runs, 3B), Rod(4 RBI) , and Gary F were each 3-4 while Jim Courtney was a perfect 3-3 with 2 runs scored. Wayne, Jeff, Paul(2-3) and Murray had a pair of hits. Kris was perfect on the book and Ted did his usual great job of coaching.
Colonnade: The Colonnade suffered another loss today at the hands of the Rod Wilterdink led 1st place WyYerd team. We only scored 4 runs in the 12-4 loss. Kim MacQueen made nice catches in LF and sub Fred Lubs had some nice plays at 2nd base. Losing pitcher Danny Wood caught an infield pop-up and sub SS John Blevins made some nice defensive plays. Offensively we were led by Brad Johnson going 2/3 and scoring a run with an inside the park home run, sub Blevins just missed an over the fence home run and settled for a double. They were followed by Tim Brown (2 RBI), Dave Dompier and Fred Jensen, all going 2/3. Also with hits were Gary Kuhlman and Dan Davidson. With only 4 runs and 12 hits, hitting a paltry 3.64, we won't win many games like that. Thanks to the umpires and score tower and as always our exceptional scorebook keeper, Christina Silva.

Property Sisters 11 Thunderbird Auto 8
Sisters: The Property Sisters team came out swinging today. We scored nine runs in the first two innings and then held on to win the game against a strong Thunderbird team by a score of 11-8. Howard Sumner came out of a mini slump going 4/4, scored 2 runs and had an RBI. Ken Krzeminski hit triples the first two times up. Then scored 2 runs and had 3 RBI's. Paul Johne continued to have a hot bat going 3/3, scored 3 runs and had 2 RBI's. Dave (Double) Nathe did not get a double today but was 2/2 with a triple, single and a walk. He also scored 2 runs and had an RBI. Dave will be leaving us now heading back north. He had a stellar season both offensively and defensively. His 26 doubles has to be some kind of record in 16 games. We will miss him. Dan Blaney and Steve Willoughby each had 2 hits. Randy Van Wagner had 3 RBI's. Thanks to Bob Lessard and Fred Lubs for subbing for us today.
Tbird: Its a back and forth game, Thunderbird couldn’t quite put it together. Property Sisters hit the ball well. Brian Martin led the way for Thunderbird going 2/3 with a grand slam. John Blevins and Ted Schneider were 3/4. Bob Tarr was 2/3 with a double. John Nicodemo and Dick Nunez were both 2/4. Thank you Ted for subbing.

Treedah Magee 11 Liberty Buick 9
Treedah: On another beautiful morning at the Field of Dreams, the Liberty Buick team came out of the dugout on fire in the first inning taking a 5-0 lead. The Treedah Magee Realtors team answered with one run in the bottom of the first. Neither team could score in the second inning. In the third, Liberty Buick added two more runs while Treedah Magee put up four runs in the bottom - now 7-5 in favor of Liberty Buick. Pitcher Becky Holliday and the Treedah Magee Realtors defense then held Liberty Buick scoreless in the fourth-sixth innings as Treedah Magee scored six runs - now 11-7 in favor of the Treedah Magee Realtors. In the unlimited top of the seventh, Liberty Buick picked up another run, but it was not enough - final score 11-8 for Treedah Magee. After starting out behind, the Treedah Magee Realtors kept battling and their never-say-die attitude paid off. Offensively, Vern McLean celebrated his birthday with a number of nice plays in the outfield to go with his double, sacrifice fly, walk and run scored. David Maligro slapped three base hits and scored twice. Tom Rinehart, playing in front of of his granddaughter Haylie from Mankato, drilled a double and a single and scored once. Big Bad Jeff Heary celebrated his birthday a day late with a three run bomb over the left center field wall in addition to a double and a single. JT Templeton, also playing in front of family, turned a double play, ripped a single, and got robbed by some outstanding defensive play on two other at-bats. Bruce Lowe stroked a single and also had some tough luck on a couple of hard hit balls. Frank "The Tank" Plahutnik played well on defense and started at least one double play. Tom Yurkunas nailed a single and scored once while making some smooth plays at first base. Kevin Katsuki continued his hard hitting with a single and double, scoring once and getting robbed by Liberty Buick’s slick fielding first baseman, Roger Neumann, on another smash. Dick Hansen collected a walk and a single and scored twice. Pitcher Becky Holliday put up four scoreless innings on the bump and helped her own cause with two singles and two runs scored. Good job, Y’all!
Liberty: Liberty Buick jumped out to a 7-1 lead in the top of the 3rd inning; but, only scored one more time the remainder of the game to drop a 11-8 decision. Dennis Vance 1 for 2 with a double and sacrifice fly drove in 3 runs. Losing pitcher Ted Schneider went 3 for 4 with a double and 2 RBI, Sub John Nicodemo 2 for 4 with a triple, Glenn Griffin 3 for 3 with a triple and Roger Neumann with a hit each added a RBI. Sub Howard Sumner went 4 for 4 on the day. Ken Shick went 2 for 3. John Lausman subbed and his batted balls were stopped on fine plays by Treedah infielders.

White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday March 26, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	11	4	0	0.733
	Thunderbird Auto	9	5	1	0.633
	Property Sisters	9	6	0	0.600
	The Colonnade	6	7	2	0.467
	Liberty Buick	6	9	0	0.400
	Treedah Magee Realtor	2	12	1	0.167



WYyerd 12 Liberty Buick 9
WYyerd: Our WyYerd squad jumped out to a 10-3 third inning lead and held off Liberty Buick late in a 12-9 win. Strong infield defense led by the glovework of rover Gary Armstrong and SS Murray Fairweather led to 4 zero run middle innings for our defense. Rod also made several defensive plays from the mound including starting a double play. Gary Finer flashed the leather in the outfield and was 3-3 at the plate with 2 RBI's. The big hit of the game was a double by Dave Brenenstahl(2-3, 3 RBI) in the 5 run third that opened up the lead from 5-3 to 10-3. Wayne was a perfect 4-4 in the leadoff spot while Jim Courtney, Bob Lessard, Paul Jinneman, Murray were only retired once. Jeff Watkins added a pair of hits to the cause.
Liberty Buick: Liberty Buick fell behind 11-3 after 5 innings and inspite of a good effort could not get closer than the final 12-9 margin. Losing pitcher Ted Schneider did everything he could to help himself going 2 for 3 with a double and 3 RBI. Sub John Lausman contributed a 2 run double. Tim Schiewe with 2 doubles, Dennis Vance 2 for 3 with a double, and Glenn Griffin with a hit and sacrifice fly each drove in a run. Rick Armentano with 2 runs scored and Roger Neumann each had 2 hits in the contest.

Thunderbird Auto 11 Treedah Magee 8
Thunderbird: Thunderbird broke out to a 11-0 lead after 3. Unfortunately, we didn’t score again, but managed to hang onto an 11-8 victory over Treedah. There were many great defensive plays all the way around. The hitting was led by Dick Nunez and Dave Swanson who both went 3/3. Dave also had a double and a triple. John Nicodemo, John Blevins double , Mark Beckner double, and sub Dave Anthony double all went 2/3.
Treedah: The Treedah Magee Realtors got off to a slow start today, falling behind 11-0 to Thunderbird Auto before waking up. Finally, in the sixth inning, the Treedah Magee Realtors put up five runs to get back into contention. However, while holding Thunderbird Auto scoreless in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, the Treedah Magee team could only muster one more run in the top of the seventh for a final score of 11-6. Sub pitcher Rockin’ Roger Neumann stymied the Thunderbird Auto guys after the third inning. We just needed to give him more run support. Left fielder Tom Rinehart returned to the lineup from the DL in time to make a couple of outstanding running catches which helped the Treedah Magee Realtors stay in the game. Vern McLean led the Treedah Magee team with four hits (double) and scored twice, David Maligro recorded a single, Tom Rinehart nailed two singles and scored once, Jeff Heary cranked a single and triple and scored once, Bruce Lowe lined a single, Frank Plahutnik worked a walk, Tom Yurkunas ripped a single and scored once, Kevin Katsuki ripped a single and scored once (in dramatic fashion), Dick Hansen pounded a single and scored once, and Sub Roger Neumann collected a walk. “We’ll get ‘em next time!"

Property Sisters 17 Colonnade 7
Property Sisters: The Property Sisters played one of their better games today. We received great pitching by Dave Anthony allowing only 5 runs. We had great hitting by the whole team as we pounded out 23 hits in 6 innings. We had many outstanding defensive plays by several players. Howard Sumner made outstanding catches in the outfield. Paul Johne was a cacuum at 2nd base making several difficult catches. Dave Nathe had a strong defensive game at the shortstop position. Sub Bruce Lowe made several good plays at the rover position. All of the above resulted in a 17-5 six inning mercy-rule game. Offensively, Dave (2 Base) Nathe lead our team going 4/4 all 2 base hits for a total of 26 so far this season. He also score 4 runs and had 4 RBI's. Paul Johne was 2/3 with a walk and a double, scored 4 runs and had 4 RBI's. Randy Van Wagner had another big game going 4/4, scored 4 runs and had 4 RBI's. Ken Krzeminski had a good game going 3/4 and scored 2 runs. Dave Anthony not only pitched well to get the win, but he was 2/3, scored a run and had an RBI. Howard Sumner and Dan Blaney each had 2 hits as every player had 1 or more hits. Thanks to subs Bob Lessard and Bruce Lowe.
Colonnade: The make-shift Colonnade lineup took it on the chin 17-5 by the hard hitting Property Sisters. We were run-ruled in 6 innings. Our offense consisted of catcher Dan Davidson 2/2 with an RBI, Brad Johnson 2/3 with an RBI (and a great play at 3rd base). No other player had 2 hits. Ray Gibson and Danny Wood had triples, Ray with one RBI and Danny with 2 RBI. Tim Brown, Kim MacQueen, Dave Dompier and Don Trenda all added a hit. 1st baseman Fred Jensen made some nice plays and had a walk and an RBI. Pitcher Don was injured and thus the make-shift lineup including absences by another of our regulars. We only had 11 hits in 30 AB's, hitting a paltry .367. Thank you to subs Vern Mclean (nice catch) and middle of the game sub Dick Hansen (nice hit). Also thanks to Wayne Weidenbach and Tom Gruzs for umpiring and Kenny Shick in the tower. As always, we couldn't even concentrate on the game if it weren't for our super-scorekeeper Chrisitna Silva keeping us in line.

White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday March 21, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	10	3	0	0.769
	Property Sisters	8	5	0	0.615
	Thunderbird Auto	7	5	1	0.577
	The Colonnade	6	5	2	0.538
	Liberty Buick	5	8	0	0.385
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	11	1	0.115



Liberty Buick 16 Property Sisters 15
Liberty: Liberty Buick prevailed 16-15 in spite of a rough day for the defense. The team welcomed back a still somewhat hobbled Dennis Vance 4 for 4 with a double who contributed 6 RBI on the day. Tim Schiewe with a double and 3 RBI, winning pitcher Ted Schneider with a double and 2 RBI, and Glenn Griffin with 3 doubles and a RBI were also 4 for 4 on the day. Rick Armentano with a run scoring doubleI and Bob Snelling with 2 RBI each had 2 hits. Greg Martin with a hit to go with his two walks had the game winning RBI after Property Sisters tied the game with a four run rally in the top of the last inning. Roger Neumann with 2 walks, Ken Shick, and Curt Rhoades each had a hit. Thanks to Bob Hudson for subbing today and making two key plays in the field!
Sisters: The Property Sisters team jumped out to 9- 2 lead after two innings. Then were not able to score in three of the next four innings and lost the game to Liberty Buick by a score of 16-15. We had 24 hits today but left a lot of runners in scoring position, especially in the last two innings. Randy Van Wagner was 4/4 with a double, scored 2 runs and had 3 RBI's. Kandi Patrick came off the disabled list with a broken finger to go 4/4. Dave Nathe was 3/3 with a walk and his 22nd double, scored 4 runs and had 2 RBI's. Paul Johne was 3/4, scored 2 runs and had an RBI. Both Dan Blakey and Paul Larson were 2/4 with a double, scored a run and had 3 RBI's. Dave Anthony was 2/4, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Steve Willoughby was 2/3 with a walk, scored a run and had an RBI. Thanks to Fred Lubs for subbing today. The "Good News" is that nobody got hurt and we will be ready to play next Tuesday.

