Year: 2023

Cats Claw Back, but Can’t Hang On

Da Hittas (5-0) secured the Madison Sport & Social Club regular-season title with its 9-6 win over Sea Kittens (3-2) May 25 at Bowman Park, putting the Cats into a duel with Bat & Boujee (3-2) for the #2 playoff seed- and accompanying first-round bye- June 8.  Matched up for the second consecutive week, Sea Kittens again spotted Da Hittas a big inning and early lead, but this time the Cats were able to battle

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