GIOS PIZZA TAKES TWO FROM ZOINKS

THURSDAY, JULY 22
Gios Pizza playing out of their Tuesday comfort zone, beat a good Zoinks team down at East Islip Marina.They won the first game, 14-11 and 13-3. The Reruns had the Silver Bullets, 9-5 going into the bottom of the 7th and then the Bullets came back with 5 to win it. The Reruns, always play tough and came back for a, 15-10 win the second game. Next week most teams will finish up their regular season and playoff will start that first week in August for most teams.


THE HEAT IS ON, BUT SO IS THE RAIN

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21
Good hot summer days to play softball in. Just enough thunder storms to keep the fields moist for good playing. However, some late thunder storms have knocked out a couple of doubleheaders this week. One on Monday and one tonight. I kept getting phone calls as I was working on fields on the south shore about rain. There was no rain in the south, but it poured on the north side of the Expressway. The Eliminators and The Zoo were knocked out. The Raiders met up with the Weekend Warriors for the first time this year. The Warriors took the first game with a couple of good innings and good hitting by Gary Schultz. Both teams pounded the ball, but the Weekender's came out on top. In the second game it got down to the last inning and the Warriors coming up chasing one run. The Raiders just missed out on closing it when a bam, bam double play did not go their way. So with two out and a runner on first they got the last out to preserve at a, 3-2 victory. The Apaches and Morning Wood match up well with both teams getting wins. The Wood won the first game, 11-8 and then the Apaches came back to win, 11-9. The Gas House Gorillas took on and split with the Muck Dogs. The House won, 21-5 and lost 9-7.


HIGHWAY HOMERS AND RELIABLE GUTTERS SWEEP

TUESDAY, JULY 20
Reliable Gutter ( formally PCI Services) took a pair from Night Blindness, 8-6 and 15-3. Highway Homers got two wins against the Titans in two close games, 9-7 and 12-8.


DARKNESS, THEN THE RAIN

MONDAY, JULY 19
Hot rainy, lightning strikes and softball...a crazy mix. The Silver Bullets and the Warriors got in 6 innings and had a tie game going into the 6. They did not start until 7:00pm, so that was the problem. The Shamrocks took two good games against the Raiders. The Rocks 12 runned them in the first, but had to hustle to get the win in the second game, shorten by one inning due to rain. The Master Batters and Bulls split.


A SULTRY SUNDAY FOR SOFTBALL

SUNDAY, JULY 18
Once again the Sun God turned his blow torch on us this past Sunday. It has been a hot summer, but a dry one. I do not care how hot it gets, it just gives me something to contend with. Just hold the rain. In Nassau, Evolution took the first game from Lock & Load, 19-10 and then the load came back for a, 19-14 victory. The Rockies looked good against the Untouchables, they won a pair, 17-7 and 17-0. The Bellmore Knights were idle.

The Outfield Pub took their games against the Diamondbacks, 12-3 and 11-2. The Master Batters and A's split their games with the Batters winning, 11-5 and the A's won, 5-1. The Kore has a good year, but when they step out of their conference reality sets in. The Outfield Pub won two, 14-4 and 9-5. The Beers took two from the Hang Ovas, 19-6 and 16-6. Cougar Bait looked good against Eight Men Out, who have lost 6 or 8 straight. The Bait, won, 14-11 and 8-4. The Gorillaz took on a good UTI team and thought UTI played well the Gorilliz got the wins, 10-7 and 20-10. The Rebels split with Platinum Hits, winning, 19-9 in the second game and losing to the Hit's, 12-8 in the first game. Prime Time won their pair against the Cobra Kai, 12-9 and 17-8. The Tongues Dart took the first game against the Chupacabras, 19-7 in 6 innings. However, the Chu's almost got their first win of the season when they lost in the 7th by one run, 9-8.

On the the Suffolk night teams.  McBrides, JJK and the Degenerates all took their games as did 12 Angry Men. Hit For Brains took on the Young Guns and won a pair, 11-4 and 13-1. The Whit Sox and the Skid Marks split with the Skids winning the first game, 22-3 and the Sox coming back for a, 18-16 win.  The Go Hard's and the Smithtown F.D. split their games. Smithtown came out in the first inning and put up 16 runs. For the rest of the night they only put up 3. They took the first game, 16-3 and then the Go Hards got some pay back by 12 running them in the 6th, 15-3. Schaefer BMW look good, they took a pair from the Beavers, 8-7 and 12-8.


MASTER BATTERS AND RERUNS MIX IT UP

THURSDAY, JULY 15
I was umpiring at Brookwood North as the Reruns and Master Batters were playing on the south field. It looked like a good match up a field away and it was. Balls were being banged all over the field, good cut off throws were being made and runners were being put out on the base paths. The Master Batters were a mellow team last year. This year they have evolved into a very good softball team. The Reruns who have as many victories in Major Sports as any team that has ever played won the first game, 10-5. The second game was taken by the Master Batters, 12-13. Welcome to the show, Master Batters.

Sportin' Wood met up with the Muck Dogs. This game was supposed to be last night, but the Wood's misread their schedule. The first game went into extra innings and was won in the 8th inning by Sportin' Wood, 11-10. In the second game it was back and forth until Robbie Condina, Jr. poled a grand slam in the 6th inning to put the finishing touches on a Sportin' Wood sweep.


RENEGADES AND APACHES SWEEP

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14
The Apaches took a pair, but GSI played them tough all 14 innings. The tribe took two, 6-5 and 7-2. The Highway Homers opened up their first game with a win over the Bulls, 8-7. Then the Bulls came back for a big, 16-7 win. The Renegades beat Night Blindness in a pair, winning, 16-2 and 18-3. Sportin' Wood thought their game with the Muck Dogs was scheduled for Thursday, which it is now, because the Muck Dogs showed up last night when it was scheduled. The teams will meet on Thursday.


SHAMROCKS AND MASTER BATTERS SPLIT

MONDAY, JULY 12
The young studs, Master Batters and the older studs, Shamrocks. They met at Brookwood Hall and on this sultry summers night both teams took a victory home. The Master Batters came out in the first game and put up 8 in two innings, so it was catch up from then on for the Shamrocks, but catch up they did. They pounded away at the lead and got close, but could not completely close it. Final score was, 16-13. In the second game the Shamrocks took the initiative and got out in front. It was another back and forth game and as the night closed around them the Shamrocks won by 3 in 5 innings.