Treedah Magee 17 WYyerd 12
Treedah: On another beautiful Arizona day, the Treedah Magee Realtors and the WyYerd team battled to an 8-8 tie through two innings. The Treedah Magee team then scored seven more runs to two for WyYerd in the 4th-6th innings, leaving the score at 17-10. WyYerd only managed two more runs in the top of the seventh for a final score of 17-12 in favor of the Treedah Magee Realtors. On this day, Treedah Magee played one of its better defensive games led by pitcher Becky Holliday and sub John Nicodemo. The Treedah Magee Realtors also had one of its better hitting days. Offensively, Vern McLean slugged a double and single and scored once, David Maligro ripped three singles and scored once, sub John Nicodemo knocked two base hits and scored once, Jeff Heary pounded two singles and scored twice, Bruce Lowe lined three singles and scored three times, Frank Plahutnik banged three hits (double) and scored three times, JT Templeton cracked a perfect 4/4 and scored once, Tom Yurkunas stroked two hits (double) and scored twice, Kevin Katsuki hammered a perfect 4/4 (triple, double) and scored twice, Dick Hansen nailed a single, and Becky Holliday drilled a single and scored once. We appreciated sub John Nicodemo’s excellent fielding in left field. Thanks to Mike Wunsch and Tom Rinehart coaching the bases and Brian Holliday keeping the scorebook! It was a total team effort today.
WYyerd: The Magee hitting machine overpowered our WyYerd squad in a 17-12 game as the home team hit the alleys, dropped balls in front of us all day long. Even though we had 25 hits led by Gary Armstrong's 4-4, we couldn't keep up. The beauty of a draft league was on display today with the last place squad upending the team on top. Offensively Wayne, Bob, Rod, and Jeff had good days going 3-4 while Gary, Rod, and Bob each had 3 RBI. Sub John Recob was solid on defense and went 2-4 on offense. Defensively, a highlight was a DP started by SS Murray Fairweather. Good coaching on the bases by Tom and Ted as usual while Kris kept her usual neat and accurate book.

Thunderbird 17 Colonnade 7
Tbird: Thunderbird bounced back for a 17-7 victory. Sub Dave Anthony 2/3 did a good job filling in for Dennis Karcher. The defense was solid; especially the outfield. Jim Jozwowski led the hitting going 3/3 and hit the ball hard every time. Ted Grove was 2/2. Going 3/4 were Bill Parker 2B and John Blevins 2B. Going 2/3 were Dick Nunez 2 doubles and a sac fly, Mark Beckner, and Dave Swanson. John Nicodemo was 1/2 with a double, and Bob Tarr was 1/3 with a double. Thank you to Dave Power for subbing.
Colonnade: The Colonnade lost to a great hitting Thunderbird team 17-7. T'bird scored in every inning but one and we put up 4 goose eggs which made for a runaway victory for the Dick Nunez led 'Birds. Our leading hitter was lead off man LC Gary Kuhlman 3/4, 3rd baseman Brad Johnson, 1st baseman Dan Newman, RC Tim Brown, RF Dave Dompier and super sub Fred Lubs all had two hits. Three team members were held hitless, but Kim MacQueen managed to draw 2 walks. Rounding out the offense was Ray Gibson and Fred Jensen with a hit apiece. Thank you umps Bob "Lefty" Lessard and Jeff Watson and in the tower was Vern "hitting machine" Mclean. My favorite sub scorekeeper Jeff "Hall of Fame" Smith did a great job even though not too busy.

White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday March 19, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	10	3	0	0.769
	Property Sisters	8	5	0	0.615
	Thunderbird Auto	7	5	1	0.577
	The Colonnade	6	5	2	0.538
	Liberty Buick	5	8	0	0.385
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	11	1	0.115



Liberty Buick 17 Colonnade 5
Liberty: The up and down season continued as Liberty Buick defeated The Colonnade 17-5 in a run-shortened contest. Liberty was led by Bob Snelling 2 for 3 with a double and 4 RBI. 2nd baseman Roger Neumann 2 for 2 with a walk batted in 3 runs and played flawlessly in the field. Winning pitcher Ted Schneider 3 for 4 with a double, Don Cole 3 for 4 with a double and Ken Shick with a hit each added 2 RBI. Tim Schiewe 4 for 4 with a double, sub John Blevens 2 for 3 with a walk, Glenn Griffin 2 for 3 with a double, and sub Curt Rhoades 4 for 4 each had a RBI.
Colonnade: When you go from 41 to 14 hits and 30 to 5 runs, in back to back games, not many of those result in a victory. The Colonnade was slammed by Liberty Buick 17-5 in a 6 inning game. The opponents were led by great defensive plays by a LC fielder who stole two extra base hits from us and a left handed 2nd baseman who made the game look too easy, taking away hit after hit from the good guys. Our offensive attack was led by 3rd baseman Brad Johnson 3/3 with 2 RBI adding a double and a triple. Next best hitters were Ray Gibson, Gary Kuhlman (2B) and Dave Dompier, all with 2 hits. Dan Davidson (BB), Kim MacQueen (BB) and Tim Brown added hits and an RBI each to round out our 5 runs scored. Danny Wood and Dan Newman each scratched out a hit apiece to round out the lackluster hit parade. Thank you to umpires Frank "Pluto" Plahunik and Bruce "limbo" Lowe as well as Randy Van "Winkle" Wagner in the tower. As always, we could not play the game without the excellent scorekeeping of Christina "HiHo" Silva.

Wyyerd 19 Thunderbird 16
Wyyerd: Behind the whole game our WyYerd Fiber Optic team parlayed a great 7th inning to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat outscoring the hard hitting T-Bird team 6-0 in the last frame for a 19-16 victory. Down 16-13 going into the seventh inning, our orange machine put together a six run rally with the help of several key two out hits. With two out and two on and still down two, sub Dave Powers singled to bring us within a run and Wayne hit a gapper for a 2 RBI double tying the game and that was followed by another double in the alley by Jim Courtney and Bob Lessard then stroked a single for the sixth run of the inning. The next item of business was to stop the hard hitting T-Bird in the bottom half. Reliever Wayne Weidenbach was up to occasion with the help of superlative defense. After the first runner got in base for the home squad, Gary Armstrong recorded the first out a tough catch on a wind blown popup in foul territory. Next, LC fielder, Greg Roehm streaked out of nowhere to flag down a blooper just out of the infield, and Murray capped the game off with another tough play, an over the shoulder catch, to end the game. Offensively, Lessard was 4-5 while Rod, Murray, Dave Brenenstahl, and Powers were 3-4 on the day. Wayne and Jim(4 RBI) were 3-5 on the day. Greg had 3 RBI from his cleanup spot.
Tbird: Thunderbird blew a golden opportunity to close the gap on Wyerd. Leading by 3, Wyerd scored 6 on good hits and an occasional error on Thunderbird's part. Unfortunately, Thunderbird went down in order in the bottom of the 7th to seal the victory for Wyerd. The top 4 hitters for Thunderbird were a combined 15-15. Going 4/4: John Nicodemo double and triple, Dick Nunez doube, Bill Parker 2 doubles. John Blevens was 3/3 with a walk. double, and triple. Mark Beckner was 3/4 with a triple. Sub Ted Schneider and Bob Tarr were 2/3. Thank you Ted and Tom Ciavarella for subbing.

Property Sisters 16 Treedah Magee 6
Sisters: Dave Anthony pitched exceptionally well today to help the Property Sisters defeat Teedah Magee 16-6. He also was 2/3, scored a run and had an RBI. Paul Johne played well again defensively and was 2/4, scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. Dave [Doubles] Nathe continued to punish the ball going 3/4, a double and a triple, scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. Steve Willoughby was 3/3 including a triple and had 3 RBI's. Dan Blaney was 3/3, scored 2 runs and had an RBI. Randy Van Wagner was 2/4, scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. We had 4 subs today and all were very productive. Gale Hiser was 2/4, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. John Lausman was 2/2. Gary Kuhlman and Darin Proctor each had hit. As a team, every player had 1 or more hits. Nine different plalyers had RBI's. Thank you subs for assisting in our success today. Every one contributed and that usually brings good reslts.
Treedah: As has been the case in several of our games, we hung tough with the Property Sisters through early innings, trailing by 3-2 at the end of three.. However, the Property Sisters broke loose with five runs in the fourth and fifth innings to increase their lead to 13-5. Entering the seventh inning, their lead was 16-5, requiring a flip-flop. Treedah Magee Realtors could only manage one run in the seventh for a final score of 16-6 in favor of the Property Sisters. Defensively, Tom Yurkunas made a great, stretched-out catch of a hot line drive, Vern McLean made a couple of nice running catches in the outfield and delivered two accurate throws from centerfield to home, nailing one runner, and sub Ted Koch grabbed a shoestring catch in leftfield. Offensively, Treedah Magee Realtors had an “off” day at the plate as a team after scoring 26 runs on the previous Thursday. We hope the latter team shows up for our next game on this Thursday. For Treedah Magee today, Vern McLean drilled two hits and scored once, David Maligro ripped three hits and scored once, Jeff Heary pounded three hits (two doubles) while scoring twice, Bruce Lowe slugged two hits (double) and scored once, Frank Plahutnik drilled two hits and collected a walk, Tom Yurkunas ripped a double, Kevin Katsuki stroked a single and scored once, and Becky Holliday nailed a single. We wish we could have given pitcher Becky Holliday more support, but we’ll keep trying. Thanks to Ted Koch for subbing for us today. Our motto is “We’ll get ‘em next time!"

