Fall 2013 Week 1 Wreck Up

By Grizzly Michaels

A Kickball Pepo

The Fall 2013 Sun City Kickball season started with a bit of Thunder and Lightning on Wednesday night.

While mother nature lit up the sky and crackled through the air, the Wreck Division was lighting up the scoreboard and posted 54 total runs, despite four teams failing to find home plate.

The defending Lone Star Champions (that was code for Wreck the last couple of seasons) Toe Jammers got the new season started with a W in a defensive battle. In a quick game, the Jammers squeaked out the 1-0 victory over This...Pitch! at Memorials Park Baseball Field.

Then weather be damned, the Jammers busted out the boom box and had their very own Kickball tailgate party in the parking lot as the Royal Tenenballs welcomed back the new generation Hash House Harriers with 10-4 whooping.

But the story of that game was the Tenenballs crazy socks vs. the Harriers kilts. 

Over at Modesto Gomez, Pitches Ain't S*** got a series of shut outs on Field 1 started with a 6-0 victory over Pitches Love Me.

The next two games were perfect examples of former upper-league teams teaching their opponents how to kick.

First the kickballaz smashed the Alcoballics 13-0, then Pitch Please! slapped the Cool Arrows around 11-0.

Both the kickballaz and Pitch Please! dropped down this season to have fun.

One item of note was that Pitch Please!'s Michelle got her first foul-out on the mound. The Wreck rules require female pitchers in at least two of the innings, which led Michelle to taking the mound and forcing the foul-out. Statisticians be damned, I'm giving her the K in the books.

The game of the night may have been the lone game at Modesto's Field 2 when Just Kickin It clawed back to beat the Kickaholics, 5-4, with some come-from-behind magic.

The Kickaholics jumped out to a strong 4-1 lead after one inning of play, but Just Kickin It, being the veteran bunch of that they are, chopped away at that lead and took home the victory with some heroics in the fifth and final inning.

That was one hell of an opening night.

In comparison the King of Kickball Division scored a total of 15 runs and more than half of those came from the defending champion Kixx. Granted the defense level is switched to 11 in those games.

But it goes to show that those Wreck'd kids accomplished what they set out to do this season and have some fun.

Good job guys, feel free to post your scorecards on the refrigerator. 

A simple breakdown of the scores:

Pitches Ain't S*** 6, Pitches Love Me 0

kickballaz 13, Alcoballics 0

Pitch Please! 11, Cool Arrows 0

Just Kickin It 5, Kickaholics 4

Toe Jammers 1, This...Pitch! 0

Royal Tenenballs 10, Hash House Harriers 4