Hey again!
A while since I’ve updated so my apologies on that! First off, Blazzers reports! There have been 3 games for each team since my last reports. The 1Z’s, despite battling hard, lost out to the division 1 Dublin Bay Packers by 20-7 in the 2010 cup competition. Not a bad scoreline considering we had 9 players, one of which was someone who’d never played the game before. This was followed by a walkover victory against the Mockingbirds, and a 13 – 3 defeat against the Renegades Black (on a side note, ex-Blazzer John Corkery now plays SS for the Renegades and had a great game, despite the stick we were giving him ). These results leave us on 14 points for the season, one win back from the top of the table.
I’ve pitched in parts of all of these games, and man is it tough! I’ll have a good inning or two, then start to get creamed. It can be quite disheartening, but all I can do is keep working on it and hopefully get into the habit of varying my pitches a bit more. I’ll get there!! We also need to get the bats going, as you’ll never win a softball game scoring only 3 runs 
The Blazzers team has faired a bit better. They went over the All Sinners 23-4 in the cup, and have a 1 and 1 record in the provious 2 league games, losing 6-5 to the Sluggers before winning on the road against castleknock. These were all away games, so I couldn’t make the trip, but the first team is progressing along nicely, given the scarcity of numbers they currently have.
Next week is a make-up week, meaning there is no game for the 1Z’s, while a decision has to be reached regarding the Blazzers – Marley game from week 1. I’m going to have to head down to see the conclusion to that one, it should be interesting!
