Standings

Here are the division 3 standings. I've got a handful of questions about how we're doing compared to the other teams, and what-not.


OC- Silver 10-3
OC-Crossroads 9-5
Life Church 8-4
Brookfield-Green 8-4
Calvary 3-9
New Life 0-12

These standings can be found at MilwaukeeRecreation.net . "Sports standings" should be center page. Click there and the softball standings are the only thing listed right now. Watch what date they updated it on, they are not always prompt. Our league # is MS-802. Its around the middle of the pdf file.

Players..... There will be practice tonight, provided it does not rain. Its in the forecast, but they're just guessing. Whitman Park on 52nd and Plainfield.

The Coach
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Total Team Effort

Almost everyone got on base in tonight's game, plenty of base hits, even a couple of homeruns. A pair of GRAND SLAMS from Tim. Basically everyone stepped up their game tonight. Only 1 error (of note) on defense, and offensively the on-base pencentage was .786, which is amazing. I was very pleased to see this especially after we had a week where we had not even one full practice. Good job guys!

There is no game on Memorial Day, so players, get prepared. The following week we have a double-header against our in-church rival Oak Creek Silver, and we'll need to be prepared. Especially defensively. But still hit the cages and try to make Thursday practices. I know Sunday practices are hard to make for some, but our turnout has been very low and I would like to see more players there if they are available.

Once again, for the people who could not make it, I was hoping some players could fill in their reflections of the game. It turned out to be a very lop-sided game, in favor of Crossroads. But my hat is off to the New Life players for keeping their head up and having a positive attitude thoughout the game. The final score was 27-1. I've been on the other side of worse beatings than that before, and I must say that it is tough to keep a smile on and have fun. But they did.

5-1
The Coach

Schedule repost
April 24 - 7:15 - OC-Silver W 14-13
May 1 - 7:15 - Life Church (rained-out)
May 8 - 8:15+9:15 - Calvary W 11-7 W 14-13
May 15 - 8:15+9:15 - Brookfield Green L 22-12 W 16-7
May 22 - 6:15 - New Life W 27-1
May 29 - Memorial Day - No Games!
June 5 - 8:15+9:15 - OC-Silver L/L
June 12 - 8:15+9:15 - Life Church W/L
June 19 - 6:15 - Calvary W
June 26 - 6:15 - Brookfield Green L
July 3 - Independence day (eve?) - No Games!
July 10 - 7:15 - New Life W
July 17 - 6:15 - New Life W

No Thursday Night Practice

Due to the men's ministries cookout tonight and many players telling me they could not make the practice, there will be no alternate practice tonight. Please do make an effort to hit the batting cages and maybe play catch, or do fielding practices with someone. I also will need a volunteer to run practice on Sunday afternoon, I will not be available.

The Coach

One Up, One Down

Well, we took one out of two in the double-header with Brookfield Green. In the first game, they jumped out to a quick, large lead and added some runs almost every inning. They had alot of extra-base hits, including some homeruns, and with a handful of errors on our end, they put us out of the game quickly. Offensively, we did not get going very quickly. It wasn't until the 4th inning that we put up a sizable amount, but it still wasn't enough to catch up. In the 4th, after some runs had already come across, we had the bases loaded and Tim hit an over-the-wall homerun for a GRAND SLAM! But the final score still was 22-12.

So we suffered our first loss of the season, but the team regrouped. Realizing that the night was far from over, we got focused and got ready to bat first in the second game. Our offense got off to a slow start, but our defense played much more solidly. After 5 innings, we managed to hold them down to only7 runs. We came up to bat with the score 10-7, and I urged the team to get some insurance runs. A 3 run lead on a team that put up 22 runs the game before, would not be safe. So the team responded. With the bases loaded again, Ryan came up to bat and launched one high into right-center field that hit the fence less than 6 feet from the top. With two outs already, the players were running on contact. The ball came off the fence with an odd bounce and the outfielder had to do some extra running to get it, but by the time he picked it up, Ryan was approaching third and getting ready to round it for home. The oufielder made a panicked throw which went over the cut-off's head and that gave Ryan enough time to come home for an in the park GRAND SLAM!

By the time the inning was over, we had six extra insurance runs to have a 16-7 lead. When Brookfield came up to bat, our defense held them to only 4 batters and no runs. So the final was 16-7. I was proud of the team to bounce back after a big loss, and the first one of our season.

As you can see, our team can put up runs. 14, 11, 14, 12, 16 (our first 5 games). There are teams in this division that know how to get base hits and run up the score, but our defense still needs work. So players; if you are available, try your best to be at this Thursday's practice. Fielding will be heavily stressed. Same with Sunday. If you can't make Sunday practices, please let me know.

Still a division best,
4-1

The Coach

5-15 Game Questionable

Tonight's game is questionable. With as much rain as we received over the past 5 days, our fields might be in poor condition and not ready to be played on. The field office does not have any info until 5:00PM. As soon as I find out whether or not there is a game, I will call everyone and let them know.

If we DO play, don't forget we have a double header tonight starting at 8:15, against Brookfield Green.

Thats all for now
The Coach

Should we be charging for this level of entertainment???

Ok. First off, the title is just a joke. But it does help you understand the level of excitement that our games are at. We did put together another final inning walk-off-hit-win in a game we trailed from the very 1st inning. The first game of the double-header we controlled from the beginning, and held a very good Calvary team to only 7 runs. Game 1 was 11-7 (W) and game 2 was 14-13 (W).

There is alot that can be said about these games....so if you missed them, was what YOU were doing THAT important? Once again, just kidding. I'm going to leave this post short (at least for now) and I hope the players will fill in their own personal highlights of the games in the comments to help you see what you may have missed.

For everyone that was there....I'm extremely proud of my team for sticking together and NOT giving up, even when things weren't looking good. And our fans, we've been hearing you, and we've responded.......OC Crossroads softball, a perfect 3-0.

The Coach

AP: Let's Try Another Field

As all of the guys know, at least the ones that came last week, our regular practice field is unavailable for Thursday practices. We will be trying the fields on 51st and Coldspring today. I'm told they are definitely available during the week, and I'm hoping they are. It will still be at 6:00, if you have any questions call me anytime after 4:30 (414-737-0093).

Yar.