White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday March 14, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	9	3	0	0.750
	Thunderbird Auto	7	4	1	0.625
	Property Sisters	7	5	0	0.583
	The Colonnade	6	4	2	0.583
	Liberty Buick	4	8	0	0.333
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	10	1	0.125



Colonnade 30 Treedah Magee 26
Colonnade: The Colonnade and Treedah Magee Realtor put up 56 runs in a game that featured very little defense. Both teams scored in every inning but one and both teams put up three 5 run innings. We scored 9 runs in the open 7th inning and "only" allowed 4 in the bottom to take a 30-26 win. Our few defensive highlights included great work at Catcher by Dave Dompier and in the Realtors' scoreless 6th inning, all outs were recorded by SS Ray Gibson and Rover Kim MacQueen. Offensively, we hit .732 as a team going 41/56. We were led by 3 perfect at the plate hitters, 3rd baseman Brad Johnson 5/5, 6 RBI with 2 doubles, LC Gary Kuhlman, 4/4 3 runs scored with a walk and LF Danny Wood 5/5 with 2 doubles and 4 RBI. Also "tired" pitcher Don Trenda was 5/6, 3 RBI and a double. Contributing 4 hits were SS Ray Gibson 4/6, 2 RBI, a double and 2 triples (pretty good for an old guy that last week could hardly make it to first base), C Dave Dompier 4/5, 5 RBI and a triple and Fred Jensen also 4/5, 5 RBI and a triple (Dave and Fred's best game of the season). RF Dan Newman was 3/5, scoring 3 with an RBI, RC Tim Brown 3/5 and 3 RBI and Rover Kim MacQueen 3/5 scoring 3 with an RBI. Dan Davidson had a hit and scored 2 runs. Many thanks to our umpires "Stormy" Fairweather and Gary "Nothing could be" Finer and brilliant scoreboard keeper Jon Chlebeck. Finally, we got our money's worth from always great scorebook keeper Christina Silva as she wore out 2 pencils while recording all 41 hits and 30 runs, (boy was she tired).
Treedah: Today’s game between the Treedah Magee Realtors and The Colonnade was a high-scoring affair that wasn’t decided until the seventh inning. Treedah Magee led most of the game: 4-3, 8-6, 13-11, 17-11, 22-16 and 22-21 through six innings before The Colonnade unleashed their offense for a huge nine run burst in the top of the seventh for a 30-22 lead. Unfortunately, the Treedah Magee Realtors could not overcome that deficit in the bottom of the seventh in spite of a four run rally. Final score was 30-26 in favor of The Colonnade. Offensively for Treedah Magee: Vern McLean went 4/5 with a home run and scored five runs, David Maligro pounded four hits (double) and scored twice, Jeff Heary ripped four hits and scored three times, JT Templeton nailed three hits (double) and scored three times, Bruce Lowe drilled five hits (5/5) and scored four times, Frank Plahutnik banged four hits (triple) and scored twice, sub Mike Wunsch slugged five hits (5/5, triple) and scored twice, Kevin Katsuki lined three hits (double) and scored once, Dick Hansen collected two hits (double) and scored twice, sub Fred Lubs gathered two hits and scored twice, and pitcher Becky Holliday slapped a single.

Thunderbird 14 Liberty Buick 5
Tbird: After going scoreless in the first 3 innings, Thunderbird put up 2 5 run innings, then followed it up with 2 2 run innings to finish off a 14-5 victory. The T-Birds played great team defense along with solid pitching from Dennis Karcher 2/4. Perfect at plate were Billy Parker 4/4 and John Blevins 3/3. John Nicodemo, Dick Nunez, Brian Martin, and Bob Tarr were all 3/5. Jim Jozwowski and Ted Grove were both 2/4.
Liberty: Bob Snelling, sub John Gavazza, Glenn Griffin with a RBI, and Ken Shick with a RBI each chipped in two hits. Rick Armentano with two RBI, sub Brad Johnson with a double, Greg Martin with a triple and RBI, Tim Schiewe, and Don Cole each had one hit as Liberty Buick was held to five runs and thirteen hits on the day.

Property Sisters 11 WyYerd 9
Sisters: Both teams battled hard today with Property Sisters defeating the leaque leading Wyyerd team by a score of 11-9. After 4 innings we were leading the game 9-0. Then Wyyerd game back to score 9 runs in the next 2 innings while we were only able to score 2 runs. In a game like this there were several different factors that influenced the final results. Dave Anthony pitched a terrific game holding Wyyerd scoreless in five of the seven innings. He also was 2/4 and score a run. Nice win for you today, Dave. There were three defensive plays that stood out. Paul Johne made a spectacular play early in the game to get an important out. Ken Krzeminski deflected a sure base hit over to Dave Nathe who relayed the ball to Paul Larson to get the force out at 2nd base. A 5-6-11 ground out in the book. Also, Tom Yurkunas made two outstanding catches for outs in the outfield. He also was 3/4 including a double and scored a run. Ken Krzeminski played Team ball taking three walks, was 1/1 and score 3 runs. Randy Van Wagner was 2/3 and had 4 RBI's. Dave Nathe was 2/2 including a double (his 20th of the season), walked twice and had 3 RBI's. Paul Johne was 2/3, scored a run and had an RBI. Rookie sub John Lousman was 2/3, scored a run and had a RBI. Welcome to SCG softball! Great win for the Property Sisters. Thank you subs Tom and John.
WyYerd: it was a case of too little, too late for our WyYerd squad as we fell behind 9-0 in the 4th inning before we valiantly fought back before coming up a just a little short in an 11-9 loss to Property Sisters. It was excellent Property defense that kept us at bay early as we hit a number of hard outs. Our defense led by some excellent SS work by Murray kept the realtors in check the last few innings to give us a chance as we trailed only 11-9 going into the bottom of the 7th with the meat of our order up, but it wasn't to be for the home squad on this occasion. For the second game in a row and only 2 times this season, we hit below .500 for the game despite a 3-3 performance by Paul Jinneman. Greg Roehm, Rod, and Gary Armstrong were each 2-3 with the latter having a triple and two RBI. Dave Brenenstahl, Wayne Weidenbach, and Jeff Watson hit 500. Thanks to Kris on the book along with Ted for his help. Two of our injured, Tom and Jim, shared coaching 1B


White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday March 12, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	9	2	0	0.818
	Thunderbird Auto	6	4	1	0.591
	Property Sisters	6	5	0	0.545
	The Colonnade	5	4	2	0.545
	Liberty Buick	4	7	0	0.364
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	9	1	0.136



Liberty Buick 10 Treedah Magee 7
Liberty: In spite of several mental lapses (i.e., Senior Softball), Liberty Buick bested a tenacious Treedah Magee team by a final score of 10-7. Greg Martin 2 for 3 with an inside the park homerun had 4 RBI in the contest. Winning pitcher Ted Schneider 3 for 3 with a double and Glenn Griffin 2 for 3 with a double each drove in 2 runs. Bob Snelling 3 for 4 with a triple and Don Cole 2 for 3 each added a RBI. Tim Schiewe, sub Dave Nathe, Ken Schick and Roger Neumann made game saving fielding plays. Sub John Gavazza filled in admirably in the outfield and contributed a hit. Rick Armentano and Roger Neumann both went 2 for 3 with a run scored.
Treedah: In a low scoring contest, the Treedah Magee Realtors pulled ahead of Liberty Buick 6-5 after a five run third inning. Treedah Magee’s lead held up through the fifth inning with some fine defense and pitching by Becky Holliday. Unfortunately for the Realtors, Liberty Buick exploded for five runs in the bottom of the sixth for a 10-6 lead. Treedah Magee could only manufacture one run in their last at-bat in the seventh. Final score was 10-7 for Liberty Buick. A day of mostly light hitting was the Treedah Magee Realtors’ shortcoming today. Offensively, sub Wayne Weidenbach collected a walk and scored twice, David Maligro drilled a single, Jeff Heary got a walk and boomed a deep double while scoring once, JT Templeton nailed a single and scored once, Vern McLean ripped a single and scored once, Bruce Lowe pounded a triple and a single, Frank Plahutnik lined a single and scored once, sub Tom Yurkunas banged a single, Kevin Katsuki hit a single and scored once, and Becky Holliday slugged a single. Our offense consisted of ten hits and two walks today.

Colonnade 9 WyYerd 5
Colonnade: To all the local realtors, it's location, location & location, but in today's matchup, it was all about defense, defense & defense. The Colonnade eleven jumped out to a 8-0 lead through 2 and a half innings, but gave up a 4 spot to the Rod Wilterdink led squad in the bottom of the 3rd. Goose eggs were abundant with a two team total of 9 in 14 innings. We held on to take a hard fought 9-5 win over the 1st place WyYerd team. Defensively, we were led by great plays at 3rd on hard hit balls by Brad Johnson, turning one into a double play to rover Kim MacQueen and completed by 1st baseman Fred Jensen. Brad made several more stops as did Ray Gibson at SS. Dan "shoetop" Davidson picked up two line drive outs at his 2nd base position for big plays. LC Gary "Birthday Boy" Kuhlman snagged two fly balls, RC Tim Brown and LF Danny Wood caught other line drive fly balls. 1st baseman Fred Jensen sailed high to snag the final out (you could have slid a ream of paper under his feet!) after making a very nice difficult running catch in the first inning. Offensively, Tim Brown and Danny Wood were perfect 4/4 and 3/3 at the plate, but big stick Brad Johnson 2/3 drove in 3 runs with a double and a triple. Also with 2 hits were rover Kim MacQueen 2/3 with 2 RBI and Ray Gibson 2/4. Lonely RF Dan (no balls hit to him) Newman was 3/4 and was robbed in the 1st inning on a shot to the warning track. Rounding out our attack with one hit each were Gary Kuhlman, Dave Dompier, Dan Davidson and Fred Jensen. Pitching stalwart Don (Don'T) Trenda threw a very nice game allowing WyYerd to only score in 2 of the 7 innings. Thanks to the umpires and tower (Howard Sumner) volunteers as well as our pride and joy scorekeeper Christina Silva.
WyYerd: In a game where defense prevailed, Colonnade defeated our Wyyerd team 9-5 limiting us to 13 for 31 on the day. our first game hitting below .500 as a team. Jeff Watson(2-3) was the only hitter over .500 on the day. While everyone had a hit only Wayne Weidenbach, Dave Brenenstahl, Paul Jinneman, Garu Finer.\, and Bob managed hits in half of their at bats. We had 5 scoreless innings while Colonnade had 4. Greg Roehm had a double for our only extra base hit and Gary Fine had 2 RBI.

Thunderbird Auto 12 Property Sisters 11
Tbird: Parker saves the day! Thunderbird played a neck and neck battle with the Property Sisters. After falling behind 9-3; Thunderbird rallied back for a 12-11 win. John Blevins 3/3 2B fielded a ground ball at deep shortstop with runners on second and third with 2 outs. Blevins fired to third but it appeared to be overthrown. Billy Parker 2/4 2B leaped up and snagged the ball (to the shock of many!) and landed on the base for the third out! Mark Beckner had a strong game going 3/4 with a double and triple. John Nicodemo, DIck Nunez, and Jim Jozwowski were all 2/4. Brian Martin was 1/4 and bounced one over the fence for a ground rule double.
Sisters: Today the Property Sisters jumped out to a 9-3 lead after 2 innings. Then scored only 2 more runs in the last 3 innings and lost to the Thunderbird team 12-11. Steve Willoughby made 2 catches from the catchers position to be our best defensive player today. He almost made a 3rd catch. We started out well but then were able to score only 2 more runs and lost by a score of 12-11. We had 24 hits today, but were not able to score like we had been doing. Sub Gary Kuhlman was our offensive star of the day going 4/4 including a triple and had 2 RBI's. Howard Sumner hit an inside the park HR and knocked in 3 runs. Dave Nathe continued his 2 base assault, all doubles, and had an RBI. Ken Krzeminski and Paul Johne both were 3/4. Randy Van Wagner, Dave Anthony, Paul Larson and sub Tom Yurkunas each had 2 hits. Everyone had one or more hits. We left several people on base. As we look back, several things contributed to the loss. Thank you subs Gary Kuhlman, Tom Yurkunas, and Tom Ciavarella for subbing today. The good news is that nobody got hurt and that we will be ready to take on the 1st place Wyyerd Team on Thursday.

