50+ Game Summary 05/12/2013

FRICKER'S 6 (23) - FRICKER'S 1 (1): Fricker’s 6 had booming bats and great defense was the key tonight. Led by OTF HRs.by Bob Hoffman and Perry Chillus. Perry going 4/4, 3 hits each by Greg Ballmer, Dave Kunst, Tom Taylor and Wade Timmings. For Fricker's #1 there were no real highlights as they had ONLY 4 hits! Although the outfield played real solid it was not enough as Fricker’s #6 hit the ball extremely well the whole game. Fricker’s #1 quickly put this game behind themselves and moved on.

SCHNEIDER & SON'S ELEC. (28) - BARROW'S JEWELERS (4):

ALLSHRED SERVICES (18) - ST. CLARE COMMONS (4): Allshred’s John Buehler broke down the door with a leadoff triple, followed by 5 consecutive singles by teammates, an error, an out, and 2 more singles to jump out to a seven run first inning lead. John repeated with another triple to start the 2nd inning, but was the only run. The bottom of the order got in the groove in the 3rd inning by contributing 4 of the 5 runs scored. The 5 run 5th inning started with Cathy Ward reechoing base and scoring, followed likewise by the next 4 batters. All in all, the offense was spread throughout the lineup. Stars of the game for Allshred were John Buehler 4/4, 4 runs, 2-3B,2B,1B, Darren Axon 4/4, 2R, 3-1B, 3B, Cathy Ward 1 for 2 , 3R, Rick Stager 3 for 4, 1R. St.Clare Commons opened the season with a double header. The first game came against an excellent hitting AllShred team who banged out hit after hit and took full advantage of the fielding errors by SCC and won a shortened game 19-4. Jase Sweede and Mark Secory led SCC, and had almost 40% of SCC hits for the game, both going 2 for 2.

FRICKER'S 5 (10) - FRICKER'S 2 (6): Jeff Traudt STATE FARM (21) - HARVARD BARBERSHOP (9): The Farm Boys started the season with a whooping 33 hits to post a big win. Charlie Strzeynski (3-4-2RBI) tossed a complete game and got big support from Gary Miller (4-4) and Jim Watters (2-5-1-2B-4RBI-1-OTFHR). The hitting continued with Nate Freeman (3-3), Matt Giles and Mark Grimes chipping in with (3-5) nights at the plate. Harvard after leading 7-6 after 2 innings, our bats went stone cold, we only managed 2 more runs the rest of the night. Our hitting leaders were Joe Beham and Terry Thomas, both went 4for4.Terry had an inside the park HR and a double. Thanks to John Yocum for filling in nicely at 1st, going 3for3. Thanks John. We'll do better next week, a great group of guys to play with.

ST. CLARE COMMONS (25) - SCHNEIDER SONS’ ELEC (20): In the night cap SCC came to play as they jumped out to a 7-4 lead in the first inning and never looked back. As a team, SCC banged out 35 hits and were led by Mark Secory, (4-4 , 2 doubles), Randy McGraw, (4-4 , 2 doubles), Jase Sweede ( 3-4 with 3 runs scored), Bill Garber (3-4 with a triple), Doug Quint (3-4 with a big 1st inning double),Shawn Litten and Neal Klopping both added 3-3 evenings. The outfield defense of Mark Secory, Bill Garber, Neal Klopping, and vacuum cleaning Doug Quint helped keep the big bats of Schneider under control making numerous outstanding catches in the outfield. Jase Sweede threw a runner out from the seat of his pants after a diving stop, and the outfield /in- field teamwork showed, as they threw out runners at the plate. Special thank to Neal for helping out.

FRICKER'S 3 (19) - FRICKER'S 4 (6): Frickers #3 started the season off with hot bats, as everyone on the team got at least one hit. With 18 hits total in just four innings, Frickers #3 scored a great opening day win against a good Frickers #4 team. Mark Clair led the attack with 3 hits, with Al Seeger, Marty Czerniakowski and Dann Wagner knocking in 3 runs apiece. Everyone in the line-up scored at least once, while the infield turned two double plays.Fricker’s #4 - Kudos to the #3 team, they played a great game and beat on us like a rented mule. That being said, our performance was rather uninspired at best. I know we are better than we showed and am confident that win or lose, we will show up to play next week. Of note offensively: Dave Ronau, (3-3), Mark Gedert (2-3 3B 2 RBI), and Dave Obert ( 2-3 RBI).

FRICKER'S 5 (18) - FRICKER'S 1 (9): Fricker’s 1, with opening game jitters now behind them they quickly changed into their hitting shoes as Fricker's #1 came out of the gate quick while grabbing a 6-3 lead after the 2nd inning. Unfortunately they were unable to sustain it with any clutch hitting and eventually lost the lead in the 5th inning when #6 put up a 7 spot on them to take a 12-7 lead. Both Charlie Oberlin with a Triple and a Double and Craig Mantey each led Fricker's #1 with 3 hits apiece. Interim Manager Gary Walton was "IMMEDIATELY FIRED" after the game while going 0-2 and a round of cheers could be heard all the way to Luna Pier, Mi. where his wife there joined in. The team is looking forward to Jerry Keefe's return as he is expected to be back at the helm next week to lead Fricker's #1 to the winning side of the board.