A WET SATURDAY, BUT A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY

SUNDAY, JULY 11
No dust after Saturdays rain, but some muddy patches on some fields. After the 4th of July break it was softball as usually. The Road Kill, after getting to the field a little late, got down to beating a very good Outfield Pub team in the first game,7-5 The Pub came back to take the second game, 13-7. Platinum Hits took two good games from Cougar Bait, 9-7 and 13-2. The Hang Ovas got the best of the Chupacabras, 17-4 and 17-6. The Kore, playing their best softball ever, as is Prime Time. However, after the smoke had cleared hear, The Kore, had won, 12-0 and 11-4. Master Batters got beat by Cobra Kai at the Homer Dome, 12-10 and 12-8. The Beers took two from the Tongue Darts and the Rebels split with the A's.

In Nassau, the Bellmore Knights split with the Untouchables. Winning, 21-9, then losing the second game, 13-6. Lock & Load split with the Rockies, winning, 14-8 and dropping the second won, 13-10.

The Sunday night division had all teams playing with the White Sox playing their best games of the season by beating the Degenerates, 5-3 and 8-7. The Beavers took two from the Slackers, 13-7 and 16-3. The Marauders and Smithtown F.D. split their games. F.D. won, 10-5 and the Marauders won, 11-10. Skid Marks took two from a good McBrides team winning, 15-10 and 16-9. Hola Hovita came out smoking the first game taking it 12-6 and the Go Hards almost had that second game, but lost by 2, 8-6. Hit For Brians has been playing good softball all year, they took two from Organized Chaos, 23-3 and 20-8. Schaefer BMW won their games against the Young Guns, 34-22 and 25-19. JJK had a big night against 12 Angry Men, 31-10 and 31-1.


ZOINKS, PLAYING GOOD SOFTBALL

Thursday, July 8
Zoinks is playing good sfotball and that was evident Thursday night when they beat The Zoo. The Zoo always brings it and they tried, but Zoinks took two. Winning,20-11 and 21-8. Sportin' Wood came out hitting in the first game and did not look back. They got 8 in the first two innings and closed out the first game with a, 12-6 win. The Master Batters would hear none of that for the second game. They locked down on defense and got some timely hits for a, 7-6 win. A big game was Gios Pizza against the always touch Reruns. The first game was a, 15-11 win for the Reruns. In the second game Gios played well on defense and got a. 5-2 win.


SWEEP WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7
Wednesday is the busiest day of the week in Major Sports for softball. Each week about 10 to 14 teams play. Last night it was 10, it would have been 12 if the Eliminators did not cancel at 5pm, knocking Night Blindness out of a doubleheader. For the teams that played last night it was win or loss. Five teams won doubleheaders and five teams lost doubleheaders. The Muckdogs played well as did the Gas House Gorillas, only the Dogs played a little better and took two good games. The Apaches have found a grove. Last night the took two from an always tough Warriors team, 9-8 and 11-5.GSI played one of their best doubleheaders in a couple of weeks, beating the Highway Homers, 18-19 and 17-5. The Renegades had a little two much offense for the Raiders. They beat them, 22-6 and 6-3. Morning Wood took a pair from the Weekend Warriros, 10-2 and 12-5.


BACK TO SOFTBALL

TUESDAY, JULY 6
There were games scheduled on Monday, but two teams backed out. So, no games. There were games scheduled for Tuesday, and one team backed out at 5pm, but two teams did play and that was PCI Services and the Hitmen. The HItmen have a good softball team, as does PCI. However, the first game was not much of a game and the Hitmen won, 12-2. Then PCI woke up and the two teams had a barn burner that went into the 8th inning. That is where the Hitmen took it, 10-9.


GIOS PIZZA, APACHES, THE ZOO AND HIGWAY HOMERS SWEEP

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30
As the sun set on the last day in June, it was another great night for summer softball. The teams that played either won two or loss two. The Highway Homers mixed it up with the Raiders and there was a bunch of offense in both games, but the Homers took the two games, 14-9 and 22-10. Gios Pizza did the same with the Gas House Gorillas. A lot of offense on both sides, but one team took two games and that was Gios, 25-22 and 20-5. The Zoo took on the Renegades and they took two, winning, 15-12 and 16-10. I do not think the Weekend Warriors had their full team down at the field. The Apaches are playing some good softball, but when you get beat, 20-0 in a game, something is not clicking. The Apaches took the first game, 14-2.


RENEGADES AND PCI SERVICES SWEEP

TUESDAY, JUNE 29
Only two sets of doubleheaders last night. PCI Services met up with the Titans. The Titans hung in there all night against a good PCI team. The Titans are in their first year and go down each week and have a great time playing. PCI has been playing for years. The Titans had an outfielder that made three circus catches. In the end PCI had a little two much offense for the Titans and took two. The Renegades took on and beat Night Blindness, 14-2 and 14-7.


SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW...

MONDAY, JUNE 28
The Shamrocks played down at Brookwood Hall. During the games against the Muckdogs it started raining and over the outfield trees two rainbows sprung up and during the game. With the way the Shamrocks were hitting, they was no need for any more Irish luck and symbolism. They took two, 8-2 and 16-10. The Master Batters took two from GSI, 6-4 and 6-3. The Silver Bullets met up with the Eliminators and walked off with two, 12-9 and 8-15. The Box Slayers read their schedule wrong and went down to that game. They play Thursday.


HOT AND STEAMY

SUNDAY, JUNE 27
The last Sunday before the July 4th break was a real southern, summers day. Hot, sultry and dusty. We got all the games in even though there was a threat of rain all day. Cougar Bait split with the Outfield Pub on Sunday. They lost the first game, 9-1, but came back to win the second game, 11-9 Prime Time met up with Cobra Kai and took the first game, 12-8. In the second game they put up 11 runs in the 7th to beat the Cobra's, 14-13. They are off to their best season ever. So is The Kore, who took a pair from the Master Batters, 3-2 and 1-0. The Beers took two from the Hang Ovas, 10-8 and 14-10. Talk about a team on fire and that is UTI. For years they played good softball, but were a .500 team. Not anymore, they took two more this week to put them at, I believe, 13-1. The beat the A's in those two games. The Tongue Darts won two from Chupacabras as did Platinum Hits, who took a pair from Eight Men Out, 12-0 and 14-11. The Rebels won their first doubleheader of the year against the Diamondbacks, 5-9 and 14-2. Road Killed shot the Gorillaz in the first game, 14-13, but the Gorillaz got up from being road kill and took the second, 8-6.
     In Nassau County, with 5 teams and five teams that get after each other week end and week out. The Bellmore Knights looked good beating Evoulution, 21-18 21-11. Lock & Load met up with the Untouchables and both teams got a win. The Lock won, 17-5 and the Untouchables won, 13-4.
     In the Suffolk Night Division the only two teams that did not play last week the Degenerates and Hit For Brains, met up and both teams got a win. The Degenerates won, 5-4 and the Hit's won, 5-4. Organized Chaos played their best game of the season in their first game against JJK. They won, 15-3. JJK came back in the second game for a 18-16 victory. Even in the loss the Chaos played big time. The Young Guns looked good against the Beavers in their sweep, they won, 30-18 and 12-2. McBrides keeps on putting up two. They took two from the White Sox, 19-1 and 1-4. Hola Hovita and Schaefer BMW split. BMW won, 11-1, but in softball you have to close out that second game. The Hola's came back for a, 15-9 victory. Smithtown F.D. are having fun and winning some games, they beat the D.E.A. for a pair of wins. The Go Hards met up with the Marauders and each team tasted victory. The Hard's won, 18-12 and the Marauders won, 1-3. The Skidmarks are looking good. They ran over 12 Angry Men, 12-4 and 12-8.