Games thru -	Thursday March 7, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	9	1	0	0.900
	Property Sisters	6	4	0	0.600
	Thunderbird Auto	5	4	1	0.550
	The Colonnade	4	4	2	0.500
	Liberty Buick	3	7	0	0.300
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	8	1	0.150



Liberty Buick 16 WyYerd 12
Liberty: After a rough stretch during the first half of the season. Liberty Buick beat the elements and the previously undefeated Wyyred Fiber team. Every player had at least one hit and figured in the scoring. Bill Tierney 3 for 5 with a double, Tim Schiewe 4 for 4 with a triple, and winning pitcher Ted Schneider 2 for 4 with a double each had 3 RBI. Subs John Blevens 3 for 4 and Brad Johnson 2 for 4 with a double each added 2 RBI. Glenn Griffin 2 for 4, Don Cole 2 for 3 with a sacrifice fly, and Roger Neumann with a hit each batted in a run. Bob Snelling went 3 for 5 with a triple and scored 3 times. Greg Martin had 2 hits and scored once. Kenny Schick finished the day with a perfect 4 for 4 and one run scored.
WyYerd: The Wyerd winning streak of 22 games dating back to November and two seasons was broken by a determined Liberty team 16-12 Thursday on a drizzly and chilly day. Special mention to Jim Coutrney, Paul Jinneman, Rod Wilterdink, and Dave Brenenstahl and coach Ted Koch who were part of both the fall and winter portions of the outstanding streak. But Thursday was all about Liberty as they hit the ball hard and played good defense including a couple running catches in the outfield. Kudos to Liberty on a well played game. We did have few highlights including a perfect day by Jim Courney and a HR by Rod. Jeff, Bob Lessard, Gary Finer, Paul, and Rod were each only retired once. Time to start a new streak, guys.

Property Sisters 13 Colonnade 1
Sisters: The Property Sisters team continued it's hot hitting today and defeated the Colonnade Team 13-1 in a five inning mercy rule game. Dave Anthony pitched an outstanding game allowing only 1 run. He also was 2/3, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Dan Blaney was 3/3 and had 2 RBI's. Howard Sumner was 3/4, scored a run and had an RBI. Ken Krzeminski and Paul Johne each were 2/4, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Big Randy Van Wagner played team ball by going 1/1, taking 2 walks and getting an RBI. Dave Nathe continued his double streak and had an RBI. Our three subs all had outstanding games. Dave Power was 2/2 including a double and a walk, scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. Tom Yurkunas was 3/3 and scored 2 runs. Bob Lessard was 2/3. We had a total of 21 hits with 8 different people getting RBI's. We had several amazing defensive plays. Paul Larson backhanded a hard hit ground ball at the rover postition and threw a strike to first base to get the batter. Paul Johne made two important plays. One was when he knocked down a hard hit ground ball and was able to retrieve the ball and force the runner at second base. The other play was when he ranged into the outfield to catch a pop-up as he fell to the ground. Thanks to our subs Dave, Tom and Bob.
Colonnade: The Colonnade had a lackluster performance on the first game of the day. The P. Sisters took it to us in a shortened 5 inning mercy game beating 13-1. Our offensive highlights were few and far between, but pitcher Don Trenda had 2 hits and the following had a single knock: Brad Johnson (& a walk), Dan Newman ( only run), Danny Wood, Gary Kuhlman and Dan Davidson. Ray Gibson had a walk and Kim MacQueen had our only RBI on a fielder's choice. Tim Brown and Fred Jensen had hard hit balls, but they were just "at'em" balls. Dan Newman and Fred Jensen made outstanding defensive plays as did Brad and Kim. Ray "Ray" Gibson was outstanding in his first foray (this season) in the catching position. Our thanks go out to Tom "Rino" Rinehart and David (Beanfield War) Maligro for umpiring and in the Tower with not much to do was John Blevins (who homered in the next game, yes over the fence!). Our scorekeeper Christina "HiHo" Silva (away) didn't have much to do and the numbers were much easier than usual, so thank you for keeping your head in the game! Our record moved to "average" at 4-4-2 .500, but dropped us to the bottom half of the standings. Hopefully, we'll do better next week.

Thunderbird Auto 17 Treedah Magee 5
TBird: Blevins's blast ends route for Thunderbird. John Blevins 2/3 hit a 3 run shot over the left centerfield wall to end a mercy rule game over Treedah in the 6th inning 17-5. John Nicodemo was a perfect 4/4 and made numerous catches in left centerfield. Also perfect was Dennis Karcher and Bob Tarr both going 3/3. Going 2/3 were Jim Jozwowski, Dave Swanson, and Ted Grove. Dick Nunez double and Bill Parker were both 2/4. It was a convincing win for the T-Birds!
Treedah: The game was close in the early innings (most are, right?), but Thunderbird Auto pulled away quickly with five runs each in the fourth and fifth innings for 14-4 lead. They added three more runs in the bottom of the sixth to mercy the Realtors, 17-4. Credit Thunderbird for a great day of hitting and defense. The Treedah Magee Realtors hit the ball hard most of the day, but Thunderbird Auto players were well-positioned to catch the majority of those efforts. The Treedah Magee team could only muster 13 hits in this game. We’ll play better next week! Offensively, Tom Rinehart ripped two hits and scored once, Jeff Heary pounded three hits (double), sub Paul Larson lined three hits and scored once, David Maligro collected a single and scored once, sub David Power had a single to go with several nice catches in left field, Becky Holliday nailed a single, Dick Hansen managed a single as did sub Fred Lubs. Thanks to Fred Lubs, Paul Larson and David Powers for helping the walking-wounded today! We hope to field a completely healthy team next week.

White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday March 5, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	9	0	0	1.000
	Property Sisters	5	4	0	0.556
	The Colonnade	4	3	2	0.556
	Thunderbird Auto	4	4	1	0.500
	Liberty Buick	2	7	0	0.222
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	7	1	0.167



WyYerd 13 Treedah Magee 12
WyYerd: Our WyYerd gang hung on for a 13-12 win over a good hitting Treedah as pitcher Rod Wilterdink was able to coral a sun ball for the last out to cut off a furious rally by the home team in the bottom of the 7th with the tying and winning runs on base. In a game that was back and forth all game we scored 4 runs in the sixth keyed by a Paul Jinneman double and Dave Brennanstahl 2 run single gave us a 5-run lead, but Treedah has good hitting and made the nice charge back in the 7th. Offensively for WyYerd, Rod was a perfect 3-3 while Dave has a triple and single and shared the team leading RBI's(3) along with Bob Lessard who had 3 RBI going 3-4. Gary Armstrong and Murray Fairweather were 3-4 with the former having a double. Gary Finer, Wayne Weidenbach, and Jim Courtney adding a pair of knocks. Jeff Watson played a good outfield and added a single to the offense. Good umpiring by Mark Beckner and Dan Wood helped the game move along smoothly.
Treedah: It was a beautiful day for a softball game, and the fans were treated to a close game. The game was tied 5-5 at the end of two, and again 7-7 at the end of four innings. Wyyerd pulled ahead 13-8 in the top of the seventh before Treedah Magee came to bat in the bottom of the seventh. The Treedah Magee Realtors team tried their best to upend the undefeated, first place Wyyerd team, but Wyyerd fought off a furious four run rally by the Treedah Magee Realtors team in the bottom of the seventh inning with a runner on third and two outs. Wyyerd hung on for a tough 13-12 win. Offensively for Treedah Magee Realtors, Vern McLean nailed two hits, Tom Rinehart slugged three hits and scored once, Jeff Heary slammed two hits, JT Templeton ripped two hits and scored once, sub Dave Swanson pounded two doubles and scored twice, David Maligro lined two hits and scored twice, Bruce Lowe cracked three hits (triple) and scored once, Kevin Katsuki banged two hits (double) and scored twice, Becky Holliday collected two hits and scored twice, Dick Hansen slapped two hits (triple) and scored once, and sub Jon Chlebeck rounded out the hitting with two singles and two RBIs. Defensively, Tom Rinehart ran down countless fly balls in right center field, prompting another player to ask if the rest of us could play too! Thank you to subs Dave Swanson and Jon Chlebeck for helping the Treedah Magee Realtors today. Also, thank you to injured Frank Plahutnik for coaching third base.

Colonnade 13 Thunderbird Auto 13
Colonnade: On a be-au-tiful day at The Grand Field of Dreams, everyone's a winner. . . . . except in our game vs. Thunderbird Auto as we tied at 13-13. T Bird pitcher Dennis Karcher and Colonnade pitcher Danny Wood each threw 3 goose egg innings but each gave up two 5 spot innings to battle it out to a tie game. Our leading hitters were Brad Johnson 4/4, a run and 2 RBI, he was matched by Ray "Ray" "Gibby" Gibson 4/4, 2 runs and a double. With 3 hits were Gary Kuhlman 3/4, 2 RBI, Dan Newman 3/4, 3 runs, a double and 3 RBI, Tim Brown 3/4, 3 runs, 2 RBI and a double, Danny Wood 3/5, 2 runs, an RBI and a double. 2 hits each were Dave Dompier 2/4, Fred Jensen 2/4 and Dan Davidson 2/3 with a sacrifice fly RBI. Kim MacQueen had a hit and played a stellar Rover/LF and sub Daren Proctor with a hit, run and RBI. Brad, Dave and Fred turned a great double play in the 3rd to get us out of a jam. Ray Ray lined a hard single to right in the 6th but had to come out with a pulled "something". It took two guys to replace him, Gary Armstrong and Tom "Rino" Rinehart. Thanks for stepping in guys. Jim "JT" Templeton was flawless in the tower (how else could you have a tie game?) and as always Christina Silva kept an immaculate scorebook. We now stand at 4-3-2 and until the tally comes out, we appear to be in 2nd place, far behind the unbeaten WyYerd team.
Tbird: Thunderbird and Colonnade battled to a 13-13 tie. Both teams fought hard ans the game could have gone either way. Leading the way for the T-Birds was John Nicodemo 4/4 with a triple. John Blevins was 3/4 with a double and a triple. Mark Beckner went 3/4. Ted Grove was 2/2, Dennis Karcher was 2/3. Dick Nunez double, Bill Parker double, and Jim Jozwowski double were all 2/4. Dave Swanson was also 2/4. Thunderbird help Colonnade scoreless in the bottom of the 7th to secure the tie.

Property Sisters 16 Liberty Buick 3
Property Sisters: The Property Sisters Team started the game with their bats driving the ball hard all over the field. We scored 15 of our 16 runs in the first 4 innings. The result was a 16 to 3 five inning win. We had 24 hits with every player getting one or more hits and 10 different players getting one or more RBI's. Dave "doubles" Nathe had an outstanding all-around game. He was 2/2 (both doubles), had a walk, scored 3 runs and made several plays from his shortstop position. Howard Sumner, Ken Krzeminski and Jon Chlebeck all were 3/3 and scored 2 runs. Sub Gary Kuhlman also was 3/3 and scored 1 run. Dave Anthony pitched a great game to get the win. He was 2/2, including a double, scored a run and had 3 RBI's. Welcome back Dave!!! Paul Johne had a great game defensively while going 2/2 with a double and a walk, scored a run and had 3 RBI's. Randy Van Wagner and Steve Willoughby each had 2 hits. Paul Larson had a couple of good defensive at the rover position. He also hit a double and had 2 RBI's. Dan Blaney also had 2 RBI's. Today was our best game so far this winter season. Thanks to Gary Kuhlman for subbing for injured Kandi Patrick.
Liberty: There's nowhere to go but up as Liberty Buick dropped a run-shortened 16-3 game to Property Sisters. Aside from Tim Schiewe going 3 for 3 with a double and Ted Schneider 2 for 2 with a double and RBI, there wer very few offensive highlights. Defensively, Bob Snelling made an over the shoulder catch in the top of the 5th inning to potentially extend the game.


