GAME RECAPS

A cool breezy dusk descended upon Trinity Bellwoods Park as the feisty Credit River Rainbow Trout squared off against the stoic Ballsheviks of Rouge River. The far western and far eastern river matchup was replete with surprises and oddities including a 6-player Credit River squad to start the game.  But that only bolstered the Trout, used to swimming upstream against the current, they exploded out to an early 10-7 lead and maintained a steady pace aided by some excellent plays at third by Peter Demakos and at short by Colin Hastings.  Michelle Roseman, Johann Juarez, Niloofar Golkar and Linda Swanston provided plenty of hits until Alex Brant and Robin Smillie were able to arrive to fill out the lineup – and the “sub”culture of our league was in full effect with Craig Fortier donning a Trout fin to swat a left-handed grand slam to help stabilize the lead.  But some time after the 3rd inning, the Ballshevik vanguard awoke the masses with Merle Davis, Stu Schlusser, Nav Sidhu, Rachele Clemente and Shelagh Pizey-Allen using small ball to set up the monumental comeback!  The great power of Andy Smith, Andrew Stokes, and Ness Dixon helped to even the score in the bottom of the 6th inning for the Leninists! But in true communist fashion, they deemed the distribution of runs to be equal and departed the game with a 20-20 tie.

But friends…the socialist ethic of the Ballsheviks was not nearly finished. In game 2, that very team loaned Nav Sidhu and Merle Davis to the Mastodons and Stu Schlusser and Rachele Clemente to the Hustle!  This grand gesture was also spurred by the super-sub play of Peter Demakos for the Don side, the emergence of our newest sub Sarah Naumes, and the grand return of Jan Braun to help round out the rosters.  And that second game was an equally thrilling affair.  Ryan Hayes and Terrance Luscombe continued their ritual of destroying softballs, while Brianna Greaves and Erika Pulfer sprinted around the basepaths.  However, with the rise of the disco era, the Mastodons appear to be more endangered than at the start of the holocene.  With boogie down beats, the Hustle unveiled the dance of the anthropocene thanks to some swift moves by Janine Caster and Yogi Acharya, some deft dips by Katie German and Andrew Norton – and a few flops on the dancefloor by Craig Fortier.  As the lights on the disco went dark, the Hustle had shimmied their way to the top of the charts with a 16-12 win.

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MILESTONES

FIRSTS

Double
Ness Dixon (Rouge)

Runs Batted In

Linda Swanston (Credit) (2)