HOT TIME, SUMMER IN THE SUBURBS

THURSDAY, JUNE 24
A nice hot, sultry night on Long Island. The Gas House Gorillas played again tonight. They played last night and dropped two close games to the Apaches. Tonight they won the first game against the and dropped the second game. The Silver Bullets took two close games from the Black Sox, 8-5 and 9-8.


RERUNS, APACHES AND HIGHWAY HOMERS SWEEP

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23
The Reruns met up with Morning Wood for the first time. The Reruns played good, fast softball and took two games, 10-4 and 15-9. The Apaches took a pair from the Gas House Gorillas in two well played, offensive slug fest. They won, 11-9 and 15-12. Night Blindness and Sportin Wood split their two games. The Night won, 12-9 and the Wood took the second game, 11-9. The Eliminators and Renegades each took victory home. The Renegades won, 7-6 and the Eliminators won, 6-4. The Highway Homers met up with the Weekend Warriors at Hidden Pond for the 6pm game. The Warriors came out swinging and looked like they were going to take the first game. However, the Homers came back and took a, 9-8 victory. In the second game the Homers opened up on the Weekender's and took that one, 18-6.


PCI VS WARRIORS=13 RUNS

TUESDAY, JUNE 22
The summer is heating up and you would think the bats would too. Not last night as PCI Services and the Warriors met for a doubleheader. PCI took both games by scores of, 4-3 and 4-2. Gios Pizza went into last night game with the Raiders, 5-5. The Raiders had played the day before and split with the Muck Dogs. Gios came out smoking in the first game and took it 14-2. In the second game the Raiders showed why they have been playing softball for 18 or the 19 years Major Softball has had a league. It was back and forth the entire game until the Gios team pulled away for a, 16-8 victory. The Renegades and the Hitmen started their game and got one in, but the rain came and knocked out the second game. The Hitmen took the first one.


THE COBRA STRIKES AGAIN

MONDAY, JUNE 21
Well, the summer solstice arrived and it gave us a beautiful day for softball. Over at Brookwood Hall the Raiders met up with the Muck Dogs. The first game was a back and job with both teams matching run for run. I was waiting for one team to break out and in the 6th inning the Raiders did. They bang 4 runs, back to back to back and to back. Led by Steve " The Cobra" Kline, who also added a long ball home run in the second game, his home run was followed by 3 more. The home runs were hit by, Richie Gatto, Mark Lopez and "Jolting" Joe Moire. That was a little two much for the Muck Dogs to come back from and they faded in the last two innings. However, the Muck Dogs forgot about that first game in 30 seconds and went out to bombed the Raiders, 16-8, in the second game. The Shamrocks and the Master Batters went at it hot and heavy with the Batters taking the first game, 11-3. It was looking grim for the Shamrocks in the second game, but they pulled to 10-10 tie. In the top of the 7th they scored 4 to take a,14-10 victory.
     

The Bulls are playing some good softball after a slow start. In the last two weeks they have gone, 5-1 and last night they beat a good GSI team, 14-10 and 8-2. The Zoo met up with the Box Slayers. A couple of powerful night teams banging it out inning after inning. In the end The Zoo, prevailed, winning, 12-7 and 11-9.


ALMOST A PERFECT DAY

SUNDAY, JUNE 20
As the first official day of the summer approaches Sunday looked like a perfect day for softball. It was until a late afternoon rain knocked out the games at Hidden Pond Park at 5pm. All teams got their licks in except those two 5pm teams at Hidden Pond.

JJK and Hola Hovita met up at Hidden Pond after I got up there and got that field into game shape. The JJK's took two, 16-2 and 30-12. McBrides and the Skid Marks split two with McBrides winning, 15-8 and Skid Marks winning, 14-2. Smithtown F.D. took two close games from the Killer Kleats, winning, 11-10 and 8-3. The Young Guns won there first doubleheader of the year with two wins over Organized Chaos, 13-1 and 5-4. The Go Hard's took the first game against Schaefer BMW, 8-7 and then the BMW's won, 13-6. Someone on BMW gave the Go Hard's some misinformation by saying I told them the second game could be held up. That was not what I said. I told them the double header could start at 5:25pm, to accommodate some players arriving late due to Father's Day. I never mentioned they could hold up the start of the second game.

In the morning games in Suffolk the The Kore are playing good softball. They took a pair from the Diamonbacks, 9-1 and 12-5. The Gorillaz met up with the A's and took their games, 21-9 and 16-8. Road Kill won two close games against the Rebels, 9-8 and 9-6. Cougar Bait took two from the Hang Ovas, 13-3 and 13-12. UTI are playing their best softball ever in Major Sports. I was not sure how they would do against a tough Eight Men Out team, but they showed they are a team to reckon with. They won, 12-3 and 12-9. Very impressive. Prime Time went in to the Father's Day games undefeated, at 10-0. They got to 11-0 before the Master Batters took the second game, 9-6. The Beers and the Chupacabras played two good games. The Chupas have not one this season, but almost had two wins against the Beers. In the first game one infield mix up on a pop fly cost them the first game in extra innings and they just lost the second game by 2 runs. Cobra Kai took two from the Tongue Darts, 13-10 and 9-5. The Outfield Pub took two from the Platinum Hits, 15-3 and 36-3.

