Tag: Opening Day

Nature’s Dominance Will Continue Unchecked

The elements of softball reflect the elements of literature: the embodiment of human triumph, tragedy, and desire, the song of the soul. The conflicts within softball- within an at-bat, a game, a season, a career- and those which inflame authors are the same: the battles between person and person, person and nature, person and self, person and fate.  In softball these battles rage simultaneously in an unscripted operatic ballet staged on dirt and grass. Except

Cool Cats’ Bats Can’t Get Enough Runs

May 24, 2017 Delayed a week by rain, Harmony Sea Kittens (0-1  in MSCR LaCrosse League play) opened its 2017 summer season on a dank,   decidedly unsummer-like evening at Goodman Park Wednesday.  Squaring off with We Got the Runs (2-0), Harmony couldn’t spark a sustained rally on the damp diamond and fell 8-5. After Mags Magyera opened the Sea Kitten season with a ringing single to left, the next three Cats went down in