2009 Softball Starting Soon

With the official first day of spring behind us and our first game only 3 weeks away, it is time to knock the dust off of the glove and get ready for the City Architects and Engineers Softball League. For those veterans out there, come join in the fun for another year and build on our great playoff run from last year. As always, all are welcome. The league is a semi-competitive, fun, coed league for all to get out and have some fun going up against local A&E firms.

Our first game will be Wednesday, April 22nd. Every team will play 14 games, 10 on Wednesdays, 4 on Mondays.

click on image to see schedule

All games are at Tower Grove Park in South City.

We will be setting up a practice/ batting cage outing before the season starts. I will send out more information soon.

Thanks and looking forward to another great season,

Coach Jon

Hard Fought Battle

Last night was the Division Playoffs against Gray Design. Gray was first in the division with only one loss including last season. They were the defending league champions. Upon arrival to the field you can tell they had the support since the majority of their whole office was there in support. But we had our own support as well. Thanks to all that came from the office to cheer us on! The positive support and constant cheering helped us fight along. The first time we played Gray earlier in the season was not a fun game. We lost 19 to 4 giving up 5 home runs in the course of that game. Not this time. We were first on the boards and maintained a lead till the bottom of the third when they tied it 2-2. The fourth inning was a tough one. Gray scored 4 runs with two outs. No runs were stored in the 5th. Gray scored 2 more in the 6th giving us one more chance to make up the deficit. Patrick made a solid hit with two strikes and two outs to keep the hopes alive. Chill followed with a hard hit ball down the third base line cause the third baseman to dive just missing the chance to stop it. After the overthrow to first the runners advance to 2nd and 3rd. Chip continues to drive with a hard hit ball to mid field scoring Patrick making the score 8-3. Scott "Bowflex" follows with a deep hit ball to right field scoring both Chill and Chip. But it was not enough. With the final score 8-5 we shook hands and finished the season. We had a great season and were much improved. Last year we had 3 wins and 11 losses and placed next to last in the league of 18 teams. This year we ended the season second in our division and 4th overall with a record of 10 wins and 6 losses. We owe a lot of credit to HR for recruiting some great new additions our team. Thanks to all for a fun and very successful season. Just think, we were only one game away from winning the whole championship....next year.

Arcturis
10-6

PLAYOFFS

We made a very clear statement that this is the best team in Arcturis history when we clinched our chance to play in the playoffs a few weeks ago. We made further history last Wednesday against second place Grubb/Blaes. We had an outstanding line up for this game to which all contributed. Chip, Scott, Mindy, Gary, Jon, Courtney, Brok, Brad, Nicole, Campos, Mueller, Erica, and Ken did a fantastic job in both hitting, running, feilding, defense. It was both a joy to watch as well as play. We started the game off great with 3 runs and continue to stay consistant. Our greatest moment of glory was the 14 runs we scored in the fourth, 10 of which we scored with 2 outs. In that inning Gary hit a 3 run homerun and Brad and Brok scored twice. Jon hit a deep homerun in the sixth that sealed the deal with a final score of Arcturis 22 and Grubb/Blaes 8. Great job team! Below you can see the book. Click on the images to get a closer look. Note the comment in the seventh inning when Mueller says, "wooo" as beats out the through at first. Note also the great part time playbook coverage by Chip on the visitor books in the lower left had corner.
We now move on to the Division Playoffs where will come face to face with Gray Design. We need all the cheering support we can get against this 1st place ranked team. We win, we go on to the Championship. Lets make Arcturis history!

Arcturis
10-5