The Rockies and Evolution split. The Rockies won, 11-6 and Evolution won, 22-21. I think Lock and Load and the Bellmore Knights split, but the message with the scores was broken up on the phone. I will verify that later on today.


A NICE END TO THE WEEK

THURSDAY, JUNE 17
A nice week for softball ended with some teams playing on Thursday. My apologizes to the Hitmen, who went down to the field only to be told at the time they got down there that their opponent was not going to make it down. They were gentlemen about it and will move on to play next week. The Reruns met up with the Bulls, who had already played on Tuesday, I am trying to get some teams to play on Thursday, to make games up because I have some field time available. The Bulls won their games on Tuesday and split with the always tough Reruns. The Reruns won the first game 12-4, but the Bulls pulled off a nice 8-7 victory. Sportin' Wood and the Apaches met up for a pair. The Apache's took the first one and Sportin' Wood came back and pulled off a win in the second game.


THE THREAT OF RAIN...BUT NO RAIN

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6
After last week's rain out on Wednesday, I was hoping the rain would hold off and it did. Wednesday is the busiest day of the week for Major Sports. I usually have 12 to 14 teams playing, while on other days I have 4 to 6 teams. So, I wanted to get these games in and we did. The Highway Homers took on the Muckdogs and took two games. They won, 6-4 and 15-5. The Gas House Gorillas came over to Brookwood Hall from Venetian Shores and met up with GSI. GSI won the first game, 7-5 and the Gorillas took the second game, 10-4. The Black Sox are playing their best softball in 4 years. They took two from the Eliminators, 12-8 and 13-0. The Zoo shut down Night Blindness, 20-8and 23-8. Morning Wood met up with the Weekend Warriors and won their two, 13- and 10-4.


BULLS AND RAIDERS SWEEP

TUESDAY, JUNE 15
The Bulls played their best games of the year last night. They took on Gios Pizza a team that can get after it with the best and took them out in two marathon games. The Bulls won, 19-10 and 2-16. The Raiders, who started late in the season, but will be catching up when they start to play twice a week, met up with the Titans. The first game was a give and take until the end when the Raiders push a couple of runs across late and took the first one, 11-9. The second game they opened up on the Titans, who were bang up with injuries and won that one, 12-5. The Silver Bullets took two from the Renegades, 10-7 and 12-5. Zoinks and PCI Services met up and both teams got a win. The Service winnin, 6-5 and the Zoinks winning, 8-3.


WARRIORS CLIP THE SHAMROCKS

MONDAY, JUNE 14
The Warriors are on a roll, winning last week against the Master Batters and this week taking two from an always tough Shamrocks team. The scores were, 15-3 and 15-7. The Master Batters and the Box Slayers split. The Batters won, 11-10 and the Box men won, 3-2.


A THREAT OF RAIN, BUT...WE GOT THEM ALL IN

SUNDAY, JUNE 13
Throughout the weekend phone calls all I heard was ,"Do you think we are going to get the games in". Well, here it is Monday morning and I can say, "Yes". We did get them all in. Only two teams did not play and that was Lock & Load, who had the bye this week in Nassau and my boys the Chupacabras.

The Marauders took on the Smithtown F.D., who seem to have lost a little juice with their manager out. The Marauders took them on and beat them, 15-1 in the first game and,12- 6 in the night cap. JJK, after being the first number one on the Major Sports Top 25, have dropped 4 in a row. The Degenerates took them last night, 6-5 and 15-3. After a little hold up at Venetian, McBrides took on and beat the Young Guns, 14-2 and 13-3. The White Sox played their best ball of the season last night against the Skid Marks, who beat JJK last week to give that team their first losses. The Sox erased the Skids, 14-2 and 10-6. Schaefer BMW, is playing good softball, I believe they are now, 11-1. Hit For Brains, came into the match up with BMW with a good softball team. Two close games and two wins for the boys from BMW, 7-3 and 8-6. Organized Chaos met up with the Beavers and dropped two. The Beavers took them, 15-10 and 15-5. The Slackers, now known as D.E.A. almost got their first win against a good Go Hards team. The Hards won the first game, 17-5, but the D.E.A. had the Hards on the ropes the whole second game, in the lead most of the game, until the last two innings when the Go Hards, push across a couple of late runs to win, 13-11. 12 Angry Men and Hola Hovita split, with the 12 winning, 11-10 and Hola winning, 16-4.

Cougar Bait, the 0-10 team in the league, got a couple of wins against Road Kill. They won, 20-14 and 19-7. The A's had a good day taking two from the Cobra Kai. Timely hits and good fielding by the A's carried the day. Platinum Hits met up with the Diamondbacks and both teams got victories. The Hit's won, 12-6 and the Diamondback's won, 2-0 That is 2 second game shut outs for the Diamondback's in the last two weeks. It may be a Major Sports record. The Kore took two from their good friends the Tongue Darts, 15-7 and 13-1. The Gorillaz split with Eight Men Out, winning, 14-10 and losing, 14-6. UTI is drinking some good Kool Aid these days, off to their best start ever in Major Sports. They took on and beat the Hang Ovas, 13-10 and 25-6. Talk about good starts, How about those boys on Prime Time", they are 10-0 after taking on and beating The Beers, 16-15 and 11-2. The Outfield Pub and the Rebels met down at East Islip Marina, it was not windy so it was a low scoring doubleheader. The Pub won two, 7-2 and 10-5.

Evolution met up with the Untouchables and took the pair, 18-9 and 18-2. The Rockies came up with two big wins, they first sweep of the season. Taking two from the Bellmore Knights, 10-9 and 11-6.


ALL TEAMS SPLIT

THURSDAY, JUNE 10
The Black Sox split with Zoinks and the Silver Bullets split with Sportin Wood. They were the only games played.


ALL GAMES RAINED OUT

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9
I though we might have a chance to get one or two doubleheaders in, but the little window of time the rain did not fall was two short.


MORNING WOOD AND HITMEN SWEEP

TUESDAY, JUNE 8
Great weather and good softball. That was the menu for Tuesday. The Titans and Morning Wood got together to mix it up and the Wood got the best of the Titans to take two. The Titans, like Morning Wood are new teams and both teams have the same laid back, let's play two and have a great time playing some softball. I umpired the game and once again every time there was a good play the opponent was the first to acknowledge it. As I looked around the field during play, if runners were on they would be talking it up with the second baseman or short stop like they had been playing against each other for years. To good teams with real sportsman on both benches.

The Hitmen are playing some good softball. They met up with Gios Pizza and took a pair. The first one was like a soccer score, 3-1. However, in the second game both teams got the bats heated up and put up 24 runs between them. The Hitmen put up 18 of those to take two.

