Division Standings: Red League through Nov 4

Game Reports:

Thunderbird Automotive 17   Ranalls Realty 17

Erics take: Opening day at the “Field of Dreams”—-a beautiful morning to open the season. Ranalls Realty battled a tough Thunderbirds team. Thunderbirds came out swinging with 5 runs in the 1st inning. Ranalls battled back with 5 in the 2nd inning. From that point it was back and forth ending in a 17-17 tie. Hitting stars for Ranalls—-Troy MacQueen with 2 towering home runs. With 4 hits Eric Swobody and Kenny Shick. 3 hits each for Chip Robertson, Troy MacQueen and Ted Schnieder. Thanks to our umpires Jeff Nickerson and Greg Kastelic and in the tower Les Zirbel.

Robs take:  Thunderbird Auto had a great team effort against a very fast Ranalls team that had more pinch runners than the 2024 Olympic gold medal relay race in Paris France.   New guy Bruce Lowe and suave veteran Randy Chilar fired out 4 hits each, with JC Cowan, Ken Silva and Greg Allseitz carving out hat tricks. Coach Hollis blasted a perfect 5 hit game.   It was an exciting home opener, with great sportsmanship abound. Thanks to Nick and Greg K for outstanding officiating and admirable button crunching by Les in the tower.   Best wishes to Pete for a speedy recovery.

Camino 10   Angela’s 9

Jerrys take: In very closely contested game, the Camino Del Sol team squeaked past the Angela’s Restaurant squad 10 to 9. Camino Del Sol had the advantage for the first 3 innings by scoring 6 runs to Angela’s 3 runs, but Angela’s mounted a charge in the next two innings outscoring Camino 6 runs to 2 runs, making the score 9 to 8 through 5. The Camino team then stepped up their defense holding John Boland’s and Vern McLean’s guys scoreless in the top halves of the sixth and seventh inning. Lisa and the guys scored 2 runs in the bottom of the sixth with Lisa’s sacrifice fly followed by a defensive error, which allow the winning run to score. The Camino Del Sol offense was highlighted by a pair two run home runs, one by Dave Lawrence and one by Craig Nelson. Craig Nelson went 3 for 3 with a sacrifice fly, and Gary Finer chipped in a 3 for 3 performance of his own. Thank you to Greg Allseitz and Brian Knight for subbing and Ralph McKeever for being an injury/emergency sub after Brian tweaked a hamstring. Thanks also to Dave Zuker for calling the balls and strikes, Bruce Lowe for umpiring the bases and Dave Fleck for operating the scoreboard.

Bolands take: Beautiful day at the ball park to start the Fall Session. Both teams were a bit rusty but the game was nip and tuck all the way. really nice defense all around for Angela's as they held a solid Camino team to 2 runs or less except for one inning when Camino plated 3 runs. The offense for Angela's was led by perfect days from Mike Martin, Brad Brulotte and Vern Mclean. Garry Weslosky pitched in with a very nice 3 for 4 day. Congratulations to Camino on a well played game. Thanks to Ralph Hollis and Bob Kloehn for subbing today. Nice work umpiring by Dave Zuker, Bruce Lowe and Dave Fleck working the tower.

Implant Periodontics 18  Janelle Hanson Realtors 17

Jamies take: The last game of our new fall season in the Red League was a barn-burner, just like the 2 previous games before us. Implant Periodontics escaped with a 1 run victory against Paul Becker's Janelle Hanson Realtors, 18-17. It was a very close game all the way through, 14-13 for Janelle after 5. Implant scored 5 in the bottom of the 6th and were able to hold the Realtors to 3 in the top of the 7th to win by 1.Our super sub for the day, Joe Pioli, made a game-ending catch in a sunny LF, staying with it and making a great catch. Great entertaining game, as were all our games this morning. Top performers were Dave Fusaro, Joel Breiner, and John Blevins, all with 4 hits. Joel had a towering HR in the 2nd, and was also the winning pitcher. Jeff Silversteen took the loss. Ralph McKeever and Jim McDonald both had 3 hits. It looks like it's going to be a fun, close, fall season. Thanks to Moon Doggie and Garry Weslosky for handling the umpire duties and Vern Mclean up in the press box. 

Jeffs take: What an opening day for the red league fall session. The grandstands were filled. The bands were playing or was that Brad’s music? The traditional ceremonial first pitch was a perfect strike. And the B2 flyover was magnificent!   Once all the pomp and ceremony ended the Janelle Hansen Realty One team took the field against Jamie’s Implant Periodontics squad. The game was tied 9-9 after three innings before Jamie’s team plated four runs  in the home half of the fourth. The realty boys bounced back with a five spot to take the lead however we were outscored 5-2 the remainder of the way and dropped the opener 18-16.  Contributing perfect days at the plate were Jay Schirpke 3/3 and two walks while Joe Guzzo was 5/5.  Other team members with multiple hits were Al Caillouette 3/5, Ron Coleman 3/5 including a three run dinger, Don Ranieri 2/5, Rick Pearson 3/4 and a walk, Pete Rose Houghton 3/5, JD Dilree 3/5 and yours truly was 2/4 and the losing pitcher. Thanks to Tom Rinehart (1/4) for filling in for the injured coach Paul Becker. Game day assignments were handed by Vern McClean, Garry Weslowsky and Mike Anderson.  A special shout  out to our sponsor Janelle Hansen for cheering us on and for providing our post game pizza. We will have our first home game on Thursday at 12:15 as we take on the team from Camino Del Sol Chapel.