PSC softball: Alan’s Army Triumph Twice over Perry’s Patrolmen at Softball Sunday

Game 1 Perry’s Patrolmen elected to bat first and got off to a fine start with a hit from Ernie (who sadly will be leaving us to be a real seaman again for a while), followed by a 2 run dinger from our ever improving John Stockton. Alan’s Army struck back with lethal force! They got homeruns from Mark and Rick Harris (who were voted co-MVPs for their overall hitting performance) to go up by a score of 5-2. The Patrolmen were persistent, and kept nibbling at the lead. They scored 2 in the second,1 in the third, and two in the fourth to take the lead for their first and only time of the game 7-6. But Alan’s Army also battled back, and scored four in the fifth, with the highlight being a LONG triple by the speedster known as Dirk (would have been at least a 5 base hit if anyone else was rounding the bases, but he did go 5 for 5 in the game and almost hit for the cycle), and solid hits from new recruit Scott D. The Patrolmen continued to make a game of it, but came up 3 runs short in the final inning to lose 13-10.

Game2 With such a tight first game, the captains decided to keep the same teams for the second half of the doubleheader. Rhys and Josh were added to Alan’s side, while John CF gave Perry’s side a lift. This game turned out to be a marathon, as it eventually went 10 innings. After a few innings of pitching, Phil relieved Alan, and the hit parade continued. Perry’s teams jumped out to a 2-0 lead after two, but were down 6-3 in the fourth. Josh, Rhys, Phil and Ben had strong hitting games for the Army men who went into the final inning up by a score of 8 to 4. The Patrolmen rallied in the bottom of the ninth with singles by new recruit Mathew, Rocky, and a clutch two out single by Rick Z to tie the score and send the game to extra innings. In the top of the 10th Mark Reynolds banged a huge blast along the line in right field, that turned into a 3 run homer and was the play of the game. Alan’s Army scored 1 in the extra frame, but Scotty’s fly out to Phil finished them off, and they came up on the short side of the 11-9 final.

Due to the huge egos of some of our softballer, a new format is introduced into the weekly softball story. Batting statistics are shown below, because I am tired of hearing the following typical response of a member of the losing team “Yeah, we lost both games, but I went 10 for 10!” I hope that the facts will not lie, and we can all admit in the weeks to come, that we just are not that good! Enjoy