OLD SCHOOL VS NEW SCHOOL

MONDAY, JUNE 7
I had the pleasure of umpiring a good doubleheader tonight. The Warriors vs Master Batters. Two very good games, two very classy teams. Now let me fill you in on some of the history of these two teams. One of the players on the Warriors, Jay Finneran, I played with back in the mid-70's. Now my calender says that was 35 years ago. The Warriors are an older team, sprinkled with fathers and sons. Now the Master Batters are all from Bellport and just about every player on that team were taught math by my younger sister, who has been at Bellport High School for 32 years. All young studs, good athletes and better yet, good guys as their opponent the Warriors are. It was a perfect night for softball and the bats were hot. In the first game, the Warriros took an 8-6 victory. In the second after spotting the Master Batters 4 early runs, they came back inning by inning and carve out a 16-11 victory. All through the night there was one good play after another and it was a pleasure to see each team recognizing their opponents efforts. Competitive, sportsman like. It was my pleasure doing that doubleheader.

The Shamrocks met up with PCI Services and it was another doubleheader to two good teams going at it. The Service took the fist game, 11-3 and the Shamrocks came back for a 12-4 victory. The Eliminators took on the Box Slayers. In the opening game the Eliminators took a defensive gem, 3-2, but the Slayers came back with some hot bats in the second game and they needed to, because the Eliminators put 18 runs. However the Slayers prevailed in a 21-18 victory.


GO DUKE!!!
This is a little off the softball radar, but I have to tip my hat to the Duke Lacrosse team for winning the National Championship on Memorial Day. They beat Virginia, 11-10 with 12 seconds to go in the game in the semi-finals on Saturday and then met Nortre Dame in the final. Nortre Dame had beat them during the season by 3 or 4 goals. However, on this day it seemed as is all the stars were perfectly aligned for a Duke victory.Most of us know what the team had to endure four years ago. They actually had dropped the program after some crack-head prostitute had said she was raped by some Duke players. We all know how the story ended, but it showed how shadowy and corrupt the law can be sometimes. Anyway, Duke and Nortre Dame were tied, 6-6 after regulation play. In college Lacrosse overtime is sudden death, and C.J. Costible the face off man for Duke at the start of overtime, wanted to make sure death was sudden for Nortre Dame. He won the face off and went right down the middle of the field with his long stick ( he plays defense) and let it fly into the back of the net for a Duke victory 6 seconds into overtime. I was happy that Duke won and would have been pulling for them even if my nephew was not one of Duke's players. I had the honor of lining up against Duke twice when I played Lacrosse at East Carolina in 1970 and 71. Memorial Day was a good day for college Lacrosse.


SOFTBALL AFTER THE MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY

SUNDAY, JUNE 6
Cougar Bait, the best team in Major Sports that has not one a game this year. The Cougars go at it every week and have lost a bunch of close games, but they have not tasted victory yet. They will and soon. The dropped two close games this week to Platinum Hits losing, 10-6 and 12-11. Road Kill and Eight Men Out split a pair this week. The Eight won, 11-8 and Road Kill bounced back for a 13-1 victory. UTI beat the Tongue Darts for a pair at Brookwood. The Hang Ovas won the first game against the Master Batters, 19-18, but the Batters came back and took the second game, 9-7. The Kore met up with the Diamonbacks and took the first game, 9-8. In the second game, well it is hard to believe it when I heard the score, but both teams put their bats to sleep and came up with about 8 double plays and the Diamondbacks won, 1-0. The A's took on the Rebel's dropping the first game, 5-1 and coming back for a 13-10 victory in the second game. The Outfield Pub met up with the Gorillaz. The Pub pounded their opponents in the first game, 15-1, but the Gorillaz fought back and won the second game, 11-9.

The Nassau 5, that is the five teams that play in Nassau in the mornings are tearing each other up. There are no week teams and every week the competition is there. Lock & Load split with Evoultion winning, 16-10 and losing, 16-10. The Untouchables got the best of the Rockies for a pair of wins in two barn burners, 20-19 and 19-7.

The Suffol Sunday night teams got back to playing after a little rain scare that never materialized. Schaefer BMW is playing good softball. They took on a good team in the Go Hards and took two one run games, 15-14 and 13-12. The White Sox took two from the Killer Kleats, 15-3 and 20-8. The Beavers took on and beat McBrides in the first game, 23-20. Mcbrides came back for a, 17-4 win. Hit For Brains playing in the wind tunnel that is East Islip Marina on a winding night, beat the Young Guns, 31-1 and 7-6. 12 Angry Men took two from Organized Chaos, 15-3 and 17-5.

JJK went into their games with Skidmark's undefeated and on top of the Top 25. When the winds had died down and the teams shook hands in the infield Skidmark's had put hurt on the proud JJK 10. They took two, 15-13 and 13-7.


HITMEN TAKE TWO

THURSDAY, JUNE 3
It is starting to feel like summer. The Hitmen took on and beat the Box Slayers in a pair. Winning, 8-5 and 16-4.


GSI TAKE TWO FROM RERUNS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
When I got to Hidden Pond Park the first thing the GSI manager said to me was, "We're playing the Reruns..." I told him you never know, just play the games. You never know...GSI took both games from a Rerun team that did not hit for 14 innings. GSI won 5-3 and 9-3. The Apaches dropped the first game to Morning Wood 21-12 and then scored 8 runs in the top of the 7th to add to their lead in the second game. However, Morning Wood came back in the bottom of the 7th and scored 10 to win, 17-16. Weekend Warriros and the Bulls split their two games, the Weekender's won 14-2 and the Bulls came back for a 14-6 victory.

The Eliminators shook off the dust after a layoff of a couple of years and are playing good softball now. They split with a good Zoo team, winning 10-9 and losing 22-10. The Black Sox got going and took two from Night Blindness, 21-9 and 22-16. The Muckdogs get over to Venetian about twice a year and they split with their opponent the Gashouse Gorillas, losing 10-6 and winning 7-6.


LATE RAIN KNOCKS OUT NIGHT GAME

TUESDAY, JUNE 1
At least we got some games in. The rain came from the north, so it hit Hidden Pond first and the 6pm teams could only get one game in. Down at Brookwood Hall they played through some bad rain, but they got the games in. The Warriors and Zoinks split with the Zoinks winning, 19-7 and the wet Warriors coming back for a, 17-11 win. The Raiders and the Titans split as well with the Raiders taking the first game 13-4, and the Titans winning, 19-7. The Renegades and Gios Pizza were rained out.


