The first game of the season needs not be discussed, but to only say that it was a warm up to our first victory game last night. Arcturis had a solid line up against Burns & Mac. We took to the board early with a 3-1 lead thanks to some solid hitting by Sclark, Courtney, Emert, Chill and Brad. A solid defensive effort and near perfection on the mound thanks to Chrissy Hill through the 4th had us setting comfortable with the score 8-2 due so great hits by Hoover, Alyse and Chauncey. The fifth inning was when Burns & Mac's bats came alive. With 5 consecutive hits in a row they quickly were back in the race, at the end of 5 the score narrowed to 8-7. A new golden glove candidate came to the front out in center, late in the 5th a newbie, Ben Ott made an amazing catch over his shoulder well worthy of a sport center highlight. The sixth inning was one of the great battles of the day with both teams putting up 4 runs each. The middle of the lineup came alive with some hots bats by Courtney, Emert, Brad, Hoover, Alyse, Chauncey and a smoker by Nicole. At the end of six the score was 12-11 with Arcturis holding the lead by the slimmest of margins. Burns & Mac came back with a strong effort in the top of the seventh with two quick runs. With men on base and a deep hit to the left field; Arcturis started to see the possibility of having Burns & Mac steal away the win, but all hope was not lost. There was one, a chosen one that now will always strike fear in the hearts of Burns & Mac when they challenged the ARM of BOWFLEX. As the runner from second pushed to challenge the great gun of Scott Clark in comes the missile from left field. A solid catch and tag by Brad snuffs the plans of BMac. A few solid defensive plays in the field and on the mound closes the inning quickly with only 2 runs lost in the epic battle. With the lead lost and the score Arcturis 12 BMac 13 the bats needed to come alive, and they did, fast. It all started with a great slap hit by Jeff (a new player just pulled up from the minors) followed by a deep hit by J Campos...the slump is over now! With the tying and winning run on base it came down to BOWFLEX once again. With one out and the sun quickly setting...we all knew what needed to happened. Mr. Scott "Big Daddy Bowflex" Clark hits a rocket to right field. The right fielder just got smaller as she ran deeper and deeper to try and track down the hard hit ball. As the tying and winning runs come across home plate followed the unnecessary, but glorious in park home run, we knew that Arcturis was back. The final score, Arcturis 15 (by my book) to BMac 13.
Arcturis is 1-1....500! Let's keep it going!
