Culture Club falls 14-1 to the swift Zoombies

Another win for the Zoombies, this time against Culture Club. Some zoombies had their first game today, thanks for coming out guys (Derek, Rikki, Shauna, Cynthia).

Honorable mentions:

Roz - She was a wall at third base preventing many potential disasters. After one of Roz's amazing plays, one player asked "When did we go pro?". We also thank Roz for coming out for "just one beer".

Aaron - This guy keeps hitting GIGANTIC hits to right field. This time he was just inches away from clearing that green monster. Don't worry buddy, you'll get it next time. Aaron was also unstoppable on defense.

Rikki - Her first time at bat in 18 years, she hits a double. No big deal.

Alex (a.k.a the pitcher killer) - 3 doubles, great pitching. Here's a picture of Alex sprinting to first. NOTE this picture was taken with a 4000fps high-speed camera, and Alex still showed up blurry. I guess this is why we're called the zoombies, not the slowbies.

Game MVP: Mike. Epic double play, solid hitting, and intelligent base running. Also mega props for him showing up even more than some of our ottawa-based players. Mike played in his PJs. Here's a picture of the classic post-game Zoombeers.

Next game is Monday against Legal Studies. Stay tuned...

Pregame: Game 2 - Culture Club

Last season, the Zoombies fell 8-6 against Culture Club. As one player pointed out, the captain (read: David) was not present, leading to what I imagine was a free-for-all of players running around without any sense of direction. Well guess what. I'm here this time, so let's go out and show the Culture Club team who has more culture... or clubs... or something.

UPDATE 1: Mike points out that we actually faced Culture Club for the last game of the season last year. The outcome of that game was much more awesome.

Some pregame stats: I received 9 out of 16 responses within 1 hour of sending out the call for participation email. Amazing considering the first game I received only 2 email responses. That's a 850% increase in email respondability.

I've also tweaked my pseudo random number generator (PRNG) to output better lineups. See you on the field. Game starts at 6.

Game 1 Results

Physics loses, Zoombies wins. That's just how we roll.

The game started off with the Zoombies playing some amazing defense, along with powerful hits and aggressive base running. This led us to mercy the Physics dept in the second inning, taking a lead of 13-4.

The next few innings were slow but had some interesting defensive plays by newly-acquired team members Andrea and Mark. Physics wasn't giving up that easily, scoring 2 runs in the 4th inning making the score 13-6.

The fifth inning had some unfortunate defensive errors, allowing for Physics to mercy the Zoombies and tie up the game. It was on.

Marc led off the 6th inning with a base hit, followed by a sacrifice hit by Camille which moved Marc up to second. Dave (literally) stepped up to the plate and hit a home run, bringing Marc in for 15-13 lead. The Physics offense was shut down at the top of the 7th finalizing an epic win for the Zoombies.

Big props to Colin for some sweet pitching, Teri for some solid base hits, Aaron for an almost home run over the green monster, Andrea for some good first base action (see what I did there?) and to everyone else for clever base running and good D. Well done guys.

Next game is Thursday May 27th vs Culture Club. Let's beat them too. Just saying.

2010 Season Starts Tonight

Zoombiefans it's that time of the year again. Tonight is the first game of the 2010 softball season. We play against the Physics department which brings back memories. Hopefully we'll get to play the full game this time.

Lots of new players joining the Zoombies this season. We welcome Colin, Amelia, Camille, Daniel and Andrea for their first game. We also have a special visit from Mike all the way from Whitby, who just couldn't miss game 1.

Stay tuned for the post-game analysis...