White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday February 29, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	8	0	0	1.000
	The Colonnade	4	3	1	0.563
	Property Sisters	4	4	0	0.500
	Thunderbird Auto	4	4	0	0.500
	Liberty Buick	2	6	0	0.250
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	6	1	0.188



WyYerd 14 Thunderbird Auto 13
WyYerd: The bottom of the order is so key to winning games and that was certainly the case Thursday morning as WyYerd scraped out a 14-13 win over a feisty Thunderbird Auto team. Tied at 13 all in the bottom of the 7th and the bottom end of the order up Gary Armstrong(3-4) and Paul Jinneman(3-4) promptly singled and then with one out our leadoff man, Wayne Weidenbach(3-5) singled in the winning run ending what was a great battle from start to finish. Wayne had led off the ballgame with one of his two doubles and Dave Brennenstahl(3-4), Rod Wilterdink, and Paul also doubled in the contest,. Perfect on the day was "hit em where they ain't, Bob Lessard checking at a perfect 4-4 and Jeff Watson also stayed hot stroking 3 hits in 4 at bats. Greg Roehm was clutch with 3 RBI while Murray and John Gavazza also contributed 2 RBI. The defensive play of the game was in LF as Gavazza outran a ball over his head for a big catch. Also, on defense, Gary Finer hit the cutoff man perfectly leading to an out for the second time in a week.
Thunderbird: Thunderbird bounced back from a miserable Tuesday to battle the undefeated Wyerd team to a 14-13 loss Thunderbird had their chances, we battled hard! Leading the way going 4/4 was John Blevins with 2 doubles and a triple. Bill Parker was 3/4 with a double. Brian Martin was 2/3. John Nicodemo double and Mark Beckner were both 2/4.

Colonnade 14 Liberty Buick 13
Colonnade: On a beautiful Thursday morning at the Field of Dreams, The Colonnade scored 9 runs in the last three innings, but it took a 2 spot in the bottom of 7th to come away with a 14-13 victory vs. the Bruce Spiegel led Liberty Buick. Finally, good defense and timely hitting led to our 4th victory and now our record stands at 4-3-1. We had two perfect at the plate teammates, SS Ray "Ray" Gibson going 4/4, 2 runs and 2 RBI, 2nd baseman Dan Davidson going 3/3 with a walk, scoring a run and adding an RBI. Rov. Kim MacQueen and LF Danny Wood had 3 hits each, both scored a run and Kim had 2 RBI and Danny 1 RBI. There was a quad of players with 2 hits including winning pitcher Don Trenda who had a triple and 2 RBI, 1st baseman Dan Newman, double and an RBI, RC Dave Dompier with a double and 2 RBI, RF Fred Jensen with 2 RBI and Sub Daren Proctor 2/3 with a run scored. Everyone had at least one hit including 3rd baseman Brad Johnson (2 runs & RBI) and Sub LC David Power with a walk and a run scored. Thanks to Wayne "Weed" Weidenbach and Murray "Stormy" Fairweather for umpiring and Dave "Swany" Swanson in the Tower. Many thanks again to Christina Silva for keeping a perfect scorebook.
Liberty: Liberty Buick carried a 8-5 lead heading into the bottom of the 5th inning before The Colonnade stormed back to take a 9-8 after a key Liberty player suffered a game ending injury. Liberty responded by answering with a five run inning in the top of the 6th. In game injury replacement Vern McLean drove in the team's final run. After playing a strong defensive game after the 1st inning, several miscues in the final innings resulted in in a 14-13 defeat. Bill Tierney 3 for 3 with a sacrifice fly and Dennis Vance 2 for 3 with two doubles each had 3 RBI. Don Cole 2 for 4 added 2 RBI. Sub Dick Hansen 3 for 4 contributed with his bat and glove; and had a RBI and saved several runs. Bob Snelling 4 for 4 with 3 runs scored and a great double play defensively, Rick Armentano 2 for 4, Glenn Griffin with a hit, and in game replacement McLean with a hit in his only at bat each had a RBI. Ted Schneider was 3 for 4 with a double and played flawlessly at 1st base. Tim Schiewe went 2 for 4 and scored twice.

Property Sisters 14 Treedah Magee 13
Property Sisters: Today's game saw several lead changes. Treedah Magee jumped out to a 5-3 lead after one inning. After two innings Property Sisters was ahead 7-5. In the fourth inning Treedah went ahead 11-10. Then scored 2 more in the sixth inning to hold a 13-10 lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning. In the bottom of the seventh inning, Randy Van Wagner led off with a double. With one out Ken Krzeminski walked. Steve Willoughby hit single to load the bases. Sub Tom Ciavarella hit a single to score a run. Then "Big Jon Chlebeck " hit a clutch double to score three runs to win the game 14-13. Somebody once said that "The game is not over until it is over". This was true today. One outstanding play that needs to be mentioned is in the seventh inning with one out. A batter hit a screaming line-drive that pitcher Kandi Patrick caught and threw to first base for a double play to hold Treedah scoreles. Jon Chlebeck was 3/4 with the double,scored a run and had 3 RBI's. Great game Jon! Dave Nathe was 3/4 with a triple and a double, scored 2 runs and had 4 RBI's. Way to go "Double Dave"! Sub John Nicodemo was 3/4 with a walk, scored 3 runs and had an RBI. Ken Krzeminski was 3/3 with a walk and scored a run. Sub Tom Ciavarella was 2/4, scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. Paul Johne was 2/4 and scored 3 runs. Randy Van Wagner was 2/3 with a double, scored a run and had an RBI. Thank you subs John Nicodemo, John Blevins and Tom Ciavarella.
Treedah: In a game with Property Sisters that went back and forth, the Treedah Magee Realtors led 13-10 going into the bottom of the seventh, but couldn’t get that all-important third out. Property Sisters rang up four big runs with two outs in the bottom of seven to pull out a 14-13 win. The Treedah Magee team played well through six innings and showed a lot of promise, but couldn’t hang on in crunch time for the win. We’ll get it figured out and play better next time. Close but no cigar (someone once said)! Offensively for the Treedah Magee Realtor hitters, Vern McLean drilled three hits and scored three times, Tom Rinehart ripped two hits and scored once, Jeff Heary slugged three hits (double) and scored three times, JT Templeton continued his strong hitting with three hits and a score, Frank Plahutnik nailed two hits and scored once, David Maligro went a perfect 4/4 (double) and scored once, Bruce Lowe collected a walk and a single, Kevin Katsuki and Becky Holliday pounded two hits each, Dick Hansen slapped two hits and scored once, and Brian Holliday slammed two singles and scored twice. We are having fun and expecting to improve every game! Go Treedah!

White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday February 27, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	7	0	0	1.000
	Thunderbird Auto	4	3	0	0.571
	The Colonnade	3	3	1	0.500
	Property Sisters	3	4	0	0.429
	Liberty Buick	2	5	0	0.286
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	5	1	0.214



WyYerd 13 Property Sisters 8
WyYerd: Our WyYerd Fiber boys expanded our record to 7-0 in a tough battle against Property Sisters in a 13-8 final. Both teams scored in most every inning, but our defense kept the home team from the big inning while we put up several crooked numbers including a big 5 run 6th the opened the game up a bit going from 8-6 lead to a 13-6 margin with John Gavazza banging a 2 run double for the big hit in the inning. Wayne Weidenbach led off the game with a double on his way to a 4-5 game and he scored 4 runs on the day. Long term sub Greg Roehm was a perfect 3-3, scored 3 runs, and had 5 RBI while Rod,Bob Lessard, Jeff Watson, and Gary Finer were big contributors as they were only retired once on the day. Murray and Gavazza came up huge in the middle of the order both going 2-4 with 2 and 3RBI respectively. Gary Armstrong, Paul Jinneman, and Dave Brenenstahl each contributed a hit to the offense. Hats off to the Property Sisters on some excellent defensive plays. Ted and the Injured Tom Gruzs did an excellent job coaching the bases.
Property Sisters: The undefeated Wyyerd team started fast and led for all seven innings in defeating Property Sisters 13-8. Coach Rod Wilterdink, backed by a strong defense, pitched well in allowing the Property Sisters team only 16 hits and 8 runs. Dan Blaney was our top hitter today going 3/3. Jon Chlebeck was 2/2 with a double and 3 RBI's. Dave Nathe hit two more doubles. Subs John Nicodemo and Tim Schiewe eac had a triple and two hits. Steve Willoughby also had two hits. Thanks to our three subs John, Tim and Tom Ciavarella.

Liberty Buick 15 Thunderbird Auto 3
Liberty : Playing without subs for the first time since the second game of the season, Liberty Buick emerged with a run shortened five inning victory over Thunderbird Auto. Dennis Vance 4 for4 with a double and Rick Armentano 3 for 4 each with 3 RBI led the way. Bill Tierney 3 for 4, Don Cole 3 for 3, and Glenn Griffin with a hit each had 2 RBI. Tim Schiew 2 for 4, winning pitcher Roger Neumann with a hit, and Greg Martin 2 for 2 with a double each added a RBI. Bob Snelling went 2 for 3 with a walk and scored twice. Kenny Shick and ted Schneider each had a hit and scored as every Liberty player had at least one hit and scored on the day.
Thunderbird: It was a game to try to forget……quickly!! Thunderbird had a total of 8 hits. Dave Swanson was the only perfect player going 2/2. The only other player with 2 hits was John Nicodemo 2/3. John Blevins was 1/2 but had a nice triple. Dick Nunez and Bill Parker both hit long drives that appeared destined for extra bases, but the Liberty outfield was up to the task, snagging both drives. We’ll try again next time!!

Treedah Magee 10 Colonnade 10
Treedah: The Treedah Magee Realtors got off to a slight lead of 4-0 through three innings, but The Colonnade team roared back with five runs in their half of the fourth to take the lead 5-4. Although Treedah Magee Realtors tied the game 5-5 in the bottom of the fourth, The Colonnade exploded again in the top of the fifth with five more runs, going ahead 10-5. The never-say-die Treedah Magee Realtors chipped away with two runs in the bottom of the fifth, one run in the sixth and two more in the come-from-behind bottom the seventh while holding The Colonnade scoreless for an exciting 10-10 tie. Becky Holliday pitched a solid, complete game and was supported by outstanding outfield play from Bruce Lowe, Jeff Heary, Frank Plahutnik and Kevin Katsuki. Offensively for Treedah Magee Realtors, Vern McLean had a 3/4 day including a double and run scored, Tom Rinehart went 3/4 with a double and two runs scored, Jeff Heary nailed two singles and a sac fly and scored once, JT Templeton collected a walk and a single and scored once, Frank Plahutnik hammered three hits (double) and scored twice, David Maligro garnered two walks and a single and scored once, Bruce Lowe had a perfect day at the plate with three hits (triple) and a walk and one run scored, Kevin Katsuki drilled two hits and a sac fly, Becky Holliday pounded two hits, Dick Hansen lined a single and drove in the tenth run, and Brian Holliday crackled a single and scored once. Treedah Magee Realtors and The Colonnade team played a fun-filled and exciting game.
Colonnade: In a game that The Colonnade visitors only scored in 2 innings and the home team scored in every inning, who wins? . . . . . . .Nobody, it's a TIE. We put together only two 5 run innings and Treedah scored in every inning, but only three 2's and four 1's to equal a 10-10 face plant on your female sibling! The Colonnade fell to 3-3-1, about as average as you can get! We had a 2 run lead going into the bottom of the 7th, but surrendered a pair to finish the brilliant afternoon game of the day in a tie. Our leading hitter was LC Gary "booboo" Kuhlman, who suffered a head butt to RC Tim Brown's midsection as he was 3/4 with a triple and 3 RBI (911 was called after the collision and I'm happy to report that Gary's bloody face received some "medical glue" and he'll only be out one game as he was not concussed). Previously mentioned Tim Brown was also 3/4 with an RBI and scoring a run, also 3/4 was pitcher extraordinaire Don (Don'T) Trenda, he added a double, scored 2 and had an RBI. With 2 hits were 1st baseman Dan Newman (2B RBI), LF Danny Wood (RBI), RF Fred Jensen (Run) and C Dan Davidson (Run). Everyone in the lineup had at least one hit including SS Ray Gibson (RBI on a Sac.), Rover Kim MacQueen (RBI and a Run), 3rd baseman Brad Johnson and 2nd baseman Dave Dompier (RBI and a walk) and a single by Kenny Shick who subbed for the accident prone "CoolMan". Thanks again to Christina Silva, our brilliant scorekeeper.


