Blue League Fall 2024 Game Summaries & Standings

 Monday, January 20, 2025

Colonnade - 19 WyYerd Fiber - 18

It was a cold and frosty morning when we arrived to take on the very talented Wyyerd team. After a delay of 30 minutes the game began. We had our work cut out for us in the first two innings as each team scored the max 4 runs. We edged ahead in the 3rd, 4th and 5th innings. Wyyerd came on strong in the unlimited 6th inning scoring 5 runs to give us a scare. We won by the skin of our teeth with a score of 19-18. Our superstar at the plate was Nick Hermann with 4 hits including not one.... but two home runs. He was a tired guy after running those bases! Way to go Nick!! Don Cleveland also had a nice day at the plate with 4 hits including a double. The following players had 3 hits.... Bob Williams, Patrick Moriarity, Annie Lowe and Ed Hart. Denise Gibala, Jim Collins, Kandi Patrick and Kirk King had 2 runs each with our newest team member, John Holten, getting 1 hit. Welcome to our team, John! Kandi Patrick had a busy day at shortstop with nice throws to first base. Kirk King was also a busy guy at first base stopping a few hard hit grounders and making a nice fly ball catch. 

In an early morning Frost Delayed game the two division leaders took the field for what turned out to be a slug fest.  WyYerd’s defense was only able to hold the Colonnade to under 4 runs in 1 inning. Our offense was lead by Dorothy Muzar and Debbie Kanouse who were perfect at the plate. Three of our players, Gary Ash, Randy Selin, and Sub Brian Roll all hit Home Runs. Gary, Randy, and Dan Maguire all had 3 hits. Lee Luft and Sal Politi each had 2 hits and everyone else had at least 1 hit. Thanks to Brian Roll for subbing at Short Stop and Kris and John for keeping things running smoothly and making the players aware of where they could get outs.  Our next game is Wednesday  1 /22 at 8:30 again so dress warm.

Property Sisters - 0 Treedah Magee Realty - 10

Property Sisters were defeated today on a cold and blustery morning.  We only had 6 hits and lost 10-0 to Treedah Magee.  Wayne Moxley was 2-2.  Yvonne Becker, Pierre Boudreau, Duff Carroll, and Dave Bagwell were all 1-2.    Thanks to Don Cleveland for subbing at shortstop. 

 
A masterful pitching job by Treedah’s Artie Stackpole resulted in few hits by the Property Sisters and zero runs scored. In addition, Treedah Magee played flawless defense with no errors. Many good defensive plays were on display but non better than catcher Norm Lustig grabbing a tricky foul ball out of thin air. Treedah Magee was firing on all cylinders today and congrats to all. Treedah scored 10 runs on 18 hits with Mike Kachurak, Bob Snelling, and Brian Deherrera each with 3 hits a piece. Fred Lubs, Norris Carpenter, sub Greg Szlak, & Don Hansen each had 2 hits. Don’t forget that this Wednesday is a bye and next week’s two games will conclude our season. Special thanks to sub Greg Szlak for playing a solid game at 3B. And finally, the “Game Ball” goes to Artie Stackpole !

Liberty Buick - 17 Petelin Vision - 5

Liberty Buick played one of our best games of the season against a good Petelin Vision team and won 17-5 in a mercy 5 inning game.  The game was tied 4-4 after the first inning.  Liberty took the lead in the 2nd inning and held the lead through the final.  Good defense, 25 hits and good pitching from Greg Church, 3 shutout innings.  A very good team effort.  Liberty was led by Frank Preite 4x4 5 RBI’s 1 HR 1dbl,  Dave Michels 4x4 1 RBI,  Dave Holub and Jim Matthews 3x3 1 RBI each,  John Mancini 2x3 3 RBI’s,  Chris Espejo 2x3 1 RBI 1 dbl,  Greg Church and Pat Moriarity 2x3 1 RBI each,  Joe Osowiec 2x3,  Jim Tomach 1x3 3 RBI’s.  Thank you to our sub, Pat Moriarity and Sherry Westland and Jack Braly for filling in for Michael Sullivan.  Thank you to Joan for keeping our book.  

Petelin Vision had a rough day against a Liberty Buick Team that came to play. Petelin Vision was beat 17-5 in 5 innings. Defensively we had a tough day. Some bright spots were Ken Kessler grabbed a grounder, tagged 1st, threw to Chris Zerr at home for a double play. Coral Estes picked up a grounder, threw to Laura Johnson at 2nd base who threw to 1st base for a double play. Barney Armstrong caught a fly ball in a very windy right center field. Offensively Petelin was held to 13 hits. Perfect at the plate were Coral Estes 3/3 (double RBI), Richard Brinkley 2/2 (RBI) and Laura Johnson (RBI). Getting on base were Larry Randant, Kevin Gillette, Barney Armstrong (2 RBI's), Jim Tokar, Jerry Eastham (triple) and Norma Lucas. Big thank you to Marilyn for keeping our scorebook.

Thunderbird Auto - 7 Nancy Muslin Realty - 6

The weather was chilly and windy and the bats were cold the first three innings but somehow Thunderbird Auto pulled out a 7-6 win over a game Nancy Muslim team thanks to our defense and pitching. We gave up three runs in the top of the first and one run in the second while being held scoreless by some good defensive plays by Nancy Muslim. Both teams were scoreless in the third inning as our defense tightened up. It seemed the hitters were affected by the wind and were trying to hit line drives rather than lift the ball which resulted in a lot of ground balls. We held them scoreless again in the top of the fourth and finally got our bats rolling in the bottom of the inning to tie the game at four runs each. We gave up a run in the top of the fifth to fall behind again but scored three in the bottom of the inning to go ahead by two. Our defense came through again by holding Nancy Muslim to one run in the top of the sixth to close out the game (with the tying run on third). Our new permanent sub Dan Hodges was the catalyst for our offense today with a deep drive to right which got to the wall for a three run homer. Dan and Ed Campbell were both perfect at the plate going 3 for 3. Charlie Counts, Joe Stempniewski and Ray Hensley were 2 for 3 while Tom Gobin, Joe Jellison and Jim Stocker each delivered a hit. Ray Hensley did a good job pitching today with the windy conditions. He was able to keep the ball low which induced a lot of ground balls and every infielder played well leading to a lot of force-outs at second. Lanny Auberg caught another tough popup today battling the sun and wind from his third base position. Jim Stocker made a tough play at first base on a spinning liner to field the ball and beat a fast base runner to the bag. The outfield only had one ball get through the gaps and Ed Campbell and Dan Hodges both made good catches on fly balls. In summary we played a very good team game today with contributions from all eleven players. Thanks to Dan Hodges for rescuing us from our third disabling injury! A big thanks to Joan for enduring the weather to keep our scorebook. We appreciate all the volunteers that make our Grand Softball Club the great organization it is!

On a cold windy afternoon, Nancy's gang also had cold bats. Scott Piemeisl was 3-3, double, 3 R.B.I. Jack Braly was 2-2, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Jake Groh was 2-3, scored once. Doug Asleson was 2-3. Karen Olsen was 2-3. triple, scored twice. Kathy Boland, Greg Szlak each had 1 R.B.I. 

Ranall's Realty - 19 Barton Realty - 12

All I can say about this game was that I kept looking at the scoreboard and seeing 4-4-4-4 in the box, but the game never seemed to go our way. Bartons just kept pounding away resulting in a game of attrition where we finally hit to where Bartons just could not match.  Again, 10 of 11 players had an RBI.  Pete Simoneau, Barry Schwartz and Norm Volk each had 3 RBI’s, Joe Gonski, Kurt Kanouse and Steve Coffman had 2 RBI’s while Dave Martin, Pat Burnett, Glen Zelkind, and Chip White each had an RBI to round out our 19 runs.  That’s 19 runs in just 5 innings!  Hitting was also fantastic with a total of 27 hits.  That’s 27 hits in only 5 innings.  Kurt Kanouse went 3/4 while Pete Simoneau, Pat Burnett, Steve Coffman and Norm Volk went 3/3 each.  Dave Martin, Joe Gonski, Glen Zelkind, Joel Last and Chip White went 2/3 with Barry Schwartz going 2/2 to finish the hitting barrage.  The sun continues to plague us in the last inning, but we may have found the answer.  When Norm caught the final pop up he said he did not see the ball!  I said, well thank god the ball found You!...game over.  We are 1/2 game out of first with 3 games left…all against top tier opponents.  It’s going to be wild finish!  Great job Boys!  Another cardiac victory in the bank…One game at a time.

Normally when a team scores 17 runs on 25 hits, they win the game.  That was not the case for the Barton Realtor team today as we lost 19-17 to a very good hitting Ranalls team.  Offensively, everyone on the team had at least one hit and we scored in every inning, but not enough to overcome Ranalls lead.  We came close in the last inning when we plated 6 runs.  Kim Hurd had a good day at the plate going 4 for 4 with a double, a homerun, and 5 rbi's.  Gerry Boesche was 3 for 4 with 5 rbi's.  Mark Glim was 3 for 4 with a double and 3 rbi's.  Dale Huffine was 3 for 4 with a double and 1 rbi.  Sue Cary was 3 for 4 with 2 rbi's.  Bob Topham was 3 for 4 with 1 rbi.  Bob Cary had 3 hits.  Fred Swan had a hit and a walk.  Sub Joe Osowiec had a hit and a walk.  Michael Wilton and Klaus Holt each had singles.  Not much to say about our defense as we just couldn't come up with enough plays to prevent Ranalls from scoring in every inning.  Fred Swan had a nice catch in right field for an out while battling the sun.  Bob Cary made a nice catch of a fly ball in his right centerfield position and then threw to Sue Cary covering 2b to double off the baserunner.  Thanks to Joe Osowiec for subbing at 2B today.  Thank you, Joan, for handling our scorebook. 

 Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Thunderbird Auto - 12 Colonnade - 10

After a disappointing game on Monday team Thunderbird Auto came to the park for the first game of the day ready to play a tough Colonnade team. We put forth a full team effort and prevailed by a score of 12-10. We gave up three runs in the top of the first but scored four in the bottom of the inning to take the lead. We gave up two runs in the second to fall behind by a run and couldn’t score in the bottom of the inning. We shut them out with some good defense in the third and scored four to take a lead we never relinquished. Every player contributed on offense lead by Lanny Auberg who was three for three. Steady Eddie Campbell was next going three for four. Getting two hits each were Charlie Counts, Ray Hensley. Joe Jellison and Paul Pearson. Tom Gobin, Joe Stempniewski, Joe Gonski and Roger Miller had a hit. Jim Stocker patiently worked the count to walk leading off the fourth that lead to a three run inning. The RBI leaders were Ray Hensley with three and Ed Campbell and Joe Stempniewski with two each. On defense we were lucky to have a lot of ground balls hit to us and the infielders did a good job of handling business. Lanny Auberg made the only spectacular play on a foul popup down the third base line. Ray Hensley did a good job pitching as well as catching a popup and fielding three or four grounders to record outs in particular one very good snag and spin to force the lead runner at third. Jim Stocker handled some tough catches at first as our only weakness today was throwing to first. The outfielders had a couple gapers get through but hustled to get the ball back in quickly to minimize the damage. Ed Campbell made a very good play to catch a fly ball and all four players fielded every other chance flawlessly and got the ball in quickly. As stated earlier this was a complete team win. Everyone played up to their potential. We want to thank Yvonne Becker for keeping score today and a special thanks to Joe Gonski for subbing today on short notice for an injured Bob Higgins and playing outfield which is not his natural position. Thank you Bob Higgins for coaching third and cheering us on. Good luck cheering for Notre Dame in the National Championship game!

We had a very tough loss to an excellent rival - Thunderbird Auto. Unfortunately they broke our winning streak. We could blame the early morning game and the cold weather but somehow our defense just didn’t cut it. At the plate we had Nick Hermann and Bob Williams with 4/4 and Jim Collins was 3/3! Patrick Moriarty was 3/4. Don Cleveland, sub Coral Estes, Kirk King, sub Kathy Boland were all 2/4. Ed Hart was 2/3. Everyone else had one hit to round us out. Thank you so much Coral and Kathy for helping us out on such a chilly morning! 

Nancy Muslin Realty - 12 Petelin Vision - 13
Another 1 run game, many errors. Both our subs were perfect at the plate. Greg Church was 4-4, triple, scored once., 2 R.B.I. Kurt Kanouse was 4-4, scored once. Doug Asleson was 4-4, double, scored twice, 4 R.B.I. Karen Olsen was 3-4, triple, 3 R.B.I. Jake Groh was 2-4, scored once. Daren Proctor had a pair of hits, double, scored once,2 R.B.I. Thanks to Kurt Kanouse and Greg Church for subbing in today's game. 

Petelin Vision and Nancy Muslin, two evenly matched teams, played a back-and-forth game with the outcome decided in the bottom of the 7th inning. Muslin started out strong going up 6-2 after 2. After 4, Muslin had Petelin on the ropes 10-5. The next 2 innings Petelin's bats came alive to score 8 runs and blanking Muslin to take a 13-10 lead. In the 7th Petelin was blanked while Muslin was able to only plate 2 runs to hand the victory to Petelin Vision 13-12. Defensively Petelin started out slow but as the game progressed the defense got stronger. Defensive gems included Nice outfield catches by Charlie Greer and Richard Brinkley. Ken Kessler had a nice double play at 1st. Larry Radant had some nice fielding at pitcher. The big 3 plays came in the bottom of the 7th when Coral Estes made a big catch in short left field for the 1st out. Laura Johnson moving to her left side at Rover made a big catch for the 2nd out. With 2 out and runners on base Yvonne Becker at 2nd base made a nice stop of a hard-hit ball, staying with it, and throwing out the runner at 1st. Why to go Yvonne! Offensively Petelin had 25 hits and or walks. Perfect at the plate were Coral Estes 4/4 (double walk RBI) and Richard Brinkley 4/4 (In the park HR walk 5 RBI's). Going 3/4 were Larry Radant (RBI), Laura Johnson (walk RBI), Barney Armstrong (2 RBI's) and Chris Zerr (2 walks). Charlie Greer collected 2 hits and an RBI. Getting on base were Ken Kessler (RBI), Yvonne Becker (RBI), Jerry Eastham and Norma Lucas. Petelin Vision would like to thank Charlie Greer and Yvonne Becker for subbing today. Once again, Kathy Radant did a great job working our scorebook.

Treedah Magee Realty - 14 Liberty Buick - 3

Despite the need for 3 subs today, Treedah Magee played an excellent game and mercied a good Liberty Buick team 14 to 3. Visiting Liberty began the game by loading the bases with no outs and one run in when all of a sudden sub Ken Kessler fielded the ground ball at 3rd base, forced a runner at third and fired the ball home to Norm Lustig to complete a double play. Ken Kessler made a nice play but the grab by Norm at home was pure perfection. So what could have been a real bad start for Treedah resulted in only one run being scored. Liberty only collected one additional run in the game. Treedah collected 19 hits with sub Kent Kessler & Norris Carpenter both going 3 for 3. Mike Kachurak, Bob Snelling, sub Terry Everts, Brian Deherrera, sub Vern Luft, and Jeff Smith each banged out 2 hits. Artie Stackpole pitched his best game of the season with very good backup from the defense. Good game team ! Special thanks to our 3 super subs : Ken Kessler, Terry Everts, and Vern Luft.

Liberty Buick struggled in a game against a good Treedah Magee team and lost a mercy game 15-3 in a 5 inning game.  Liberty’s bats were cold (13 hits) and our defense was lacking a season low performance.  With 3 game left in this season I am sure we will rebound in the remaining games.  Liberty was led by Frank Preite, John Mancini and Joe Osowiec 2x2 each,  Dave Michels 2x3,  Dave Holub, Chris Espejo, Greg Church, sub, Mark Wells and Jim Tomach 1x2 each.  Thank you to our subs, Mark Wells and Marty Jimenez (who filled in for the injured Mark).  Also thank you to Marilyn for keeping our book.

Barton Realty - 7 WyYerd Fiber - 17

Barton Realtors couldn't replicate the plays that they made on Monday and lost to a very good hitting Wyyerd team by a score of 17 to 7.  Bob Topham was 3 for 3 with 2 rbi's.  Gerry Boesche was 2 for 3 with 2 rbi's.  Dale Huffine was 2 for 2 with 2 rbi's and a walk.  Debbie Bigelow was 2 for 3 with a double and 1 rbi.  Bob Cary was 2 for 2 with a walk. Klaus Holt was 2 for 3.  Kim Hurd was 2 for 3.  Sue Cary had one hit.  Sub pitcher Paul Plapp had 2 walks.  Thanks to Paul for subbing today.  Thanks to Joan Casazza for doing our scorebook.   

Another good game for the WyYerd Team. Great Offence and Defense what more can I say. Perfect at the plate with 4 hits were Gary Ash, Dan Maguire, and Randy Selin. Dorothy Muzar and Sub Denny Coletta each had 3 hits.  Lee Luft and Sal Politi each had 2 hits and everyone else had at least 1 hit. A Great Team effort got us the Win. Thanks to Denny Coletta for helping us out and Kris and John for keeping things running smoothly. Our next game is Monday 1 / 20 at 8:30 so dress warm.

Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 12 Property Sisters - 3

Tride and True came out swinging against the Property Sisters holding them to only 3 runs and winning the game 12-3.  Tride's defense was outstanding today, seldom letting any of the Sisters players even reach 3rd base. Sheldon Rosenthal was 3 for 3, Jim Parry and 2 for 3 with an RBI, Muurray Lushaw was 2 for 3 with 3 RBI, Richard Szymesko was 3 for 3 with a double and 2 RBI, Margie Szymesko was 2 for 3 with 3 RBI, Gary Christofferson was 0 for 2 with a sca fly and an RBI, Judy Muller was 1 for 3 with an RBI and Sam Bernhardt was 3 for 3 with an RBI.  Tride had 19 hits in the game. 

Property Sisters only had 14 hits and only scored 3 runs in a 12-3 loss to Tride and True.  Super Sub Bob Dooling was 3-3 with 2 doubles, 1 RBI, and made several great plays at short stop.  Dave Bagwell was 3-3.  Dave made some great plays at 3rd base.  Pierre Boudreau was 3-4.  Duff Carroll was 2-3 with 1 RBI.  Gene Fleck was 2-3.  Bob Dye was 1-3.

 Monday, January 13, 2025

Property Sisters - 6 Ranall's Realty - 16

After a 45 minute frost delay, Ranalls and Property Sisters finally got to play.   Property Sisters had 12 hits and scored 6 runs.  Leading the way was Gene Fleck who was 2-2 with an RBI.  Dave Bagwell was 2-3 with a double.  Pierre Boudreau and Chuck Gibson were 2-3.   Mike Sterricker was 1-2 with a base on balls and 2 RBI's.  Dan Hofeditz was 1-2 with a base on balls.  Bill Clark was 1-2.  Duff Carroll was 1-3 with 1 RBI.  Yvonne Becker had 2 RBI's.  Wayne Moxley was 1-3.  

Today’s victory was a complete team victory, one that I cannot say I have ever seen before. Although we scored 2 runs in the first/second innings…we than loaded the bases but could not score…keeping the game closer than it should. We soon got the bats going and 16 RBI’s were driven in by 10 of our 11 players…a fantastic team accomplishment. Dave Martin and Pat Burnett had 3 RBI.s each, Joe Gonski and Barry Schwartz had 2 RBI’s each, while Kurt Kanouse, Steve Coffman, Vern Luft, Glen Zelkind, Joel Last, Chip White each had an RBI. Whereas we all contributed runs, Joe Gonski went 4/4 (1hr) along with Pete Simoneau. Pat Burnett, Glen Zelkind went 3/4. Dave Martin went 2/4 (1hr) along with Barry Schwart and Steve Coffman. Vern Luft went 2/3 (thanks Vern for a great subbing day) followed by Loel Last. Finally, Chip White went 2/2 along with Kurt Kanouse. <Game Ball> Today’s game ball goes to Aaron Burnett, the grandson and faithful batboy of our left fielder Pat Burnett. Aaron has been instrumental in getting “grandpa” to hit the winning home run last week!!! while against Property Sisters “grandpa” again with the bases loaded hit a triple which put our team into the flip flop position which allowed us to close a needed victory. He did it again.! Aaron Burnett is our 12th man and when he is there “Pat” and the team finds ways for Ranalls to win.

Liberty Buick - 8 Nancy Muslin Realty - 5

Liberty Buick and Nancy Muslin squared off in a low scoring close game with Liberty pulling out a 8-5 win in a 5 1/2 inning game.  Liberty’s defense played well with good catches in the outfield by Jim Tomach & Chris Espejo and our infield turning a double play to end the game.  A good team effort.  Liberty was led by Greg Church and Jim Matthews 2x3 2 RBI’s 1 dbl each,  Dave Holub and John Mancini 2x3 1 RBI each,  Dave Michels and Frank Preite 2x3 each,  Chris Espejo 1x3 1 RBI,  Jim Tomach 1x2 1 RBI,  Joe Osowiec 1x2,  sub, Dave Bagwell 0x2 1 bb,  Michael Sullivan 0x1.  Thank you to our sub, Dave Bagwell and for Marilyn for keeping our book.  

Nancy's gang came up short on a cold January morning. Our bats were cold Scott Piemeisl was 3-3, 2 R.B.I. Doug Asleson was 2-3, double, home run, scored twice, 1 R.B.I. Darin Proctor was 2-3, double, scored twice. Sub Lee Luft was 2-3, Sherry Westland was 2-3. Karen Olsen had a triple, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Greg Szlak had 1 R.B.I. 

Treedah Magee Realty - 11 Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 10

Treedah was down to its last out in the bottom of the last inning when their leading hitter, Mike Kachurak, came to the plate with two runners on base.  Mike hit a hard line drive to centerfield that bounced out of the outfielder’s glove.  Two runs scored and a 11 to 10 victory was had.  Mike Kachurak went 4 for 4 for the day, followed by Bob Snelling with 3 hits, and sub Mark Wells with 3 hits.  Brian Deherrera & Norris Carpenter collected 2 hits a piece.  Treedah’s defence was pretty good today behind very good pitching from Sub Paul Plapp.  Thanks to our excellent subs today, Mark Wells & Paul Plapp.

Tride and True took on Treedah Magee in a frost delayed 6 inning game.  Both teams came out swinging and put up 2 each in the first inning.  Scoreless for both in the second, Treedah put up 2 runs while Tride could only manage 1 in the 3rd inning.  Both teams were able to put up 4 in the 4th inning and both were scoreless in the 5th.  Tride found themselves down 8-7 in the final 6th inning.  Judy Muller and Dick Kohnen both got hits to put runners on and Sheldon Rosenthal came to the plate.  He cranked out a 3 run homer to put Tride ahead 10-8.  In the bottom of the 6th Treedah got a run to bring the score to 10-9.  Tride got 2 outs but a long fly ball coming out of the sun got dropped and allowed Treedah to put 2 across for the win 11-10.  It was a well played game by both teams. Sheldon Rosenthal was 3 for 4 with a Homer and 4 RBI, Richard Szymesko was 3 for 4 with a Double and 3 RBI, Margie Szymesko was 2 for 3 with 2 RBI and pitcher Dick Kohnen was 1 for 3 with an RBI.  Tride had 21 hits in the game.

Barton Realty - 9 Thunderbird Auto - 6

Defense was the name of the game today in a closely played game between Barton Realtors and Thunderbird Auto. Barton's prevailed by the score of 9 to 6 over a very good team. Everyone on Barton's had at least one hit for a team total 19 hits. Not a lot of hits but we made the most of them. Bob Cary had 3 hits and 2 rbi's. Bob Topham had 3 hits. Kim Hurd had 2 hits with a triple and 2 rbi's. Dale Huffine had 2 hits and 2 rbi's. Gerry Boesche had a single and drove in 2 runs. Mark Glim had a single and drove in a run. Fred Swan and Debbie Bigelow each had 2 hits. Sue Cary had a hit and a walk. Michael Wilton and Klaus Holt each had a hit. Defensively, the team played one of their better games of the season. Bob Cary made a great catch of a sinking fly ball at his outfield position. Bob Topham and Gerry Boesche had excellent plays at their infield positions for some key outs. The defense really shined in the last inning. Debbie Bigelow made a nice catch, going to her left from her 2b position, to snag a hard-hit ground ball and throw the runner out at 1B to get the first out in the last inning. Sue Cary made a nice catch of a ground ball at her shortstop position to get the 2nd out in the last inning by throwing out the runner heading to 3b. Dale Huffine made a great catch of a hard-hit line drive at 3b for the final out of the game which sealed the victory. Today's game was a total team effort. Congrats everyone. Thanks to Joan for doing our scorebook.​

Not much to write about today’s game. Thunderbird Auto took it on the chin from a good Barton Realty team today. The bats were silent and the defense was porous and the result was an ugly loss. The only thing nice was the weather and the fact no one was injured. We want to thank Marilyn for keeping our books and containing her laughter today. 

Colonnade - 13 Petelin Vision - 10

Colonnade went up against the mighty Petelin Vision team. We had our work cut out for us as we started out down by one run in the first inning. We evened the score in the second inning. Petelin came back with 4 runs in the 3rd. Not to be out done, we matched them with 4 runs of our own. In the 5th Petelin went up one run on us. In the bottom of the 5th we scored 4 runs to make it 13-10. What a fun game to play..... back and forth until we squeaked ahead. Patrick Moriarity did a fantastic job at 3rd base today stopping some very hard hit balls. Kirk King caught a nice fly ball playing first base. Kandi Patrick was busy at shortstop all day picking up grounders and making a great line drive catch. Our sub, John Holten, played in his first Grand softball game today. On his first at bat John hit an in the park home run. Yipee Skippy!! Welcome to Blue League Senior Softball!! Thank you for playing with us today. Another new player joined our team today, Nick Hermann. He did a wonderful job also, hitting 2-3 in his debut. We look forward to having Nick on our team. Our offensive star today was Kandi Patrick with an in the park home run, a triple and a single. Kirk King, Bob Williams, Denise Gibala, Ed Hart each had 2 hits. Patrick Moriarity also had 2 hits with one of them being a double. Rounding out the offense was Don Cleveland, Jim Collins and Annie Lowe with 1 hit each.

Petelin Vision went up against the top team in the American Division and came up short 13-10. In a shorted 6 inning game Petelin took a 1 run lead after 1 inning. Colonnade scored in the 2nd to tie the game. Both teams picked up 4 runs in the 3rd tying the game at 5-5. Colonnade jumped out in front 9-6 in the 4th. Petelin came storming back to take the lead in the top of the 5th, 10-9. Colonnade in the bottom of the 5th plated 4 runs to take a 13-10 lead and Petelin could not recover in the 6th giving Colonnade the game. Petelins defense which held Colonnade to 13 runs gave us a chance at the win, unfortunately, Petelin was not able to take advantage of the opportunity. Offensively Petelin had 18 hits. Perfect at the plate were Larry Radant 3/3 (triple double RBI) and Kevin Gillette 3/3. Going 2/3 were Coral Estes (double), Ken Kessler (triple double 2 RBI's), Richard Brinkley (double 2 RBI's) and Laura Johnson (2 RBI's). Barney Armstrong (RBI), Jeanne Lushow (RBI), Jerry Eastham, Chris Zerr (RBI) and Norma Lucas all got on base. Petelin Vision would like to thank Jeanne Lushow for subbing today and thank Kathy Radant for holding down the scorebook. 

 Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Petelin Vision - 14 Barton Realty - 13

For the second time this Fall season the Petelin Vision Team had a real back and forth game with Barton Realtors. The first time Barton pulled out a 1 run win as the home team. Today Petelin was able to return the favor as the home team by 1 run. Petelin jumped out to a 4-2 lead after 1 and held a 6-4 lead after 2. In the 3rd Barton scored 4 to Petelins 1 to take an 8-7 advantage. In the 4th Petelin blanked Bartons and grabbed a 9-8 lead. Both teams scored 4 runs in the 5th giving Petelin a 13-12 score. The clock ran out in the 5th so this was a 6-inning game. Barton plated a run to tie the game, placing the pressure on Petelin. Petelin was able to score a run to secure the victory. Hard fought game played by both teams. Defensively Petelin gave up some runs they probably would like to have back but overall played good defense. Offensively Richard Brinkley 4/4 (3 RBI's) and Jerry Eastham 3/3 (2 RBI's) were perfect at the plate. Grabbing 3 hits were Coral Estes (double RBI), Ken Kessler (RBI), Laura Johnson (walk 2 RBI's), Barney Armstrong (RBI) and Dennis Coletta. Chris Zerr (2 RBI's) reached base twice on walks and Larry Radant and Kevin Gillette (2 RBI's) each got on base. Norma Lucas scored a double. Petelin Vision would like to thank Dennis Coletta for subbing today. Big thank you to Kathy Radant for keeping the scorebook.

On a brisk windy day, a very competitive game was played by the Petelin Vision and Barton Realtor teams this morning.  In a seesaw battle, where the lead changed every inning, Barton's lost by one run to a very good Petelin team.  Everyone on the Barton team had at least one hit for a team total 22 hits.  Kim Hurd was 2 for 2 with a homerun and 3 rbi's.  Dale Huffine was 3 for 3 with a triple and 2 rbi's.  Mark Glim was 3 for 3 with 1 rbi.  Gerry Boesche was 2 for 3 with a double and 2 rbi's.  Bob Topham was 2 for 3 with 2 rbi's.  Debbie Bigelow was 2 for 3 with 1 rbi.  Michael Wilton had a single and 2 rbi's.  Bob Cary had 2 hits and a walk.  Sue Cary had a single and a walk.  Klaus Holt had a nice hit down the 3b line.  We had a few nice plays defensively.  Kim Hurd made a nice running catch of a short fly ball that the wind knocked down.  Michael Wilton made a nice catch of a short pop up at his pitcher position for an out.  Dale Huffine made a nice throw from 3b to our catcher Klaus Holt to get a runner out at home plate.  Bob Cary made a nice throw from his outfield position to get a runner out at home.  Thanks to Joan Casazza for doing our scorebook despite the chilly weather.

Ranall's Realty - 11 Treedah Magee Realty - 10

It was a very cold windy morning. Ranalls dug ourselves a hole we were down five to after two, we needed to learn how to play the wind. Our bats begin work in the third inning Kurt lead off batter nice single Dan Hodges added some great hits until he got hurt and I appreciate Bob Dooling taking over for him at shortstop they Combined for three for four hits we appreciate them subbing. A big highlight of the game was Patrick Brunette getting a home run with his family in the stands good job Pat. We also had Kurt Kanouse, Steve Coffman, Pete Simoneau getting 3 hits. With 2 hits was Dave Martin, Pat Burnett and Glen Zelkind.The team turned it around in the middle innings and ended up winning a close game so everyone participated and played very well.

On a very windy morning Treedah Magee battled a very good Ranall’s squad to the very end only to lose 11 to 10.  Defensive lapses in the 3rd and 4th innings gave Ranalls several unearned runs which greatly affected the final score.  Treedah collected 17 hits with Bob Snelling leading the way by going 4 for 4.  Mike Kachurak & Phi Murray banged out 3 hits each and Fred Lubs & Brian Deherrera collected 2 hits apiece.

WyYerd Fiber - 10 Property Sisters - 2

WyYerd played a good defensive game against The Property Sisters. We were able to hold them to only 2 runs with an outstanding defensive performance. Gary Ash and Randy Selin were perfect at the plate with 3 hits apiece. Gary had a home run in the first inning a combination of a good hit and blazing speed to put us in the lead , which we were able to hold for the rest of the game. Dan Maguire and Lee Luft each had a pair of hits and Dorothy Muzar, Sal Politi, and Dick Steiman each add another run for a total of 17 runs. Good job team. Thanks to Dick Steiman for Subbing for us and helping us get the win. We have a Bye next Monday so our next game is Wednesday 1 / 15 at 12:15 Marty has umpire duty and Dan has scoreboard (I think He may have traded with Dorothy)

The Property Sisters lost again by a score of 10-2.  We only had 12 hits.  Leading the way was Mike Sterricker who was 2-3 with a double, a triple, and an RBI.  Duff Carroll was 2-2 with a sacrifice fly and an RBI.  Dave Bagwell was 2-2 with a base on balls.  Kathy Boland, Sub, was 1-2 with a base on balls.  Dan Hofeditz was 1-2 with a base on balls.   Laura Johnson, Sub, was 1-3.  Wayne Moxley, Gene Fleck, and Yvonne Becker were all 1-3. 

Nancy Muslin Realty - 12 Colonnade - 17

Nancy Muslin gang fell short today after keeping the score tied until the last inning. Scott Piemeisl was 2-2, 2 walks, 4 R.B.I. Karen Olsen was 2-4, double, scored once, 5 R.B.I. Jake Groh was 3-4, scored twice. Doug Asleson was 3-4, scored 3 times, 1 R.B.I. Daren Proctor was 2-3, walk, scored twice. Wes Mason was 2-3, scored once. Greg Szlak was 2-4, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Jack Braly scored twice. 

Every write up will probably start out commenting how windy and cold it was but that didn’t stop our team from playing well! We were up against a very strong hitting team and from the 1st inning we knew we had our work cut out for us. Thankfully our defense was able to hold onto the lead the entire game. Notable mention is Kirk King who not only was 4/4 but he was right on target throwing to Annie Lowe at 2nd base for the out; and he made a great line drive catch at 1st. Kandi Patrick was 3/4 with a HR! and outstanding catches as SS. Annie Lowe was 1/3 and had an amazing catch as rover. Art Molina, Denise Gibala and Ed Hart were 2/4. Don Cleveland, Patrick Moriarty and Bob Williams were 3/4. Our sub Jim Stempniewski was 4/4. Jim Collins was 1/4. Thank you Jim S. for helping us out today and thank you Yvonne for scorekeeping!

Liberty Buick - 11 Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 11

Liberty Buick & Tride & True played a close game ending in a 11-11 tie in a 7 inning game.  Liberty played from behind thru the 5th inning with the score 9-7.  Liberty took the lead 11-10 thru the 6th inning, Tride and True scored 1 run in the top of the 7th to tie the score 11-11.  Liberty was shut out in the bottom of the 7th, ending the game 11-11.  Liberty was led by Dave Michels 4x4 1 RBI,  Mike Mcginn 3x3 1 RBI,  John Mancini 3x4 1 dbl,  Dave Holub 2x4 4 RBI’s 1 dbl,  Frank Preite 2x4 1 RBI 1 dbl,  Jim Tomach 2x3 2 RBI’s,  Jim Matthews 2x3,  Greg Church & Joe Osowiec 1x3 1 RBI each,  Michael Sullivan 1x3,  Chris Espejo 1x4.  Thank you to Joan for keeping our book.  

