June 24th, 2008 - Google vs Nelson's Tires

The wind was calmer last night, but it still didn't help us. We lost 21-1. Our fielding slipped a bit and our batting was sub par as well.

The good news is a we had a new pitcher step up while Tim is out on vacation, Kip Jansen. Kip pitched well the entire game. We were heading into the game one lady short, but Liz Mendez came in to save us and we were able to field a full team. Shaun and Christian continued to make good catches in the outfield for us.

Danielle is moving on for the summer. We really appreciate her playing with us. She drove in the winning run in our first game and knocked in our one run in the second game.

Players: David Chavez, Martha Dell, Christian Dell, Shaun Siriwatanarong, Christie Postema, Nikki Burnett, Tyler Richardson, Danielle Jones, Israel Juras, Justin Shulman, Liz Mendez, Kip Jansen, Bryan Entze

Official pictures for the game can be found at: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/acOgAAXLASqMHaeMzcKGqQ

Next game is WEDNESDAY, July 2nd @ 7:30pm South Kramer Field

June 17th, 2008 - Affordable Homes vs Google

A win wasn't in the wind for the Google Softball team last night. We lost to Affordable Homes 18-1. Windy conditions made pitching difficult and seemed to favor the other team. Whenever we were up to bat the wind would die down. Our fielding continued to do well with Shaun making a couple of good running fly ball catches, and a nice David to Melissa to Israel double play. Danielle knocked in our single run.

Official photographs can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/richard2day/617Affordable_homes (thanks Richard)

Players: David Chavez, Martha Dell, Christian Dell, Melissa Hagel, Shaun Siriwatanarong, Christie Postema, Tim Martin, Nikki Burnett, Tyler Richardson, Danielle Jones, Dwaine Short, Israel Juras, Bryan Entze

Next game is 7:30pm, Tuesday, June 24th @ Kramer Field South

June 10th, 2008 - Amerities vs Google

On a cool and windy late afternoon the Google softball team had there first game of the 2008 season versus Amerities. This year the only scrambling was the coach running back to the datacenter to grab the scorebook. No scrambling to find enough women to field a team. We were able to field a full team of 10.

The team jelled very quickly. First inning we held them scoreless. Nikki caught a line drive pop at 3rd. Chavez scored the first inning to put us ahead 1 - 0. 2nd inning Amerities came on strong scoring 5 runs, but we held in there. We were only able to respond with one run. 3rd inning we kept them to just 1 run with some good fielding by Chavez at short-stop and Tyler in the outfield. We responded with 5 runs with nice hits by Joe and Shaun to tie things up again. 4th inning Amerities jumped ahead again scoring 3 runs and we didn't score any. But then the next 3 inning we held them scoreless with continued fielding efforts and added another run. Going into the bottom of the 7th inning we were behind 8 to 9. Christie led off the batting and hit a solid single to get on base. Tim followed up with a single that got Christie to 3rd. So we had runners at 1st and 3rd. Nikki was next up. She hit toward the pitcher who tried to get Christie out going into home, but she made it home, Nikki made it to 1st and Tim made it to 3rd. Next batter up fly'd out. Then Danilelle hit solidly to short center field. Nikki was forced out by the throw to 2nd base but Amerities fumbled the throw to first and Tim was able to score the winning run.

So yes, we won our first game. Good job team!

Players: David Chavez, Martha Dell, Joe DeStefanis, Melissa Hagel, Shaun Siriwatanarong, Christie Postema, Tim Martin, Nikki Burnett, Tyler Richardson, Danielle Jones, Dwaine Short, Justin Shulman, Chris Williams, Bryan Entze

Richard Day our official photographer has shared pictures at the following link: http://picasaweb.google.com/richard2day/2008_softball

Thanks also to the folk that came out to watch.

Next game is Tuesday, June 17th @ Kramer Field North.