The games for tonight have been canceled due to rain. They will be made up on August 30. The tournament is still scheduled for Saturday August 28. Full schedule can be found here: Schedule

The Goodfellas played an exciting game this past Monday night against Hope Lutheran #1. It was a pretty close game throughout and going into the bottom of the last inning, Hope Lutheran was ahead 10-7.

Warren got things started with a base hit through the left side of the infield. Ben (3 for 4 with a double and 2 triples) kept his slugging percentage high with a double that scored Warren making it 10-8. Stan followed with a walk and Heath loaded the bases with a single. Greg came up with delusions of grandeur on his mind and hit a high fly ball to right center which was enough to score Ben from 3rd to bring the Goodfellas within a run at 10-9.

Next up, Aaron came through with an RBI single to tie the game. So at this point it is 10-10 with runners on 1st and 2nd and one out. Robert hit a shallow fly ball so the runners were unable to advance which set the stage with 2 outs for Lesco. Lesco hit a lined shot up the middle. Heath took off from 2nd and I am pretty sure he never planned on stopping.

The relay came to the shortstop who made a great throw to the catcher. It was a bang-bang play at the plate. What would the call be? The catcher dropped the ball! He's safe! Goodfellas win!! The Goodfellas have now won 3 of their last 4 and are hoping to build on this momentum going into the last two weeks of the season.

Goodfellas vs. Posse. Or, as it says on the schedule, FBCF #1 vs. FBCF #2. It's always a good time when you have a little in-house rivalry and tonight was no different. However, in my entire softball career I can probably count on one hand the number of times I have been in a game that was called because it went the full 7 innings. Tonight.....BOTH of our games went to 7 innings!!

Game one was played as though everyone was still sluggish after getting off work. Nobody could hit. Jeremy led off the game with (another solo :p) home run for the Posse and it all seemed to go down hill after that. In the end, the Posse pieced together 7 runs and that was enough to overcome the meager 3 runs that the Goodfellas generated.

Game two was epic in many ways....especially for the Goodfellas. First off, they don't beat the Posse that often. Nobody on the team could remember the last time it happened, if ever. Second, as stated earlier, it was our second 7 inning game in a row. Third, it started off slowly with the lethargic bats seeming to carry over from game 1 before the Goodfellas broke out with a big 5th inning. After the 5th, it was 10-5 going the Goodfellas way. After a scoreless 6th, the Goodfellas came to bat as the visitors hoping to put some insurance on the board. After scoring a couple of runs, Bruce came up to bat with one out and 2 men on. Bruce pretty consistently get his hits with nice liners up the middle. That is his bread and butter. In fact, that man was making some TOAST in the tournament! Anyway, the outfield scooted in a little to try and cut off his penchant for the line drive hit. All of a sudden, Bruce unleashed a blast like I have never seen from him before! He CRUSHED it way over the outfielder's head and to the fence. It was a 2 out double to put the icing on the the cake for a 14-6 (and rare) Goodfellas victory!

Congrats to The Posse who finished the season with a 17-3-1 record overall, going 14-1-1 in the regular season and 3-2 in the tourney. Their regular season record was the best in the league so they are the League Champions!

New season starts this coming Monday. As soon as we get more info, we will send out emails and post it here.

Also - stats for this past season are fully up to date.

I don't have the details, but according to John The Posse got themselves into the championship game yesterday and were not able to pull it off. so they end up in 2nd place for the tournament. Congrats Posse!! They still have a few games left in the season and if they can get a win there, they will end up winning the league.

I still have not updated stats. I will do so once I get the stat sheets for The Posse's games.