Senior Softball League in Sylvania, OH

6:15 Games:

Fricker’s Carolina  Blue  13  vs  The Distillery 9

Fricker’s Carolina  Blue:

Fricker’s Carolina Blue avenged an early season loss and beat The Distillery who had an off night of hitting in part to great pitching by John Correa as well as solid defense including a nice DP  Crothers-Johnson-Batanian. Also a great highlight for BCSN diving catch in RF by Rick “Fig” Bonfiglio. Jeff “Wags” Wagenhauser some nice catches in LC. Hitting leaders were  the Legend Johnny Johnson 3-3 with a 2b ; Jeff “Wags” Wagenhauser and Rick “Fig” Bonglio both 3-4; Janie Crothers and pool player sub Steve “Veschy” Vessemoet both 2-4 (Veschy it was great playing with you again brother!); Shawn Dresch 2-3 and a sac fly;  Joe Beham, Carl Clark, Jeff Batanian (playing really hurt); and John Correa all added 1 hit each. Thanks to ppol player sub Steve “Veschy” Vessemoet.

The Distillery: 

In game 1 of the night, Distillery took on Frickers Carolina Blue in a game that will be on BCSN. It just wasn’t Distillery’s night as they fluttered in front of the cameras, in taking a disappointed loss to Blue.  Frickers Blue played solid through the night while Distillery couldn’t get anything going. Chad Collins smashed a ball into the playground. Distillery made a valiant attempt in the sent by putting up 6 runs to end up losing 13-10. Thanks to Eric Sitter for subbing with us.

Terrafirma:

TerraFirma came back from the week off with their bats blazing. Dave Durfey, Josh Zeitz, and Kurt Souva all had a home runs (Durf had 2)!  Stevie Glass and Josh Zeitz both going without an out in game one. Dennie Peters and Scott Pratt both went 3/4 with Pratt knocking in 4 runs. Dave Kunst, Dave Timmerman, and Marc Jobe brought key hits when they were needed the most. John “Moose” Ingison and Mike Strobel getting two hits a piece. Strobel with 2 doubles, John with 2 hard hit singles. On the defensive end, great catches were made by Kurt Souva and Dave “Durf” Durfey  in the outfield, Mike played a solid short as always, Steve was a wall at 2nd and Dennie protected the middle. Great team defense.

Jeff  Traudt State Farm:

7:45 Games: 

TerraFirma 19 vs  The Distillery  11

TerraFirma:

The second game of the night had a few less hits, but TerraFirma pulled out a solid win. Mike Strobel and Josh Zeitz both hit without getting an out and Josh added another home run to his stats. Dennie Peters, Dave Timmerman, and John “Moose” Ingison all went 3/4 knocking in 6 of the teams runs. Steve Glass, Scott Pratt, Dave Kunst, and Marc Jobe each getting 2 hits a piece, but making those hits count!  Dave “Durf” Durfey got a clutch double in the 6th on tired legs from all his work in the outfield. Kurt Souva added another home run in the 2nd scoring 3 runs. We missed having Jerry Tanner and look forward to next week.

The Distillery:

The night didn’t get any better to a slumping Distillery team. Playing the hard hitting Terrafirma team, they jumped out in the first and never looked back.  Chad Collins smashed another long HR. I would like to thank Jay Kennedy for subbing with us. Also I have a correction from last week, Bobby Collins HIT 3 HR,s. Brotherly love HR contest heating up.

State Farm  18  vs Fricker’s Black 16

State Farm:

State Farm collected our first victory of the season with great defense, timely hitting and a very well pitched game from Bob “808” Ruckman. Fine glovework was turned in by Fireball, Phil Naylor, John Brewer, Mig, Denny Miller, Wayne Stumm and Jase Sweede. Miller, Mig, James Carlozzi and Naylor all turned in perfect games at the dish. Miller led the charge with 3 long blasts over the trees in LC, Mig had 2 more bombs to Centennial Terrace and Carlozzi pounded the ball deep all night, good for a single, double and a triple while Naylor added another 2 bagger and a pair of singles. Offensive leaders:  Denny Miller ( 3-3 3 HR’s 6 RBI), Mig ( 3-3 2R 2 HR’s 2 RBI), James Carlozzi ( 3-3 2R 2B 3B 2 RBI), Phil Naylor ( 3-3 2R 2B), Fireball ( 2-3 2R RBI), Bubba Bates ( 2-3 R 2B RBI), Wayne Stumm ( 2-4 2R RBI), Jeff Spottsy ( 1-2 2R BB 2B) and Mike Dye, who pounded the ball all night with little to show for it as far as stats go, added 2 RBI on a clutch base hit. Nice win State Farm!

Fricker’s Carolina Blue:

Fricker’s Carolina Blue got behind  early and just could not catch up to a top notch Sideline’s team losing 18-13.  Rick “Fig” Bonfiglio had another great catch in RF.  Jamie Crother’s played a great ss. Leading hitters were the ageless legend Johnny Johnson 3-4 with a 2b; Pool Sub Jay Breed 3-4 with an OTFHR; Joe Beham 3-4; Shawn Dresch 2-4 with an OTFHR; Jeff “Wags” Wagonhauser 2-4; Rick “Fig” Bonfiglio 2-3 with a sac fly; Carl Clark with an OTFHR; Jeff “Treeman” Batanian 2-3 ; Scotty “Too Hotty” Dheel 2-3 and John Correa added a hit. Thanks to Jay Breed who played great for us as a pool player.