Each team started out hot putting up 4 a piece in the first inning and then both were held scoreless in the second and third.  In the 4th Tride was able to bring one run across and hold Liberty scoreless once again.  In the 5th, both teams were able to add 4.  In the 6th, Tride was only able to put up one while giving up 4 to Liberty, allowing them to go ahead by a run.  In the 7th, Tride was able to put one across the plate tying the game.  With the top of the order at bat, the Tride teams defense held and kept Liberty from the win. Joanne Cook led the Tride team going 2 for 3 with a walk and 4 RBI.  Sheldon Rosenthat was 3 for 4 with an RBI, New player Murray Lushaw was 1 for 4 with a Home Run and 2 RBI.  Richard Szymesko was 4 for 4 with a double, Margie Szymesko was 2 for 3 with a walk and an RBI, Gary Christofferson was 4 for 4 with 2 RBI, and Judy Muller was 1 for 4 with an RBI.  Tride had a total of 21 hits in the game. 

 Monday, January 6, 2025

Tride//True Pest Mgmt - 12 Ranall's Realty - 11

On a very cold first day after the Christmas break, the Tride team brought their A game. Playing good offense, but great defense, the Tride team was able to defeat one of the top ranked teams, Ranalls, 12-11. In the 5th inning the Tride crew of Richard Szymesko, Sheldon Rosenthal and Gary Christofferson, pulled off the perfect triple play to hold the Ranalls gang scoreless. With 19 hits in the game for the Tride team, they were put to good use. In the final inning of the game, Tride was down 11-10 in the bottom of the 7th, but never gave up. Sheldon Rosenthal got a single to start it off and had a pinch runner in Joanne Cook. Jim Parry followed with another single, now having runners on first and second. Sub Ken Kessler got up and hit into a fielders choice, now having runners on first and third. Richard Szymesko got up and hit a single, scoring Cook to tie the game and put runners again on first and third. Margie Szymesko was an out and left the two runners on base with two outs. Up stepped Gary Christofferson who slammed a hit into right center for a single and the RBI that won the game. What a great team effort. Sheldon Rosenthal was 3 for 3 with a walk and an RBI, Sub Ken Kessler was 2 for 4 with 3 RBI, Ricard Szymesko was 3 for 4 with a triple and 2 RBI, Margie Szymesko was 1 for4 with 2 RBI, Gary Christofferson was 3 for 4 with 2 RBI and Joanne Cook was 1 for 3 with 2 RBI. Much thanks to sub Ken Kessler for braving the cold to play for us at 8:30!!

Tride and True was certainly ready for us on a cold/damp morning. When you have 2 outs in 2 separate innings and no runs scored and the result was that our opposition came away with 4 runs!…its game on the run. We certainly had way too many critical errors that very easily could have put us into a strong winning position, but it did not matter. In todays game the bottom 6 in our batting order outhit the top 5, which is certainly a sign that we did not play to our traditional expectations. Despite this game not going well for us, there were some highlights that are worth noting. Joel Last returned to the ball field after being sidelined for the first half of the season. He went 2/3 along with an RBI. Joel also made some heads-up positional plays at 2nd base. Way to go Joel. Glen (rocket man) Zelkind went 3/3 today carving out 2 doubles. No cheap hits here. Lastly Pat Burnett went 2/4 but was responsible for 3 RBI’s! Thank god we had those clutch hits. We got ourselves backed up against the wall and the key to our winning going forward must be tightening up our defense. We have no slackers, and everyone wants to do their best…which is all we can ask from our teammates. It just was not our day.

Property Sisters Realty - 3 Thunderbird Auto - 10

"Our winning streak ended at 1 game. We were in the game today thru the 4th inning and then we gave up 4 runs. Property Sisters had only 14 hits and lost to Thunderbird 10-3. Leading the way was Mike Sterricker who was 3-3 with 2 doubles and 1 RBI. Wayne Moxley was 3-3. Charlie Greer, Sub, was 2-3 with 1 RBI. Chuck Gibson was 1-2 with a base on balls. Gene Fleck was 1-3 with 1 RBI. Pierre Boudreau, Dan Hofeditz, Dave Bagwell, and Yvonne Becker were 1-3. Bill Clark had a base on balls.
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Thunderbird Auto came back from the Christmas break ready to play ball and have some fun. Today was the defense’s turn to shine as we turned five double plays and forced runners at second and third several times. Bob Higgins at rover was the catalyst on all five double plays, fielding the ground ball and beating the runner to second and making the throw to first on four of the double plays and feeding the ball to second on the other. Tom Gobin at SS snagged a couple of line drives and handled every ground ball that came his way. Lanny Auberg at third had several chances and made two outstanding plays by beating a runner to third after fielding a grounder. Then forcing a runner at second after fielding a smash down the line while playing a deep third base. Jim Stocker played a perfect game at first and made an outstanding catch on a low throw from second to complete a double play. Charlie Counts handled the few chances he had with no problem and covered second base to complete several force outs. The outfield didn’t get much action today as the Property Sisters only managed two deep flies. Ray Hensley must have had his screwball working today to induce so many ground balls and only giving up one walk. Holding any team to three runs takes a strong team effort and Thunderbird Auto displayed that in spades today! The offense had a pretty good day for the first game back from break. We had twenty hits while scoring ten runs so we definitely have room for improvement. Tom Gobin was the offensive leader today going four for four with a three run homer. Right behind was Ed Campbell with three hits with a home run plus two RBI. Ray Hensley was three for three with two RBI while Joe Wojtasiak was two for two with a triple and two RBI before tweaking a hamstring. Lanny Auberg, Bob Higgins and Charlie Counts joined the hit parade with two hits apiece while both subs Steve Foster and Bob Snelling came through with each getting a hit. We would like to thank Steve Foster and Bob Snelling for subbing today and welcome back our scorebook keeper Joan with a big thank you. 

Treedah Magee Realty - 11 WyYerd Fiber - 17

Treedah Magee came out swinging and matched WyYard’s 4 runs in inning number one.  Then in the bottom of the fifth Treedah got to within one run, 12 to 11, but couldn’t score in the last two innings and lost to WyYard 17 to 11.  Treedah banged out 18 hits with Mike Kachurak, Bob Snelling, Fred Lubs, and Brian Deherrera each collecting 3 hits.  Don Hansen & Phil Murray each had 2 hits.  Several nice defensive plays were turned in by Brian Deherrera at first base and Norm Lustig catcher.

After a long Christmas break the WyYerd Fiber Team showed up ready to play. We put up 4 runs in the first three innings .  Our defense was solid lead by our Picture Lee Luft who had several strikeouts and kept there batters hitting to our infield players for easy outs. Dorothy Muzar our Rover was all over the field scooping up ball and making outs. Our Sub Denny Coletta was also scooping up ball and making plays at second base. Everyone was hitting well. Dorothy , Dan Maguire, Gary Ash, and Lee Luft all had 3 hits. Everyone else had at least 2 hits.  Good job Team and a big Thank you to Denny Coletta for helping us get the win. Also a big Thank you to Kris Koch and John Laskowski for running the bench and keeping the book. Our next game is Wednesday  1 / 8 at 11:00  Marty has Umpire Duty and Dorothy has Scoreboard after the game.

Barton Realty - 7 Nancy Muslin Realty - 18

Barton Realtors didn't start the final leg of the Fall Season on a positive note by losing to a very good hitting Nancy Muslin team by the score of 18 to 7.  A couple of nice defensive plays were made by sub Norris Carpenter and Bob Topham.  Norris made a nice throw to our catcher, Klaus Holt, for an out and Bob Topham also made a strong, accurate throw to Klaus for an out.  Offensively, we could only manage 7 runs on 17 hits even though quite a few players had doubles.  Mark Glim had 3 hits with a double and a rbi.  Sub Norris Carpenter, Bob Topham, and Gerry Boesche each had 2 hits with a double and a rbi.  Bob Cary had 3 hits.  Fred Swan had 2 hits with a walk.  Kim Hurd had a single to drive in a run.  Sue Cary and Klaus Holt each had a single.    Thanks to Norris Carpenter for subbing for us today.  A special thanks to Joan Casazza, just in from Arkansas, for doing our scorebook.  

Nancy's gang came into today's game well rested after the Holiday break. Playing against a very good team, they had 33 hits and 4 batters perfect at the plate. Their defense was also strong. Doug Asleson was 5-5, scored 4 times, 1 R,B.I. Greg Szlak was 5-5, double, scored twice 4 R.B.I. Karen Olsen was 4-4, 2 doubles, scored once, 4 R,B.I. Scott Piemeisl was 4-4, double, scored twice, 3 R.B.I. Jake Groh was 4-5, scored 3 times, 1 R,B.I. Daren Proctor was 3-5, scored once, 3 R.B.I. Mike Ryan had a pair of hits, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Sherry Westland had a pair of hits, scored once. Ed Musgrave had 2 hits, scored once, and was the winning pitcher. Wes Mason had 1 R.B.I. Jack Braly had 1 R.B.I. 

Liberty Buick - 11 Colonnade - 16

Liberty Buick battled with a good Colonnade team and lost 16-11 in a 6 1/2 inning game.  With the long holiday break Liberty was never in the game and Colonnade was on their game and played a very good game.  With a flip in the 7th inning and behind 16-6 Liberty rallied scoring 5 runs, Colonnade closed the game out 16-11.  Liberty was led by John Mancini 4x4 3 RBI’s 1 triple,  Dave Michels 4x4,  Greg Church 3x3 2 RBI’s 1 dbl 1 bb,  Frank Preite 3x4,  Dave Holub 2x3 3 RBI’s 1 bb,  Chris Espejo 2x4 2 RBI’s,  Joe Osowiec 2x3,  Jim Matthews 1x4 1RBI,  Mike Mcginn 1x4,  Michael Sullivan 0x2 1 bb (good catch of a foul ball),  Jim Tomach 0x4.  Thank you to Marilyn for keeping our book.  

What a beautiful day in The Grand to play softball. Colonnade went up against a fine Liberty team. Our bats were hot and we scored 4 runs in the first inning. Patrick Moriarity made a fantastic line drive catch in the beginning of the game. The 4th inning belonged to Kandi Patrick with a good morning, good afternoon and good night when she caught 3 fly balls in a row to end the inning. At the plate we had doubles hit by Don Cleveland, Bob Williams, Jim Collins and not to be outdone, Patrick Moriarity hit 2 doubles! Yippee Skippy!!!   Also hot at the plate with 4 hits was Don Cleveland. Patrick Moriarity, Bob Williams and Kandi Patrick each had 3 hits. Art Molina, Kirk King and Annie Lowe had 2 hits each. Ed Hart, Denise Gibala and Jeff Bearth each had 1 hit. Ron Swanson came in to sub for an injured Jeff Bearth in the middle  of the game and got a hit also. We were all on the bases and running for home with a final score of 16-11 after a flip flop.  Thank you Ron for subbing at the last minute. Also a big thank you to our base coach and scorekeeper Monte & Judy McClendon.

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Thunderbird Auto - 13 Treedah Magee Realty - 19

On a cold December morning Treedah Magee brought their hot bats to Del Webb Stadium to avenge an early season defeat to a game Thunderbird Auto team. Even though we registered 20 hits and 13 runs we were fighting from behind the entire game and couldn’t catch up. Offensively we were lead by Tom Gobin, Ed Campbell, Joe Wojtasiak and Ray Hensley with three hits each. Lanny Auberg, Joe Jellison and sub Doug Asleson each with two hits. Charlie Counts and Roger Miller each had a hit. Too many of our batted balls were hit directly at a defender and too many of Treedah Magee’s hits found the gaps today plus a few mental lapses on our part contributed to a resounding victory by a much improved Treedah Magee team. Thank you for subbing today Doug Asleson. Thanks to Marilyn Leinberger for scorekeeping and to the umpires and scoreboard operator.

Treedah Magee had their work cut out for themselves this early and chilly Wednesday morning against the first place Thunderbird Auto mechanics. But Treedah was up to the challenge as they scored 19 on 25 hits. Mick Kachurak led the way going a perfect 4 for 4 including a home run. Super sub Glen Mitzel also was perfect going 4 for 4 and showed very good skill in right field with his glove and strong arm. Bob Snelling, Fred Luis, and Brian Deherrera banged out 3 hits each. Fred Lubs also played a very good infield rover position today. Overall it was a very good morning for Treedah as they now break for the Holidays. Good game team and Merry Christmas to all ! Thanks to Marilyn & Kris to keeping Score

Barton Realty - 7 Colonnade - 12

Barton Realtors versus Colonnade had a real defensive battle going until the final (6th) inning when the wheels came off for Barton's allowing 6 runs and losing to a very good team.  Defensive highlights for the first 5 innings go to the following:  Debbie Bigelow at her 2B position gathering up ground ball after ground ball to get outs by teaming up with 1B Bob Topham.  Sue Cary at her shortstop position throwing to Gerry Boesche covering 2B and then Gerry throwing to Bob Topham at 1b for two double plays.  Sue also teamed up with catcher Klaus Holt to get an important out at the plate.  Mark Glim caught a couple of deep fly balls in left field for outs and had a good day at the plate going 3 for 3 with 2 rbi's.  Sub Barry Schwartz was 3 for 3 with 3 rbi's.  Bob Topham was 2 for 2 with a walk and a rbi.  Michael Wilton was 1 for 2 with a sac fly for a rbi.  Bob Cary and Dale Huffine each had 3 hits.  Debbie Bigelow was 2 for 3.  Kim Hurd and Klaus Holt each had 1 hit.  Thanks to Barry Schwartz for subbing for us today.  Thanks to Marilyn Leinberger for keeping our scorebook.  A big thank you to Ron and Catherine Barton for sponsoring our team this year.  Thank you to everyone on the team for all your support and making this season special.  Merry Xmas and Happy New Year Everyone.

Colonnade played a good game against Barton Realtors. Some nice defensive plays; Kandi Patrick to Annie Lowe and Jeff Bearth. Bob Williams, Art Molina, sub Charles Greer, Kandi, Annie and pitcher Don Cleveland all caught some tough hits. On one play Bob was there to back up the first baseman and stopped the player from advancing to second - good job Bob! Offensively our bats hung in there especially in the last inning where we scored 6 runs. And at the bottom of the 7th home team Barton just couldn’t catch us. 

Ranall's Realty - 13 Liberty Buick - 12

Today we met a very hard hitting good liberty Buick team we were fortunate to come out ahead at the end. Our bats came alive today, five players went 3/3: Kurt Kanouse was double from the cycle with 1 rbi,Don Cleveland, Pete Simoneau 6 rbis, Barry Schwartz 2 rbi, Steve Coffman 2 rbi. 2/ 3 Dave Martin 1 rbi, Glen Zelkind 1 rbi, 1/ 3 Norm Volk.  We had very nice defense today and I would also like to think Don Cleveland and Debby Bigelow for subbing. We played so well today we’re giving you off until January have a Merry Christmas everyone.

 Liberty Buick played another tough game against a good Ranalls Realty team and lost 13-12 in a 6 1/2 inning game.  Liberty played from behind the entire game but kept the game close behind by one run 2nd inning through the 5th inning.  Liberty was shut out in the last 2 innings, key hits were just not there and Ranalls closed the game out 13-12.  Liberty was led by Frank Preite 4x4,  sub, Greg Szlak 3x3 3 RBI’s 1 dbl,  Joe Osowiec 3x3 1 RBI,  John Mancini 3x4 1 RBI 1 dbl,  Greg Church 2x3,  Dave Michels 2x4,  Chris Espejo 1x3 3 RBI’s 1 triple,  sub, Sherry Westland 1x3 3 RBI’s,  Dave Holub 1x4 1 RBI,  Jim Matthews 1x3,  Michael Sullivan 0x3.  Thank you to our subs, Greg Szlak & Sherry Westland and to Yvonne for keeping our book.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, see you in the new year.

WyYerd Fiber - 11 Tride/True Pest Mgmt -19

WyYerd went up against a tough Tride and True Team today. Tride and True jumped out to an early lead and we could never catch up. Every team has a bad day once in a while and today was ours. Gary Ash and Randy Selin were both 3 / 3. Almost everyone else had 1 or 2 hits. Our next game isn’t until January 6th at 11:00 Randy Selin has Umpire Duty after the Game and Ed Abrams will be gone on a Cruise collecting Pineapples to bring back for us. Have a Happy and Blessed Holiday season and I will see you all next year.

It was the last game of 2024 and the Tride team came to play.  With a team high of 29 hits, Tride took down one of the League leaders, WYYERD 19-11.  Both solid offense and solid defense was the name of the game today.  Scoring in every inning, it was a great year ending win.  Sheldon Rosenthal, Richard Szymesko and Gary Christofferson were all 4 for 4 each putting up an RB Ieach.  Sub Scott Piemiesl and Joanne Cook were both 3 for 4 with Scott putting up 4 RBI and having a double and Joanne adding 3 RBI.  Margie Szymesko, Ron Rogerson and Sam Bernhardt were all 3 for 3 with a walk each, Margie adding an RBI, Ron adding 2 RBI and Sam adding 2 RBI and a double.  Jim Parry was 2 for 3 with a walk and 2 RBI and Judy Muller added 2 more RBI!  Many thanks to Scott Piemiesl for subbing today.  

