• Softball

2011 Softball season

Nominations for captain

• Dmass
• Kiwamu

Training tips

Training Tips

2010 Softball season

Training sessions:

Tuesdays, 4pm

Game plan:

Umpires:

17th June 2010, 6:30PM, Aidan Brooks - Kiwamu Izumi

1st July 2010, 5:15PM, Frank Seifert - Rana Adhikari

15th July 2010, 5:15PM, Peter Kalmus - Alastair Heptonstall

29th July 2010, 6:30PM, Mindy Jacobson - Jan Harms

Game 1 - vs Alberta Sunrise (17th June)

• Inning	1	2	3	4	5
  Score	4	1	0	0	1

Captain's analysis: After a fabolous first inning where our team operated like a softball machine, we somehow lost the grip and gave away a certain win. Heroic individual efforts could not compensate for our obvious deficits in batting for the rest of the game. Only superhuman will power made it possible to score another run in the last inning of the match. Unfortunately, we found out well after the game that the umpire has not even recognized the score so that the official final result was 5:23. In general, I think that it can be a good strategy to distract the umpire with violent body checks against weak opponents to do even meaner things elsewhere on the field, but we should try to avoid this in the future whenever we are about to score (unless a basewoman is standing between you and the base). I am almost certain that we could win games with our intelligence alone, but I would also be happy to see many of you at our next training session.

Notable efforts

• Stuart and Zach's outfield catches - nice work.
• Dmass telling the batter to hit the ball straight at him … and then having the ball hit straight at him.

Game 2 - vs Anti-Social Scientists (24th June)

• Inning	1	2	3	4	5
  Score	2	0	0	0	2

Captain's analysis: Jay would be proud of us if he had watched the match. The outfield defense has improved by orders of magnitude, and the infield was almost flawless. If this slope of progress can be maintained for the remaining season, then I can already see us measuring GW by Doppler-tracking of softballs. The final score was 4:16, which means amplitude versus power, string versus brane, etc. So how can anyone seriously consider this a defeat? Still, some more practicing of our batting would not hurt.

Notable efforts

• G&Z's excellent catering. This dinner should be served every week.

• Pictures taken by Rana

Note the eyes intently focused on the ball despite the huge gash on the leg.

Game 3 - vs Love Waves (1st July)

• Inning	1	2	3	4	5
  Score	1	6	0	2	2

Captain's analysis: First, I need to apologize that I never pay attention to our own scores. So the scores per inning are problably wrong for this week. The true reason for this is that we scored many more points as we usually do, and that it was quite challenging to keep track of our runs. It was a fantastic game. Many people got to the first base. So it seems like our training sessions are not in vain. Still, all this pinky, rosy, light blue sky talking is totally meaningless since we lost another match. Final score was 11:18. Too bad. Love was beating LIGO. However, improving our batting skills a little more and developing some rage in the field, we should be able to get our first victory next week. So let's kick butts in the next game and prove that we can maintain the pace of progress.

Notable efforts

• Nothing is greater than to see four of our people running home with a single hit. Stuart, you are a virtuoso di bastone (Italian speakers, please correct my grammar if necessary).

Game 4 - vs No Glove No Love (8th July)

• Inning	1	2	3	4	5	6
  Score	QU	IT	E	A	LO	T

Captain's analysis: "Speech, speech, speech!". The crowd was rioting after our impeccable 14:1 win yesterday. Yes, our horizon looked a little brighter that night. To quote another of these damn good English philosophers: thirty years of hurt never stopped me dreaming. A captain should say goodbye when the team is at its best. This is perfectly true, and therefore I need to stay captain for another three games. The field play this time was flawless, batting was ok, and so I can draw attention to details. It is finally legit to ask for faster running, more powerful throwing and the like. I guess that batting should still be priority in our training sessions, but we should be mentally prepared for our next step towards the Hall of Fame of softball teams. Babe Ruth would be proud of us.

Notable efforts

• Rana's merciless one-minute home run ending in a funny locomotive type showdown with three of our guys running home.

• More pictures

Game 5 - vs A-HATS (15th July)

Captain's analysis: 19:3

Notable efforts

• I hate doing things twice including writing a Captain's Analysis a second time that was superinspiring, but got deleted when clicking on the "Save Changes" button. What the hell?

• Front row: Cali (out of frame), Mindy Jacobson, Daphen Pino, Alberto Stochino, Greg Vansuch, Captain Jan Harms, Marc LeBourdais, David Yeaton-Massey, Koji Arai, Peter Kalmus, Kaushal Patel , Lorna Campbell.

• Back row: Alastair Heptonstall, Aidan Brooks, Martha Anderson, Stuart Anderson, Kiwamu Izumi, Jenne Driggers, Jenna Walrath, Alyssa Frey, Megan Daily, Katie Kaufman
• Lower Front row: Sharon Kunde with Braird and Zane Kalmus
• Not Pictured: Rana "Bossman" Adhikari, Zach "The Gamechanger" Korth, Gretchen "The Cooler" Keller

Game 6 - vs Ruddock House (22nd July)

Pictures

Game 7 - vs LA Dipoles (29th July)

LIGO Wins - 15:8!

Notable efforts

• Another 22 caps have been ordered. 12 of them can be given to team mates and cheerleaders who haven't got any yet.

Pictures

Final Results 2010 Season

2008 Season

Game 1

Game 3

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