WHAT MEMORIAL DAY MEANS TO ME
This is a day where my memories turn to the stories my father would tell my brothers and I about World War II. My father was overseas for 29 consecutive months. He fought in North Africa,  Sicily,  Italy and up into France where he was when the war ended. France was also where his younger brother Timothy's life ended. Valedictorian of LaSalle High School in NYC in 1943, he was killed by a German sniper during the Battle of the Ardennes, better known as the Battle of the Bulge, in house-to-house fighting trying to save a solider who was shot in the street right in front of him. That was December, 1944. He and 6 American wounded were taken to a church that night in Rensdorf where they awaited evacuation. Later that night Allied bombers leveled Rensdorf  and those soldiers were never found. Forever young... dead at 19.

Either Aristotle or Socrates said it best, " Only the dead have seen the end of war". Now, 65 years later our boys are still mixing it up with the bad guys. One of the managers in the league, Matt Hiller of the Box Slayers, is an active Marine, who has been over there for two or three tours. How many more players in the league have been over I am not sure, but I will tell you one thing, I for one could not be any prouder of anyone of them who has served. Young men like Matt, and if you talk with him it sounds as if his time over there was a walk in the sun. That is because he is a Marine and the American solider is the best fighting man in the world. It is because of men like him and the others that we all sleep better at night. The next time you see any military men or woman take the time to walk over and shale their hand and tell them what you think of them. I know what I think of them...Semper Fidelis.


RERUNS TAKE A PAIR

THURSDAY, MAY 27
The last games of the week before the Memorial day break had the Reruns playing Sportin' Wood. The first game was a back and forth for awhile and then the Reruns opened up for a, 14-5 win. The second game was a Rerun victory, 13-0.

A BUSY NIGHT OF SOFTBALL

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26
Wednesday is the busiest day of the week in Major Sports. Last night about 10 mixed it up and here are the results. The Titans took on and beat their pals the Weekend Warriors for their first win of the the season. The Weekender's took the first game, 7-6 and the Titans got to drink from the Victory Cup winning, 23-5. GSI split with the Apaches, winning 7-6 and they losing, 13-4. The Eliminators got to mix it up with Night Blindness and both teams got a victory. The Night won, 18-3 and the Eliminators won, 18-9. The Box Slayers are a good team. They went out and took the first from a very good Zoo team, 17-2 and then the Zoo regroup and won the night cap, 9-8. Morning Wood got two wins over the Gas House Gorillas, winning, 11-5 and 15-6.


GIOS, ZOINKS AND HITMEN ALL SWEEP

TUESDAY, MAY 25
As we close down a busy month of softball with some great weather, Tuesday turned out to be, "Sweep Tuesday". The Highway Homers one of my all time favorite teams, they have played more games in Major Sports, 17 years, than anyone. Tuesday the young bloods of Gios Pizza got the best of them and one a pair. Zoinks beat a good PCI Service team for a pair of wins, 13-7 and 21-9. and the Hitmen took on and beat the Renegades, 9-5 and 9-7.


MUCK DOGS SPLIT WITH A GOOD SHAMROCK TEAM

MONDAY, MAY 24
The Muck Dogs are a good bunch of guys that go out each week and have fun playing the game. Last night they had fun and almost took two games from a very good Shamrocks team. The Dog's won the first game, 16-4. A very impressive win. They were tied with the Shamrocks late in the second game when the Rocks put up about 6 in the top of the 7th and answered that game with a win. The Silver Bullets split with the Warriors. Winning, 10-6 and losing, 11-10. The Box Slayers met up with the Master Batters and took two games at Hidden Pond, 11-3 and 12-6.


A NICE FINISH  FOR THE MONTH OF MAY

SUNDAY, MAY 23
After an opening day rain out back in April and a up and down weather pattern in May where in early May in was 85 degrees and in mid May it was 40 degrees. With the last Sunday of May softball in the books we did get a lot of games in. Only a few teams will play over Memorial Day weekend if any. So, here are the results from the last Sunday in May.

In Nassau County, with 5 veteran teams going at it each week, every game is a good one. The Bellmore Knights seem to be playing some of the best softball early in the season and the Rockis are playing good softball, but just not getting the breaks. I think they have lost 4 one run games. The Knights took them, 9-8 and 11-9. Lock & Load and the Untouchables split. The Lock won, 21-14 and the Untouchables came back with a, 17-5 win.

In Suffolk Road Kill and the Diamond Backs mixed it up and the Kill took two, 7-6 and 5-0. Cougar Bait played tough against the Outfield Pub, but could not beat the always tough Pub. The Pub won, 11- and 9-4. The Hang Ovas took two from Chupacabras, 12-0 and 8-4. Prime Time goes into the Memorial Day break undefeated. They took two more from the Tongue Darts, 14-11 and 12-1. The Rebels gave Eight Men Out their first loss on Sunday. They won the second game, 15-4 after dropping the first one to the Eight, 10-8. The Gorillaz took two from a game Platinum Hits, 20-7 and 15-11. UTI played well against the Cobra Kai and took a pair, 12-8 and 19-6. The Master Batters played well and took two from The Beers, 14-2 and 10-3. The A's mixed it up with The Kore and both teams one a game. The A's won, 5-1 and The Kore won, 12-5.

The Degenerates keep winning. They took on a beat the Hola Hovitas, 13-8 and 13-6. JJK looks better each week. They matched up with a good Hit For Brains 10 and took two, 15-3 and 24-12. The Beavers got their first win against the Young Guns. They won the first game, 14-13 and then the Guns took the second game, 15-7. McBrides is playing well and they matched up with their old nemesis, the Silver Bullets, who are now known as the Skidmarks. McBrides won, 9-5 and 10-5. The Go Hards took split with 12 Angry Men and split. The Go Hards won, 15-3 and then the 12 came back and won the second game, 5-4. The Marauders took two from the Slackers, 19-7 and 11-8. Organized Chaos washed the Black Sox, 14-7 and 9-7.



RERUNS TAKE A TOUGH TWO

Thursday, May 20
After a bad start to the week with rain and overcast skies, maybe the summer like weather is here to stay. The Reruns took on the Warriors in what I knew would be a good match up. When the dust had cleared the Reruns won, 9-8 and 14-9. The Bulls met up with the Zoinks. The Bulls won the first game, 5-4 and both teams will get a win, because they tied, 10-10. When the lights finally went on down at East Islip Marina, the Silver Bullets and Hitmen played good softball and each team went home with a win. The Hitmen won 12-11 and the Bullets bounced back for a 11-6 win.