Property Sisters - 11 Petelin Vision - 10

Santa came early to the Property Sisters with an 11-10 win over Petelin, which happens to be our first win of the season. We were down by 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th inning when our super sub, Terry Everts hit a triple. Mike Sterricker hit a double to score Terry. With the Property Sisters down 10-9, Wayne Moxley, Super Hero of the game, hit a 2 run home run over the left fielder's head and made it to the wall. With Wayne running like a deer, he easily made it home and we won our first game of the season. The Property Sisters had a 10 game losing streak that was broken today. We now have a 1 game winning streak - leading into 2025. We had a total of 20 hits with everyone getting at least 1 hit. Leading the way was Wayne Moxley who was 2-4 with a 2 run home run that won the game. Way to go Wayne! Mike Sterricker was 3-3 with a walk and 1 RBI. Duff Carroll was 3-4 with 2 RBI's and 2 fantastic catches in left center field. Pierre Boudreau was 3-4 with 1 RBI. Yvonne Becker was 2-3. Terry Everts, sub, was 2-4 with a triple and 1 RBI. Terry made quite a few catches and plays at 2nd base. Dave Bagwell was 1-3 with 2 RBI's. Bob Dye was 1-3 with 1 RBI. Dale Schroeder, Sub, was 1-3 with 1 RBI. Thank you Terry and Dale for subbing for us today in our first win of the season.

In recognition of good sportsmanship Petelin Vision would like to congratulate Property Sisters on their 1st WIN Today. Unfortunately, it came as a loss for Petelin Vision. This was a hard-fought game by both teams and it came down to the bottom of the 7th inning to decide the game. Defensively Petelin played a decent game with only a few missteps. Offensively Petelin had 25 hits. Perfect at the plate were Ken Kessler 4/4 (Home Run Walk RBI) and Barney Armstrong 4/4 (double triple 2 RBI's). Going 3/4 were Richard Brinkley (double triple 3 RBI's), Sub Greg Szlak (double 2 RBI's) and Sub Ed Abrams (RBI). Collection 2 hits were Coral Estes, Larry Radant and Sub Dorothy Mazur (Walk RBI). Getting on base were Laura Johnson and Chris Zerr. Petelin Vision would like to thank Greg Szlak, Dorothy Mazur and Ed Abrams for subbing today. Thanks to Kathy Radant for keeping Petelin Visions scorebook. Wishing everyone a Happy Holiday and a Healthy New Year. See you all in 2025.

 Monday, December 16, 2024

WyYerd Fiber - 9 Ranall's Realty - 8

Another early game. We got off to a good start today against a tough Ranalls Realty Team our Defense was strong as usual holding them to only 1 run in the first 4 innings. In the 5th and 6th innings they came alive putting up 7 runs to get within 1 run of us but we were able to shut them down in the 7th for the win. There were not a lot of hits on either side because of some excellent fielding. Top hitters were Lee Luft, Glen Mitzel (Sub), and Randy Selin all with 2 hits Randy also had 1 Home Run. Thanks to Dan Hodges who played a good Short Stop and Glen Mitzel out in Right Field for helping us get the win. Also Kris and John for keeping the bench running smoothly. Next game is Wednesday 12 / 18 at 12:15

Today was a battle for first place in our division we had great defense after the third inning first inning they scored four in the third inning they scored four and we hold them to one run for the remainder of the game. We had two subs today Debby Bigelow went 3/3, Don Cleveland 2/4 Which were cold subs of the game. Kurt Knouse 3/4, 2/3 was Pete Simoneau,Barry Schwarz, Steve Coffman and Glen Zelkind. Dave Martin 2/4, Norm Volk 1/2 + a sac. We also had a great outfield defense with two catches from Steve and one catch some pat in the 5th. Are bats were as chilly as the temperature to begin the game but warmed up in the end one more game Wednesday before the holidays.

Liberty Buick - 10 Barton Realty - 14

Liberty Buick played a tough game against a good Barton Realtors team and lost 14-10 in a 7 inning game.  Liberty was behind the entire game, lacking key hits and poor defense, with the highlight of the game a triple play turned in the top of the 7th inning.  Liberty was led by Greg Church 3x3 4 RBI’s 2 DBL’s,  Frank Preite 4x4,  sub, Dave Bagwell 3x3,  Dave Holub 2x4 2 RBI’s 1 DBL,  Chris Espejo 2x4 1 RBI,  Jim Matthews 2x3,  sub, Dorothy Mazur 1x3 2 RBI’s,  Joe Osowiec 1x3,  Dave Michels & John Mancini  1x4 each,  Michael Sullivan 0x3 1 RBI.  Thank you to our subs, Dave Bagwell & Dorothy Mazur and Yvonne for keeping our book.

Defense was key for the Barton Realtors team today in winning a very close game over a very good Liberty Buick team.  Kim Hurd had an outstanding day defensively at his left centerfield position, using his blazing speed to catch 4 short flyballs for key outs.  Sue Cary also had a good day at her shortstop position catching ball after ball for outs or throwing runners out.  Dale Huffine, Gerry Boesche, Debbie Bigelow, and Bob Topham rounded out the infield with strong play.  Mark Glim made a very timely catch of a high fly ball for a key out in one of the later innings.  Fred Swan and Bob Cary didn't have many plays in their outfield positions, but they were ready for the challenge.  Michael Wilton pitched a very good game with very few, if any, walks.  Offensively, everyone on the team had at least one hit for a team total of 23 hits.  In addition, almost everyone on the team scored at least one run.  Dale Huffine had 3 hits with 2 doubles and 4 rbi's.  Bob Topham had 3 hits and 3 rbi's.  Debbie Bigelow had 3 hits and 2 rbi's.  Kim Hurd had 2 hits with a double and 2 rbi's.  Michael Wilton had 1 hit and drove in 2 runs.  Sue Cary had 1 hit, 2 walks, and 1 rbi.  Fred Swan had 3 hits with a double.  Bob Cary had 3 hits.  Gerry Boesche had 2 hits while Klaus Holt and Mark Glim each contributed a hit.  Thank you, Marilyn, for keeping our scorebook and keeping us on track. 

Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 7 Thunderbird Auto - 16

Tride just couldn't get the bats going today and Thunderbird was hitting them where we weren't. Tride only scored in 2 innings that were started off by the bottom of the order.  Judy Muller, Sam Bernhardt and Dick Kohnen led the way in the 3rd and 5th innings.  All were 2 for 3, all scored twice and Dick had a double and 2 RBI!!!!  Sheldon Rosenthat went 3 for 3 with an RBI, Jim Parry was 2 for 3 with an RBI and Richard Szymesko was 2 for 3 with 2 RBI.  Thanks to our subs Dale Huffine and Joe Osowiec.

Thunderbird Auto was finally able to play a complete game with the offense producing 28 hits and scoring 16 runs while the defense had 5 shut out innings and allowed only 7 runs.  Charlie Counts and Joe Wojtasiak were each 4 for 4 on the day with Joe driving in a whopping 6 runs! Going 3 for 4 were Ed Campbell, Tom Gobin, Bob Higgins, Ray Hensley, Paul Pearson and Jim Stocker. Joe Jellison and Lanny Auberg each had a big hit with Joe driving in two runs and Lanny one. Also in the RBI parade were Charlie Counts, Bob Higgins and Ray Hensley with two each and Paul Pearson with one. On defense everyone made the routine plays and Bob Higgins, Joe Wojtasiak, Ed Campbell and Joe Jellison made some outstanding plays to thwart scoring chances by a very good Tride and True squad. Again we owe a big thanks to Marilyn Leinberger for keeping our scorebook and thanks for the umpires and scoreboard operators and all the other volunteers who contribute to our Softball Club. It takes a village!

Nancy Muslin - 14 Property Sisters - 13

Nancy,s team fought hard and hit well to win over a tough team. Three players were perfect at the plate. Jake Groh was 3-3, scored twice, 1 R.B.I. Doug Asleson was 3-3, 2 doubles, triple, scored 3 times, 2 R.B.I. Jack Braly was 2-2, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Darin Proctor was 2-3, blasted a home run for 2 R.B.I., and scored 2 times. Greg Szlak was 2-3, scored once, 2 R.B.I. Scott Piemeisl was 2-3, double, scored once, 3 R.B.I. Sherry Westland was 2-3, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Ed Musgrave was 2-3, scored once, and was the winning pitcher. Wes Mason had 1 R.B.I. Sub Kat Melton had a triple, 1R.B.I. and great "D". Sub Paul Pearson scored once. Thanks to Kat Melton and Paul Pearson for subbing and helping us win todays game. 

The Property Sisters almost won our first game today, however, we struggled on defense and lost 14-13.  We had 23 hits.   The Star of the game today was Mike Sterricker who was 3-3 with 3 doubles, a base on balls, and 6 RBI's.  Chuck Gibson was 4-4 with a double and 1 RBI.  Duff Carroll was 3-4 with 3 RBI's.  Pierre Boudreau was 3-4 with 1 RBI.   Dan Hofeditz was 2-3 with a base on balls.  Joe Jellison, Sub for Wayne Moxley, who was Christmas shopping at Arrowhead Mall, was 2-4 with an RBI and a great catch in Right Center.  Bob Dye was 2-3.  Gene Fleck was 2-3.  Bill Clark was 1-3 with 1 RBI.  Yvonne Becker was 1-3.  

Treedah Magee Realty - 14 Petelin Vision - 13

"It was mail bitting time for Treedah in the top of the 7th as Petelin fought back from 6 runs down to within the final 14 to 13 score. Treedah banged out 23 hits with Bob Snelling going 4 for 4, sub Dave Michels 3 for 3, Phil Murray, Fred Lubs, & Mike Kachurak each collected 3 hits including a inside the parker by Mike. Sub Jake Groh and Dick Steiman each had 2 hits. Excellent defense was performed by sub Dave Michels in left field, Jake Groh in right field, and a spectacular play by Brian Deherrera as he leaped to snag a very hard hit line drive at first base. Manager and author of this write-up apologizes to his team for his poor base running to home plate and very shaky defense at SS. Thanks to our 2 excellent subs, Dave Michels & Jake Groh. Good win ! Thanks to Marilyn Leinberger for score keeping."

Petelin Vision ran into a good hitting Treedah Magee today. After 4 innings the game was tied at 8-8. From that point on the Treedah Team took control, scoring 6 runs to Petelins 0. Petelin did not give up and made a run at Treedah but fell short by 1 run 14-13. Defensively the infield played a pretty good game. The outfield had a tougher day as balls were hit over our heads or in the gaps. Offensively Petelin had 26 hits. Perfect at the plate were Ken Kessler 4/4 and Laura Johnson 4/4 (double 4 RBI's). Getting on base 3 times were Larry Radant 3/4 (double 2 RBI's), Richard Brinkley 3/4 (triple 3 RBI's), Barney Armstrong 3/4 (RBI) and Pat Moriarty 3/4 (RBI). Collecting 2 hits were Jim Tokar 2/4 and Norma Lucas 2/4 (walk). Coral Estes was 1/4 as was Kevin Gillette 1/4 (RBI). Chris Zerr brought in an RBI. Petelin Vision would like to thank Pat Moriaty for subbing today. A Thank you also goes to Kathy Radant for keeping the scorebook.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

WyYerd Fiber - 19 Liberty Buick - 19

Liberty Buick and WyYerd Fiber squared off in a slug fest and played to a 19-19 tie in a 7 inning game. Liberty played from behind through the first 3 innings with WyYerd leading 10-8. Liberty took the lead 19-15 through the next 3 innings. Liberty went scoreless in the top of the 7th and WyYerd scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 7th to tie the score 19-19 with 1 out. Liberty turned a double play to end the game 19-19. Liberty was led by Greg Church 4x4 2 RBI’s 1 DBL, John Mancini 4x4, sub, Tom Gobin 3x3 3 RBI’s 1 BB, Frank Preite 3x4 2 RBI’s 1 BB, Dave Holub 3x5 4 RBI’s 1 DBL, sub, Paul Pearson 3x4 3 RBI’s, Chris Espejo 3x4 1 triple, Joe Osowiec 2x3 2 RBI’s 1 BB, Jim Matthews 2x4, sub, Dale Schroeder 1x3 1 RBI 1 BB, Dave Michels 0x1 2 RBI’s 1 SAC, 3 BB. Thank you to our subs, Tom Gobin, Paul Pearson & Dale Schroeder. Thank you to Marilyn for doing our book & HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

On a cold early morning game WyYerd took on a Liberty Buick Team. We played quite well considering that by the 2nd inning even the hardiest of our players were suffering from Frostbite. Our offense was good as usual putting up 19 runs. But our defense suffered from the players not being able to feel their fingers. Sal Politi was perfect at the plate going 4 for 4 , Dan Maguire, Randy Selin, Lee Luft, and Gary Ash all got 3 hits with extra bases and Gary got a Home Run. Dorothy Muzar and Marty Jimenez each had 2 hits and Ed Abrams and Debbie Kanouse each got a hit. Our next game is Monday 12 / 16 at 8:30. I have some electric socks and hand warmers ordered but dress warm in case they don’t get here in time.

Ranall's Realty - 9 Thunderbird Auto - 8

The ladies came to play today we had two subs Kathy Boland and Yvonne Becker. Yvonne went 3/3 with 3 rbis, Kathy 2/4 with the winning hit, both played excellent defense. Kathy had a great catch, we appreciate you subbing. They both received SUB of the game honors.  Steve Coffman 3/3, Dave Martin 3/4, Kurt Kanouse 2/4, Pete Simoneau 2/3 1rbi and great d, 2/3 was Patrick Burnett & Barry Schwartz 2rbis & a Triple, 1/3 was Glen Zelkind & Norm Volk+ 1rbi, Chip White 1/2 with a sacrifice & 1rbi. No sun today no problems nice to rebound from Monday. Good defense was played by both teams. Oh Joe Gonski know homer.

Thunderbird Auto lost a tough one today. Our bats were still not working plus Ranalls Realty made several good defensive plays. Offensively we only recorded 13 hits which won’t win many games in this league. We started the game well scoring three runs in the first inning and holding them to one run but didn’t score in the second inning and Ranalls tied it up. We were tied at eight runs going into the seventh put failed to score and lost in the bottom half of the inning. Defensively we played well enough to win most games but offensively we were outclassed. Tom Gobin and Joe Wojtasiak were both three for three and Ed Campbell, Kim Hurd (home run) and Lanny Auberg were two for three. Leadoff batter Charlie Counts picked up the other hit but it was a poor performance at the plate for the guy who is supposed to set the tone. Thanks to our sub Kim Hurd and to Marilyn Leinberger for keeping our scorebook. 

Colonnade - 17 Property Sisters - 5

Colonnade came out on top against a hard playing Property Sisters team. All players contributed with hits and getting on base today. Congrats to Kandi Patrick for an in-the-park GRAND SLAM... Kirk King was on fire with 3 DOUBLE HITS. Patrick Moriarity, Kandi Patrick and our sub David Howard each had a DOUBLE HIT. We scored in every inning played with 3 innings of 4 run softball. We played well on defense with Kirk King making a running catch in left field. Don Cleveland pitched a great game on the mound. Thank you to our subs Fred Swan & David Howard for helping us with a big win today.

Property Sisters bats were asleep again today. We only had 10 hits and lost 17-5. Our defense also had issues today having quite a few errors. Duff Carroll did catch 2 fly balls in left field and Pierre Boudreau had 1 catch. Chuck Gibson played well at 2nd base. Leading the way was Chuck Gibson who was 2-3. Dave Bagwell was 2-3. Duff Carroll was 1-3 with a double and 2 RBI's. Bob Dye was 1-3 with a double and 1 RBI. Pierre Boudreau was 1-3 with a double. Bill Clark was 1-2 with an RBI. Yvonne Becker was 1-2. Wayne Moxley was 1-3. Dan Hofeditz had 2 bases on balls and 1 RBI. Thank you Mark Glim for subbing today.

Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 4 Petelin Vision - 10

The Tride team just didn't have their mojo today.  With only 13 hits, we just couldn't get any kind of a rally started and lost to a good hitting Petelin team 10-4. Sheldon Rosenthal was 3 for 4, Dale Sarrazin was 2 for 3 with 2 RBI, Richard Szymesko was 1 for 3 with an RBI and Joann Cook was 1 for 3 with a double and an RBI.  Thanks to our subs Debby Bigelow and Klaus Holt.

The Petelin Crew took on the Tride and True Team. The Tride and True group kept the Petelin Team at 10 runs for the game which was one of Petelins lowest scoring games. The good news for Petelin was defensively they held their opponent to 4 runs in the game. Defensively Larry Radant pitched a good game holding their power hitters at bay. Jerry Eastham had a nice stop at 3rd base. Sub Dan Hodges had many stops at Short Stop as did Sub Larry Lawrence. Jim Tokar and Ken Kessler had their usual strong day in the field. Richard Brinkley had a nice catch in Left Field. Kevin Gillette and Chris Zerr kept everything in front of them. Barney Armstrong in Left Center Field had a fairly quiet day and was caught looking for Dandelions. Offensively Petelin had 19 hits. Ken Kessler was perfect at the plate 4/4 (triple) and Barney Armstrong was 3/3 (triple RBI). Dan Hodges was 3/4 (triple double RBI). Larry Radant was 2/4 (triple RBI) and Richard Brinkley was 2/3 (2 RBI's). Getting on base were Kevin Gillette (2 RBI's), Larry Lawrence (triple RBI), Jim Tokar (double RBI), Jerry Eastham and Sub Richard Dupont. Petelin would like to thank Dan Hodges, Larry Lawrence and Richard Dupont for subbing today. Thank you to Kathy Radant for holding down the scorebook.

