Month: May 2023

Smoke Gets in Cats’ Eyes

Da Hittas (4-0) lived up to their namesake for one big inning last week in breezing past Sea Kittens 14-4 last week at Bowman Park.  The matchup between  last two Madison Sport & Social Club Thursday night unbeatens looked tantalizing on paper and lived up to the pregame hype for more than 3 innings, but unraveled in the bottom of the fourth- from the Sea Kitten perspective, anyway. Under kaleidoscope skies, the evening May sunshine

Kittens Down Busch Lattes

Competition in the Madison Sport & Social Club Thursday Night Upper Division remained tight last week, but for the third straight week Sea Kittens emerged as winners of a well-played softball game.  The Cats (3-0) outlasted Busch Lattes (1-2) 14-9 at Bowman Park on May 11 and sit tied atop the league standings, with back-to-back games against fellow unbeaten frontrunners Da Hittas (3-0) looming. As has been their pattern in the early going of the

Cats Claw Back to Escape Maulers

Springtime arrived in Madison for a third and perhaps final time, and with it idyllic evenings for Sea Kittens softball.  Los Gatitos tangled with Roughneck Maulers last Thursday night and scurried away victorious after a tough scrap, rallying late to win 11-8 and move to 2-0 on the spring season. As the team did in its opening-night win, Sea Kittens came out swinging.  The Cats put their first four runners on base, plating two runs

Kittens Bat Around Prairie Dogs

Sea Kittens softball returned to the diamond for its 13th season last Thursday night at Bowman Park. Six months had passed since the team’s last action, and the Cats all got a little bit older, but one would not have known judging by the way the team played from the get-go in opening night action.  Sea Kittens(1-0, MSSC Thursday night play) pounced on SP Prairie Dogs (0-1) early and often, batting around on the Dogs