Ducks Baseball

South Oakland Looks to Sweep Brookline for The First Time in team History

League Champion South Oakland Ducks

We’ve never finished the regular season with a better record than Kenny Powers and the Sox.

A win Saturday will assure that and all but clinch us the 3 seed in the end of season tournament.

Now some extended East Bound and Down highlights.

Quack.

Gameday [14] Ducks vs. Express

2011 Ducks Baseball, Gameday

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (10-3, 4-2)

vs

Carrick Express (5-12, 0-8)

9pm

Springview Field

#17’s coming down from the rafters tonight

We have ten games left. Realistically, to win the division we have to win the rest of our games and have Elliot lose at least once. It’s possible they’ll drop one in their last nine or so. They have Brookline twice and two against the Militia and I think either of those teams could steal one from Elliot if they get good pitching and defense.

 I think Kenny Powers and Brookline win tomorrow.

 We have to win out. One game at a time starting tonight with another division opponent in the confusingly-named Express.

I have no idea what this picture is

Let’s quack tonight. Bounce Back City.

Abe Lincoln ends losing streaks before they start

Bad News for the Express

Gameday [10] Ducks at Black Sox

2011 Ducks Baseball, Gameday

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (7-2, 3-1)

at

Brookline Black Sox (6-3-1, 3-2-1)

9pm

Moore Park

A rematch of last season’s championship series. and I’m 99% sure it will be Teyssier vs. Chalfin.

Tonight’s game will be the first time the Ducks come into More Park as the team who ended the Sox season the previous year.

Until South Oakland defeated the Black Sox in the Championship last year, the Ducks had never beaten the Sox in a post season series.

We still haven’t finished the regular season with a better record than the Sox, but you can ask the Bulldogs how much regular season success means (sorry guys).

This is the best rivalry in the brief history of  our league.

Since the days when Randy coached third, occasionally umpired, and would yell, “I got it,” at the Ducks infielders going for pop-ups, no two teams have played more games against each other or played harder.

The rivalry intensified when we absorbed the Owlz players (and more Black SOx hate) last season and then again when Guthrie beat Chalfin in game two of the Championship.

We beat them when it counted, and absolved seven years of futility.

But they’ve been waiting for this chance since they watched us drench Guth in beer while Joe brought down our trophy.

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 A Ducks win will give the Sox something to think about till mid July when we finish the season with a two-game series against Brookline.

Moore Park is a tough place to play; tonight, it will be filled with crew cuts and beer cans and profanity.

 But this season they have to knock off the Ducks to win the title.

We are the defending champs, and we will play like it tonight.

Ty Cobb never threw a Series.

Bad News for the Black Sox.

Ducks Notch Fourth Straight Victory

2011 Ducks Baseball

South Oakland of the North Side (4-2, 1,1) beat Cranberry 13-6 in Springview last night in front of an offended crowd of 3.

The hilights of the game were Rick Whalen’s sweet double off the wall in left, and Duffy’s blistering single down the 3rd baseline.

Mike Fletcher recorded the win, allowing 1ER over 3 innings.

Fago was a double and a homerun short of the cycle.

Cinefra hit a triple, I don’t think I’ve seen 2 legit triples in the same game at Spring Hill ever.

DeFilippo had infinity RBI

More doubles were hit by Ken Cool, DeFilippo,  Cinefra, and Gwin, marking the first time Whalen and Gwin recorded extra base hits in the same game for the Ducks since Ken Cool was in elementary school.

Rob Cool reached base four times.

The game ended on a fantastic catch by 1b Nick Berdine

Big double header against the Militiaon Sunday.

We can almost knock them out of the division race if we sweep, thanks to Monroeville losing twice to Elliot last week.

I don’t think Elliot has lost yet.

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The blog has been garbage lately and we don’t even have our stats up, the latter is certainly uncharacteristic for us and management is on it.

Acknowledging the problem is the first step.

quackquackquackquack.

Gameday [2] Ducks vs. Militia

2011 Ducks Baseball, Gameday

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (0-1)

vs.