WE GOT A FEW IN

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19
After seeing it rain all day Tuesday I knew it was going to a tough one on Wednesday trying to get all the games in. I know what fields I can resurrect and the ones that are lost causes. With no sun the whole day to help in the process, half the teams did not play. The Muck Dogs took on and beat the Titans, 14-2 and 15-3. The Wood's hooked up for a game, that is Morning Wood and Sportin' Wood. S. Wook won the first game, 13-12 and Morning Wood came back for a 16-4 victory. Night Blindness took on and beat the Eliminators in two one-run games, winning 10-9 and 17-16.


BOX SLAYERS TAKE BLACK  SOX

MONDAY, MAY 17
The Black Sox finally got started. Nick Burns and I have been talking for two months and finally they got to play some softball last night. The Box Slayers won a close first game, 11-9 and then they pulled away in the second game, 14-4.


EIGHT MEN OUT ARE BACK

SUNDAY, MAY 16
What a day for softball after the misery of an arctic spring. I am fighting a cold right now due to this on godly weather. Eight Men Out, who have had some slow starts the last couple of years are off to a flying start at, 6-0. They took two more games this past Sunday against Cougar Bait to bring them to that lofty perch as one of just a few undefeated teams in a young season. They won, 12-9 and 10-6. The Tongue Darts and the Cobra Kai met up for the first time. The Cobra's are a new team and they mixed it up well with the Dart's, but the Dart's stuck it to them and took the pair, 17-16 and 18-6. Road Kill bounced back from two losses last week against Outfield Pub and took the first game against a tough Gorillaz team by a score of 16-13. They could not take them both and lost the second game, 13-7. The Master Batters, the Sunday morning Master Batters played their first games of the season. They boys just got back from college. They played with inspiration, but lost two one run games to the A's, 3-2 and 9-8. The Killer Kleat's just got started this week, they will play in the 5pm division, but played this Sunday morning. They dropped two to a....wait a minute, an undefeated Prime Time team. The father's and son's of Prime Time are on a tear. They won, 4-3 and 14-4. The Beers took two from the Chupacabras, 12-3 and 10-3. Outfield Pub seems to be cutting through the division like a knife. They took on a beat Platinum Gold, 9-0 and 15-3. The Diamondback's took a pair from the Hang Ovas, 10-7 and 12-0. The Kore did not play this week, but it was not Rocco's fault. Let's just say their was a little bit of wire crossing that went on and in the end The Kore sat, but it was not the Rock's doing. UTI took two from the Rebels, 7-6 and 23-11.

In Nassau Lock & Load took on the Rockies and split the pair. I know the Load won, 26-10, but I did not get the Rockies score in their second game win. The Bellmore Knights took on Evoultion and they split. The Knights won, 15-8 and Evolution came back and took the second one, 17-8.

In the Sunday Night divisions in Suffolk the Smithtown F.D. took on the Degenerates and could not get going in the first game and dropped it, 25-2. However, softball being the strange game it is, the F.D. found away to win the second game, 5-3. Hola Hovita took two from Organized Chaos, 8-7 and 9-8. McBrides might be playing their best softball in years. The beat the Beavers, 16-1 and 23-8. Their was a split between Skidmark's and the White Sox. The Sox won, 18-11 and the Skids won, 15-10. The Young Guns and the Marauders split their pair with two one run wins for each team. The Marauders took the fist game, 7-6 and the Gun's won, 15-14. Schaefer BMW took on and beat the Slackers, 27-15 and 26-5. Hit For Brains is off to a good start, this week they looked like they were going to sweep the Go Hard's after taking a, 8-0 win in the first game. However, the Go Hard's answered them with a, 8-7 victory. JJK took on and beat 12 Angry Men, 13-1 and 27-18.

One more week of Sunday softball before the Memorial Day break. If any teams want to play on Memorial Day Sunday, let me know as soon as you can. Some teams want to play.


PLAYING SOFTBALL

THURSDAY, MAY 13
Well it was not May-like, but I will take a dry day. Sportin Wood', the old Techno Cat team from way back, got started tonight. The father Louis was playing in the league when his boys were tiny tots, now they play right along side him. Now that is COOL. They split with Zoinks after dropping the first one, 8-6 they came back for a 7-6 win. Both teams forgot their bases, but someone went out and got some.

The Reruns won a pair from a new team the Bulls, winning, 8-1 and 5-0. In the night division it was the Silver Bullets and Hiller's Killer's splitting. The Bullets won, 9-7 and the Killers won, 24-23.


RAINED OUT

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
Washed away...


MARCH WEATHER IN MAY

TUESDAY, MAY 11
What happened to that real nice weather we had last week? The hawk was out today and let us hope that May weather is still around the corner. This weekend they say it is. PCI took a pair of wins home last night. They played a new team and they had a little two much offense for the them. The Hitmen and Gios split last night. The Hitmen won the first game 11-4 and Gios bounced back for a 13-6 win. It does not look good for tomorrow's games.


MUCKDOGS ALMOST COME BACK

MONDAY, MAY 10
The Muckdogs met up with the Master Batters in another good match up like last week. The Masters took the first game in a back and forth game. They won that one 11-8. By the way, the Master Batters have added a few players and one of them, their shortstop can swing the stick. In the second game the Master put up a fast 10 runs and at that time I thought it was over. However, the Muckdogs, showed me that it was not over. They caught up to the MB's with 8 runs in one inning and each team added a few runs here and there. In the end it was the Master Batters with a,15-14 win.

The Warriors met up with the Shamrocks and I knew this would be a good one. The Warriors took a first game barn burner, 16-15. The second game went their way too and they won that one 9-6. The Silver Bullets beat The Zoo in their first game, 9-7, and then The Zoo came back for a 10-9 win in the second game.


MOTHER'S DAY SUNDAY

SUNDAY, MAY 9
No matter where you played today it was windy. I was up at Hidden Pond in the morning and afternoon, which is usually a sanctuary for wind, but not today. At least 7 or 8 times during the 5pm doubleheader they had to stop the game because of the wind. No one was spared the Winds of Thor today.

A few teams always call during the week leading up to Mother's Day saying they cannot muster a team. As long as I get the call early in the week I can usually work something out for the opponent. Everything worked out fine this week with match ups. I had to pull some switches, but it all worked out.