Nancy Muslin Realty - 9 Treedah Magee Realty - 13

Nancy Muslin's gang are just not playing up their potential. Our hitting is not up to snuff. Jake Broh was 3-4, scored twice. Greg Szlak was 2-3, double, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Wes Mason was 2-3, scored once. Doug Asleson was 2-4, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Daren Proctor was 2-4, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Karen Olsen was 2-4, 1 R.B.I. Scott Piemeisl  was 2-4, scored once. Sherry Westland had a triple, scored once, 3 R.B.I. 

Treedah Magee put it all together this afternoon with good hitting and great defense. Great defense won the game for Treedah lead by outstanding play at second base by Dick Steiman. Dick handled many chances without a problem. Don Hansen made several nice play on hard hit fly balls to left field to round out Treedah’s excellent defense. Hitting wise, Mike Kachurak and Phil Murray went 4 for 4 and Bob Snelling & Brian Deherrera had 3 hits each. Fred Lubs, Don Hansen, & Jeff Smith chipped in 2 hits a piece. Congratulations on playing our best game of the season.
 

 Monday, December 9, 2024

Treedah Magee Realty - 9 Colonnade - 13

We had to set our alarms and dress for the chilly Monday morning 8:30am game. We came out on top against a tough Treedah Magee team. We were down by 1 after the first inning but went ahead in the 2nd. The 4th, 5th and 6th innings were scoreless for both teams, then in the unlimited 7th we scored 2 runs for a final score of 13 -9. Two of our players had extra base hits. Jeff Bearth smacked a double and Annie Lowe had a stand up triple. Even though we are not allowed to slide... it just sounds good to say stand up triple!! Every player had a hit with our all-star being Bob Williams going 4-4. Don Cleveland and Jeff Bearth each went 3-4. Annie Lowe and our fantastic sub David Howard each hit 3-3. Kandi Patrick was 3-3 with a walk. Kirk King went 2-3 with a walk. Denise Gibala was 2-2 with a walk. Art Molina was 1-2 with 2 walks. Rounding out our offense with 1-4 was Patrick Moriarity and Ed Hart was 1-3. Great offense and nice baserunning helped us today. Don Cleveland  got his mitt up just in time to catch a line drive that was headed right to his face. Whew.....Nice catch!!!   The final play of the game was a nice double play starting with shortstop Kandi Patrick one hopping a line drive. She fired over to Annie Lowe at second base for out number two. Annie shot the ball to first baseman Jeff Bearth for the 3rd out to end the game.  Another fun day of softball at the Field of Dreams. We are all fortunate to be able to play on such a beautiful, well maintained softball field.  Thank you to our sub David Howard for his contribution today. And a big thank you to our scorekeeper and base coach, Monte & Judy McClendon. 

For the first game of the week, Treedah Magee battled Colonnade. And once again Treedah was close for most of the game but in the end it was another loss 13 to 9. Treedah was only able to pound out 16 hits in 7 innings. Leading the way we’re Bob Snelling & Fred Lubs with 3 hits, Mike Kachurak, Phil Murray, and Jeff Smith with 2 hits. Treedah had a problem today by allowing many unearned runs via walks & errors. But in closing, may we all reflect on our blessings as we enter the Holiday Season !

WyYerd Fiber - 17 Thunderbird Auto - 5

After a bad game last week WyYerd came out guns a blazing. The only innings we didn’t put up 3 runs we put up 4 runs. Our Defense continued to be outstanding holding Thunderbird to only 5 runs. Sal Politi and Ed Abrams were perfect at the plate.  Dan Maguire, Gary Ash, and Randy Selin all had 3 hits. Deb Kanouse had 2 well timed hits to start rallies that ended in 4 runs, and Lee Lufts pitching kept there  batters off balance making for lots of easy outs. Good job everyone!  Our next game is Wednesday 12 / 11 at 8:30

Thunderbird Auto got it handed to us by a very good hitting WyYerd team Monday. Ed Campbell and Paul Pearson were perfect at the  plate. The rest of us seemed to hit the ball at the defenders instead of in the gaps. Needless to say when you only score 5 runs you have no chance of winning. Defensively we had a few errors but today was about WyYerd finding the gaps consistently. Thanks to John Mancini for subbing today and to Yvonne Becker for keeping our scorebook. 

Petelin Vision - 20 Ranall's Realty - 19

Petelin vision took on a very strong Ranalls Realty. The game moved very quickly in Ranalls favor 4-0. After 2 it was 5-4 and after 3 innings 9-4, Ranalls. In innings 4 and 5 Petelin was outscored 8-5 giving Ranalls an 17-5 lead. In the top of the 7th Ranalls scored 2 runs to force a Flip Flop. With the score 19-9 Petelin had their work cut out for them. The saying Don't give up rang true today. Petelin proceeded to collect 12 hits and 11 runs to take a 1 run lead. Ranalls resumed they're at bat with a man on 3rd and 1st with 1 out. Petelin was able to get the 2nd out, then put the next batter on base and with the bases loaded turned the final out for the win. Defensively Don Cleveland pitched a good game. The infield played well. The outfield played deep all game trying to keep Ranalls power at bay. Ranalls is a strong hitting team and displayed that today. The difference today was the 11-run 7th inning by Petelin. Offensively Petelin had 34 hits. Don Cleveland was Perfect at the plate 5/5 with (2 RBI's) and Jerry Eastham was perfect at the plate 4/4 (2 RBI's). Coral Estes was 4/5 (2 RBI's as was Ken Kessler 4/5 (2 RBI's). Going 3/5 were Richard Brinkley (2 doubles 4 RBI's), Frank Preite (2 doubles RBI) and Kevin Gillette (RBI). Going 3/4 were Barney Armstrong (2 RBI's) and Jim Tokar. Chris Zerr was 2/4 with 2 RBI's and Norma Lucas had 2 RBI's. Petelin Vision would like to thank Don Cleveland and Frank Preite for subbing today. Many thanks to Marilyn for keeping our scorebook today. 

“Say it ain’t so Joe.” Our Ranalls team today was up by 10 and so we had to “flip flop.” Well, we lost the game by one run as a nasty Petelin team just took it to us in the last inning for a crushing defeat (knowing again we were only 2 runs away from the slaughter rule.) It was a nightmare. We scored 19 runs along with 31 hits, but we just could not pull it out in the last inning with 1 out and men on 2nd (winning run) and 3rd (tying run.). Any hit would have done it, but we fell short. Kurt Kanouse 4-4, 3RBI’s, Dave Martin 4-4, 2RBI’s, Joe Gonski 3-3, 2 RBI’s, Pete Simoneau 3-3, 3RBI’s, Barry Schwartz 3-4, 4RBI’s, Pat Burnett, 3-3,4RBI’s, Steve Coffman 3-4, Norm Volk 1-3 with excellent defense again, Glen Zelkind, 2-3, 1RBI. Thanks, Joe Osowiec for excellent D today. Well, it does not matter how many hits or runs we scored, today was just not our day…while the beautiful Arizona sunshine worked against us. We have 3 more game before the holiday break so let’s finish strong. Remember, we have a great team and the league knows it. “Mother said there will be days like this, days like this my mother said.”

Property Sisters Realty - 8 Barton Realty - 18

Property Sisters lost to Bartons today 18-8.  We had 22 hits, but could only manage to get 8 runs.  Leading the way was Pierre Boudreau who was 4-4 with 1 RBI.  Pierre made a great catch in left center.  Yvonne Becker was 3-3.  Yvonne played an outstanding first base today by scooping up 5 balls that were thrown to her on the ground or off target.  She made great catches and tags on a couple of runners.  Mike Sterricker was 3-4.  Wayne Moxley was 3-4.  Chuck Gibson was 2-4 with 3 RBI's.  Duff Carroll was 2-4 and made a good catch in left field.  Glenn Zelkind, who subbed for Bob Dye when he went out of the game after he was hit on the head with a fly ball, was 1-3 with 1 RBI.  Bill Clark was 1-3 with 1 RBI.  Gene Fleck was 1-3.  Dan Hofeditz was 1-4 with 1 RBI.  Dave Bagwell was 1-4 with 1 RBI.  

Barton's came out strong this afternoon both offensively and defensively. Everyone on the team had at least one hit for a team high 30 hits. Kim Hurd had 4 hits with 2 homeruns, a double and 6 rbi's. Bob Cary had 4 hits with a double, a triple, and 2 rbi's. Debbie Bigelow had 3 hits with 2 doubles, and 3 rbi's. Sue Cary had 5 hits with a double and 1 rbi. Michael Wilton had 2 hits and 2 rbi's. Dale Huffine had 3 hits with a double and 1 rbi. Bob Topham had 2 hits with 2 rbi's. Fred Swan had 2 hits with a double, a sacrifice fly, and 1 rbi. Gerry Boesche and Mark Glim each had 2 hits. Klaus Holt had 1 hit and caught 2 foul balls at his catcher position. Pitcher Michael Wilton pitched a very good game with no walks. The infield of Bob Topham, Debbie Bigelow, Gerry Boesche, Sue Cary, and Dale Huffine had quite a few ground balls in the first 3 innings and made the outs needed to prevent Property Sisters from scoring. The outfield, consisting of Mark Glim, Kim Hurd, Fred Swan, and Bob Cary, made numerous catches of fly balls for outs. Today's victory was a total team effort. Thank you to Marilyn Leinberger for keeping our scorebook and keeping the team on track with base runners. ​

Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 14 Nancy Muslin Realty - 14

Tride and True started out hot putting up 4 in the first inning and holding Nancy Muslin to 2.  Both teams were scoreless in the 2nd inning and both put up 4 in the 3rd inning.  Muslin put up 4 in the 4th, holding Tride to 1 run.  Tride held Muslin scoreless in the 5th and then put up 3 of their own.  Both teams were scoreless in the 6th.  Trailing by 2 in the 7th, Muslin was able to get 4 runs across the plate to take a 2 run lead.  Tried never gave up.  Richard Szymesko led off the 7th with a solo home run to get Tride within 1.  Judy Muller drove in the 2nd run of the inning to tie the game.  Sadly, Tride wasn't able to get another run across the plate and the game ended in a tie.  Both teams played hard. Gary Christofferson led the team going 4 for 4 with a double and 4 RBi.  Richard Szymesko hit for the cycle with a single, double, triple and a home run while adding 3 RBi. Dale Sarrazin was 3 for 4 with 3 RBI. Jim Parry was 2 for 4 with 2 walkd, a double and triple adding 1 RBI. Margie Szymesko was 1 for 3 with a walk and an RBI, Dick Kohnen was 1 for 3 with an RBI and Judy Muller was 1 for 4 with an RBI. Everyone on the team had at least one hit for a 24 hit game. 

Nancy muslin's team had to settle for a tie against a good team. Game was close thru 7 innings. Again Doug Asleson was perfect at the plate, 3-3, walk, scored twice. 1 R.B.I. Daren Proctor was 3-4, scored twice, 1 R.B.I. Kaen Olson was 3-4, 2 home runs, scored twice, 5 R.B.I. Scott Piemeisl was 3-4, double, scored twice, 1 R.B.I. Greg Szlak was 3-4, double, scored once. Ed Musgrave was 3-4, double, scored once., 2 R.B.I. Jake Groh had a pair of hits, scored twice. Sherry Westland had a pair of hits, 1 R.B.I. Jack Braly scored once. Mike Ryan had 2 R.B.I. Wes Mason scored once. 

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Colonnade - 13 Tride/True Pest -7
Tried and True put up a good fight but Colonnade was on fire and they couldn’t douse us. Our defense was hot but our bats were even hotter! In one inning our shortstop, Kandi Patrick, was involved in all three outs - Wow! At the plate with 3/3 were Art Molina, Kandi Patrick, Kirk King, Bob Williams, Denise Gibala and Annie Lowe. Jeff Bearth, Patrick Moriarty and Ed Hart were 2/3. Don Cleveland chipped in with 1/3. And at the bottom of the sixth, Jim Collins drove in 2 runs giving us a 6 run lead over Tried and True - yay Jim! We were holding our breath at the top of the seventh but, like I said, our defense was hot and on 🔥

Both teams came out hot, each putting up 4 in the first inning.  Trides bats then went cold for the next 3 innings and allowed Colonnade to put up 5 more for a 9 to 4 lead.  Tride came back and put up 3 in the 5th inning to come within 2 but allowed Colonnade another 4.  Tride wasn't able to bring across any in the 6th and last inning, losing 13-7.  The Tride crew never gave up, right to the last out.  Dale Sarrazin was 3 for 3 with a double and 3 RBI, Richard Szymesko was 2 for 3 with a double and 2 RBI. Gary Christofferson was 2 for 3 with an RBI and sub Rod Dand was 1 for 3 with an RBI.  Thanks to our subs, Rod Dand and Dale Schroeder.

Petelin Vision - 12 WyYerd Fiber - 9

Petelin Vision squared off against a very strong Wyyerd Team today. After 2 innings Petelin had fallen behind 5-0. The 3rd inning Petelin was losing 7-2 and after the 4th inning the score was 7-4, Petelin chasing Wyyerd. Innings 5 and 6 proved to be the turning point in the game for Petelin, as Petelin scored 8 runs to Wyyerd's 1. Going into the 7th inning Petelin as the home team, had a 12-8 advantage. Wyyerd began a strong comeback in the 7th inning but fell short with only 1 run to give Petelin a much-needed victory. Today was a hard-fought game and credit should be given to both teams. Defensively holding Wyyerd to 9 runs was a game changer. The battery of Larry Radant and Chris Zerr Pitched well. The infield of Jerry Eastham, Coral Estes, Laura Johnson, Jim Tokar and Ken Kessler were very strong today, making many important plays. The outfield of Richard Brinkley, Barney Armstrong, Norma Lucas and Kevin Gillette kept many balls in front of them with 1 catch with bases loaded and 2 outs, held Wyyerd to no runs. Offensively Petelin came alive with 25 hits or walks. Leading the way were Ken Kessler 4/4 (double). Going 3/4 were Richard Brinkley (double) and Kevin Gillette (4 RBI's). Coal Estes was 2/4 (walk), Larry Radant 2/4 (double 4RBI's), Laura Johnson 2/4 (RBI), Barney Armstrong 2/3, Jim Tokar 2/3, Jerry Eastham 2/3 (RBI), Chris Zerr 2/3 (RBI) and Norma Lucas 1/3 with an RBI. Petelin would like to thank Kathy Radant for keeping the scorebook today. 

WyYerd got the jump on Petelin and were able to hold the lead for the first 4 innings but then Petelin came alive in the 5th and 6th innings to win the game. Our defense was good as usual but our hitting stalled out at the end of the game. Lee Luft was perfect at the plate going 4 for 4 ,Dan and Marty each had 3 hits , almost everyone else had 2 hits. Our next game is Monday Dec. 9th at 9:45 Gary Ash has Umpires Duty at 8:30 before our game.

Barton Realty - 13 Treedah Magee Realty - 12

Barton Realtors faced off against Treedah Magee today in a game that saw the lead change so many times that even a mathematician gave up on keeping the score straight. When Treedah scored, Barton's followed suit and when Barton's scored Treedah did the same. Barton's made the defensive plays it needed to in the last inning to come out victorious with a 13 to 12 win. Offensively, everyone on the team had at least one hit for a team total 23 hits. Gerry Boesche had a very good day at the plate going 3 for 3 with a double, 2 triples, and 4 rbi's. He wouldn't tell the team what he had for breakfast, but whatever it was, we all want some of it in the future. Kim Hurd was 3 for 4 with a double and 2 rbi's. Dale Huffine was 3 for 3 with 2 rbi's. Sue Cary was 2 for 3 with a walk, a double, and 2 rbi's. Mark Glim was 2 for 3 with 1 rbi. Bob Cary was unable to get the ball out of the infield but managed to get 2 hits and drove in a run. Bob Topham had a hit that drove in a run. Fred Swan, Debbie Bigelow, and Klaus Holt each had 2 hits apiece. Michael Wilton had a hit to complete the team's hitting total. Klaus Holt caught 2 pop-ups at his catcher position for key outs. Debbie Bigelow played very well at her 2B position catching a couple of pop-ups for outs and throwing out a couple of runners going from 1st base to 2nd base. Dale Huffine had quite a few stops at 3rd base and threw the runners out at 2nd base. Today's win was a total team effort. Well done everybody. Thank you, Marilyn, for doing our scorebook and keeping our team on track. Thank you to Ron and Catherine Barton for sponsoring our team and providing us the opportunity to play the game we all enjoy.

A very competitive battle today with the score going back and forth between Barton & Treedah.  But in the end,  Barton earned a had fought win 13 to 12.  Treedah played a very good game collecting 12 runs on 21 hits.  Leading the way was Bob Snelling & Don Hansen with 3 hits.  Mike Kachurak, Phil Murray, Fred Lubs, Brian Deherrera, and Dick Steiman each had 2 hits. Jeff Smith, Art Stackpole, and Norm Lustic each had a hit.  So everybody on Treedah’s lineup hit today.  On the downside we allowed too many unearned runs.

