Fresno Senior Softball League: My Site News

The league got a big surprise last night as American Medical (9th place team) won 5 straight games to capture the 50+ championship.  Only the second time that I can remember that a team from the bottom half of the league when on to win the title, the other was Flooring Liqudators two years ago.

  It seem that the error of placing American Medical last in the playoffs work to their advantage as they won all 5 game with little trouble.   The first game they defeated Westbrooks (5th place) by the score of 11-10, their second game against Bishop (3rd place) was a surprise as they defeated them 19-13.  In their third game they had to play a number one team Wild Electric and defeated them  12-6 before moving on to play Pifferini Ranch (2nd place) and sending them home by the score of 13-7.   Then in the championship game against Sherian Investments who had defeated #1 Bill Pfief & Associates 8-6, they never looked back as they race to an early lead then held on for the win 15-10.

CONGRADULATIONS TO AMERICAN MEDICAL.

REMEBER THE CHRISTMAS PARTY IS FRIDAY - DEC. 5TH - 6:30 PM - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE DETAILS.

Shewood Landscaping had to go some to win it all last night as Glass Unlimited was hanging tough until the the final two innings.  They score 5 in the bottom of the 5th  & 5 in the bottom of the 6th and then played defense to move into the championship game late in the night.

Daniel, Towle was down 10-1 before the Party ended as they were able to score 5 in the 4th, 3 in the 5th and 4 in the 6th and the winning run in the bottom of the 7th to move into a show down with Sherwood in the night cap.  PTR had a commanding led and then made 11 errors in the last three innings to seal their fate.

In the night cap Sherwood never was threatened by DTW whom seemed to be worn out after the had come from behind game against PTR,

CONGRADULATIONS TO SHERWOOD LANDSCAPING ! !

I have recieved word that Physimotion 70's beat Central Ohio 13-8 to take the gold medal in the "A" division.

Work is that the California Hitmen took 2nd & a silver medal.

Gene Tylers 74+ team took a 4th place finish just out of the medals.

CONGRALUATIONS TO GLEN FITZGERALD FOR GETTING A GOLD MEDAL IN HORSESHOES.

 I had reported that Game On won the silver medal when in fact  they finished third and won the bronze medal after losing to Jeager Blue which is a Major team.    Game On is off to Phoenix next week for the SSUSA national championships.

Good luck

  The California Hitmen drew a first roung bye and then won their game against the Turlock Legends by the score of 17-9 moving them into an early morning Thursday game.   Because of the bye they now paly for the bronze medal and if they win that game they will be guaranteed the silver.   If they win the morning game they will be one of two undefeated teams and play for the silver medal later Thursday.  If they lose they will have two more games Thursday and need to win both to get a medal.   I will post results around noon Thursday.

Physimotion 70's won both games today and will play for a bronze medal tomorrow morning.  Will try and find out about Gene Tyler and his 74+ team tomorrow.

Physimotion 70's  (Dennis DeWitt, Wes Schmidt & more) won both games yesterday beating Soutwest Airlines 70's & Morris Clark Siding & Roofing.    Today was a different story as  they lost to Lethbright  13-17.  Tournament starts toumorrow for them and will try to keep informed as they play.

 California Hitmen who lost both games yesterday to Mesa Mauraders 55 by 10 & Northwest Silver by 1.  Today was a different story as they beat Ogopogo 55's 16-12 and wait for the tournament brackets to come out.

Still tyring to find out how Gene Tylers' 74+ team has done.

  The California Hitmen, (Tom Chan, Gil Sierra, Ramon Colemenero, Russ Shelton, Don Westbrook, Greg Perez, Gerald Chow, Daryl Steagall, John Thompson, Randy Bishop, Richard Perkins & Tony Diaz) did not do much better then teams last week in the first two seeding games as they lost their first game by 10 runs and them played good enough to win but lost the second by 1.     They have one game today with tournament play starting Wednesday.

Will try and get info on Physimotion 70's and Geny Tyler's 74 + team.

The 18th Annual Meeting/Christmas Party will be held on Friday - December 4th from 6:00 PM till 9:30 PM at the Bethany Mennonite Chruch   located at 9161 N. Maple,  93722.

You can click on locations and find a map.

Please bring your favorite dish, enough for 10-12 people.

Please bring some items to raffle off.   More information to come.

 Party Time played like always and came from behind to take a one run lead into the bottom of the 7th only to have two errors do them in.  With the tieing run at third, a line drive out to second base was then thrown away allowing the tieing run from third to score and move the winning run to second.    A walk to put runners on 1st & 2nd hoping for the double play ball.   The batter then hit it to the shortstop for the double play only to have it go through the legs and the winning run scored.   Loss 15-14 and a fourth place finish.

Physimotion was undefeated and had to be beaten twice -- well a team they had beaten early was able to win the first game and force a second game.   As luck would have it, they were unable to untracked and wound up losing that one also by the score of 20-16 and finish in 2nd place a recieved the silver medal.

The girls after finding out they had to change locations from Little Valley to the Canyon field 6 lost a close game.  After losing all 4 games yesterday they played much better and lost 18-16 with Linda Smart doing some fine pitching and C R Ramiez making some good catches in the outfield.  She also had a triple and 2 singles, you should have seen the slide into third.  

The girls then played a team from Canada and it was a great game.   Score was 6-4 going into the bottom of the 6th when the coach made a pitching change.  The new pitcher then walked 6 batters with an error and single sandwiched in between.    The girls then score3 in the top of the 7th to tie the score at 9-9.  They made a pitching change back to the started, but with two outs and basesloaded the batter single to left to score the winning run.    Final score 10-9 and the girls were out in two.

Will try and get one more report out before I leave St. George.

Party Time came back in the night game and defested the Grande Paire 21-5 to move to tomorrow nights game.  

Game On lost their first game of the day by one run and then in the night cap won 21-18 and now must play four  games tomorrow to win thier division.

Physimotion 65 won both games today and are guarantted the bronze medal.

More to come tomorrow.

The girls have arrived, CR Ramierz and Linda Smart.  Both will start playing Thursday and will keep you informed.

Today PTR was defeated 14-12 on a bad call by the UIC of the tournament.  Leading 9-4, Phil Palma hit a three run double to increase the score to 12-4 only to be called out by the UIC for using an illegal bat.  Runners all had to go back and Phil was called out.  The reason he was called out was the fact he had a rubber cone on his bat.   The same bat he and others have used the whole tournament.  Upset over the call PTR then made 4 errors in the bottom half of that inning and were tied 9-9.   Edmondton went on to score a few more in the next inning and PTR could not regain their composer enough to win the game.  They now play this evening in the losers bracket and it is win or go home.  Will report on Game On and Physimotion as I get the information.

  In the seeding rounds Physimotion 65 (Dennis DeWitt, Bill Svoboda, Don Daily, Glen Fitzgerald) went 0-3, but were close in only one game & now wait to see what division they are put in for the tournament which starts tomorrow.

Party Time Rentals 60 (Ike Pursell, Jim Brager, Jeff Wise, Tim Ryan, Bob Landucci, Dick Tugwell, Chief Anderson, Bruce Blau, Mike Bordagary, Roy Nelson & Bill Svoboda) won their first game over Second Wind 14-9 before losing a close game to the Mittfits 26-19.  Then lost 14-2 to the Laser's and now wait for the division bracket to come out tonight.

Game On as of this writting are 0-2 and play today at 2:00PM.   (Win Downing, Tommy Thompson, Ed Daniel, Richard Madron).

I will try & keep you updated as I can on the tournament brackets and scores.