That Was The Week That Was

recapping the following week in Dazzling history :

6 July - at Tiger Cubs, Wandsworth Common. (match postponed)

With neither club being able to field the requisite 5 male / 5 female lineup, a decision was reached to play a friendly and postpone the league match to a later date.

Led by the power hitting of Simon Joseph, Tony Delahunty, Rob Tona, Tim Jaffier and Richard Cooper, the Dazzlers won, 24-11. To be fair, this wasn't the most competitive of games and perhaps a full-strength Tiger Cubs side could've given us a tougher time. Serious props to the Dazzlers' Zoran Ilievski who turned up some 90 minutes late in serious office attire. His sharp ensemble on the diamond gave the rest of us a new standard to aim for in the future.

11 July - Grand Slam Tournament, Chiswick

Perhaps the less said about the day's early games, the better. We were badly beaten by longtime foes the Sumatra Panthers, 18-2 in the morning's opener. And I take back my earlier comment --- the Panthers most certainly CAN beat a team that is shorthanded --- they've done it to us twice now this year, once in a league match and once in a tournament.

A couple of leads were blown later in the day as we lost to the Beyond Bermuda Shorts, 11-5. When the Shorts are augmented by ringers named Darren, they're not half bad.

There's a lot of blame to go around when the morning's myriad of defensive misplays are added up, so perhaps in the spirit of the Dazzlng Bobby Ewing emerging from the shower, we'll pretend it was all a dream.



Supposedly the day's final 3 games were a bit closer but as no one has forwarded the details, this correspondent will turn a blind eye to said results, much the way he ignores man's inhumanity to man on a daily basis.

12 July - v. Beyond Bermuda Shorts, Finsbury Park.

One of our best all-around performances of the season, a 22-5 victory.

Paul had a great game pitching and hitting, and we had a number of timely hits from Jody, Rob, Mark Capell, Richard, Simon and Tony.

Big thanks to newcomers Amy, Nicole and Karen, all of whom made a difference. And we can't say enough about Magdalena reaching base 5 times and scoring 5 runs. There was a fairly amazing attempt at an unassisted triple play by SS Simon Joseph that only ended up on the cutting room floor at "Sportscenter" because there was already one out at the time.