Keystone Cops get shocking victory

It wasn't pretty, no, it was damn ugly, but the Elmwood Elkhorns squeeked out an unexpected victory Thursday night.

After failing a number of times to close out their opponents, the "Keystone Cops" got an early Christmas gift.

With 2 outs, 2 on base and the winning run at the plate, a simple ground ball was hit to the Elkhorn Pitcher (who shall remain nameless, but lets just say it was his first game with the Herd's summer squad). Nate (oops I let the cat out of the bag) attempted an easy throw to first only to miss the attempted target by 5-8 feet. The runners rounded the bases. After the second runner came across the plate with the winning run in hot pursuit, the beautiful voice from the umpire was heard..."OUT!...thats game!" The Herd players looked around wondering WTF? It appears the second run stepped on home plate. Victory Horns!

Leading up to that point was reallly hard for the "fan" to watch. Summer was brutal on 3rd and made an unprecedented double move by placing Ball Gobbler on 3rd after missing an easy outfield catch and putting himself in centre field while moving Kelly to Left Field. "It is what winning GM's do! Plain and Simple " remarked Summer.

Stefanie stepped out to play for her first visit and hit a stand up double, a beautiful bunt ala Kelly, and made two great catches in the field after waiving off the Elkhorn GM. "He was just getting in my way!" noted Stef.

Presto played superb on short stop... Nicola solid at Catcher,, Elkhorn GM did well at Rover...Stef and Kelly were solid in field,,,the rest of the team were somewhat out of place this night!

Thanks Nate and Stef for helping out! You both did well,,(even though we "blogged" you Nate!)

The team needs to step it up going forward with the playoffs 6 weeks away!

Go Herd!