Ranall's Realty - 17 Nancy Muslin Realty - 5

"Well, after a bitter first loss on Monday, somebody was going to pay…and today we ran a talented Nancy Muslin team thru the mercy rule, winning 17-5. It was good to see all the bats come back alive and an excellent way to again show the league we have game! Today all cylinders were humming as we scored our 17 runs in 6 innings and the RBI’s and hits were spread out evenly across the whole lineup. The game analysis is as follows: Kurt Kanouse, 4 RBI’s 3-4. Dave Martin 3-4, Joe Gonski 4 RBI’s 2-3 with a HR, Pete Simoneau 2-3, Barry Schwartz 3 RBI’s, 2-3 with a big HR blast, Pat Burnett 1 RBI 2-3, Steve Coffman 1-3, Norm Volk 2-3 with another great defensive game, Bob Cary (sub) 1 RBI 2-3. Thanks, Bob for excellent 1st base playing, Debbie Bigelow (sub) 1 RBI, 1-2…thanks Debbie! and finally Chip White going 1-1 along with 2 walks. They don’t want to pitch to him!!! <Game Ball> The game ball goes to our pitching ace Pete Simoneau for 3 reasons: #1. He finally made an out!!!!!. #2. Struck out 2 batters. #3. Fielded 4 pitcher to first base outs. That’s 6 outs out of a possible 18 outs accounted for by 1 guy. “Who needs the rest of us????” Pete, you had a great day both offense and defense.

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Nancy Muslin's Doug Asleson was 3-3, Greg Szlak was 3-3, Scored once, 1 R.B.I. Sherry Westland was 2-2, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Jake Groh was 2-3, scored once. Mike Ryan was 2-3, scored once. Karen Olson scored once, 1 R.B.I. Wes Mason had 2 R.B.I. 

Thunderbird Auto - 11 Liberty Buick - 17

Playing the 1:30 game is like kryptonite for team Thunderbird Auto. Must be nap time for us old codgers as both our loses have come in this time slot. We weren’t exactly in dreamland today but we weren’t alert enough to play up to the level of a very good Liberty Buick team who hit the ball hard and placed the ball perfectly between our fielders today. Offensively we hit the ball well and were credited with 22 hits but too often our well hit balls were hit directly at a defender which killed several good scoring opportunities. We took a brief lead in the third and also fought back to tie the score in the bottom of the sixth but gave up six runs in the seventh and went down without a whimper in the bottom of the inning. Offensively Charlie Counts, Ed Campbell, Joe Wojtasiak and Paul Pearson were 3 for 4 at the plate. Tom Gobin, Lanny Auberg, Ray Hensley and sub Pierre Boudreau all had two hits and Bob Higgins and Jim Stocker each got a hit. Defensively there is not much one can say when you give up 17 runs so I will bring this write up to a close! Thunderbird Auto would like to thank Marilyn Leinberger for keeping our scorebook and Pierre Boudreau for subbing. Thanks also to Karen Olsen on the scoreboard and umpires Wes Mason and Mike Kachurak who hustled to get in position for a couple close calls at third and first. We often forget how important a good umpire is!

Liberty Buick played another solid game against a very good Thunderbird Auto team and pulled out a 17-11 win in a 7 inning game.  Liberty scored 4 runs in the top of the 1st inning to none for Thunderbird.  Liberty’s bats went cold and were held scoreless through the 4th inning with Thunderbird leading 7-4.  Liberty took the lead scoring 4 runs in the top of the 5th inning, with Thunderbird none.  The score was tied 11-11 after the 6th inning.  In the open inning, Liberty hit through the lineup, scoring 6 runs with 8 hits.  Thunderbird went scoreless in the bottom of the 7th inning, Liberty closed the game out with a nice double play to end the game 17-11.  Liberty played another good game with solid defense, key hits and good pitching from Greg Church, with 3 shutout innings, a good team effort.   Liberty was led by John Mancini 4x4 4 RBI’s 1 triple,  sub, Greg Szlak 4x4 4 RBI’s 2 dbl’s,  Jim Matthews 4x4 2 RBI’s,  Dave Holub 3x4 5 RBI’s 1 dbl,  Dave Michels & Frank Preite 4x4 each,  Chris Espejo 3x4,  Greg Church 2x4 1 RBI,  Jim Tomach 1x4 1 RBI,  Joe Osowiec 1x4,  Michael Sullivan 0x4.  Thank you to our sub, Greg Szlak & Marilyn for doing our book.

Monday, December 2, 2024

Barton Realty - 8 Tride/True Pest - 8

Barton Realtors, back from a long Thanksgiving rest, came out of the chute like gang busters scoring 8 runs in the first three innings of the game. A very good Tride and True team kept pace with Barton's by scoring 6 runs. Then the bats went cold for Barton's as they went scoreless over the next 3 innings, but managed to hold the Tride team to 2 runs ​as the game ended in a tie. Sue Cary and Dale Huffine teamed together to complete an inning ending double play in the top of the 6th inning. Gerry Boesche made a great over the shoulder catch during the game for a key out. Bob Cary threw out a runner from his outfield position heading to 2B. Mark Glim threw a strike from left field to the shortstop cutoff who fired to the rover (Gerry Boesche) who applied the tag at second base cutting down the runner trying to stretch a single into a double. Offensively, almost everyone on the team had at least one hit, but the team only managed a total of 16 hits. Dale Huffine was 3 for 3. Bob Topham was 2 for 3 with 2 rbi's. Gerry Boesche was 2 for 3 with 1 rbi. Fred Swan was 2 for 3 with 1 rbi. Michael Wilton was 2 for 3. Debbie Bigelow was 1 for 2 with a walk and a rbi. Bob Cary had a triple and a rbi. Kim Hurd was 1 for 2 with walk, a double, and 1 rbi. Mark Glim drove in a key run. Sue Cary was 2 for 3 with a double. Thank you Marilyn for doing our scorebook.

Tride and True came to play.  With a slow start only getting 1 run in each of the first 2 innings and giving up 4 in the first inning to Barton, Tride came back scoring 4 and Barton scoring 4 in the third inning.  Both teams were scoreless in the fourth but the Tride team were able to put up 2 in the 5th and hold Barton scoreless to tie the game.  Going into the 6th Tride was held scoreless in the top of the inning, but they held on to keep Barton from scoring for a tie game.  Jim Parry was 4 for 4 with a double, sub Kat Melton was 2 for 3 with a walk, Dale Sarrazin was 1 for 4 with 2 RBI, Richard Szymesko was 2 for 3 with a walk and an RBI, Gary Christofferson was 2 for 3 with an RBI, Ron Rogerson was 2 for 3 with an RBI, sub Jim Collins was 3 for 3 with 2 RBI and Sam Bernhardt was 0 for 2 with a walk and an RBI.  Thanks to our subs, Kat Melton, Rod Dand and Jim Collins, and to Pete Mac Dougall who coached first base.  We all held our breath when Dale Sarrazin took a shot to the chest at 3rd base, but fortunately he was OK and was able to remain in the game!

Thunderbird Auto - 12 Petelin Vision - 7

Another beautiful day to play softball at Del Webb stadium and another win for Thunderbird Auto over a tough luck Petelin Vision team. Our infield defense was really good today. Our rover Bob Higgins turned an unassisted double play and SS Tom Gobin made several good plays, especially on a couple of screaming line drives. Every infielder caught a hard hit line drive! Don Cleveland our pitching sub fielded six or seven grounders that resulted in easy outs. Third baseman Lanny Auberg made an outstanding play on a screamer hit to his left as did Jim Stocker at first base on a hard hit ball down the line that would have driven in a couple of runs. Joe Jellison at second base was his reliable self and made every play needed to keep runners off the bases. In the outfield Joe Wojtasiak caught every fly ball that came his way in right center as did Ed Campbell in left, including the final out on a deep fly. Paul Pearson in right and Charlie Counts in left center were kinda lonesome today as no catchable flies were hit their way. On the offensive side of the game we registered 23 hits lead by Charlie Counts with a perfect day at the plate going 4 for 4. Also perfect at 3 for 3 were Tom Gobin, Joe Wojtasiak and Don Cleveland. Ed Campbell was 3 for 4 with a home run and 3 RBI’s. Joe Wojtasiak also had 3 RBI’s. Bob Higgins, Paul Pearson and Lanny Auberg were 2 for 3 with Jim Stocker also legging out a single. Even though Joe Jellison and Roger Miller were hitless they each had an important RBI. Tom Gobin, Don Cleveland, Paul Pearson and Charlie Counts all had an RBI to account for all our scoring. We should all be happy with the team effort we put forth today to beat a very competitive Petelin Vision team. Thanks to Don Cleveland for subbing today and to Marilyn for keeping our scorebook. We appreciate you all very much!

Petelin Vision went up against the American League leading Thunderbirds Auto. The game was close until the bottom of the 5th inning when the Thunderbirds took a 4-run lead at 10-6 and Petelin could not recover losing 12-7. Petelin Vision's offense was silenced by the T-Birds defense which made play after play. Petelin's infield of Jerry Eastham, Coral Estes, Laura Johnson, Jim Tokar and Ken Kessler played a good game picking up most of the playable balls. The outfield spent some time chasing some hard-hit shots. Offensively Petelin hit the ball hard but the T-Birds were right there to cover the play. Top hitters were Larry Radant 2/3 (Home Run 2 RBI's), Richard Brinkley 2/3, Barney Armstrong 2/3, Jim Tokar 2/3 (RBI) and Jerry Eastham 2/3. Getting on base were Coral Estes, Ken kessler, Laura Johnson (3 RBI's), Kevin Gillette and Joe Osowiec (RBI). Petelin would like to thank Joe Osowiec and Richard Dupont for subbing today. Big thank you to Kathy Radant for keeping our scorebook. 

Nancy Muslin Realty - 13 WyYerd Fiber - 15

Nancy Muslin's gang was outplayed by a very good team. We were ahead until the last inning, when they scored 4 runs. Two players were 4-4, Doug Asleson was 4-4, double, scored 3 times. Daren Proctor was 4-4, 2 doubles, scored twice, 2 R.B.I. Karen Olson was 3-4, double, 3 R.B.I. Mike Ryan was 3-4, scored once, 3 R.B.I. Greg Szlak was 3-4, scored once. Ed Musgrave was 3-4, scored once, 2 R.B.I. Scott Piemesl was 2-3, walk, scored once,1 R.B.I. Jake Groh was 2-4, walk, scored twice., 1 R.B.I. res Mason was 2-4, R.B.I. Jack Braly scored once. Sherry Westland had a hit, played "Good" D

Today the WyYerd Fiber Team went up against a tough Nancy Muslin team.  Both teams played hard keeping the score close. WyYerds offense was lead by Gary Ash hitting 2 home runs at critical times to give WyYerd some much needed runs. We went into the last inning down 1 run.  WyYerd went to work and scored 4 runs giving us a 3 run lead. We were able to get the first 2 batters out but then the Muslin Crew started a 2 out rally, scored a run and had the bases loaded when Dorothy Muzar fielded a hard hit ground ball and  threw to Dan Maguire at first for the final out. Good job team. Our next game is Wednesday 12/4 at 9:45 Ed Abrams has Umpire Duty at 8:30

Liberty Buick - 18 Property Sisters Realty - 13

Liberty Buick played a solid game against a hard hitting Property Sisters team and pulled out a 18-13 win in a 5 1/2 inning game.  The game was close with Liberty leading 10-9 thru the 3rd inning.  Liberty held the lead 18-10 thru the 5th inning, Property Sisters scored 3 runs in the open inning with Liberty closing the game out 18-13.  Liberty played their best game of the season with good defense, key hits and solid pitching from Greg Church, a good team effort.  Liberty was led by Frank Preite 3x3 4 RBI’s 1 triple 1 dbl 1 bb,  Jim Matthews 3x3 3 RBI’s 1 dbl,  Dave Holub 3x3 3 RBI’s 1 dbl,  sub, Mike Kachurak 3x3 2 RBI’s,  Greg Church 2x2 2 RBI’s 1 bb,  Joe Osowiec 2x2. 1 RBI  1 bb,  John Mancini & Chris Espejo 2x3 each,  Dave Michels 2x4 1 RBI,  Jim Tomach 1x3 1 RBI 1 dbl,  Michael Sullivan 0x1 1 RBI  2 bb.  Thank you to our sub, Mike Kachurak & Kris for doing our book.

 
"Property Sisters had their best offensive performance of this session. We scattered 24 hits and scored 13 runs, however, it wasn't enough to beat the Liberty Buick Team. We lost 18-13, however, this was the most runs we have scored in a game. Leading the way was Mike Sterricker who was 4-4 with a double, a triple, and 3 RBI's. Pierre Boudreau was 4-4 with 1 RBI. Chuck Gibson was 4-4 with 1 RBI. Larry Radant, Sub, was 2-3 with a sacrifice fly and 2 RBI's. Duff Carroll was 3-4 with 1 RBI. Dick Steiman, Sub, was 2-3 with a double and 2 RBI's. Bob Dye was 2-3 with a base on balls and 1 RBI. Wayne Moxley was 1-2 with a base on balls and an RBI. Bill Clark was 1-3 with 1 RBI. Dan Hofeditz was 1-4. Thanks to Larry and Dick for subbing today.

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Ranall's Realty - 12 Colonnade - 16

"Well, a hard hitting Colonnade team had Ranalls today for Turkey dinner as many bats never left the dinner table. When you go 4-0-4-0-0-4-0 and Colonnade scored runs in every inning…it was game over. All 12 runs were scored by the top 5 hitters in the lineup. Of our 17 hits, 15 were recorded by the top 6 in the lineup. Of our 12 runs, Joe Gonski had 6 RBI’s, Pete Simoneau had 1, Barry Schwartz had 2 and Pat Burchett ended the RBI numbers with 3. That was it! Hitting was pretty much the same: Welcome back Kurt Kanouse was 2-3, Dave Martin 3-3 great SS play, Joe Gonski 3-3 with 2 HR’s, Pete Simoneau 3-3 with another HR, Barry Schwartz went 2-3, Norm Volk was 2-3 (should have had a HR, but nobody could drive him in…ouch…great day at rover) Dick Steiman was 1-3 but hit the ball really hard and got robbed. Thanks Dick. Going into the game we were riding high on being undefeated and teams are now gunning for us. OK, we had a bad game so let’s get past it and put our bats back in the bag. We got our loss, so we don’t have that pressure anymore. We get back on the field Wednesday and get back to our “hit men” ways. We have a very good team…we know it and will return to those glory days…no doubt.

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The Colonnade bats were swinging and our feet were flying around the bases as we took down the hard hitting undefeated Ranalls team. It was touch and go for the first 3 innings but we came alive in the 4th and 5th innings giving us a 16-12 win.   Great catches were made by Patrick Moriarity at 3B, Kandi Patrick at SS and Bob Williams at 2B. Our sluggers at the plate with 4-4 are Art Molina, Don Cleveland, Kandi Patrick, Jeff Bearth & Annie Lowe. Patrick Moriarity was 3-3 with a walk. Kirk King, Denise Gibala & Ed Hart were 3-4. Rounding out our offense were Bob Williams and Jim Collins each hitting 2-4. Don Cleveland did a fantastic job on the mound today. A big thank you to Judy McClendon for keeping score for us. 

 Monday, November 18, 2024

Liberty Buick - 7 Treedah Magee Realty - 5

Liberty Buick and Treedah Magee played a low scoring close game with Liberty pulling out a 7-5 win in a 6 1/2 inning game.  Liberty played from behind 3-1 through 3 innings and took the lead 5-3 through the 4th inning.  Both teams scored 2 runs each in the 5th inning, Liberty closed the game out 7-5 with 2 shutout innings in the 6th & 7th inning.  Both teams played well with good pitching.  Winning pitcher Greg Church threw an excellent game with 4 shutout innings.  Liberty was led by Greg Church 3x4 1 RBI,  Harold Enslen 2x3 2 RBI’s 1 triple,  Dave Holub 2x3 2 RBI’s,  Frank Preite 2x3 1 triple,  Chris Espejo 2x3 1 dbl,  Dave Michels 2x3,  John Mancini 1x3 1 RBI,  Jim Tomach 1x3 1 RBI,  Jim Matthews 1x3,  Michael Sullivan & Joe Osowiec 0x2 each.  Thank you to Yvonne for doing our book.

The game started out well for Treedah with good pitching and great defense. After three innings Treedah lead 3to 1. But Liberty woke up in the fourth with 4 runs and Treedah was toast. 5 runs and only 12 hits won’t do it on most days and that was the case for Treedah today. Mike Kachurak, Bob Snelling, Phil Murray, and Don Hansen all collected 2 hits each. If nothing else, fresh cool air and a little exercise was received this morning by both teams.

