Big Win!

The streak is over! We had a great victory Monday against Christner. Final score was...lets just say we won by enough runs that most of us don't know the final score. We had some great base cleaning hitting as well as some superb relief pitching. Great job CHill! There were a few questionable calls, but that is what you get when you have to be your own umpire. Again, congratulations to our All Stars Courtney and Jon E. The game Wednesday was canceled so we did not get to see them in action...and sadly the game will not be made up. Lets keep the fire going, see you Monday for the Klitzing Welsch game at 6:30.

Arcturis 6-4

ARCTURIS ALL STARS

The result are in, congratulations to Courtney Howard and Jon Emert! We have selected you two to represent us next Wednesday for the All Team All Star Softball Game, make us proud. We need encouragement from our last game. In case you have not heard it was not our best performance and loosing to one of the most annoying teams of the season did not make it feel any better. Lets just say it was our worse loss of the season and we can now forget that it even happening. One note to highlight is our well deserving All Star Jon Emert did get a homerun, great job! Just a reminder, we do have a game Monday. 6:30 against Christner on field SB2. We will try the batting practice again, so come early. Also, if you just want to come and enjoy time in the sun and have a few cold ones, come along, bring a friend, there is no pressure to play if you do not want to; just come cheer us on. We need all the encouragement we can get to get us out of this slump.

Arcturis 5-4

Victory and Murder

Despite having a slightly depleted team of five. The Arcturis Aces pulled out yet another amazing victory on Wednesday night to keep our undefeated streak alive in the second session of Forest Park League Volleyball. The Fantastic Five combo of B-Waite, TSlaz, Alyse, Amanda, and Alisa wasted no time getting into the groove and inching out the competition for the first game victory. With B-Waite guarding the net we were able to block many attempts to thwart Alyse's unprecedented serving streak. With mumbles and grumbles coming from the opposite side as they fought amongst themselves all match long, we easily took the second game and the match with more solid baseline play from Amanda, a single person rally from me, and some key returns from Alisa. Despite another serving streak from me, and some tricky returns by Amanda, We seemed to channel our first session habits (including a ball to the face for Alyse) and weren't able to hold on to the third game, but the damage was done, and the Aces could celebrate their victory. Amanda celebrated the victory by driving home with her husband Ryan and the random old lady from their apartment complex that asked to come with them to the game. They seriously did not know this woman. Thankfully she was not murdered on the way home and she will live to join the Aces another day. For more details, talk to Amanda.

As always, this has been TSlaz, reporting from the scrumtrellescent beaches of Forest Park.

Ummm Yeah, So We are Undefeated...

After a CAF Ceremony full of free booze and food, it was unclear whether the Aces would be able to even show up for their game on Wednesday night, what with Troy out of town and Eileen hopped up on prescription drugs, but by using our amazing charms and dazzling wit on the Officials, we were able to convince them to let us play one man short and having not paid our fees. The first game was rough for sure, with many wild shots and hits into the net. Amanda's first game with the Aces probably did inspire any confidence in her as to our abilities, but once Alisa showed up and our team was complete, we fell into an unstoppable rhythm and took the second two games with relative ease. Alyse and Amanda were loud and clear on calling their hits, keep the rest of us in check and making solid returns and sets to the Chauncey and B-Waite up front who made block after block. Alisa and I were solid baseline players as and I even got a tip for a point. Alisa went for a long serving streak in the second game to help secure the win. The second session is looking good as we are undefeated going into our third match next week.

As always, this is TSlaz reporting from the sandtastic Steinberg Rink.

Tough Loss

We had a great turn out this week and some excellent weather, I think the bugs where even hard to find. The spirits were high and we had plenty of beer. The only short coming we had is that we lost...and by a single run. It was one of those games where we were just a few steps behind. We had a nice run at the end. We were down by 5 runs going into the last inning and just didn't have the steam to pull through in the end. Great effort though! Let's see if we can keep our loosing streak to just one and get a big win next Wednesday against KAI. Don't forget to check the calender at the bottom of our blog to see the rest of the games in the season. If you have a gmail account and would like to add them to your google calender simply click on the game and click "Add to Calender". You can also invite your work account by adding it to the right of the appointment once it opens. By the way, don't forget about the All-Team Game July 25th - see invite below.

Arcturis 5-3

V-Ball Team turns over a new leaf.

With the first session behind us, the Aces came back for session two vowing to beat the previous record of 1 win over the course of an entire session. (I blame the weather) With Cara Davidson subbing in for the night, we took to the sand, ready to start the new session out on a good note. Now, either we all took performance enhancing drugs prior to the game, or we just are playing better as a team ,but we dominated the court and took down our opponents in 2 straight games. Team leader Guz served for the win to match our record from last session. With strong efforts from veteran v-ballers Eileen, myself, and Alisa, as well as some high altitude tips and blocks from front man B-Waite, the aces never fell behind in either game and have now bested our previous record and are tied for first place. Highlights included no accidental bumps into other team members faces, and Cara's squeaks as she ducked away from being hit. We are all looking forward to keeping the streak alive this week, as new permenant team member Amanda Halterman joins the squad, and veterans Chauncey and Alyse return from hiatus.

This has been TSlaz reporting from the sandy beaches of Stienberg Ice Rink.

Domination

For a team that only won a single game last year "improved" just does not describe the way we are playing now. We are 5-2 with our latest win over YAFSTL. If you recall, they beat us the first game of the season, quite handily if I recall. Not this time. As they say on ESPN...BOOYA! The top of the order has preformed as well as the bottom, but this week the middle of the order held there own. Both times up to bat Brok, Campos and Erica were able to score. Great job team! Scott had another HOME RUN! He is a mad man! In the end we scored 17 runs with a final of 17-8.

The current standings are as follows:
1 Gray Design Group 8-0
2 Grubbs/Blaes Architects 6-1
2 Chiodini 6-1
3 Cannon Design 7-2
4 Arcturis 5-2
- Everybody Else - lol!

Check out Jon's email to get the full standings. Some of us have started going to the field early to get a little batting practice in about 6...Gary might have lost his chance since he almost killed Brok last week.

We play CASCO on field SB2 - Game starts at 6:30 See you there.

Arcturis 5-2

HOK Who?

On Wednesday we dominated on the diamond and on the sand. Well, maybe not dominated so much on the volleyball, but we did win our first game of the season. We are no longer in last place with a record of 1-17. On to the softball, with a final of 11-6 Arcturis showed its superior softball talents over HOK. We owe much of the talent to the top portion of our batting order with 10 of the 11 runs batted in including 2 home runs by Scott Clark (if you include Campos who came late to the game with a home run). The other run has to be attributed to Ken Dawg who had a stand up triple that was later moved by a solid hit by Danielle returning after a long sit at the DL. Welcome back Danielle. Hitting was great, but holding HOK to 6 runs was no small feat. The defense was strong with decent pitching and some amazing fielding. We held them to 5 runs after the second inning not allowing another until the last inning. Courtney had an amazing diving catch out in center field and Erica made a solid snag to end the game. The girls once again had a fantastic game showing the greatness of our team with solid hitting and excellent fielding. Having great women on your team is the key to this league and to our winning record of 4-2. Let's keep it up team and I will see you Wednesday. We are playing the Young Architects Forum, a team we must beat. They beat us first game of the season, so this is pay back.

Arcturis is 4-2