Crosby Township, Oh.—Reggie Stallworth’s two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the 6th lifted Secret Service to a dramatic 3-2 victory over American Trading Co. in the second championship game of the “Level 4 North” Division of the Godbey & Associates-M & S Drywall ASA Cincinnati Metro tournament July 29-August 8 at [...]
Milford, Oh.–Ought Three trimmed Cincinnati Pioneer 11-9 in the deciding game of a six-team Sunday morning mini-round robin August 22nd at Expressway Park. Ought Three used a solid defense en route to the title, holding all four of their opponents to single digit scoring. The champions mowed down Wicked Sticks (2-2) 12-7, Immerman & Tobin [...]
Milford, Oh.—After going 0-2 in pool play, Kentucky Chiropractic rallied for two elimination round victories to capture first place in a Friday night round robin August 20th at Expressway Park. Kentucky Chiro dropped a narrow 5-4 decision to pool play winner Roush (2-0), then took a 14-8 beating at the hands of T-Shirt Company (1-1). [...]
Crosby Township, Oh.—Brad Tabler went 19-for-21 with nine home runs and 31 rbi’s to power Blitz/Watanabe/Minges/Weller/Easton to a six game sweep of the “Level 1” Division of the Godbey & Associates-M & S Drywall ASA Cincinnati Metro tournament July 29-August 10 at Rumpke Park. Blitz/Watanabe romped past EMR/Belly’s Party Bus/Red’s Boys Since 1963 25-13 in [...]
Milford, Oh.—Pitcher J. J. Clark held five opponents to a combined seventeen runs to lead Queen City Accoustical/Scoreboard Sports Bar to a first place finish in the Worth-Bud Light-Ohio USSSA Men’s Class “D” State Tournament August 21-22 at Expressway Park. Queen City/Scoreboard mercy-ruled Team Killzit 18-8 in the championship game to complete a five-game sweep [...]
Taylor Mill, Ky.—The Northern Kentucky Outlaws escaped with a nine-inning, 14-13 victory over the Covington Cats in their second game, then later stopped Nu-Way Drywall 16-6 in the championship game to complete a five-game sweep of the Kentucky USSSA Men’s Class “E” State Tournament August 21-22 at Knights Sports Complex. The extra inning win over [...]
Q. I have noticed in some major league baseball games lately where fans have reached out onto the playing field, and touched or caught a batted ball. How does baseball handle this, and is the rule the same in softball? A. If a player reaches into the stands to catch the thrown or batted ball [...]
My intuition has been telling me for some time now that this great newspaper, the Cincinnati Softball News, which was started thirty-five years ago, and financed and operated by Mark and Diane Linnemann, would soon fall along with so many other newspapers in this country. When I was a boy selling newspapers on the corner [...]
Milford, Oh.—Low Bob’s/Miken upended Cincysoftball.com 11-6 and 10-2 in a double finals to capture first place in the Worth-Ohio USSSA Women’s Class “B-C” State Tournament August 14-15 at Expressway Park. The two wins over Cincysoftball.com gave the champions a 6-1 mark for the day. Cincysoftball.com had slapped a 7-5 loss on Low Bob’s in a [...]
Milford, Oh.—D & S Engineering double-dipped Tri-State Air Filters 11-4 and 10-7 en route to a first place finish in the Platinum Division of the 10th Annual Wayne Rust Memorial Mid-Summer Classic League Championship Series August 3-8 at Expressway Park. Tri-State had slapped a humiliating 13-0 setback on the eventual champions in the second round [...]
Milford, Oh.—SOS Softball spanked D & S Engineering 12-5 in the championship game to complete a three-game sweep of the Worth-Ohio USSSA Women’s Class “D” State Tournament August 14-15 at Expressway Park. SOS survived a nine-inning, 8-7 scare from D & S in the winners’ bracket finals to reach finals, but otherwise was not seriously [...]
Milford, Oh.—Blitz/Watanabe/Minges/Weller/Easton tripped up MWC/Pipe/Mojo/DSS/Bats/Easton 15-5 and 16-11 in a double finals to wrap up a 6-1 day and capture their second Worth-Bud Light-Ohio USSSA Men’s Class “B” State Tournament August 14th at Expressway Park. Bears Boyz of Columbus had stunned the pre-tournament favorites 18-14 in a second round game, relegating Blitz/Watanabe to the losers’ [...]
Milford, Oh.—Gatsby Alexander batted .700 and Eddie Riggs .667 to power JB’s/Mouch Chiropractic to a first place finish in Silver Division of the 10th Annual Wayne Rust Memorial Mid-Summer Classic League Championship Series August 3-8 at Expressway Park. JB’s/Mouch polished off Big Tymers 9-3 in the championship game to complete a four game sweep of [...]
Taylor Mill, Ky.—The Nasty Boys mercy-ruled J & J Sports Shop/PNC Bank 14-4 in the championship game to complete a five game sweep of the Kentucky USSSA Men’s Class “D” State Tournament August 14-15 at Knights Sports Complex. Some late inning scoring helped the Nasty Boys survive two close calls – a second round 13-11 [...]
Crosby Township, Oh.—Pure Romance/Archie’s Place mercy-ruled Queen City Accoustics/Scoreboard 14-2 in the championship game to complete a five-game sweep of the “Level 2” Division of the Godbey & Associates-M & S Drywall ASA Cincinnati Metro tournament July 29-August 9 at Rumpke Park. PRI/Archie’s sandwiched a pair of mercy-rule wins around three tight games en route [...]