White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday February 22, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	6	0	0	1.000
	Thunderbird Auto	4	2	0	0.667
	The Colonnade	3	3	0	0.500
	Property Sisters	3	3	0	0.500
	Treedah Magee Realtor	1	5	0	0.167
	Liberty Buick	1	5	0	0.167



WyYerd 10 Colonnade 12
WyYerd: On a day when our defense started out subpar, we needed to score a lot of runs and we had 30 hits plus a few walks to bounce back in a 22-12 victory over a good Colonnade squad. The final score is deceiving as Colonnade hit the ball really well in the early innings and held a 12-9 lead going into the 4th inning before our defense tightened behind Ted and we held the home squad scoreless over the last 4 innings capped by a Murray over the shoulder catch for the last out of the game. A couple double plays with Rod at rover led to a couple of inning ending double plays defensively as well as a running catch by Wayne. But the real story to the game was the offense as we finished the game with a 5 run 6th and 6 run 7th. Jeff Watson was a perfect 3-3 with a walk while Murray, Jim Courtney(4 RBI), and super sub, Vern Mclean(5 RBI) were 4-5. Wayne W and Rod were each 3-4 plus a walk, and Ted helped his own cause with 3 hits. Bob Lessard and Gary Armstrong had a pair of hits while sub Tom Yurkunas had a clutch double and Paul had a hit and a walk. Thanks to Kris who was kept really busy keeping the book. Thanks to Ted, Vern, and Tom for subbing.
Colonnade: The Colonnade won the 5 inning game 12-11, but unfortunately, we played a 7 inning game and we lost 22-12. Wyyerd flipped us in the 7th by scoring 11 runs in the last 2 innings. Our offense which was so good in the first 3 innings went as cold as an Alaskan/Canadian winter. We were led in hitting by Dan Newman 4/4 with a double and 3 RBI, Ray "Ray" Gibson 4/4 with an RBI, followed by Dave Dompier, Gary Kuhlman, Tim Brown (3 RBI) and Don Trenda, all with 3 hits. Danny Wood had 2 hits including a 3 RBI bases clearing double in the first inning and Kim MacQueen (double-walk), Brad Johnson (RBI), Fred Jensen all had a hit. Don Trenda pitched a good game and Dan Davidson was stellar at Catcher. Just leaving you with one word: seniorrecreationsoftball

Thunderbird Auto 14 Property Sisters 13
Tbird: Thunderbird held on to 14-13 victory over Property Sisters. Leading the hitting was John Blevins going 4/4 with 2 doubles. John Nicodemo 4/5 with a double. Dick Nunez double, Brian Martin and Dennis Karcher were all 3/4. Mark Beckner, Jim Jozwowski, and Dave Swanson were all 2/4.
Property Sisters: Thunderbird Auto defeated Properly Sisters in a tightly contested game by a score of 14 - 13. The Property Sisters team pounded out 24 hits. We had three triples and five doubles but it was not enough. Our top hitter today was sub Tim Schiewe who had a terrific game. He was 4/4 including two triples and a double, scored 3 runs and had 4 RBI's. Randy Van Wagner was 4/4 including a double,scored 2 runs and had 3 RBI's. Dan Blaney was 3/4 including a triple and a double,scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. Paul Johne was 3/4 and scored 2 runs. Dave Nathe was 2/4 with a double and scored 2 runs. Pitcher Kandi Patrick was 2/4, scored a run and had 3 RBI's. Every player had 1 or more hits. Thanks you subs Tim, Daren Proctor and Bill Tierney.

Treedah Magee 21 Liberty Buick 13
Treedah: WE WON!!! In a close game until the last couple of innings, Treedah Magee Realtors finished the game strong with five runs in the sixth and six runs in the seventh for a final score of 21-13. Sub Dennis Karcher pitched a fine game in the absence of the injured Tom Rinehart, and sub Tom Yurkunas made a couple big catches in the outfield to blunt Liberty Buick rallies. Other defensive gems were turned in by Kevin Katsuki, Jeff Heary, Vern McLean, JT Templeton and Brian Holliday. Offensively, the following Treedah Magee hitters had excellent performances: Vern McLean drilled four hits and scored three times; David Maligro slugged four hits, scored three times plus an RBI; Jeff Heary slammed five hits, scored three times and had four RBIs; JT Templeton ripped four hits, scored four runs and had an RBI; Frank Plahutnik banged four hits, scored twice and collected five RBIs; Dennis Karcher hammered two hits, a sac fly (RBI) and scored once; Tom Yurkunas nailed three hits and scored once with three RBIs; Kevin Katsuki lined three hits and drove in five RBIs; Becky Holliday got a base knock and scored once; Dick Hansen cracked three base hits, scored twice and had an RBI; and Brian Holliday pounded a base hit and scored once. The win was a total team effort and an exciting game! Thanks to Tom Rinehart for keeping the book and coaching first base, Dennis Karcher and Tom Yurkunas for they significant contributions to the Treedah Magee Realtors team.
Liberty : Liberty Buick dropped into a last place tie with Treedah Magee in spite of strong hitting. Liberty was led by Tim Schiewe 4 for 4 with a triple and 4 RBI. Rick Armentano also had a 4 hit game. Ken Shick with a hit and sacrifice fly and sub Greg Roehm with 2 hits each had 2 RBI. Glenn Griffin with a double and Bill Tierney each had 3 hits and a RBI. Subs Bill Parker and John Recob with a RBI each were 3 for 4 on the day. Bob Snelling with a RBI, Don Cole and pitcher Roger Neumann each had 2 hits.

White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday February 20, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	5	0	0	1.000
	Thunderbird Auto	3	2	0	0.600
	The Colonnade	3	2	0	0.600
	Property Sisters	3	2	0	0.600
	Liberty Buick	1	4	0	0.200
	Treedah Magee Realtor	0	5	0	0.000



WyYerd 10 Liberty Buick 4
WyYerd: In Chamber of Commerce type weather, our WyYerd team pulled out a 10-4 with a couple of late inning rallies as we came from behind for the win. Our hitting may come and go from inning to inning or game to game, but the one thing that has been consistent is our pitching and defense. Today, Ted Koch spun a beauty holding Liberty to 4 runs as it made five games in a row holding the opposition to single digits behind the excellent mound work of 3 different pitchers this season. Today, it was Tom Cruzs leading the glove parade as he got to everything up the middle and was a part of a couple double plays. Paul Jinneman set the tone early ranging in the whole to the OF grass before spinning and getting the runner out at 1B. Gary Armstrong, per usual, flagged down a couple shots to the hot corner. Offensively, the bottom of the order. Ted and Dave Brenanstahl started our 2 big innings. In the fifth, trailing 2-4, the pair led off with a pair of hits leading to a 5 run inning while the did the same in the 7th leading to 3 insurance runs. Dave was 3-3 on the day joining Wayne (4-4) and Courtney(4-4) with perfect days. Howard(sub) and Jim each had 3 RBI's while Ted, Tom, Howard, and Watson provide a pair of knocks.
Liberty: Liberty Buick's defense with three double plays kept the team in the game through 4 innings as the team led 4-2. Unfortunately, Liberty was outscored 8-0 over the remaining three frames. Bill Tierney with a hit and walk had 2 RBI. Sub Tom Rinehart 2 for 3 with a double and Tim Schiewe with a hit each had a RBI. Rick Armentano 2 for 3 scored twice. Don Cole reached base safely all three times with a hit and two walks. Otherwise the bats were silent. Thanks for Danny Wood and Tom Rinehart for subbing today.

Property Sisters 16 Colonnade 5
Sisters: The Property Sisters Team defeated Colonnade by a score of 16-5. After five innings Colonnade was leading 5-3. The Property Sisters then started to pound out base hits scoring 5 in the 6th inning and 8 in the 7th inning to win the game. Dan Blaney was 4/4, scored a run and had an RBI. He also made the defensive play of the day when he caught a hard hit line drive at first and threw to second base to double up the runner before he could get back. Sub Wayne Weidenbach had a terrific game pitching and holding Colonnade to five runs while shutting them out 5 of the 7 innings. Hitting, he was 4-5 including a double and had 3 RBI's. Thank you, Wayne. Paul Johne made several good defensive plays at second base. He also carried a big bat going 3/4 including a double, a walk, and scored 3 runs. Ken Krzeminski was 3/5, scored 2 runs and had an RBI. Kandi Patrick was 3/4, scored a run and had an RBI. Randy Van Wagner joined the hit parade going 3/4 and scored a run. Clean-up hitter Dave ("doubles") Nathe hit his 8th double in the last 4 games. He was 2/3, had a walk, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Paul Larson came back from the Orthopedic doctor's office to hit a double, score 3 runs and get an RBI. Jon Chlebech was 2/3, had a walk, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Thank you John Blevins for coming in in the 5th inning to replace Howard Sumner whose back started to hurt. John hit a triple in his first at bat, he was intentionally walked his second time up. He also scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. Again today every player had one or more hits and 10 different players had RBI's. WAY TO GO TEAM!!!
Colonnade: The Colonnade only scored 5 runs while surrendering 16. The Property Sisters scored 8 in the open top of the 7th to put the game in the flip-flop mode and we scored 0 in the bottom of the 7th. Our defense left a lot to be desired, as we kicked the ball around often. 1st baseman Kim MacQueen made a great play getting an out and saving the opponent's head!! We only had 14 hits in 33 at bats to hit a paltry .424, you don't win too many games only scoring 5 runs. We scored 4 of our 5 runs in the 1st inning and only added one more in the 5th inning. SS Brad Johnson and 3rd baseman Dan Newman were both 2/3 scoring a run and adding an RBI. Both 1st baseman Kim MacQueen and RC Dave Dompier had 2 hits and the rest of the team only had one hit. LC Gary Kuhlman added 2 RBI with his hit, while C Dan Davidson and LF Danny Wood added a walk with their hit. We had no extra base hits today. Bob Lessard and Murray Fairweather were the umpires and Glenn Griffin was in the tower. . . . .Thank you. Many thanks to Jeff Smith for keeping our scorebook. As one of my positive teammates reminded me, "the sun will come up tomorrow", but when I asked about Thursday (our next game), he was non committal. We appreciate you Mike Wunsch for putting these write-ups together twice a week.