Petelin Vision - 13 Nancy Muslin Realty - 12

Petelin Vision went up against the American League Leading Nancy Muslin Team. Both teams played hard. Nancy Muslin came out swinging, leading 4-2 after 1. They added 3 more in the 2nd for a 7-2 lead. Petelin Vision woke up in the 3rd to score 4 runs to Nancy Muslins 1. With the score 8-6 in favor of Nancy Muslin, Petelin Vision was able to blank Nancy Muslin and score 3 to take a 9-8 lead after 4 innings. Back and forth the game went with Nancy Muslin scoring 4 runs to Petelin Visions 1 in the 5th giving Nancy Muslin a 12-10 lead. The clock ran out during the 5th inning. In a 6-inning game Petelin Vision was able to blank Nancy Muslin and score 3 runs to grab the victory. Defensively, Petelin played well enough to hold Nancy Muslin scoreless in 2 out of 6 innings. Laura Johnson had a nice catch in Right Center Field. Jim Tokar had a grounder at Rover to force an out at 2nd and a throw to 1st for a double play. Today, it was the offense that gave Petelin Vision the win. Perfect at the plate were Sub Mike Kachurak 4/4, Richard Brinkley 4/4 (3 RBI's) and Laura Johnson 4/4 ( walk RBI). Kevin Gillette was 3/4 (double RBI). Collecting 2 hits were Larry Radant 2/4 (RBI), Barney Armstrong 2/4 (double 4 RBI's), Jim Tokar 2/3, Jerry Eastham 2/3 (2 RBI's), Norma Lucas 2/3 and Chris Zerr 2/3 (RBI). Petelin Vision tips their CAP to Nancy Muslin for a hard-fought game. Special thank you to Mike Kachurak for subbing today. Special thank you to Marilyn and Kathy for working the scorebook.

Nancy Muslin's gang played a hard game against a good team. Their bats were hot, defense was not so hot. Two players were perfect at the plate, again Karen Olsen was 3-3, scored 3 times, 1 R.B.I. Greg Slak was 3-3, 3 R.B.I. Jake Groh was 2-3, scored once. Doug Asleson was 2-3, scored once, 2 R.B.I. Daren Proctor was 2-3, triple, scored twice, 2 R.B.I Mike Ryan was 2-3, scored once. Scott Piemeisl was 2-3, scored once, 3 R.B.I. Sherry Westland was 2-3, with Good "D" Wes Mason was 2-3, scored once. Ed Musgrave scored once. 

Thunderbird Auto - 14 Colonnade - 13

Thunderbird Auto was able to pull out a hard fought victory in the bottom of the seventh over a tough Colonnade team today. Ed Campbell was the hero with a hard hit ball to right center that plated the tying and winning runs. The bats were hot today as we were credited with 25 hits. Leading the way, Wash and Ed Campbell with a perfect five or five including the game winner. Charlie Counts had four hits on the day (aided by the sun on a pop-up) Patrick Burnett was four for four and Ron Silberman reached base all four plate appearances with two solid hits and two intentional walks. Lanny Auberg and Tom Gobin came through with three hits each followed by Lee Luft with two big hits. Joe Jellison and Paul Pearson both hit the ball hard today but good defense held them to one hit apiece. Overall we hit the ball hard and had good base running which led to our win. Defensively we were not as sharp as usual but that is to be expected when you are playing with four subs who haven’t played together which complicates the communication necessary to be a good defensive team. Roger Miller at catcher caught a pop foul that was huge. Lee Luft pitched a good game and made two very good plays. Lanny Auberg caught a screaming line drive at third and Tom Gobin jumped to slow down a line drive that allowed the outfielder to field the ball and force the runner at second. Ed Campbell was the busy guy in left and caught everything hit his way. Despite the errors we made enough defensive plays to hold off a very good hitting Colonnade team. Final score 14-13. We owe a huge thanks to our subs Ron Silberman, Patrick Burnett, Lee Luft and Yvonne Becker. You all played hard and we appreciate the effort! Special thanks to Marilyn for keeping our scorebook. It was a Goldilocks day at The Field of Dreams. Not too hot, not too cold. It was just right to play softball. We started out on fire with 4 runs and held the lead through 2nd innings. The Thunderbirds fired their jets and took the lead for the 3rd & 4th innings. We were back on top for the 5th, down for the 6th and back up in the top of the 7th. The T-birds put the pedal to the metal in the bottom of the 7th to win the game. We hit well with the following players going 3-4…. Kandi Patrick, Kirk King, Bob Williams, Jeff Bearth, Patrick Moriarity and Denise Gibala. Art Molina was 3-3 with a walk. Don Cleveland was 2-4 with one of his hits being a triple. A big congratulations to our catcher, Jim Collins, for hitting 2-3 today!

Property Sisters - 7 Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 19

Well - Today was not a good day.  We had 15 hits and 7 runs.  Leading the way was Mike Sterricker who was 3-3 with 2 doubles and 6 of our 7 RBI's.  Dan Hofeditz was 2-2 with a base on balls.  Pierre Boudreau was 2-3.  Chuck Gibson was 2-3.  Bob Dye was 2-3.  Dave Bagwell was 1-3 with 1 RBI.  Duff Carroll was 1-3.  Gene Fleck was 1-3.  Wayne Moxley was 1-3.  

A hot Tride and True team run ruled the Property Sisters in 6 innings., 19-7.  Tride not only played great offense, they played great defense allowing only 7 runs.  A team high of 28 hits with everyone on the team having at least one!! Sub Steve Lunde was 4 for 5 with a Home Run, a walk and 6 RBI. Dale Sarrazin a Home run, 2 doubles and 5 RBI, Richard Szymesko 4 for 4 with a double and 2 RBI, Margie Szymesko was 3 for 4 with a triple and 2 RBI, Gary Christofferson was 2 for 4 with an RBI, Sub Barry Schwartz was 2 for 3 with a Home Run and 3 RBI, Ron Rogerson was 2 for 3 with a double and RBI, Judy Muller was 3 for 3 with a double and Sam Bernhardt was 2 for 3 with an RBI.  On a sad note to our otherwise perfect game, our sub Steve Lunde went down and the paramedics had to be called.  We were all scared and holding our breath, but as they took him away on the stretcher he was sitting up and waving to us.  We hope Steve will be rejoining softball soon.  Much thanks to our other sub Barry Schwartz.

WyYerd Fiber - 17 Barton Realty - 11

WyYerd played Barton Realtors today.  Barton got off to a good start putting up 4 runs in the first inning, but WyYerd was able to answer with 4 runs of there own. Then our defense stiffened and we were able to hold them to only 2 runs in the next 3 innings. Marty Jimenez played an excellent 3rd base making some great catches and throwing out several base runners, he was also perfect at the plate going 3 for 3 and driving in 2 runs. Sal Politi was also perfect at the plate going 3 for 3 and driving in 1 run. Sal also made an amazing catch on a foul pop-up. Thanks also to Dave Michels for subbing for us today and helping us win with 3 hits and 2rbi’s.  Dan Maguire and Randy Selin both had 3 hits, Ed Abrams and Deb Kanouse had 2 hits and everyone else had at least 1 hit. Thanks also to Kris Koch for running the bench and keeping the book. Good job everyone. Our next game is Wednesday 11 / 20 at 11:00 

Barton Realtors lost a tough game today to a very good Wyyerd team. Barton's made it close in the top of the 5th inning scoring 4 runs to take a 10 to 9 lead only to watch Wyyerd score 8 runs over the next two innings for the win. Offensively almost everyone had at least one hit for a team total of 23 hits. Dale Huffine was 4 for 4 with 4 rbi's. Bob Topham was 3 for 4 with 2 rbi's. Mark Glim was 3 for 4 with a double and a rbi. Debbie Bigelow was 2 for 3 with 2 rbi's. Kim Hurd was 4 for 4 with a double and a triple. Sue Cary was 2 for 3 with a walk. Gerry Boesche had a double and drove in 2 runs. Fred Swan had 2 hits. Klaus Holt had a single and 2 nice catches at his catcher position for outs. Bob Cary had a single and a real nice catch of a flyball in his outfield position. Thanks to Marilyn Leinberger for keeping our score. What is really important today is our hope that Steve Lunde will recover from his health issue that occurred at the end of the previous game. ​

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Nancy Muslin Realty - 11 Liberty Buick - 10

Nancy Muslin's team play a very good team today, winning by one run. Nancy's team had 5 players perfect at the plate. Again Karen Olsen was 3-3, 2 doubles, triple, scored  3 times, 4 R.B.I. Great "D" caught the final outfield fly for the win. Doug Asleson was 3-3, triple, 2 singles, scored 3 times, 1 R.B.I. Daren Proctor was 3-3, 3 singles, scored 3 times, 1 R.B.I. Scott Piemesl was 2-2, walk, 2 singles, 2 R.B.I. Ed Musgrave was 2-2 walk, and was the winning pitcher. Jake Groh had a walk, double, scored twice. Mike Ryan had a pair of hits, 2 R.B.I. Greg Szlak was 2-3, 1 R.B.I. Thanks to Denny Coletta for subbing for the team win. 

 Liberty Buick lost another close game to a good Nancy Muslin team 11-10 in a 5 1/2 inning game.  Liberty played from behind 11-7 thru the 5th inning and battled back in the top of the 6th (open inning) with 5 hits and 3 runs.  Liberty needed that key hit we have been lacking in all of our games.  With runners on 1st and 2nd, Nancy Muslin closed the game out 11-10.  Liberty’s 22 hits were led by Dave Michels 4x4 2 RBI’s,  Frank Preite 3x4 2 RBI’s 1 triple,  Dave Holub 3x4 1 RBI,  John Mancini 3x4,  Harold Enslen 1x2 2 RBI’s 1 SAC 1 BB,  Chris Espejo 2x4 1 RBI,  Greg Church 2x3 1 DBL,  JIm Matthews and Jim Tomach 1x3 1 RBI each,  Joe Osowiec and Michael Sullivan 1x3 each.  Thank you to Marilyn for doing our book.

Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 8 Treedah Magee Realty - 10

The Tride team just couldn't get their bats going to spark a rally.  Even with that they kept the game close right to the end.  It was a total team effort all the way and we never gave up right to the end.  Leading hitters today were Dale Sarrazin 3/4, Richard Szymesko 3/3 with a sac fly, 2 dbls and 5 RBI, Sub Rod Dand in his first appearance in the Blue League was 2/3 with a home run and an RBI, Sheldon Rosenthal 2/4 with a double and RBI and Judy Muller 1/3 with a double and an RBI. Thanks to our sub Rod Dand!!  Hope he had fun in his first game here.

"Just another beautiful morning for a game that was made more pleasant by a victory for the struggling Treedah Magee team. The game was very competitive with the final score of 10 to 8. Treedah Magee juggled the lineup somewhat and it appeared to help. Jeff Smith moved up to the number 3 batter and came through with 2 hits and 2 runs scored. Bob Snelling went 4 for 4 , Fred Lubs had 3 hits, and Mike Kachurak &Brian Deherrera collected 2 hits each. Treedah Magee played their best game on defense today with numerous double plays and strong outfield play. Today’s game was a true team effort ! Thanks to Lee Luft for subbing today for Artie Stackpole and for pitching a great game. Thanks to Marilyn Leinberger for keeping score."


Petelin Vision - 13 Colonnade - 15

Petelin Vision for the second time this week fell a little short on the scoreboard. Up against a strong Colonnade Team, Petelin lost 15-13. The game was close throughout. In the last inning, down 2 runs Petelin was unable to score, giving the victory to Colonnade. Defensively Petelin played fairly well as Colonnade hit the ball in many gaps. Sub Ron Silberman had a nice double play. Laura Johnson and Jim Tokar had nice pickups for outs. Offensively Petelin had 28 hits and or walks yet were unable to bring home the win. Perfect at the plate was Barney Armstrong 4/4 ( 3 RBI's). Kathy Boland was 4/5 with an RBI. Collect base twice and Kevin Gillette had 2 hits including a triple and 2 RBI's. Norma Lucas got on base as well. Petelin Vision would like to thank Ron Silberman and Kathy Boland for Subbing today. Marilyn and Yvonne have been teaching Cathy Radant the scorebook and she is doing very well. All 3 of you—-Thank You!

"What an evenly match competition today. It was neck and neck the whole game. We had some nice defensive plays and our sub pitcher (Pete Simoneau) pitched a great game. But the real star of the show, Patrick Moriarity, made not 1 but 2 awesome catches; the last to clinch our victory! At the plate going 3/4 we have Don Cleveland, Kirk King, Pete Simomeau and Denise Gibala. Going 2/4 were Art Molina and Patrick Moriarty. Ed Hart went 3/3! And Jim Collins and Annie Lowe each had a hit. Thank you Pete Simoneau for subbing in for us!
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Ranall's Realty - 12 Property Sisters - 11

Reality Check---Reality Check: Well Susie Tornes brought here Property Sisters to the field today ready to play ball with their game faces on. Ranalls got taken down to the last inning when an intentional walk and a gapper by Pete Simoneau closed it out. We started out with Kurt Kanouse getting a hit, then an injury! Hopefully our up coming BYE will help. Ed Campbell stepped in with an RBI and a hit to keep us alive. Dave Martin 2-3, Joe Gonski 6 RBI’s, HR 2-3 with a walk, Pete (happy birthday) Simoneau 2RBI’s 3-4 with the winning hit. Barry Schwartz 1RBI 2-3, Patrick Burnett came back going 3-3, Steve Coffman 2-3, Glen Zelkind 1 RBI 2-3, Norm Volk 1RBI 2-3 with some fantastic defense, Joe Sowder 1-3. Thanks, Joe, for subbing at 1st! and finally Chip <game ball> White for an excellent catching performance. He single handedly helped us get out of 2 innings by closing down the Sisters rally with super catches while getting a great hit and scoring a run too. Great job Chip…what a day for our super catcher. We did not play our best game today, but we worked as a team and hammered out a win. We’ll take it!

What a great game. This was by far our best played game of the young season. Our hitting finally came around and we had 21 hits. We took the first place team to the bottom of the 7th inning. Great job everyone. Leading the way was Gene Fleck who was 3-4 with 3 RBI's. Pierre Boudreau was 3-4 with 1 RBI. Mike Sterricker was 2-3 with a base on balls and 2 RBI's. In addition, he almost took out the 3rd base coach on a hard hit foul ball. Duff Carroll was 2-4 with 1 RBI. Yvonne Becker was 2-4 with 1 RBI. She and Mike also played bowling for outs on at least 2 plays. Well done! Dave Bagwell was 2-4 with a great catch on a hard hit line drive at 3rd base. Randy Selin, Sub, was 2-4. Bob Dye was 2-4 with 2 RBI's. Dan Hofeditz was 1-2 with 2 bases on balls. In addition, Chuck Gibson was 2-4 with 1 RBI.  Dan pitched a good game. Thanks to Randy Selin for subbing today.

Thunderbird Auto - 6 Barton Realtors - 16

The bye on Monday may have been the culprit or maybe Barton Realtors took us to the woodshed. Regardless we suffered our first loss of the season. Ed Campbell and Ray Hensley were both perfect at the plate with three hits apiece. Charlie Counts, Joe Jellison and Joe Wojtasiak each coming through with two hits. Joe W. had his hardest hit ball lined up perfectly with the first baseman’s mitt to thwart our best attempt at a comeback. Tom Gobin, Paul Pearson, Bob Higgins and sub Ed Abrams all got a hit. Defensively we were unable to make the plays necessary to stay competitive. That is all I will say about that phase of the game. Congratulations to a good Barton Realtors team who played nearly flawlessly. Thanks very much to sub Ed Abrams and to Marilyn for keeping our scorebook.

The gloves were warm and the bats were hot as everyone on Barton Realtors had at least one hit for a team total of 27 hits.  Mark Glim was 4 for 4 with a double and 2 rbi's.  Dale Huffine was 4 for 4 with a double and 2 rbi's.  Bob Cary was 4 for 4 with 2 rbi's.  Bob Topham was 3 for 4 with a double and 2 rbi's.  Kim Hurd was 2 for 4 with a double and 3 rbi's.  Gerry Boesche was 2 for 4 with 2 rbi's.  Fred Swan was 2 for 3 with a walk and 1 rbi.  Debbie Bigelow was 1 for 4 but drove in 3 runs.  Sue Cary was 3 for 4.  Michael Wilton and Klaus Holt each had a single.  Defensively we stuttered a little in the bottom of the 1st allowing 4 runs, but from that point on the gloves became as hot as the bats.  Eagle eye Gerry Boesche caught four popups at his rover position while looking directly into the sun.  Bob Topham caught a hard-hit line drive again at his 1B position for a key out in the game.  Debbie Bigelow made two good plays at her 2B position to get the runner out going to 2B.  Dale Huffine made a couple of good catches at 3B to throw the batters out at 1B.  Sue Cary caught a couple of hard-hit ground balls at shortstop and was able to get the runners out heading to 3B .  The outfield missed a few balls due to the sun but made the catches when they needed to in order to prevent runners from advancing.  Michael Wilton pitched a very good game keeping the batters off balance with very few walks and a lot of strikes.  A great team effort today.  I apologize to Yvonne Becker for not including her in the writeup on Monday.  Thank you for doing our scorebook.  Marilyn, thank you for doing our scorebook and running back and forth between the two dugouts to do the other team's book too.  Also, welcome back to Bob Higgins. Good to see you back on the field (even if it was on the opposing team)!

