Article Date: Fri 2nd Sep 2011
Awards Summary
Firstly thanks to lovely Donna (SoP) for being a very good handcuffed glamorous assistant. She will never throw a bat again!
So who won what and how silly was it? Here goes...
MVP Male – Rich “The Ring” (SoP) (Trophy)
MVP Female – Caroline Meads (UC) – Arina (TU) – Kate McCormick (BP) (Trophy each as they had even nominations)
Keenest Captain – Linda (UC) - Excellence in communication, asking for help, being a good egg, never giving up! (Softball mug)
Best Debut – Han (SoP) 1st game, MVP (Softball keyring)
Most athletic catches - Jos (MB) (Softball keyring)
Best New Team with pink accessories - Ringers! (Stella)
Best Kit – BJC for playing dressed as the Reservoir Dogs (Little Green Bag, knife, bloody ear)
Most Random Recruiting – Mighty Bobcats for grabbing passers by when short of players (Lord Sugar facemask)
Only team to beat champions – Cheeky Monkeys (Gert hoooooge inflatable Banana)
Where's my glove? - Becky (CM) - Pretty much leaves her glove either on the Downs or in the pub and someone else from the team collects it and gives it back to her each week! Response to e-mail stating GAME CANCELLED – Are we playing? (Little Miss Scatterbrain personalised mousemat)
Foot'n'mouth - Sarah (FB) – Nominated for jinxing the game after saying “we can’t possibly lose this (unless we get mercied 3 times in a row)”… guess what happened?! (3 candy feet)
Best injury – Dave Moss (BP) - Tripped over himself one the way to 1st in the opening game of the season and broke his collar bone (Ambulance with lights and sirens!)
Biggest most important catch – Fliss (TR) – Vital high ball catch in the outfield for the draw v Unit. It hung in the air, there was a lot of stretching involved, silence from the onlookers, the gasp and then the cheer! (Softball stressball)
Big Arm - Luke ‘The Arm’ (MB) – Has the biggest throw in the league (False arm so he can keep his real one safe over winter)
Directionally Challenged Award - Harry (SoP) - Ran through third towards his team mates thinking it was home plate. Needless to say he was tagged out! (Laminated map of the diamond)
Clash Award - Paul (FB) – For (thankfully) agreeing to be vice captain (number 4!) in the same week as he quit the season! (Clash CD - Should I stay or should I go?)
Motormouth - Johnny Lucas (CM) - For providing consistent and constant commentary throughout every game this season. Can't hold or bite his tongue? He can now... (Bag of jelly tongues)
Secret yet most stressed Captain – Joe “I only read every third e-mail and we've got no girls again” North (TU) (Softball stressball)
If you can dodge a spanner – Owain (RI) - Still running for some reason despite base coach's best efforts to convince him to stop at 3rd , pitcher made to cut him off between 3rd and home. They both raced towards each other and at the last second Owain threw himself onto his back and slid in the wet grass under the outstretched arm of the pitcher looking for a tag. Pitcher rans onwards as unable to stop in the wet and Owain flipped himself onto his front and at full stretch just managed to hit the home plate with his finger tips (Genuine copy of Ben Stiller signed Dodgeball pic)
Comedy Out – Aaron (TR) v Stevo (CSS) – Stevo (Sonic) was on 2nd, Aaron (Shadow) at Short. Shadow received the ball and made a throw to 1st, Sonic set off as fast as he...oh, Shadow still had the ball having made a dummy throw. Sonic tagged out! (Sonic & Shadow soft toys)
Least appreciative of most sporting moment – Matt (BP) – The Ringers were a girl short so Kate to played in the outfield and Matt Lacey was at bat. He hit a huge shot straight down the 1st base-line that looked like it was probably going to drop foul. Kate ran over to where it was dropping and took a fantastic catch (it would have been just as easy to "spill" it). Fair to say Matt bolted off the home plate and chased her in to the outfield cursing her all the way! (Big candy dummies to spit!)
Time Machine – Marty(n) McFly (SoP) – Playing 1st he was standing slightly infield. The ball was blasted at him, he fumbled the field and ended up on the floor somehow. Keeping his wits about him he recovered his composure and hurled the ball back to first, forgetting only one thing...yep, he was the 1st baseman! (Back to The Future DeLorean and drinks coaster)
Special thanks to Claire, Dave, Dez, Jamie, Jo and Si for working together with me so hard to make the league fabulous again this year.
