It’s a girl!

Congratulations to the Wunderlichs. They are the proud parents of a lefty w/ a pulse…i mean a girl. Brynn was born this morning. Mom and baby are doing well. As for Troy…

Fall chores

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Well, the Lakers could dull a bit.

List of chores we’d like to accomplish before the snow flies:

• Move bleachers back (after stain is on and dry)
• Tie backstop netting up
• Clean under grandstand bleachers
• Edge back of infield
• Zip tie signs on outfield fence
• Fix fence post bent by lawn mower
• Move ticket both into shed
• Clean press box (unplug everything and remove laptop)
• Mow the infield
• Drag the infield
• Change oil on 3 wheeler
• Weed whip
• Organize shed

Edging the infield

Saying good bye Elmer Schleper

After a Laker win in the ‘97 State Tournament, Butch snuck his hat on Elmer (Pete’s Dad). Man he looked good in green and gold! Elmer passed away this past week – he will be missed. He played, managed, coached and did PA for his favor Farming Flames. “You can put a star by that one”

Build the Ark

Wow

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Canceled!

The rest of the Freeport tournament games were canceled for today. We got a red one coming.

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day.
Little Johnny wants to play;
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Never show your face again!

Soggy tournament

Short version: We play the losers of the Upsala Blue Jays versus St. Paul Roosters game at Noon on Sunday.

Long Version: After a soggy 4 innings Friday night and the Lakers down 5-0, the game was called. To keep the tournament moving Freeport got the win moving us to the losers bracket.

The rains continued on Saturday. After pushing the games back 2 hours twice, the only thing we could do was contribute our water pump to help Freeport get rid of the huge puddles on the infield. All games were canceled for the day with hopes to get the 1st games going on Sunday at 10am. We play our game after targeting around a noon start time.

Freeport Tourney Bracket

2011 Tournament Bracket

Since the co-host site was moved to Spring Hill, the Lakers open the tournament Friday night @ Freeport verses the Black Sox.

First Mowing

While the infield has a ways to go before being playable parts of it did need mowing.

Rescheduling and reshuffling

So far Mother Nature hasn’t been much of a baseball fan. To compensate for a couple rainouts and lack of grass growing weather the following changes have been made to our schedule:

• Our home exhibition game verses the Granite City Grays on Wednesday, May 18th has been moved to St. Johns to allow the infield more growth time.
• The rainout from May 1st @Royalton has been rescheduled for Sunday, June 5th. It will be a 4pm start and will follow the Royalton/Opole game that has a 1pm start.
• The rainout from this past Sunday versus Holdingford has been moved to Memorial Weekend Saturday, May 28th. Since we were schedule to play Holdingford in Avon on Memorial Day the decision was made to bump that game up and just play a double header on Saturday starting at 1pm.

Stay tuned!

Successful trip to Marty

After a Laker win a few of us headed to the Pearl Lake Lodge for some wings and brews. Outstanding!