Greenville Oaks is one team that is thankful that the month of June is over. Game four of the grueling Summer softball season commenced on Monday night, and Greenville Oaks started the month of July with a 12 - 5 victory over a slumping COMD.
The game featured a fairly boring, but effective, station to station offense. The play of the game took place when Brian Edwards' mustache worked a bases loaded walk that brought in one of the five runs in Greenville's half of the 5th inning. It was the fifth inning that really broke the game open as it put Greenville Oaks up 10 - 5, and the way Brokaw was dealing in the ladder innings, a comeback for COMD was unlikely.
When asked about the walk, Edwards' mustache boasted, "those pitches actually started out as strikes, but on their way down, they got scared and they missed the strikezone when they saw me."
Mike Mabry also had a mustache that made its debut on Monday night. It proved to be too much for COMD to overcome. I have some pictures of the rookie and I will make sure to post them later in the week.
Although it looked as though the game may be another bad one for the Greenville Oaks offense throught the first 3 innings scoring only 2 runs, but Curtis Damour started off a 3 run inning with a triple in the top of the 4th. That got the bats going as Greenville put up 10 runs in the final 3 innings.
It was another stellar defensive effort for Greenville, as they only gave up 5 runs in six innings. Randy Way continued to exert a lot of energy chasing foul balls as the catcher and catching none of them. However, Way's hustle has paid off, as Way recently was named a defensive all star in the Church D league and he won a brand new 2010 Chevrolet Truck. Congratulations to Randy on his selection to the all-star game last week.
Heading into the second half of the season, there has been quite a bit of speculation as to whether or not Greenville will be buyers or sellers before the trade deadline. With the team sitting at .500, it is hard to say, but it will be difficult for the team to be buying since they have all but depleted the farm system. However, there has been talk about restocking that farm system by trading away established Church D Leaguers such as Curtis Damour, or experienced pitcher, outfielder, and 3rd baseman Shane Spencer. However, that is highly unlikely as those two players are much too important to the future of the franchise. The General Manager, Michael Shivers, has made it clear that his number one target is negotiating with Christ the Servant to bring Tall Dr. Kellum to the team for the fall season.
When asked about about restocking the farm system, Shivers noted that most of the members and wives of the team are doing their part to restock the farm system, with a wave of new players expected to arrive in about 18 years.
Next Monday night will bring another test, as Greenville will not only play its first double header of the season, but it will also be without their starting Short Stop David Strickland, and their starting left fielder, Clay Platt. Veteren infielder Dustin Swart, looking for his first homerun of the season will look to pick up the slack, as well as emerging rookie Matt Wacaster. The first game is set for 6:30.
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