Game Thirteen

Betrayal, tree chopping, Taco, and relentless beating of the Club which is Cultured took place this week in the final regular season game of Zoombie Softball. After a previous defeat we made sure that CC got a taste of what to expect in the Tournament this Saturday in a blowout victory rematch.

Our Macho Taco leader was absent from the first encounter where we fell 8-6 but guaranteed a landslide victory on his appearance alone. This inspiration came in multiple forms... allowing for solid offensive and defensive play from everyone. Mike with some solid play guarding first, Aaron with a shotgun for an arm out in the field, and myself going 4 for 4 in tree chopping helped secure the victory!

On a side-note our honor-Zoombie betrayed us and subbed in for Culture Club. Although we still shared a beer with Sarah, who knows how devastating our opinion would have been if CC claimed a victory.

Game 12

This past week's game was a re-match against the real NPSIA. We came out strong with a quick 5-run earned inning and never looked back. NPSIA trailed us for the remainder of the game which proved to be a nail-biting win (just like last time) on a 10-9 victory.

Major shout-outs go towards Teri and Gen with combined RBI's that made up for 7 of our 10 runs. Split props to towards Marc and Mike for the first combined HR of the season. Everyone batted well and our defense held strong. This brings our total record to 7 wins, 5 losses with one game remaining on the horizon. Tournament details have been released and will be posted soon!

Stay zooombed!

Game OneOne

'tis the season for back-to-back re-matches... or rather the end of the season as we only have two remaining games. Last week we battled The English in what was predicted as a sure-thing for The Zoombies (see last match details here). A defeated (opposite of un-defeated?) English team traded in their chants for some serious softball and put a hurt on us, resulting in their first win of the season.

Honorable mentions of this weeks game include a pair of heroes in the form of Aaron and Teri. Aaron had some destructive hitting finding 3rd base plenty of times. Teri on the other hand (or is it Terry ?) dished up some pain on The English second basemen who will never play the baseline again - living up to our mantra of "If we can't beat um, hurt um." Also, this was Roz's last game as she will be in Vancouver during the period of the tournament... she will be missed!

This week we have yet another re-match, this time against International Affairs... review the nail-biting victory here. This should prove to be a tough match so we must bring our best game.

Many will point out the ironic twist of fate as the previous week we handed (read: SERVED UP SOME BEAT DOWN) NPSIA's first loss of the season. We humbly take our loss and try to reflect on it. I decided to outline three ways in which we can improve as shown in the following illustration:

Game 10: NPSIA the undefeated team

"Way to beat 1/2 of our team...." - Per Unheim

It seems only fitting that I begin this week's blog post with a quote from one of our opponents on the NPSIA team. This brings to mind another quote by Paul Brown - known well in the NFL:

"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."

Clearly NPSIA is having a hard time dealing with their loss when the excuses start flowing our way - offline at the field and online. I personally think the definition of a team, are the people who show up for the game... although the comment section will be reserved for talk-back on this issue!

Other than that.........WHOAAAAAAAA ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMBBBBBBBBBIEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!! What a game - everyone played fantastic: batting, fielding, running, jumping, throwing, catching, BRAIN EATING!!! *NUM* *NUM* *NUM*. We came out particularly strong for a re-match that we wanted a win out of. The first inning we took the field - "what's that?" you might say... yes 3 UP - 3 DOWN. OK good start, but how can we top that ? Well how about with a little MERCY RULE ACTION? Seven - nill... WHATS UP? Cannot ask for better than that!

The remainder of the game we continued to chip in runs steadily while our defense held well for the majority of the game. Special honorable mentions go out to the following players:

David Barrera - This years contestant for the Golden glove. Dave - our team captain - took a key position in our strategy for dealing with the offense that NPSIA presented and caught an un-countable number of pops (binary 2-bit is all we have) in shallow left. Not only that, he was the first bullet in the chamber of our mercy inning with a lead-off triple!

Alex *the monster* Cowperthwaite - reliable pitching and heads-up field plays gave us an edge... not to mention perfect batting. However, he gets a runner-up medal in the 60' footrace :).

Marc Leclair - solid center fielder, long ball, and doubles as a pinch runner for our favorite Uncle.

Gerardo - Perfect batting game, very solid on bag #1 stopping many potential over-throw disasters.

Gen, Teri, Cynth - our pocket aces... these girls consistently advanced all of our runners on base with zero pop-outs. Eventually NPSIA got wise and stopped throwing these girls out, as our runners were scoring (refer to Alex's second place medal :P ).

Next week we have some well-earned time off. However don't slack Zoombies - continue the beer consumption... we don't want anyone to cramp up when we win our next pitcher!