Hewes Wins Two, Sam Melendez Dominates and Mishkin Is In First Place - by Havelock Hewes

    The first half of the Memorial Weekend games were played at Hechscher Field on Sunday, May 25.
    Game one was tied at three runs a piece, when Nel Yomtov drove in Chris Pun (his first game of the season) on a fielder's choice.  The team added more insurance than Tony Connor would sell you when they piled on seven more runs in the top of the seventh to support Havelock Hewes' fine pitching performance and beat Freddy Melendez' team 11-3.
    After the game, Hewes' team added Tony Connor who pitched game 2.  The Sam Magnus team picked up Joe Geller.  There was also a four-plyer trade which sent Gil Schmerler and Tom Haskin to Magnus for Joey Escobar and Adam Wald.  Connor's team scored one in the first and it looked like that lead might hold up as Connor and Sam Melendez matched zeroes through six.  The slight lead disappeared quickly as Melendez' team clubbed six straight hits off the bats of  Sam Melendez, Ross Barkan, Dave Sommers, Freddie Melendez, Sam Magnus and Dimitri Patsalos and scored four runs.  Sam Melendez  allowed only five hits and no earned runs in defeating Connor 4-1.
  The teams were re-mixed for game three and Freddie Melendez faced Havelock Hewes in a re-match of game one.  A number of errors contributed to Hewes' team building a six nothing lead (2 earned) and they held on to win 6-2.
  The hitting stars of the day were Freddy Melendez ( 5 for 8 with 2 walks, 1 RBI, 2 runs), Dimitri Patsalos ( 4 for 9 with 5 RBI), Chris Pun ( 3 for 9 with a double and a triple and 5 runs scored) and Ross Barkan (4 for 5 with a triple, a walk, 1 RBI and 2 runs).
   Going into the second half of the Memorial Day Weekend Games (to be played May 26 at eleven am at The Great Lawn), the pennant race looks like this...
+7   Matt Mishkin  10 - 3
+6   Fred Lang  9 - 3
+4   Ross Barkan  5 - 1
+4   Tom Haskin  6 - 2
+4   Eric Schulman  8 - 4
+3   Ian Parfrey  10 - 7

The (Softball) Odyssey

An overnight rain closed the Heckscher fields last Sunday. It was a beautiful day, and there was no way we were turning around and going home. We went to DeWitt Clinton (54th Street), only to be denied by the little league. We went to Chelsea Park on 28th Street, only to be denied by tee ball. Finally we ended up at Houston Street at the East River, a few blocks south of our fall fields, sharing a turf field with a soccer game. Jeff Appell opposed Freddie Melendez, and thanks to a pair of homers from Eric Schulman, Appell's team was in a quick 6-0 hole. They scored 6 times in the top of the 4th to tie, and then a solo shot from Tom Haskin in the 5th proved to be the go-ahead run in a 12-10 win. Melendez's team put up a spirited comeback, sparked by Greg Hilska's 2-out, 2-run triple, but ultimately fell short.