BLUE DIVISION SUMMER SLOPITCH 2025 ROSTERS

BLUE DIVISION SUMMER SLOPITCH 2025 ROSTERS
B11-Broncos B12- Ancients B13-Rockers B14-Relics
Steve Sabina (M)  Mike Palenchar (M) Jack Bump (M) Terry Renaud (M)
Johnnie Bacon Ron Ottogalli (AM) Brian Schauer (AM) Joe Varacalli (AM)
Rick Benkendorf Terry Boissonneault Dan Hennessey (AM) Shirley Brennan
Barry Carriere Diane Gill Brian Adlam Dan Dool
Bob Hind Jim Graveline Doug Bissette Pat Gaudette
John Kryk Paul Laforet Chris Brennan Tom Goebel
Paul Laidlaw Scott McDowall Ken Chisolm Mikey Hergot
Barry McBride Al Raeside Pat Dool Brian Jette
Ron Pillon Brian Renaud Joe Dupuis Gerry Mayea
Mario Quaglia Bud Renaud Glenn Gedge Buck McAllum
Neil Reaume Larry Renaud Bill Lamb Randy Meloche
Tex Reaume Wayne Roussell Mike Markham Gary Rocheleau
Barbara Sanders Gregg Scratch Dave Strang Jim Rovere
Al Setterington Wayne Smith Tim Westfall Paul Schuurman
John Sheremeta Mike Tomek Mike Wrafter Wes Stott
    Arlene Young  
       
B15-Fossils B16-Remnants B17-Norsemen  
Elaine Lalonde (M) Mark Duguay (M) Dan MacPherson (M)  
John Lalonde (AM) Aldo Bertucci (AM) Don Balkwill (AM)  
Jody Baynton Ron Breault  Adrian Belanger  
Tom Bois Frank Carducci David Brooker  
Ralph Bonelli Cathy Collier  Rob Ceshan  
Ian Fry Tony D’Andrea  Shawn Dufour  
Ed Gazarek Joe Diesbourg  Ed Grondin  
Mike Graham Ken French  Dick Kennedy  
Mike Hamlin Ted Griffith Bill Magone  
Dennis Kitely Norm Kennette  Jerry Meloche  
Dave LaMarsh Jim Knudsen  Roger Miller  
Anna Linnell Patti Mouland  Gray Otton  
Gary Maisonville Andrew Smith  Terry Scott  
Sal Quaglia Norm Taylor  Pat Sutherland  
Chris Renaud Larry Timbers  Rick Taylor  
    Dennis Yurke  

RED DIVISION SUMMER SLOPITCH 2025 ROSTERS

RED DIVISION SUMMER SLOPITCH 2025 ROSTERS
R1-Dinosaurs R2-Leisures  R3-Vikings  R4-Gladiators R5-Cavemen 
Terry Johnston (M) Dave Haesler (M) John Carpenter (M) Kevin Sivell (M) Brian Doan (M)
Tony D’Andrea (AM) Glenn Dalgleish Butch Maisonneuve (AM) Gord Beaudoin (AM) Rick Anderson (AM)
Jody Baynton Curtis Damphouse Ray Beneteau Rick Chittle John Bacon
Jim Bondy Tony DiPasquale Tim Bondy Mike Farah Dave Baribeau
Rob Ceshan Glen Gorrick John Cecile John Frabotta Gary Beach
Roger DenBoer Ted Griffith Roy Costa Billv Kaschak John Crispo
Joe Donlon Jim Lucier Tim Gelinas Lou Lafontaine Bob Dahl
Dan Doole Ron Lyons Gerry Laliberte Stu MacPherson Al Dupuis
Ken Drew Don Miller Kerry Marshall Dale Martin John Goerzen
Al Garant Rick Monaghan Tom McNorton Dave Morneau David Lariviere
Steve Marinovich David Nicodemo Doug Parent Roy Oke Rick Marentette
Bob Martyniuk Gary Norman Don Parks Danny Sawchuk Mark Oliver
Dale Renaud Terry Renaud Jim Paseka Al Setterington Scott Penney
John Sheremeta Wes Stott John Rudak Mark Tuson Dave Smith
Steve Travis Al Timmins Roger Tofflemire Jim Wakeman Bob Taylor

2024 Christmas Greeting

Wishing Everyone a Wonderful Holiday

Stay Safe and Healthy

Just a quick update.  The Executive met November 22nd.  Committees are already working towards the 2025 summer softball season.

A reminder that registrations are due January 31st.  Check the link below.

http://www.wecsso.com/printable-summer-slo-pitch-application/

Check out the website for pictures of this year’s Indoor season.  The last day before the Christmas break included a Cornhole Tournament.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in 2025!

League Championship Results

Talk about dramatic!
 
In a WECSSO Blue division championship final for the ages, Steve Sabina’s Broncos defeated Terry Renaud’s plucky Relics 19-18 on Tuesday – when Glen Gedge cranked an inside-the-park, grand-slam home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.
 