Thunderbird Auto 22 Treedah Magee 12
Tbird: The bats came alive for the Thunderbirds as everyone in the lineup had at least 2 hits. Leading the way was John Blevins going 4/4 with a double and a triple. Bill Parker was 4/5, Ted Grove, Brian 2 doubles, and Bob Tarr 2 doubles were all 3/4. Dennis Karcher was 2/4 with a double, John Nicodemo was 2/4 with a triple. Dick Nunez and Jim Jozwowski rounded out the hitting, both going 2/4.
Treedah Magee: It was a very good battle through five innings with Thunderbird Auto ahead 11-9. However, Thunderbird Auto brought the fireworks in the 6th and 7th by scoring 5 and 6 runs, respectively, while Treedah Magee Realtors could only manage 3 runs. Offensively for Treedah Magee Realtors, Vern McLean cracked two singles and a triple and scored three times, Tom Rinehart drilled two singles and a sac fly and scored twice, Jeff Heary almost hit for the cycle with a perfect 4/4 day (triple, double, two singles and three runs scored), JT Templeton pounded two doubles and a single and scored once, Frank (The Tank) Plahutnik slapped a single and scored once, Bruce Lowe banged two doubles and scored once, David Maligro lined three singles, Kevin Katsuki, Dick Hansen and Brian (Doc) Holliday cracked singles. Becky Holliday pitched a solid game for the Treedah Magee Realtors. We’ll get “em next time!

White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday February 15, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	4	0	0	1.000
	The Colonnade	3	1	0	0.750
	Property Sisters	2	2	0	0.500
	Thunderbird Auto	2	2	0	0.500
	Liberty Buick	1	3	0	0.250
	Treedah Magee Realtor	0	4	0	0.000



WyYerd 21 Treedah Magee 9
WyYerd: On another beautiful day in Grand , our WyYerd team bats were red hot hitting an awesome .707 in a 21-9 win over Treedah as every one of the orange squad had at least 2 hits. Coach Ted was busy waving runners home every inning. Jim Courtney stayed hot going 4-4 scoring 4 runs plus drawing a walk while super sub Tim Schiewe had a dream game going 4-4 with 6 RBI. Jeff Watson got his bat going with a 3-4 game and 4 RBI. Bob Lessard was a perfect 3-3 and he also coaxed a walk while Wayne was 2-3 and had 2 walks doing his job in the leadoff spot. Dave Brenenstahl stroked 3 hits while Gary Armstrong, Paul Jinneman, Gary Finer and Murray Fairweather were 2-4. Tom Gruzs had a strong game going 2-3 and he used his toy cannon to throw out a pair of runners with long throws. Ted did a super job filling in as manager this week.
Treedah: Unfortunately, the Treedah Magee Realtor hitters went from hot on Tuesday (18 runs) to cold on Thursday (9 runs). There’ll be days like that in senior softball! Mike Wunsch, Treedah Magee’s third base coach, was lonely for the first three innings, but got things going in the fourth and fifth. The first-place Wyyerd team lived up to their unbeaten record by scoring 14 runs in the first three innings while the Treedah Magee team came up empty until dropping five much-needed runs in the fourth inning. The Treedah Magee team came back with four more runs in the top of the sixth, but Wyyerd added five more in the bottom of the sixth, making the score 21-9 which ended the “mercy" game. Jeff Heary had the best play of the day for Treedah Magee by throwing a runner out at third base from deep left center field. Offensively, the Treedah Magee Realtors had many hard hit balls right at Wyyerd defenders. Sometimes they drop and sometimes they don’t. Vern McLean went i/3, Jeff Heary drilled two singles and scored twice, JT Templeton slugged two singles and scored once, David Maligro hammered a double and a single and scored once, Frank Plahutnik blasted a single and collected a walk and scored once, Becky Holliday ripped a single and scored once, Bruce Lowe ripped a double and garnered two walks, Kevin Katsuki lined two singles, Dick Hansen scored once, and Brian Holliday cracked a double and a single and scored once. We’ll start faster and play better next time. We can do it! Thanks to Brian and Becky for keeping the scorebook in addition to their play on the field.

Property Sisters 14 Liberty Buick 10
Sisters: The Property Sisters team scored 5 runs in each of the first two innings and went on to defeat Liberty Buick by a score of 14 - 10. Our team defense was strong today. We had three plays that were a joy to watch. A hard hit ground ball to Dan Blaney was fielded cleanly. He ran over and tagged first base to get the hitter. Then threw a strike to Dave Nathe who tagged out the runner. Later Dave ran back from his shortstop position to catch a fly ball in left center field. The other outstanding play was when right fielder Paul Larson charged a base hit and made a perfect throw to Paul Johne who pivoted and made a strong throw to Jon Chlebeck to get the runner trying to score. Offensively we were 25/36 for a team average of .694. Howard Sumner and Steve Willoughby each were 3/4, scored two runs and had an RBI. Randy Van Wagner was 3/4, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Dave Nathe continued his torrid hitting going 3/4 with two more doubles, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Ken Krzeminski was 2/4,scored a run and had 3 RBI's. Paul Johne, Dan Blaney, Paul Larson, Kandi Patrick and Jon Chlebeck each had two hits. What was outstanding was that nine different players had RBI's. Way to go TEAM.
Liberty: Liberty Buick's defensive lapses led the team to a 10-4 deficit after 2 innings and had an impact on the remaining runs as well as Liberty Buick took the loss. Offensively, every player on the team had at least one hit. Bill Tierney with a hit and walk, Kenny Shick with 2 hits, and Don Cole with a hit and walk each had 2 RBIs. Tim Schiewe with 2 hits including a inside the park leadoff homerun, Dennis Vance with 2 hits, sub Greg Roehm with a hit, and Bob Snelling 3 for 3 with a walk each added a RBI. Thanks to Jim Courtney 3 for 4 and Greg Roehm for subbing today!

Colonnade 21 Thunderbird Auto 13
Colonnade: Another gorgeous day at The Grand Field of Dreams. The Colonnade bunch scored in every inning to secure the 21-13 victory over the Thunderbird Automotive team. While all eleven had at least one hit, our perfect hitters today were SS Brad Johnson going 4/4 with a double, 4 runs, 3 RBI and a Sac., also perfect was RF Tim Brown 4/4, scored 3 and 2 RBI. Dan Newman was almost as good going 4/5 with a double and 5 RBI's and scoring 2. With 3 hits each was RC Dave Dompier (3RBI), LF Danny Wood RBI & double and elite Pitcher Don Trenda, 3/4 with an RBI. Following with 2 hits each were C Fred Jensen 2/3 double and 2 RBI, LC Gary Kuhlman 2/4 with 3 RBI, 1st baseman Kim Macqueen 2/4 with a run scored and Dan Davidson 2/4 also a run scored. Outstanding Rover work by Ray Ray Gibson who was 1/3 with an RBI while scoring 3 with a Walk and Sac. We had our hitting shoes on going 31/45 for a .689 day at the plate. Defense was solid and an overall good game by the Colonnade eleven. Thanks to Tom "Rino" Rinehart and David "Beanfield War" Maligro for umpiring a great game and Paul "the gentleman" Jinneman in the Tower.
Thunderbird Auto: Thunderbird had another rough one, losing 21-13. Leading hitter was Bill Parker 3/3 with a triple. Going 3/4 were John Nicodemo, Mark Beckner, Brian Martin. Going 2/4 were Jim Jozwowski with a double and Dave Swanson. Dick Nunez was 2/5 but hit the ball hard all 5 times. Well done Colonnade!


White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday February 13, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	3	0	0	1.000
	Thunderbird Auto	2	1	0	0.667
	The Colonnade	2	1	0	0.667
	Liberty Buick	1	2	0	0.333
	Property Sisters	1	2	0	0.333
	Treedah Magee Realtor	0	3	0	0.000

Sun City Grand Softball Fall 2023


Wyyerd 16 Thunderbird 4
WyYerd: In the battle of the last two undefeated teams WyYerd came from behind and finished super strong scoring 15 runs in the last 4 innings to win going away 16-4 over the normally hot hitting Thunderbird team. Wayne Weidenbach led the way pitching a great game as well as getting on all 4 times from his leadoff spot and scoring 3 runs. We were behind 4-2 after 3 innings before the bats came alive. We got 4 runs in the top of the 4th keyed by a two run double for Paul Jinneman and we then only made 3 outs over the last 3 innings as we were 23 for 36 for the contest. All 11 guys contributed to the cause with Gary Finer perfect on the day and Jim Courtney, sub Greg Roehm, Tom Gruzs, Bob Lessard(3RBI), and Jinneman making only a single out. Defensively a Murray to Gruzs to Lessard saved us early in the game and Gruzs later took a relay out on the grass to throw a runner trying to score. Dave Berenstein made a couple nice plays at him including nabbing a line drive to end the game and that followed a line drive that Gary Armstrong secured.
Tbird: In an early season contest between undefeated teams; Wyyerd showed they were STILL the team to beat. Very little to write about as Thunderbird only had 12 hits. Leading the parade going perfect at the plate were Dick Nunez 3/3 and John Blevins 2/2 and a double. John Nicodemo was 2/3 with a triple.Mark Beckner was the only other player with 2 hits going 2/3. Jim Jozwowski added a double going 1/3. We'll try again Thursday!

Colonnade 11 Liberty Buick 8
Colonnade: On a beautiful Arizona winter afternoon, The Colonnade eleven took it to the Liberty Buick team led by manager Bruce Spiegel and assistant Scotty "green shoes" Piemeisl 11-8 for our 2nd victory. Everyone on our team contributed at least 1 hit as we were 29/45, hitting .644. We were led by our brilliant Pitcher Don Trenda, while not only pitching a great game, was 3/4 with a single, double, triple (only missing a home run for the cycle) and 3 RBI. Kim MacQueen was a perfect 3/3 with a walk. Our outstanding Rover, "Ray Ray" Gibson was 4/5 and with 3 hits were RC Dave Dompier, LF Danny "white shoes" Wood (RBI), 2nd baseman Dan "flip your hat off" Davidson (2 RBI), and RF Tim Brown (2 RBI). Dan Newman, Fred Jensen and Gary Kuhlman all had 2 hits, Dan N. with 1 RBI and Gary with 2 RBI. SS Brad Johnson completed the 29 hits with one of his own. For the most part, the defense was great putting up 4 Zeros. Many thanks to Bruce Lowe and the Beck Holliday for umpiring and sorry, my bad, I missed who was in the Tower. A special thanks to Christina Silva (better half of Ken) for keeping a perfect scorebook.
Liberty: Liberty Buick trailed 9-0 heading to the bottom of the 3rd inning. The team outscored The Colonnade 8-2 over the remaining frames; but, stranded too many baserunners to close the deficit in spite of the fact every player had at least one hit. Bill Tierney and Dennis Vance each had a hit and 2 RBI. Rick Armentano 3 for 4, Ken Schick with a double, Don Cole with a hit, and pitcher Roger Neumann 2 for 2 with a walk each added a RBI. Sub John Blevins was 3 for 3 with a triple on the day. Tim Schiewe, Greg martin and Glen Griffin each added two hits.