Monroeville Militia (2-1)

Springview Field

9pm

The Ducks look to rebound form an opening day beating at the sweaty hands of the bulldogs as the college kids come home to do laundry, get a free meal and hit doubles.

So far this season, the Militia robbed the pony express and, naturally, took out the senators who, allegedly continue to misrepresent the populous and take away our civil liberties, right? well shit. This is America. The Senators appear to be the league whipping boy this year, the royal whipping boy, which is the origin of the term I think, a royal one. Anyway,  Monroeville looks to continue the hostile takeover, but will be without their best player tonight, and face a rejuvenated Ducks team looking to make history as the first repeat champs this season.

One game at a time.

Baconator vs. the Militia’s new recruit who replaced NABA legend Jeremy Barchie in the rotation.

Jeremy Barchie is coming out of retirement again

South Oakland will be without Guthrie and Nick Berdine who is still looking for the bat he threw in the woods behind Moore Park last season, so it looks like I’ll get to play tonight.

The battle for the Patrick Division starts tonight for South Oakland.

Bad News for the Militia

Quack.

Ducks Set to Open Season Saturday

2011 Ducks Baseball

South Oakland (0-0) will face the Bulldogs (0-1)

Saturday at 8:30am at John Herb Field.

We’re using our September call-ups in May to fill out our lineup while we wait for the college kids to show up.

The Bulldogs are gonna be tough to beat this year and will give the Fightin’s all they can handle in the Norris Division.

They’re my sleeper pick to win it all in a league exactly like ours but without Ducks.

With three games in three days, the Ducks look to get in shape and discover hidden pitching talent before Patrick Division play starts on May 7th with a game against the Pony Express.

We’re returning all our starters from our championship team, and have a couple new guys I haven’t met or seen play.

That’s about as good of a preview as I can offer right now.

Jesse Smith is a beast.

Quack.

Gameday [1] Ducks vs. Eagles

2011 Ducks Baseball, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side

vs.

South Side Eagles

9 pm Springview Field

This will be only the 4th game of the season league-wide if we play, and  there’s still plenty of time for it to rain.

Its been all down hill for South Side since they lost that lefty short stop, or quit playing him there or whatever.

We will probably get Adam Smith on the mound.

We’re rolling with 8 guys and an actual duck until sometime between the 7th-12th of May.

Bad News for the Eagles.

PGH NABA News: Peter “Pan” Chalfin Perfect in B-Sox Home Opener vs. Express. Ducks Coach Spends Evening Polishing Trophy.

2011 Ducks Baseball, League Champion South Oakland Ducks

Pitching for the first time since he lost to Guthrie and the Ducks in the 2010 Championship, Pete Chalfin tossed a perfect game against the Express Thursday night at Moore Park.

Brookline wins 6-0, and move to 1-0 in the Patrick Division.

Kenny Powers is pumped.

The Express did not reach first base Thursday.

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The Defending Champion South Oakland Ducks hare set to open the season against the Eagles on Wed, April 27, 9pm at Springview Field.

Quack.

Game Day [1] Ducks at Oilers, 9pm Spring View Field

2011 Ducks Baseball, South Oakland Ducks Baseball

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (0-0)

at

Hebrew Oilers (1-0)

9pm,  Springview Field

Naturally we’re the away team at our home field tonight.

It looks like April in Pittsburgh outside so who knows if we’ll get the game in.

Last year our 3-2 victory over the Oilers sparked a 15-1 run to end the regular season including a 13-game win streak after a 4-6 start.

We’ve got to get out of the gate faster this season.

Big Oil knocked off defending regular season champ Brookline, 4-2 on Monday in the only game to have been played this season.

Fightin’s vs. Elliot tonight should be interesting too.

School’s almost out, so the ducks blog will hopefully rise back to 2008-09 standards.

I wonder if they still have those sweet gold helmets?

The Oilers did.

It’s Captain vs. Warren Moon tonight, if the rain holds off.

5-time CFL Champion, former Eskimo.

NABA Champion.

Bad News for Big Oil