Five-O's Winning Streak Up To Two

The Five-O's continued their winning streak Saturday morning by defeating the WFD/WTRS Softball Team, by a score of 13-6 in regular league play. This is the second league win in a row for the O's who brought their record to 3-4.

The Five-O's struck gold early scoring three runs in the first inning with four straight singles by, J.J. Mazzone, Jon Boyt, John Ginder, and Tylor Stevens capped off with a two-run triple by Kyle "The Gazelle" Haines. It looked as though the conversation about what to do with the lineup during the off-week by manager Mazzone and managing partner John Ginder paid off. The Five-O's still needed to take the field.

A well rested Jenna Govel was on the mound making her seventh straight league start with a questionable defense behind her. "One of the things we wanted to focus on was trying to figure this whole thing out" John Ginder said of their struggles, "It all doesn't add up. We have good players on this team but can't seem to get it all together when we need it" he added. The O's would squander the lead in the bottom of the first by giving up three runs. They would give up another three runs in the bottom of the third to trail the game 6-3.

After a few uneventful innings Ginder made some minor lineup changes putting in Anthony "The Real Deal" Scaccia and Mr. Pantelones himself Nick Deso. This would prove to be the right decision although one of the more difficult decisions he has had to make so far this season.

After missing a few games with undisclosed injuries or "More important things to do", Nick Deso was called to duty. "You could see a little rust in his swings. He didn't look too comfortable up there" Matthew Brust said (son of Five-O's right fielder). Deso was able to make decent contact with the ball with a seeing eye single. It is too bad that the single didn't get to see what everyone else did. Deso was motoring down the first baseline. That wasn't the only thing going down the first baseline. In what could only be called pure speed, Deso ran right out of his pants forcing him to hop the rest of the way to safety. That was the turning point in the game. The rest of the team had a good laugh which lifted to pressure off of their shoulders and allowed them to play better. Deso would eventually come around to score (with his pants on) that inning bringing the game to 6-4.

The Five-O's had a nice three up three down inning in the field and were back on the bench ready to make a game of it. Back-to-Back doubles by Tylor Stevens and Anthony Scaccia brought the O's within one of WFD/WTRS. Then the flood gates opened. The Five-O's would have eight hits in their next nine at bats to take the lead for good tallying nine runs. "I saw no quit from these guys today" manager J.J. Mazzone said "We could have easily let those big innings by the other team get into our heads but we didn't" he concluded. "The 1998 Yankees in their first seven games had the same record as we do now. They went on to win 125 games including the playoffs and were world champs" Anna Brust said (daughter of Five-O's right fielder).

The win should bring this team closer. It will be interesting to see if they can continue their winning ways this Thursday when they face the team from the McKownville Fire Department who are responsible for two of the Five-O's losses.

Most times the CapitalRegionSports.com player of the game is a player who has success at the plate or just an all-around good game or the two awards that were lobbied for by Roger Ginder and Jon Boyt. This award will have to be different. Although he did enjoy success at the plate going 2-3 with two runs scored, the rest of us enjoyed more then we wanted to of him. The CapitalRegionSports.com player of the game is Nick "Pantelones" Deso.

The Game Thursday is a 6pm start at Strawberry Park.