The Outfield Pub poleaxed Road Kill in the first game, 35-6. They did not let up and beat them in the second game, 23-5. The Kore took the first game against UTI, 21-10 and then UTI bounced back for a second game win. Eight Men Out took on Cougar Bait and took a pair. Winning 14-12 and 14-13. The A's met up with the Hang Ovas at Hidden Pond. The A's took the first game, 16-4 and Hang Ovas took the second game, 10-6. The Diamonbacks bit the Tongue Darts for two wins, 9-8 and 16-4. Prime Time played their pals The Beers, winning, 14-9 and 17-5. Cobra Kai took their first games of the young season beat the Chopacabras, 13-3 and 12-9.

In the night division in Suffolk the Smithtown F.D. came out smoking in their first games of the season and won a pair over the Slackers. McBrides over at wind blown Venetian took on the Go Hards and won, 15-3 and 18-6. JJK playing good softball early on took two from the White Sox, 23-14 and 21-9. Once Hola Hovita got to the field they played well. They beat Organized Chaos in two games, 16-14 and 9-7. The Marauders and Schaefer BMW played offensive softball. BMW won, 20-19 and the Marauders won, 2420. Hit For Brains beat the Beavers, 10-6 and 16-1. I thing the Beavers were short because of Mother's Day. Skidmarks took on and beat the Young Guns, 24-12 and 21-9.

Nassau Sunday mornings is going to be a tough conference. Their are only 5 teams, but all veteran teams that have played in Major Sports for years. Lock and Load got beat by Evolution in a pair, 18-5 and 13-12. The Bellmor Knights played the Untouchables and the teams split their games.


SILVER BULLETS TAKE TWO MORE

THURSDAY, MAY 6
The Silver Bullets is a team that will play a hybrid season. They will play some at night and some during twilight. They played Wednesday night and took two on Thursday, beating the Warriors. Some of the players from the old twilight Cardinals are back as Zoinks. They met up with the always tough Reruns, who have been playing for 13 or 14 years. Zoinks took the first game 7-4 and the Reruns bounced back with a 12-8 victory.


A BUSY WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5
Wednesday will be a day loaded with games each and every week. Over at Brookwood Hall one of the new teams the Titans met up with the Apaches. The Apaches played well and took both games, 12-2 and 9-1. Another new team, the Bulls, met up with the Highway Homers, a team that has been in the league longer than any other -- an unbelievable 18 of the 19 years. The Bulls played well, but dropped two to the Homers, 20-8 and 15-10. Morning Wood, playing their first year in the league, met up with the Ole Gashouse Gorillas. The Gorillas have mustered 15 of the 19 years for Major Sports. Both teams took home a victory. The Gas House won 8-6 and The Wood won 19-6.

In the night division the Renegades split with the Hitmen, winning11-10. The Hitmen won, 11-10. In a wind blown game at the Wind Tunnel that is East Islip, the Silver Bullets took two, 19-7 and 29-17.


PCI AND GIO'S OPEN UP

TUESDAY, MAY 4
A June-like day in May. The way the weather is on Long Island in May, it could be 40 degrees tomorrow. PCI and Gios met up for the first time this year to open up their seasons. They have opened up the last three years. Gios got the best of PCI in the first game with a well played 5-4 victory. After both teams shook off a winter's worth of cobwebs, the bats exploded. Both teams put up 14 runs before night fell. Both teams will get victories for the tie.

THE ZOO TAKE TWO

MONDAY, MAY 3
The Zoo is off to a good start this year. A good team that took the title last year and is rocking early this year. They beat the Eliminators, 12-0 and 14-2. The Shamrocks met up with GSI to start their season's. GSI took the first game, 10-9, but the Shamrocks came back to answer, with a very unusual softball score of 3-0. The Muck Dogs met up with the Master Batters for their opening games. The Batters took off in the first game and won, 12-3. The Muck Dogs showed some softball skills in a 3-2 second game win.


FINALLY, OPENING DAY!

SUNDAY, MAY 2
Not a bad day for softball. Not a bad day for opening day #19. This goes down as one of the nicer days in 19 years of softball. This is always a day that I drive around doing fields all day and seeing teams that have played for as much as 10 to 18 years and some teams that are playing in Major Sports for the first time. Time flies, because I remember the first opening day back in 1992 like it was yesterday.

Road Kill got off to a good start against a playoff winner last year, Cougar Bait. They were the Panthers last year. The Kill won, 14-13 and 15-3. The A's and The Beers split with the A's winning, 17-5 and The Beers winning, 16-15. Another split had the Platinum Hits beating the Rebels, 8-1 and then the Rebels coming back for a, 14-9 win. The Outfield Pub, split with the Gorillaz, winning 16-9 and then dropping the second game, 13-5. Eight Men Out are off to a good start beating the Diamondbacks in their opener, 8-1 and 13-6. Prime Time took two from the Chupacabras, 19-7 and 16-4. The Kore took a pair from their pals, the Tongue Darts. Winning, 7-4 and 5-4. The Hang Ovas got the best of Cobra Kai taking the doubleheader.

In Nassau County old foes met for the first time this year. Evolution took two from the Rockies, 22-9 and 18-6. Lock & Load met up with the Bellmore Knights and both teams tasted victory. The Locker's won, 17-5 and the Knights won, 12-9. I feel bad for the Untouchables. A new team joined up this year, a team the has friends on it the the Untouchables know, Balls Deep. Yesterday, the Untouchables were game ready and Balls Deep were no where to be found. Sorry, Phil.

In the night divisions in Suffolk County. JJK got off to a good start by beating some friends of theirs, Hola Hovita, 22-9 and 22-5. The Go Hards took a pair from the Marauders, 15-6 and 9-5. The White Sox split with McBrides, winning, 8-6 and losing, 20-12. 12 Angry Men took two from the Beavers, 11-7 and 25-13. The Degenerates beat the Young Guns, 12-10 and 14-6. Organized Chaos took the first game from the Skidmarks, 8-7 and then the Skid's came back for a 13-1 victory. My apologies to Schaefer BMW, who looked resplendent in their new game jersey, because the Smithtown Fire Department had to answer a ambulance call.

FIRST GAMES OF 2010

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28
The umpires pointed at the pitcher and said, "Play Ball..." and finally, play ball they did. The first games of the 2010 season went off last night at Hidden Pond. In the first game of a nice match up, the Renegades took two from The Zoo, 13-12. The Zoo won the division last year, but the 'Gades got the best of them in a well played first game. Good teams bounce back and that is what The Zoo did, taking the second game, 18-13.