With misty rain drizzling all morning at the Ciociaro Softball Complex, the Broncos had just rallied with six runs in the (open) top of the ninth, to turn a 15-12 deficit into an 18-15 lead in the back-and-forth final.
 
It took the blue-topped Broncos only five batters in the bottom of the ninth to snatch back victory from the grey-clad Relics. Al Setterington led off by reaching first on an infield error. Mickey Hergott singled, and Jody Baynton advanced only Hergott on a fielder’s choice. Al Raeside then singled to load the bases.
 
Gedge’s hefty blast barely cleared the glove of a Relics outfielder in left-centre, and rolled nearly to Diamond No. 2’s fence. Hergott, Baynton, Raeside and Gedge all scored before the Relics could relay the ball home.
 
Is softball a game of inches? You betcha. Had Gedge’s blast been inches shorter, and been caught by the Relics outfielder, there would have been two outs. Even had Hergott tagged up and scored from third on the fly out, the Relics would have been up two, one out away from the championship.
 
Baynton was the only player on either team to score five runs; he hit two doubles and a single and walked once. Afterward he said the Broncos’ clutch comeback – only minutes after the disappointment of seeing the Relics burst ahead in the top of the ninth – was emblematic of his team’s late-season hitting heroics.
 
“All year we’ve bounced back,” Baynton said. “We’ve had games where we scored 25 runs. We never give up, never quit – no matter how bad it looks. We just keep coming, and coming. It’s a total team effort. Different players rise when needed.
 
“Once we got into the round-robin, we really stepped up. We believed. I mean, the first three games of the round-robin we scored 58 runs.”
 
Baynton said a crucial ingredient in the Broncos’ success was that they prided themselves all season on never sniping at one another. That attitude paved the way for their championship run, once eliminations began last week, he said.
 
“For the entire season, nobody on the team has gotten down on anybody. Everybody has been positive, and I think we all feed off that positive energy. It’s been a great season.”
 
Setterington’s pitching was no small factor in the Broncos’ 2024 championship. His usually well-placed reverse-spinners continually forced opposing batters to pop up, fly out or mis-hit grounders for easy outs. That said, Relics batters – to their credit – on Tuesday scrounged enough good hits off Setterington to have beaten most teams.
 
“Good pitching always beats good hitting, right?” Baynton said. “That’s the secret. Al struggled a little bit today, but he puts that little twist on it and gets the hitters off a little bit, and that keeps them from driving the ball deep. About 95% of the Relics’ hits today were in-betweeners – over our infielders, in front of our outfielders.”
 
The Relics had placed only sixth in the seven-team Blue-division’s playoff-seeding round-robin (truncated by rainouts) from late August to early September. But they won their two elimination games to reach the championship game.
 
On Tuesday the Relics jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the top of the first, and led 7-4 after three innings, before the Broncos’ bats got hot. The Broncos took their first lead in the bottom of the fifth, 12-11. A three-run seventh gave them a 15-12 lead heading into the decisive, dramatic ninth.
 
“There are no superstars on this team,” Baynton said. “It’s a good group of guys who gelled at the right time.”
Story by John Kryk (Green/Blue Division)

Congratulations to Broncos for winning the 2024 Blue Division Championship

 

2024 Blue Division Finalists: Relics

Green Division Championship rained out. No final was determined.

Congratulations to Leisures for winning the 2024 Red Division Championship

2024 Red Division Finalists: Vikings

Standings (as of September)

Blue Division Playoff Standings (Sept 12th)
Team W L Win %
14-Remnants (1st) – M. Duguay 4 1 0.800
15-Broncos (2nd) – S. Sabina 4 2 0.667
13-Fossils (3rd-due to Run Differential) – B. Adlam 3 2 0.600
12-Ancients (4th) – M. Palenchar 3 2 0.600
11-Norsemen (5th) – D. MacPherson 2 3 0.400
16-Relics (6th-due to Run Differential) – T. Renaud 1 4 0.200
17-Rockers (7th) – J. Bump 1 4 0.200
Green Division Playoff Standings (Sept 18th)
Team W L Win % RF RA RD
23-Aristo Cats – M. Graham 4 1 0.800 90 73 17
24-Power Outage – R. Bonelli 2 3 0.400 59 52  7
22-Thunder & Lightning – B. Westlake 2 3 0.400 45 56 -11
21-Raiders – J. Knudsen 2 3 0.400 70 83 -13
Red Division Standings  (Sept 11th)
Team W L T Win % RF RA RD
4-Leisures – D. Haesler 19 1 1 0.929 268 171 97
3-Vikings – J. Carpenter 11 8 2 0.571 234 222 12
1-Gladiators – T. McNorton 12 10 1 0.543 280 248 32
2-Dinosaurs – T. Johnston 6 16 0 0.273 205 262 -57
5-Cavemen – B. Doan 4 17 0 0.190 209 280 -71