 Monday, November 11, 2024

Property Sisters - 7 WyYerd Fiber - 17

"8:30 games have not been good to us. Thank goodness our next game is at 12:15. Once again, our defense and offense were not very good. We had 16 hits. Leading the way was Pierre Boudreau who was 4-4. Mike Sterricker was 4-4. Chuck Gibson was 3-3 with 3 RBI's. Dan Hofeditz was 2-3 with a base on balls and an RBI. Duff Carroll was 1-3 with a base on balls. Dave Bagwell was 1-4 with an RBI. Paul Pearson, Sub, was 1-3. Sherry Westland, who came in after Wayne Moxley was hurt, had 1 RBI. Bob Dye had an RBI. Thank you to Paul and Sherry for helping us out.
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The WyYerd Fiber team came up against Property Sisters today. We started out strong putting up 4 runs in the first inning while holding the Sisters to only 1 run. We then were able to maintain a lead for the rest of the game. Lee Luft and Dorothy Muzar both had an outstanding game. Lee was perfect at the plate and his pitching kept there batters off balance making for a lot of easy outs. Dorothy played the Rover position like She had been doing it all her life, being where She needed to be and scooping balls up out of the dirt. The whole team played extremely well with lots of great plays which was reflected in the score. Dorothy, Gary Ash, Dan Maguire, Randy Selin, and Lee Luft all had 3 hits and everyone else had at least 1 hit. Our next game is Monday November 18th at 1:30.

Colonnade - 8 Nancy Muslin Realty - 11

We came... We played... We lost against a tough Nancy Muslin team. We just couldn't find our fight. A good day on the field... just not enough to pull it off. Our Sub Kat Melton and our fantabulous pitcher Kandi Patrick went 4-4.They both pulled off doubles also. Thank you to those wonderful offensive players!  Kirk King went 3-4. Bob Williams went 3-3 with a walk. Denise Gibala. Don Cleveland, Patrick Moriarity and Jeff Bearth smacked 2-4. Jim Collins and our sub Klaus Holt each got a hit. Defensively Denise Gibala caught some nice fly balls, Kirk King was a Hoover Vacuum at first base. Some smooth plays from Don Cleveland to Denise Gibala to Kirk King made for some awesome double plays. Kandi Patrick snagged some balls to make some much needed outs. Annie Lowe caught some fly balls in left field. Thank you to our subs Kat Melton & Klaus Holt. We appreciate your time and effort to help us play our game. 

Nancy Muslin's gang played a very good game against a very strong team. Nancy's gang were hitting, 24 hits in all. Again, Karen Olsen was perfect at the plate, 4-4, double, 3 singles, scored 3 times, 1 R.B.I. Jake Groh was 3-4, 2 singles, scored twice. Mike Ryan was 3-4, 3 singles, scored once, 3 R.B.I. Scott Piemiesl was 3-4, 3 singles, scored once, 2 R. B. I. Greg Szlak was 2-3, 2 singles, 3 R.B.I. Sherry Westland was 2-3, 2 singles, Wes mason was 2-3, 2 singles. Daren Proctor was 2-4, double, scored 3 times, 2 R.B.I. Doug Asleson was 2-4, scored once. Ed Musgrave was the winning pitcher, All players contributed to the win. 

Treedah Magee Realty - 7 Ranall's Realty - 18

"Treedah Magee was certainly overmatched today by a very good Randall’s Realty team. The final score of 18 to 7 was indicative of the fact that the game was never close. On the positive side, Bob Snelling , Don Hansen, and Dick Steiman each collected 3 hits each. Norris Carpenter & Fred Lubs each had 2 hits. Another bright spot during the game was the simply beautiful weather. "

All phases of Team Ranall’s came to the ballpark today with another splendid performance with 18 runs and 25 hits. All this with only batting in 5 innings. It was another slug fest in conjunction with a splendid defense by all our players as we held Treeda to only 7 runs. Our hitting was great all down the lineup: Kurt Kanouse had 4 RBI’s, a HR going 3-4. Ron Silberman our sub ss went 3-3 playing splendid defense, Joe Gonski had 4RBI’s, 1 HR going 4-4, Pete Simomeau had 3 RBI’s going 3-3 with a triple. Pete had another splendid consistent pitching performance, Barry Schwartz had 2 RBI’s going 2-3, Dave Martin had 1 RBI going 2-3, Steve Coffman had another great performance going 2-3, Glen Zelkind with 1 RBI going 2-3 while getting a key out in the last inning, Norm Volk 1 RBI 2-3, Joe Sowder 1RBI going 2-3 as Chip White had 1 RBI going 1-3. The most important aspect of this win is we had people on base and our team up/down the line-up drove in runs!!!!! We have a fantastic team if we can avoid injuries, so get to the field before the game and stretch, stretch, stretch.< Game Ball> There was no doubt the game ball goes to Barry Schwartz. Barry made 2 great catches in R field while also throwing out a player at first base!! It did not end there…Barry also had an RBI going 2-3.

Barton Realty - 12 Petelin Vision - 11

Wow!! A great team effort by the Barton Realtors resulted in a one run victory over a very good Petelin Vision team today. In a seesaw battle where the lead changed five times during a 7-inning game, Barton's made the defensive plays it needed to for the win. Dale Huffine had a very good day at 3B catching quite a few ground balls and throwing the runners out a first base. Gerry Boesche also had a good day at rover getting the force out at 2B and making good throws to first base. Debbie Bigelow played well at her 2B position. Bob Topham caught some hard-hit line drives at first base for key outs. Sue Cary was her stellar self at shortstop. Catcher Klaus Holt caught a hard throw to get an out at home plate. Despite the sun, the outfield of Fred Swan, Mark Glim, Kim Hurd, and Bob Cary made some very good catches for outs. Offensively, almost everyone on the team had at least one hit. Kim Hurd was 3 for 3 with 2 rbi's. Bob Topham was 2 for 3 with 4 rbi's. Gerry Boesche was 3 for 3 with 2 rbi's. Fred Swan had a key hit and drove in 2 runs. Dale Huffine had a hit, a walk, and 2 rbi's. Mark Glim was 2 for 3. Bob Cary was 3 for 3 with a double. Debbie Bigelow was 2 for 3. Sue Cary was 1 for 2 with a walk. Klaus Holt had a single. Michael Wilton was the winning pitcher and tossed some key strikes when he really needed them. ​

Petelin Vision and Barton Realtors battled back and forth with Barton grabbing the win 12-11 after 6 1/2 innings. The score was tied 4-4 after 1. No one scored in the 2nd. Barton took an 8-7 lead after 3. Petelin took a 10-8 lead after 4. Barton took an 11-10 lead after 5. Barton added 1 in the 6th for a 12-10 lead. Petelin could only muster 1 in the 7th to give Barton the win. Defensively Petelin played fairly well. Laura Johnson had a nice double play. Ken Kessler with a bad foot had some nice plays at 1st. Jim Tokar and Coral Estes played well all game. Larry Radant pitched a good game, walking only 1. The outfield only had 2 fly balls get over their heads that were not touched. The left fielder needs to work on his glove as it has a hole in it. Offensively Petelin had 23 hits or walks to get on base. Kevin Gillette was 3/3 (SAC Fly 5 RBI's). Grabbing 3 hits were Ken Kessler (Walk), Larry Radant( Walk RBI), Laura Johnson ( double Walk RBI), and Jerry Eastham ( double). Getting on base twice were Coral Estes and Barney Armstrong (double 2 RBI). Jim Mathews Singled with an RBI, Jim Tokar Singled with an RBI and Norma Lucas and Chris Zerr both got on base. Big thank you to Jim Mathews for subbing today. Special thank you to Marilyn for keeping our book and helping to train Kathy Radant. 

Tride/True Pest Mgmt - 12 Liberty Buick - 11

The Tride gang started out slow only putting up 1 run in the first and finding themselves behind 6-1 after the 3rd inning.  In the fourth they scored 3 and held Liberty scoreless to bring the score to 6-4.  Both teams got 4 in the 5th and both were scoreless in the 6th.   Liberty put up the top of their order and were held to only 1 run.  Up came Tride and True, now behind 11-8 with only 3 outs to go.  Dick Kohnen grounded out which left only 2 more outs.  Sam Bernhardt got a hit to get on first base.  Sheldon Rosenthal came up to the plate and banged out a triple and drove in a run making the score 11-9.  Jim Parry drove in Sheldon to get the score to 11-10 on a single.  Dale Sarrazin came up and flew out leaving only 1 more out.  Our big shortstop, Richard Szymesko, came up and was intentionally walked.  Margie Szymesko came up and was put on with a walk.  That brought up Gary Christofferson.  Bases loaded and 2 outs!  Gary banged out a long single to score both Parry and Szymesko for the win!!  This team played with so much heart and never gave up despite starting out so far behind.  Gary was our star of the game going 4 for 4 with 3 RBI.  Sheldon Rosenthal was 3 for 4 with a triple and an RBI. Dale Sarrizan was 3 for 4 with a double and 2 RBI. Richard Szymesko was 3 for 3 with a walk, single, double and triple with 2 RBI.  Margie Szymesko and Ron Rogerson were both 2 for 3 each adding an RBI.  Great team win!!

Liberty Buick played a close game against a good Tride & True team and lost 12-11 in a 7 inning game.  Liberty held the lead 11-8 through 6 1/2 innings and Tride and True scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 7th inning to close the game out 12-11.  We have been competitive in our 3 games played and lost all in the last inning by a total of 7 runs.  Better times are coming starting with our next game Wednesday at 8:30, hang in there team.  Liberty was led by Frank Preite 4x4 1 dbl,  sub, Joe Jellison 3x3 2 RBI’s,  Jim Tomach 2x2 1 bb,  Harold Enslen 3x4 2 RBI’s 1 dbl,  John Mancini 3x4 2 RBI’s,  Dave Holub and Chris Espejo 2x3 2 RBI’s each,  Dave Michels 2x4,  Greg Church 1x3 1RBI,  sub, Richard DuPont 0x2 1 bb,  Joe Osowiec 0x3.  Thank you to our subs, Joe Jellison & Richard DuPont and to Marilyn for doing our book.  

 Wednesday Nov 6, 2024

Property Sisters - 0 Thunderbird Auto - 13

Property Sisters could only muster 7 hits in a 13-0 blowout.  It is hard to score any runs with only 7 hits.  Leading the way was:  Chuck Gibson was 1-2.  Yvonne Becker was 1-2.  Bill Clark was 1-2.  Dave Bagwell was 1-2.  Mike Sterricker was 1-2.  Duff Carroll was 1-1 with a base on balls.  Pierre Boudreau was 1-3.  Bob Dye had a base on balls.  Hopefully our bats and defense will come alive in the next game.

  
On a cold windy Wednesday Team Thunderbird came out hot with the bats. The first five batters hit safely and we scored 4 runs super sub Ron Silberman played the last three runs with a deep fly double to right. Ron, Ed, Tom and Joe W. led the team with three hits apiece. Tom had three RBI and Joe W. had two. Charlie,Ray and Lanny each had two hits. Joe J. Paul and Jim had hits. It was a very productive day at the plate but our defensive effort was even better. Lanny and Jim at the corners each made a couple of outstanding catches that led to double plays. Tom played a solid game at shortstop again. Our outfielders fought the wind and caught every chance that came their way. Overall it was an excellent game defensively with Ray recording several strikeouts on his way to pitching a shutout which is very unusual in our league. We want to thank Marilyn for keeping score and Ron Silberman for subbing.

Ranall's Realty - 13 Tride True Pest Mgmt - 7

Another strong game for the Ranalls squad. You know your doing things right when Tride and True has the bases loaded with no outs and only squeaked out 2 runs each time. Pete Simoneau helped his own cause by grabbing a “hot one” on the mound and back to Joe Sowder at first…DP. We also got out of another inning when Dave Martin put the nail in their rally with 2 nice catches, one a liner!!...as Norm Volk played a flawless rover. We continue to hit the ball well with a total of 23 hits (only 5 innings). Dave Martin went 4-4, Steve Coffman had 3 hits, Kurt, Joe, Barry, Norm, Chip and Pete had 2, while the remaining squad had a hit. Our RBI totals were also quite distributed as well: Joe Gonski, Norm Volk and Barry Schwartz had 2 RBI’s each. Along side of that: Steve, Pete, Glen, Chip, Pat and Kurt, Dave had an RBI each. This is a league sign that everyone on Ranalls is a threat! Great signs going forward. Oh, another good pitching performance by Pete Simoneau. Nice job. <Game Ball> I have to give the game ball to Team Ranalls. Everyone played a significant role in this win. There was no single “oh my god” moment of an individual…Our win was determined by the consistent contributions of each person to the value and results of the Team.

Tride & True lost this morning to a defensively strong and hard hitting team - Ranalls Realty. The weather was not a friend to either team as the wind was blowing in and it was a hard, cold wind. The Tride & True team kept within 2 runs until the 6th and final inning when Ranalls scored 4 runs and the exterminators were shut out. Tride & Trues defense played well, turning a couple big double plays and the outfield getting the ball in quickly. Leading hitters for Tride & True were Richard Szymesko (3/3 with 4 RBIs) and Michael Sterriker (3/3 with 1 RBI).

Nancy Muslin Realty - 12 Barton Realty - 7

Nancy Muslin team played hard against good team, and outscored them for the win. Jake Groh was 3-3, scored twice , 1 R.B.I. Karen Olson was 3-3, double, 2 singles 1 R.B.I. scored twice. Mike Ryan was 3-3, scored once. 1 R.B.I. Darin Proctor was 2-2, double, walk, scored once, 2 R,B,I. Ed Musgrave was 2-3, double, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Doug Asleson had a single, scored once, 1 R.B.I. Scott Piemeisl  had single, walk, 1 R.B.I. Greg Szlak had a double, scored once, 2 R.B.I. Sherry Westland had a single, scored once, 1 R. B.I. Jack Braly had a single, scored once. Sub Dale Schroeder had a single, walk, scored once, 1 R.B.I. 

Barton Realtors fought the elements and cold bats by losing to a good hitting Nancy Muslin team today.  Barton's started strong scoring 4 runs in the top of the 1st inning and then went scoreless for the next 3 innings.  In the top of the 5th Barton's scored 3 runs to pull within a run only to give up 4 runs in the bottom of the 5th. In the 6th and final inning, Barton's were unable to push any runs across and lost 12 to 7.  Offensively, as a team we had 19 hits which is a fair amount but not enough to drive in the runs that we needed.  Kim Hurd was 3 for 3 with 2 doubles and a rbi.  Dale Huffine was 2 for 3 with 4 rbi's.  Mark Glim was 1 for 3 with 2 rbi's.  Debbie Bigelow was 3 for 3.  Fred Swan was 2 for 3.  Klaus Holt was 2 for 3.  Bob Cary was 2 for 2 with a walk.  Bob Topham was 1 for 3.  Gerry Boesche was 1 for 3.  Sue Cary was 1 for 4.  Thanks to Marilyn Leinberger and Yvonne Becker for doing our scorebook.  Also, thanks to Norm Lustig and Norm Volk for handling the umpire duties.  The biggest thanks go to Ron and Catherine Barton for sponsoring our team and giving us the opportunity to play the game that we all enjoy.  

WyYerd Fiber - 11 Treedah Magee Realty - 10

WyYerd came up against a tough Treedah Magee team on a cold and windy day. It was a close game all the way but we were able to put up 1 more run than Treedah for the win. Everyone played well in spite of battling a strong wind but the Star of the game was Randy Selin who had 2 home runs and made some great catches in Left Field. Dorothy had 3 hits everyone else had 2 hits. Thanks to Kris Koch for doing the book and keeping everything running smoothly. Next game is Monday Nov. 11th at 8:30. Dan Maguire has Scoreboard duty after the game.

"Once again Treedah Magee was in this game right down to the top of the seventh and their final out. Treedah scored 10 runs on 19 hits. Mike Kachurak led the way going 4 for 4 and scoring 3 runs. Bob Snelling went 3 for 4 and Fred Lubs, Brian Deherrera, sub Don Cole, Dick Steiman each had 2 hits. Good defense was performed by Dick Steiman, Fred Lubs, and Phil Murray. Bad defense was contributed to Norris Carpenter in the bottom of the sixth by not initiating a double play which would have kept Treedah in the lead going into the last inning. Age may be catching up to the Manager. Overall it was a good competitive game on a very blustery day. Thanks to Marilyn for umpiring and Yvonne for scorekeeping
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Colonnade - 15 Liberty Buick - 13

It was a cold and blustery day at the Field of Dreams and I really felt for both pitchers… still Kandi Patrick came thru like a champ, pitching strikeouts in the process! We were trailing the whole game until the fifth inning where we managed to get ahead by a couple of runs. At the top of the sixth - with their strong batting order up - we were able to keep our lead and win the game! Notably 3 for 4 at the plate were Art Molina, Kandi, Don Cleveland and Kirk King - with a boomer out to left field for a triple, driving 3 runs in! Everyone got on base so good hits for all of us. Yay! Thank you to our sub Kat!

Liberty Buick played a tough game against a good Colonnade team and lost 15-13 in a 5 1/2 inning game.  Liberty fell behind 4-2 in the first inning.  Liberty scored 10 runs through the 4th inning to lead 12-11.  Colonnade scored 4 runs and Liberty one run to end the game 15-13.  Liberty was led by Frank Preite 3x4 2 RBI’s 1 dbl,  Harold Enslen 3x4  1 RBI. 1 triple,  Dave Holub 3x4  2 RBI’s,  Greg Church 3x3. 3 RBI’s,  sub, Steve Foster 3x3        1 RBI,  Michael Sullivan 2x2. 1 RBI,  Dave Michels 3x4. 1 RBI,  Chris Espejo 2x3. 1 RBI,  Joe Osowiec 1x3. 1 RBI,  Jim Tomach 1x3 (also made a Great catch in the outfield),  John Mancini 0x4.  Thank you to our sub, Steve Foster and to Marilyn for doing our book.