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Here’s the Prairie Fire video (50 MB).

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Wednesday night was a solid effort against a team with some weapons. Nothing flashy except pounding singles and doubles throughout the order. Paul made a nice double play relay throw at 2B and Molly played a solid SS for the first time this year. Lis had her first hit of the year and Eve made a daring slide at home, during which she yet again opened her elbow wound that will likely linger for the entire season. After a tough 0-3 against Topco, I (Miles) bounced back with a good 3-4 day at the plate.

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Just as in the game against Topco, (more…)

so, it took a while but here it is…(about 66 MB)

Ahhh, that’s more like it..

After an ugly performance against the Swinging Shillelaghs, the Seashells bounce back for their second win of the season, 11-5 versus TopCo.

Hitting stars of the day include CF Lee Greenberg, 3B/SS Matt Stankiewicz (who Lee admitted is “hitting the cover off of the ball”) and a strong one hit, one walk performance from 2B Lancy Norris who becomes more dependable at the plate with every game. (more…)

Ok, no time for game breakdown but here are some pics!

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In week five, we find ourselves once again preparing to play under the threat of rain. The forecast is for T-storms. I’ll post anything regarding a rainout when I hear.

If we do play, we face another old adversary, Team Topco. We’ve played them for years (here’s a pre-game thread and a post-game thread from last fall) and they tend to keep them close.

The Seashells have a little something to prove after last week’s shellacking at the hands of Swingin’ Shillelaghs. There was little timely hitting, porous infield defense and too many walks from the mound. In response, the team chose not to practice but will report early to the ballpark for BP at the field across the street from Terminal.

In other news, Ken at Howard Street Inn has once again graciously agreed to sponsor our team. HSI sponsored both 2007 teams and enthusiastically offered to host the post-game revelries moving forward. It’s not the most convenient bar in the world and the menu is a little small, but they have great salads, food specials every night of the week and their outdoor patio seating is killer. Much thanks to them!

Lastly, I’d like to give a big welcome to Elisabeth, who’ll be joining the Seashells for the first time tonight. The addition of Elisabeth’s glove should help solidify our infielding and her bat will add the even quality to our lineup that’s been lacking since the unfortunate departure of Bridget Cooper.

 This year’s bbs thread is here.

Just an excuse for some pics.

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a quick vid of our at-bats versus the shillelaghs…

90 MB download

Well that sucked.

Final score, 1-11 with the shame of walking off the field mid-inning due to the slaughter rule thrown in. I have video and pictures from the game, which I’ll post in the coming days.

Our big problems were shaky hands fielding balls off the bat, some tough drops/wayward throws on the infield and, obviously, walks which led to 7 of their 11 runs.

Offensively, i don’t have the exact stats but (more…)

Ok, so we played this guys last summer and lost. Here’s the thread from that game.

From what I remember, they have that short dart-throwing Irish guy from the Village Inn as their pitcher and have solid fielding, slap-hitting girls from top to bottom of their order.

Here are all the pics from that game.

I also saw that they were the 2nd seed last summer (ahead of Digitus) but we’re upset in the playoffs before we got to play them.

If we continue hitting like we did at the end of last week’s game, I don’t see why this won’t be another victory. It’s going to be in the 50s so it might be a tough fielding and throwing day. We’ll need to capitalize on our offensive chances and do the best we can when they’re at bat.

The game thread for this year’s game is here and here’s a lineup, pending sharing a spot).