Larry Wolfe With two outs in the bottom of the seventh and final inning, Steve Hilby bashed a long homerun to centerfield, clinching an exciting 18-16 win for the Century 21 Real Estate Rustlers. Here’s how we arrived at that championship moment. The three-day double elimination tournament began with the Rustlers, managed by Mike Gloyd…
Larry Wolfe The Young Realty team swept a doubleheader from Core Photography on the final day of the season to top the Lakes Division for the Spring League championship. That sweep allowed the Youngsters to edge Wolfe & Associates by one game. The Young Realty team finished with a 10-4 record, while the Wolves completed…
The annual Sun Lakes Senior Softball Association banquet was recently held in the Oakwood Ballroom. Nearly 140 members, guests and sponsors were in attendance. After a very happy “Happy Hour,” dinner was served. Many of the attendees praised the entrees as being the best banquet food ever served in Sun Lakes. Many thanks to Ashley…
Larry Wolfe The Real Estate Rustlers, sponsored by Jim Leckner’s Century 21 agency and managed by Mike Gloyd, won the Spring Sun Division Senior Softball title with a record of 13-5. They beat out the second place State Farm Insurance squad, sponsored by the Ralph Vasquez Agency and managed by Ron Carmichael, by two games.…
Larry Wolfe Our Lady Sluggers senior softball team completed its 2019 season and is looking forward to another successful season next year. The Sluggers play in the Valley of the Sun Ladies League which includes teams throughout the Southeast Valley. The team was managed by Terry Finley with help from coaches Scott Steinmann and Dan…
Larry Wolfe Like Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, Paul Eskridge hails from the south side of Chicago, but he’s not “meaner than a junk yard dog.” Actually, he’s a really nice guy! Several months after graduating from Thornridge High in Dolton, Illinois, Paul flew from Chicago to Los Angeles on a cold, gray and blustery day…
Larry Wolfe The Young Realty Team, managed by Dave Rinaldo, captured the Lakes Division Winter Softball pennant with a record of 14-4. The Wolfe & Associates squad finished second at 11-7. The Top Ten hitters in the Lakes Division were Dave Boone (.719), Doug Warwick (.712), Al Grefsheim (.709), Dennis Kennedy and Gary Alexander (both…
Larry Wolfe The Ponchos, our 70+ travel team, recently won the annual Palm Springs Senior Softball Tournament. And they not only won it, they dominated the tournament, winning all six games they played, including an 18-9 drubbing of the Arizona Rockies in the championship game. The tournament featured teams from Arizona, California and Washington State.…
Tom Schneider Larry Wolfe A Bay Area native, Tom Schneider was born in San Jose and grew up in the Santa Cruz area where he was a star athlete at Soquel High. (I guess he knows the way from San Jose!) Tom played football, basketball and baseball for the Knights and was All-League in baseball…
Larry Wolfe Okay, I’m impressed if you know what a “conspectus” is! If you don’t, Google it! At press time, the winter seasons in both the Sun and Lakes Divisions were nearing their conclusions. In the Sun Division, the State Farm Insurance team, managed by Ron Carmichael, had clinched the title with a sterling record…