Softball resumes...

Prior to last Tuesday, Malta Parks and Recreation Softball League games had been rained out in two consecutive weeks. Last Tuesday, teams saw a bit of normalcy, but also made up a couple of games the day prior.

In the 6 p.m. games, Heavy Hitters defeated Independence Bank 16-7 and Blue Ridge Softballs defeated Sons of Pitches 11-1. In the 7 p.m. games, Oh My Quads defeated 99 Problems 14-8 and Heavy Hitters defeated OG Americans 13-4. In the 8 p.m. games, Blue Ridge Softballs defeated Independence bank 14-8 and Ezzie's defeated Sons of Pitches 15-3.

Ezzie's win over Sons of Pitches was their first win of the year. Prior to the game, the PCN caught up with Omar Lett of Ezzie's.

"Things aren't good so far, actually," Lett said. "We are zero for yet and looking for our first win tonight."

Lett was asked what the team's approach would be in order to get the win. He said that they mixed up the batting order. Lett admitted that the team had not practiced before their game and that they just show up and "wing it."

The team scored their first six runs in the first inning. Shon Simonson hit an inside-the-park home run in the first inning for Ezzie's, batting in Trace Simonson and Charlene Wasson. Lett continuing the effort batting in teammate Heather Simonson on a single-RBI in the first.

"I hit it down the right side, the outfielder missed it and I kept running," Shon said. "I was trying not to pull my quad."

Shon had hit an inside-the-park home run once before during the first week of the season.

In the bottom of the third, Baxter Waters of Sons of Pitches would score his own three-run home run batting in teammates Hunter Hould and Tahtianna WhiteCow-Morgan, but that would be all the offense that Ezzie's would allow as they went on to score nine more runs of their own.

In Oh My Quad's win over Independence Bank, OMQ Manager Greg Ziegler had some words to say.

"The biggest key to our win was the other team not being as good as us," Ziegler said with a serious face.

Ziegler doubled down on his response and even made a post-season guarantee in 2020.

"Besides age and the trophy from last year and numerous other trophies, it's just kind of natural to be in the big one at the end," Ziegler said. "This is just mediocre stuff and if they aren't good enough to beat us while we aren't really trying in the regular season, they are definitely not going to beat us when we are trying in the post season."

Though his response was confident, his team had been defeated just one week ago when they lost to Independence Bank.

"I wasn't here to encourage my team, so they had one loss last week," Zeigler said. "We were just calling it a bye week. We were just taking it easy, relaxing our muscles and really ramping up for the playoffs."