Saturday League Summer II 2024 Game Summaries & Standings

 Saturday, July 20, 2024


CORE Institute - 13 Carrousel Travel - 23

CORE faced Carrousel Travel, the last game of the first summer session for both teams. The game was relatively close at times, but Carrousel Travel ultimately won big 23-13. CORE again had entirely too many fielding errors, a problem that was rather costly. CORE’s offensive attack was led by Jay Schirpke, 4-4, who scored a team high 3 runs and led the team with a season batting average of .806. Substitute player, Glenn Soles was red hot for CORE with a perfect 4-4 day to include 3 extra base hits. Jim Matthews also had an impressive day at the plate hitting 3-4 with an extra base hit. Greg Roehm, Jim Opyd and Curt Rhoades added 2 hits for CORE. An disappointing ending for CORE. Special thanks to Joe Osowiec and Glenn Soles for substituting for CORE and Eileen Figueroa, who kept the batting and scoring statistics all season. CORE also thanks Russ Figueroa for his leadership as Commissioner.

The Carrousel Travel team picked up our 2nd win of the season with our best game of the season, beating the Core Institute 23-13. We had great defense led by Les Zirbel at SS and sub Craig Nelson and Mike Kachurak (Double K-starts and ends with a K) making great catches in the outfield. Offensively, Super Sub Craing Nelson led the way going 4/4 and hitting for the Cycle (the home run was of the "over the fence" variety) and he had 4 RBI including a sacrifice fly, SS Les Zirbel not only put on the defensive show, he was 5/5 with 6 RBI, Russ Figeuroa was also perfect 5/5 and Jeff Smith was a perfect 3/3 with 2 walks and 3 RBI. Also joining the hit parade was Ted Grove 4/5, 2 RBI, Bob Snelling 3/4 with the rare 2 RBI sacrifice fly, sub Danny Wood 3/5 with an RBI, Mike Kachurak3/5 with an RBI and Jerry Eastham 2/5 with an RBI. The incomparable pitcher Arte Stackpole moved a runner to second with great opposite field hitting and added an RBI as he put up 3 goose egg innings, including a 3 pitch inning in the 5th and a big zero in the bottom of the 7th. It's nice to finish a lackluster season with a big win scoring 23 runs with 32 hits in 45 at bats for a "craps" sounding .711 average. Many thanks to our sponsor Amy Chlebeck and good luck to the Carrousel Travel team next session. Many thanks to umpires Dick (retired CPA) Steiman and Craig (don't call him Kurt) Warner and tower operator Paul (the gentleman) Jinneman. As always Russ and Eileen run a great Saturday league, so thank you for that.

Karen Olsen Realty - 18 Angela's Kitchen - 18

"Karen Olsen Real Estate took on Angela's at the Field of Dreams for the last game of the Summer 1 Saturday session. It was cloudy most of the game which kept the temperatures under control. Team KO's defense was just a bit off today. The hitting was there as usual. Angela's established an early lead which they held the entire game until the last inning. Angela's held a 2 run lead for most of the game then increased it to 3 going into the last inning. Karen Olsen played lock down defense in the top of the last inning and held Angela's scoreless. The KO hitters were up to the task and scored 3 in the bottom of the last, to tie the game. With the winning run on 3rd base Angela's was able to secure the final out and end the game at an 18 TO 18 tie. Good way to end the season. The Karen Real Estate had already secured the Championship before this game so they went straight to the ticker tape parade. Congratulations to both Angela's and Karen Olsen Real Estate for a great game today. Everyone on the KO team had at least 2 hits today. David Power was perfect from the plate with 5 hits. Wayne Moxley was also perfect with 4 hits. Rick Pearson and Don Trenda were 4 for 5. Gary Finer had 3 hits. Contributing 2 hits were Paul Larson, Ed Hart, Ed Campbell, and John Boland. Thanks to commissioner Russ Figueroa for a great session. Super thankful for Eileen Figueroa for keeping the scorebooks all session. Thanks to the umpires Artie Stackpole and Curtis Rhoades, also Jerry Eastham in the score tower. Way to go Karen Olsen Champs!

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It was a hard fought game the whole way. You wouldn’t have thought the championship was decided last week. Angela’s was hoping to give the champs a kick in the pants. It came down to the last inning with Angela’s up by 3. Manager Dick Nunez 4/5 triple, told star outfielder Greg Allseitz 5/5 triple double “I need you to catch 3 balls.” The first 2 came early, but by the time Greg managed to catch the third ball (yes, he caught all 3), The KO team managed to score 3. Going 3/4 were Craig Warner, sub Ken Silva triple double, John Hammel, Dorothy Mazur, and sub Daren Proctor. Paul Jinneman was 2/4. Dick Steiman triple and Sully were 1/4. It was a great season, Dick Nunez led the team in hitting batting .892 and recorded 33 hits in 8 games.