Summer Softcore Kickball Downtown Tuesdays/Thursdays

Rookie sensation Hewan Teshome delivered gold glove defense for Stanny Trees on Thursday. Spring r time between 3rd and SS in her first kickball game, she turned in several great defensive plays. Her contributions helped her team hold off a 7th inning comeback and hang onto the win.

Matthew put on quite the performance on the pitching mound. His pitches were flawless and he was involved in more than half of the defensive plays. Chasing people down and throwing them out consistently without fail. The guy was like a machine!

Zoe was ultra committed to the win. Rounding third, Zoe was trying to score which turned out to be a very important run in a hard fought close game. While running as she proclaimed, the fasted she's ever run to home plate, Zoe proceeded to take a face plant. Not deterred by the task at hand, Zoe calmly and smoothly made it to her hands and knees and crawled the remaining what would have been two steps to home to beat out a very close play at the plate. While she was terrific as a kicker and pitcher, this one singular play was the one that stood out, and so much so... It nets her player of the week!

Blue Ballz were locked in a tight game with Urban Urban Urban right up until the 7th inning. After tying the game up in the bottom of the sixth, Blue Ballz followed up their comeback with a 1-2-3 inning in the top of the 7th, with the final out being a phenomenal catch by Julie right off the foul line. If that wasn't heroic enough for her team, Julie then ledoff the bottom of the 7th with a single. Her teammates fed off Julie's great plays to bring her home and seal the game. Great job Julie!

The Itty Bitty Ditty Committee played great as a team throughout the game as they defeated Urban Urban Urban, but Kevin Michael stood out as a major reason of their dominance. After allowing one run in the top of the 1st, Kevin pitched 5 straight shutout innings. Even more impressively, he managed to pitch a couple 1-2-3 innings along the way. Although Urban Urban Urban was able to score 2 runs in the top of the 7th, Kevin quickly squashed the rally to seal the win for his team.

In a huge playoff game against the SolKickers, Tessa led her team to victory after 11 innings! Looking like Willie Mays in center field, Tessa caught everything kicked in her direction, preventing numerous baserunners from advancing. Just as impressive, Tessa went 4-4 from the plate including the hit that brought in the game winning run. After the extra innings thriller, Tessa's heroics reinvigorated her team for the second game of their doubleheader.

In the second round of the playoffs, Tessa did more of the same, showing great range in center field and catching everything that made it past second base. She kept her great kicking average as well going 3-3 from the plate. Tessa's phenomenal two game performance propelled Urban Urban Urban to the finals. Congratulations Tessa!