Summer Southeast Co-ed Softcore Kickball Sundays at Col. Summers Park

Welcome to those teams that are playing at Colonel Summers Park for the Summer session. 14 teams started the season on Sunday. We have a few returning teams and many more newcomers to welcome to the league.

You would expect that a veteran would take the first weeks player of the game but oh how the tides have turned. The last game of the day brought together the leagues only Indy Team: Hot Mess.

You never know what type of team Indy's will manage to turn into but everyone showed up with a focus and desire to make this a successful season. Hot Mess started the game with three quick scores and continued their hot kicking into the 4th where they totaled 14 scores.

At one point, the team captain Kevin Clover made a miraculous play from the pitcher's mound. A short bunt trickled out of the box and the kicker took off towards 1st. Just as the player approached 1st, Kevin kicked a laser and the sure handed 1st basemen caught it for an out.

This is just one example of the type of 'never give up' attitude that could help a large group of individuals become a team to be reckoned with. Congratulations on your 1st win.

I don't know what happened today, but Holy Home Runs Batman. The only thing I can come up with is that the sewage leak gave people bionic kicking powers. On a typical Sunday, we may get 3 or 4 homers, but this daily average turned into a per game average. I just have to assume everybody was trying to make up for having a bye week over our Nation's 233rd Birthday.

One a day of huge legs, one player stands upon the precipice of Kickball stardom. Zac Thomas of the Drop Kick Kids tallied 3 home runs, one of which was a 1st inning Grand Salami. This quick start put the previously undefeated Hot Mess team into shell shock. The question is: how will they recover over the break? For his strong leg and great team play Zac Thomas has earned Colonel Summers Kickball Player of the Week.

Honorable mentions go to Joe Ettinger and Erik Swanson of We Always Get to 3rd Base. They totaled 4 home runs and 11 of their teams 20 scores.

Tom O'Toole of The Claw perfectly demonstrated how important passion and dedication is to the game of kickball with a diving catch, putting his body on the line. Sacrificing his own body for the greater good of the team, Tom O'Toole helped The Claw to a hard fought 18-13 win on Sunday at Col. Summers Park

Drew Blanchett showed us why The Claw was in session. With passion and rock solid commitment to his overall game, Blanchett helped his team, The Claw to a authoritative 16-7 win over Ace of 2nd Base on Sunday