The Crested Butte News Serving the Gunnison Valley since 1999
“I was having the craziest dreams and woke up and was afraid to go back to sleep”
[ by Than Acuff ]
An extremely strong edible will do that.
After dropping their first two games of the season, KBUT put together a solid seven-inning effort to hand the Pitas OGs a 10-6 loss last Wednesday at Pitsker Field and deny Pitas player Melvin Seyfried a birthday win.
It may mark a turning of the tides for KBUT as Pitas came into the game with an undefeated record and have won the last four Wednesday league titles in a row.
But that’s all in the past and we are in a post COVID, post you-know-who world now, for now. It’s a world where anything is possible, for now. Until the next pandemic, be it biological, political or marijuanical.
And in this new world, there just might be a spot for KBUT among the heavyweights given their effort against the OGs. They took the bull by the horns in the top of the first inning building a 5-0 lead. Phil “the third Dujardin” Dujardin led off knocking the first pitch of the game to left center for a double and scored when his brother Will poked a single.
OG’s pitcher Drew Grigsby stalled the KBUT surge briefly when he snagged a line drive up the middle but a powerbunt single from Alec Lindenman, a two RBI single by Sonny Burgess and additional RBI hits from Jo Ellipsis and Steve Daniels had KBUT up 5-0.
No lead is safe in local softball though and the OGs aren’t four-time title winners by luck as they quickly responded to score four runs in the bottom of the first inning. Mike Yeager led off with a single, Mark Bortolin followed with another single and Rayna Clark pushed them both home when her line drive turned into an error-assisted two RBI triple.
Seyfried tapped a birthday RBI single and Dakota Wiggins had the OGs back in the game when he knocked a RBI double to center to pull the OGs back to within one.
KBUT grinded out another run in the top of the second as a series of seemingly innocuous hits and random outs led to the bases loaded and Lizzy Plotkin tapped an infield RBI single.
The OGs did the same to knock in one lone run and after a quiet third inning from both teams, KBUT built a little breathing room thanks to RBI hits from Phil and Kat Harrington to pull ahead 8-5.
The OGs looked to turn the tide back in their favor when Grigsby came up with more defensive heroics on the mound flagging down another line drive and throwing to first for a double play, but KBUT kept on grinding to score two runs following the double play on hits from Burgess and Ellipsis building a 10-5 KBUT lead.
The OGs had one more shot at a late game comeback in the bottom of the sixth inning as a series of base hits loaded the bases with no outs. But Will scooped up a ground ball down the third base line to tag a runner and step on the bag for a solo double play and the next OG grounded out to stop the comeback before it turned into a comeback.
The OGs did turn their own 6-4-3 double play but their bats remained quiet in the seventh inning as KBUT sealed the 10-6 win.