So who won what and how silly was it? Here goes...
MVP Male – Rich “The Ring” (SoP) (Trophy)
MVP Female – Caroline Meads (UC) – Arina (TU) – Kate McCormick (BP) (Trophy each as they had even nominations)
Keenest Captain – Linda (UC) - Excellence in communication, asking for help, being a good egg, never giving up! (Softball mug)
Best Debut – Han (SoP) 1st game, MVP (Softball keyring)
Most athletic catches - Jos (MB) (Softball keyring)
Best New Team with pink accessories - Ringers! (Stella)
Best Kit – BJC for playing dressed as the Reservoir Dogs (Little Green Bag, knife, bloody ear)
Most Random Recruiting – Mighty Bobcats for grabbing passers by when short of players (Lord Sugar facemask)
Only team to beat champions – Cheeky Monkeys (Gert hoooooge inflatable Banana)
Where's my glove? - Becky (CM) - Pretty much leaves her glove either on the Downs or in the pub and someone else from the team collects it and gives it back to her each week! Response to e-mail stating GAME CANCELLED – Are we playing? (Little Miss Scatterbrain personalised mousemat)
Foot'n'mouth - Sarah (FB) – Nominated for jinxing the game after saying “we can’t possibly lose this (unless we get mercied 3 times in a row)”… guess what happened?! (3 candy feet)
Best injury – Dave Moss (BP) - Tripped over himself one the way to 1st in the opening game of the season and broke his collar bone (Ambulance with lights and sirens!)
Biggest most important catch – Fliss (TR) – Vital high ball catch in the outfield for the draw v Unit. It hung in the air, there was a lot of stretching involved, silence from the onlookers, the gasp and then the cheer! (Softball stressball)
Big Arm - Luke ‘The Arm’ (MB) – Has the biggest throw in the league (False arm so he can keep his real one safe over winter)
Directionally Challenged Award - Harry (SoP) - Ran through third towards his team mates thinking it was home plate. Needless to say he was tagged out! (Laminated map of the diamond)
Clash Award - Paul (FB) – For (thankfully) agreeing to be vice captain (number 4!) in the same week as he quit the season! (Clash CD - Should I stay or should I go?)
Motormouth - Johnny Lucas (CM) - For providing consistent and constant commentary throughout every game this season. Can't hold or bite his tongue? He can now... (Bag of jelly tongues)
Secret yet most stressed Captain – Joe “I only read every third e-mail and we've got no girls again” North (TU) (Softball stressball)
If you can dodge a spanner – Owain (RI) - Still running for some reason despite base coach's best efforts to convince him to stop at 3rd , pitcher made to cut him off between 3rd and home. They both raced towards each other and at the last second Owain threw himself onto his back and slid in the wet grass under the outstretched arm of the pitcher looking for a tag. Pitcher rans onwards as unable to stop in the wet and Owain flipped himself onto his front and at full stretch just managed to hit the home plate with his finger tips (Genuine copy of Ben Stiller signed Dodgeball pic)
Comedy Out – Aaron (TR) v Stevo (CSS) – Stevo (Sonic) was on 2nd, Aaron (Shadow) at Short. Shadow received the ball and made a throw to 1st, Sonic set off as fast as he...oh, Shadow still had the ball having made a dummy throw. Sonic tagged out! (Sonic & Shadow soft toys)
Least appreciative of most sporting moment – Matt (BP) – The Ringers were a girl short so Kate to played in the outfield and Matt Lacey was at bat. He hit a huge shot straight down the 1st base-line that looked like it was probably going to drop foul. Kate ran over to where it was dropping and took a fantastic catch (it would have been just as easy to "spill" it). Fair to say Matt bolted off the home plate and chased her in to the outfield cursing her all the way! (Big candy dummies to spit!)
Time Machine – Marty(n) McFly (SoP) – Playing 1st he was standing slightly infield. The ball was blasted at him, he fumbled the field and ended up on the floor somehow. Keeping his wits about him he recovered his composure and hurled the ball back to first, forgetting only one thing...yep, he was the 1st baseman! (Back to The Future DeLorean and drinks coaster)
Special thanks to Claire, Dave, Dez, Jamie, Jo and Si for working together with me so hard to make the league fabulous again this year.