Summer Kickball Week 2

Virginia Orange 7
SPSU 4

As for Orange, it was certainly a sloppy victory, but a victory nonetheless, 7-4 over SPSU. The kicking was decent to good, 7 runs in 6 innings is a solid output, and there weren't too many errors on their end to pad our numbers. The defense was a different story entirely – There were a few, ahem, “players caught out of position“ over the course of the game, but luckily it didn’t come back to hurt us too much.

Some positive highlights:

- Thirza picked up a lot of the slack with multiple solid plays in right center field, many times in crucial situations and bailing others out.

- “Fundamentals” player of the game goes to Ben Maddox for backing up 1B from RF on an overthrow. It went unnoticed to many, but it turned out a be a very big play.

- Kevin May with a near HR only to be thrown out inches from touching home plate – the team voted to place the blame squarely on the 3B coach to rename nameless who sent him on the play…

- Matt Bine showing great concentration, holding on for a great catch despite nearly blowing out a previously injured knee, and banging his head hard on the ground in the process.

Orange season record: 1-1
Next game: 7/19 vs. FSU, 2 pm

Emory 4
Virginia Blue 2

The first inning was a little shaky as they loaded the bases, but our defense pulled it together to make Virginia kickball history by getting out of it with a sweet triple play (instigated with a catch of a line drive by Ben and a heads up pick off of the runners on first and second). Offensively we got off to a bang with two runs in the second (or was it the third) to go up 2-0. Throughout the game we had some outstanding defensive plays at second between James and Elizabeth, Ben and Elizabeth, and Dave Clark and Elizabeth. Basically, without Elizabeth we would have no defense.

Best (i.e. most amusing) defensive play of the day is a tie between James' diving "I got it! I got it! - I don't have it." non-catch for an infield bunt (seriously awesome effort) and the Bad News Bears collision in the outfield between Blaise and GJ (just an early season reminder that calling the ball might be a good idea).


Best kick of the day goes to the Emory girl that booted a ball into centerfield about twenty feet past GJ!


On the whole we kicked well. In fact somewhere in the middle innings we loaded the bases with one out but couldn't seal the deal. And if they hadn't put first base in Gwinnett (damn it was far) then several very good infield kicks by Ashley, Adam and GJ and James would have resulted in base hits. Keep up the good effort!

Blue season record: 1-1
Next game: 7/19 vs. UGA, 3 pm