Property Sisters 22 Treedah Magee 18
Sisters: The game between Treedah Magee and the Property Sisters turned out to be a slugfest with Property Sisters winning by a score of 22-18. By the end of the fifth inning 35 runs had been scored and the Property Sisters team had a one run lead. We had 23 hits today. Of those there were 6 doubles and 2 triples. Ten of our players had RBI's. Dave Nathe had a perfect day hitting 3 doubles and a sacrifice fly. He also scored 3 runs and had 3 RBI's. Sub Tom Ciavarella also had a perfect day going 3/3, scored 2 runs and had an RBI. Randy VanWagner was 3/4, scored a run and had 3 RBI's. Dan Blaney was 3/3 including a triple, scored 2 runs and had an RBI. Paul Johne had a big game going 2/4 including a triple, scored a run, and had 4 RBI's. Howard Sumner came off the disability list with a bang. He walked 3 times, had 2 hits, scored 3 runs and had 2 RBI's. Steve Willoughby was 2/4, scored 2 runs and had 3 RBI's. Kandi Patrick had 2 walks, was 2/3 including a double, scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. The old veteran 3rd baseman Ken Krzeminski was 2/3, scored a run and had 2 RBI's. Senior Softball is a team sport and the Property Sisters played like a team with everyone contributing. Thanks again to Tom for subbing for Paul Larson today. Also thanks to umpires John Hardy and John Nelson.
Treedah: Today’s game between the Treedah Magee and Property Sisters Realtor teams was an exciting, high-scoring battle from start to finish; however, Property Sisters scored four big runs in the bottom of the sixth to put the game out of reach for the Treedah Magee team in the top of the seventh. Final score:22-18. Offensively, this game was by far the best hitting game of the young season for Treedah Magee, but Property Sisters responded even better in the end. For the Treedah Magee team, Vern McLean slugged three doubles and collected a walk in a 3/3 performance (3 runs scored). Tom Rinehart clobbered a triple and single while garnering a walk and one run, Jeff Heary slapped three singles and scored once, JT Templeton hammered a double and two singles and scored twice, David Maligro nailed two singles and grabbed a walk, Frank Plahutnik banged two singles and scored once, Becky Holliday drilled two singles and scored once, Bruce Lowe lined three singles and scored three times, Kevin Katsuki ripped two singles and a double while scoring twice, Dick Hansen smacked two singles and a double and scored twice, and Brian Holliday ripped a double and a single and scored twice.


White League Standings

Games thru -	Thursday February 8, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Wyyerd	2	0	0	1.000
	Thunderbird Auto	2	0	0	1.000
	The Colonnade	1	1	0	0.500
	Liberty Buick	1	1	0	0.500
	Property Sisters	0	2	0	0.000
	Treedah Magee Realtor	0	2	0	0.000



Wyyerd 6 Property Sisters 4
WyYerd: WyYerd won a 6-4 rain shortened game over the Property Sisters in a game that started under cloudy skies which turned to sprinkles, then moderate rain and the game was called after four and a half innings. Nine of the 10 runs in the game were scored in the second innings as the visitors scored 4 in the top of the inning and we bounced back with 5 in the bottom half to take the 6-4 lead which was the final score as both teams had goose eggs the rest of the way. The play of the day was a Finer to Wilterdink to Brenenstahl to cut off a run at home. The corner infielders, Gary Armstrong and Bob Lessard were both key to a few outs defensively. Offensively Murray Fairwether was 2-2 and he had half (3) of our RBI's while Armstrong,Tom Gruzs, and Jim Courtney were also perfect with the latter having a triple. Brenanstahl, Lessard, and Wayne Weidenbach added singles to aid the offense. Thanks to our pitching and defense we stand at 2-0 and better hitting days are ahead.
Property Sisters: In a cold rain shortened game today the Property Sisters lost to Wyyerd by a score of 6-4. Dave Nathe was 2/2 and scored a run. Both hits were doubles. Dave Anthony also was 2/2 and scored a run. In the second inning his bases loaded double drove in 3 of our 4 runs. Thanks to Greg Roehm for subbing again for injured Howard Sumner. We hope to have Howard available to play next week.

Thunderbird Auto 11 Liberty Buick 2
Thunderbird : Thunderbird played a solid all around game winning wire-to-wire 11-2. The T-Birds held a very good Liberty team to 2 runs after they scored 17 the first game. Leading the hitting was Dick Nunez 4/4 2 doubles. John Nicodemo was 3/4. Ted Grove. Jim Jozwowski, and Dave Swanson were all 2/3. Swanson had a double. Bill Parker and John Blevins were both 2/4. Blevens bombed a home run over the left field wall. Dennis Karcher pitched another great game. There were numerous good plays in the field both outfield and infield.
Liberty: In a reversal of the team's opening game outcome, Liberty Buick was held to 2 runs on 9 hits by Thunderbird's pitcher Dennis Karcher. Dennis Vance played a strong game in the field and had a RBI. Bob Snelling had the team's initial RBI. Rick Armentano had a double. But, the bats were generally silent.

Colonnade 13 Treedah Magee 7
Colonnade: In a shortened 6 inning game The Colonnade came away with a 13-7 win over the Treedah Magee eleven. We played great defense and Don Trenda pitched a great game. LC Gary Kuhlman was perfect at the plate 3/3 with a double and an RBI, also perfect was 3rd baseman Dan Newman 2/2 with a walk, 3 RBI and a double. RF Tim Brown and P Don Trenda both had 2 hits each, Tim 2 RBI and Don with an RBI. Everyone else had a hit and scored or had an RBI, including RC Dave Dompier, Rover Ray Ray Gibson, LF Danny Wood, 2nd baseman Fred Jensen, 1st baseman. Dan Davidson and C Kim MacQueen. SS Brad Johnson had 2 walks, scored 1 and had an RBI. Many thanks to home plate umpire Bill Parker and field ump Jim Jozwowski. Ted Grove was perfect in the Tower. Again, thank you to Jeff Smith for keeping our book. May we be blessed with better weather the rest of the season.
Treedah: The Treedah Magee Realtors and The Colonnade got off to a quick start at the plate with 3 runs apiece in the first inning. In the second and third innings, the Treedah Magee Realtors jumped out to a 6-3 lead, but The Colonnade team scored a total of 10 runs in the next two frames to take the lead at 13-7 after five. Unfortunately, Treedah Magee team could not mount a comeback in the top of the sixth which was the final inning in a game shortened by the threat of rain. Jeff Heary was the hitting star of the game as he clobbered a double and two solo home runs out of the park and scored three times. In addition, Tom Rinehart drilled a single and scored once, JT Templeton smacked three doubles and a single while scoring twice, Frank Plahutnik collected a walk and a single, Becky Holliday pounded a single plus an RBI, Kevin Katsuki slapped a single and scored once, Dick Hansen cracked two singles, and Brian Holliday laced a single. Thanks to Rick Armentano and Don Cole for managing the clock vs. the weather to allow all three games to be completed before the downpour arrived. Next Tuesday’s game will be against the Property Sisters.


White League Standings

Games thru -	Tuesday February 6, 2024
	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win Pct.
	Thunderbird Auto	1	0	0	1.000
	Liberty Buick	1	0	0	1.000
	Wyyerd	1	0	0	1.000
	Treedah Magee Realtor	0	1	0	0.000
	The Colonnade	0	1	0	0.000
	Property Sisters	0	1	0	0.000



Wyyerd 9 Colonnade 7
WyYerd: Our WyYerd squad beat both the rain and Colonnade in our home opener as we came out on top by a 9-7 score after falling behind 5-0 in the second inning. Defense was the name of the game after a sloppy start as we held the visitors to a pair of single runs over the last few innings. Gary Armstrong was solid as a rock at 3B in his white league debut and also went 2-2 while Jim Courtney and Jeff Watson made running catches in the OF to keep runs off the board. Jim keyed the offense rapping 3 hits in as many at bats and he scored twice while Murray was 2-3 with 2 RBI and Bob Lessard was 2-3. Wayne Weidenbach smashed a second inning triple to start our 4 run second and later took a walk. Watson drew a walk in his first white league at bat while Rod, Gary Finer, and Paul Jinneman each had a single to aid the cause.
Colonnade: In a game that should never have been played due to reports from the last 5 days, that it would be rained out. Due to Red Lg extra fast games and an early 11:45 start in White League game 1 we caught up and played the nightcap starting at 1:45, however we lost to a Rod Winkerdink managed WyYerd team 9-7. We started out on fire scoring 5 runs in the first 2 innings, but then added only 2 more runs in the 6 inning shortened game. When you only score 7 runs and hit .474 as a team, you won't win very many games. Our defense was very good with a lot of good catches in the outfield and great plays in the infield. Our hitting was led by late arriving 1st baseman Dan Davidson (thanks Becky Holiday for the quick sub) going 2/2 after Becky was 1/1 and both scored a run. RC Dave Dompier and P Don Trenda had 2 RBI's and a double each. Players with 2 hits included SS Brad Johnson, 3rd Dan Newman, Rov. Ray Ray Gibson (3 for 4), LC Gary Kuhlman and LF Danny Wood. Super Sub Tom Ciavarella caught and had a big 2 RBI double and added another hit. Thanks again to subs Tom and Becky. Also big thanks to Commissioners Rick and Don for keeping the games moving. Roger (don't call me Dan) Neuman and Tim Schiewe were very tolerable (ok, they were great!) as the umpires. A special thanks to Jeff Smith for keeping our scorebook (goodies will follow)!

Liberty Buick 17 Treeday Magee 1
Liberty Buick: Every player had at least one hit as Liberty Buick opened up the season with a 17-1 victory over Treedah Magee. Rick Armentano with a double and 2 RBI, Tim Schiewe with a triple and 4 RBI, and Dennis Vance with a triple and 4 RBI each were 4 for 4 on the day. Greg Martin had a hit; 2 RBI, and a highlight catch in the deepest part of the outfield. Bill Tierney 2 for 3 with a walk, Glenn Griffin 3 for 4, Ted Schneider with a hit and walk, Don Cole with a hit, and winning pitcher Roger Neumann 2 for 2 with a walk each added a RBI. Bob Snelling had a hit and a walk and scored once. Ken Schick went 2 for 4 on the day.
Treedah Magee: Treedah Magee Realtors had a rough start to the new season, but we will bounce back. Credit to the fine Liberty Buick team for great offense and defense. The Treedah Magee team came up short in both of those areas, managing five hits and a walk on offense. Tom Rinehart led our team with two hits. Vern McLean scored the lone run. We will be better next time.

Thunderbird Auto 11 Property Sisters 6
Thunderbird: Thunderbird came out firing on all cylinders; pitching, defense and hitting all looked great! Pitcher Dennis Karcher forced the Property Sisters hitters to hit numerous ground balls. The defense looked strong and should continue to improve. The hitting was lead by Dick Nunez 4/4 and 3 doubles. Ted Grove was a perfect 2/2 and a walk. John Nicodemo lead off the game with a triple, He and Bill Parker double were 3/4. John Blevins, Dave Swanson, and Jim Jozwowski were all 2/3. Jim smashed a triple to lead off the 4th. Property Sisters fought back to bring the score to 7-6 in favor of the T-Birds. The T-Birds ran off 4 runs in the 5th to make the score 11-6. That was the final score in a shortened game to try an allow all teams to play before the rain. Thank you Ted Koch for subbing.
Property Sisters: The Property Sisters team had a difficult time hitting the ball and scoring runs today. The result was a loss to Thunderbird by a score of 11-6. We had 12 hits and only scored in two innings. Paul Johne played well defensively and was 3/3 including a double. He scored 2 runs and had 2 RBI's. Ken Krzeminski was 2/3, scored a run and also had 2 RBI's. Dave Nathe and Randy Van Wagner both were 2/3 and each had an RBI.