Tribe Softball

" play hard or go home..."

"Make the plays that you should make and some of the ones you shouldn't make"

 

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UPCOMING TOURNAMENTS for 2011:

 Flemington Indoor - Flemington, NJ - Feb 19 - all-nighter  ( 2 - 2 )

NSA North Carolina - Burlington, NC - March 19 - 20  (4 - 4 ) 

West Chester Tournament - West Chester, Pa - March 26-27 (cancelled) 

 Razorback Tournament - York, Pa. - Apr 9 -10  (DNE)

Gap Open Tournament - Gap, Pa  - Apr 16-17 (cancelled)

Kennett Open - Kennett Square, Pa - Apr 30  ( 4 - 0 , 1st place)

Lancaster Open Tournament - Gap, Intercourse, Pa. - May 6-8 ( 4-3 , 7th place )

SPP Tournament - Memorial Day Weekend - Readington, NJ - May 29 - 30 ( 1 - 4 )

NASF Silver States - Manheim, Pa - June 3 - 4  ( 1 - 2 , 3rd place)

Gap Tournament - Gap, Pa - June 25 - 26

  Beer Tournament - Upper Black Eddy, Pa.  - Bring Your Tent ! - July 9 -10 ( 4 -2 ) 

ASA C States - Drifton, Pa - July 22 - 24 ( 2 - 2 , 5th place)

USSSA D States - Palmyra, Pa. - Aug 13 -14 

Labor Day Classic - OC MD - Sept 3 - 5

Fall Classic - OC MD - TBA

AD Las Vegas Fall World Series - Las Vegas, NV - Oct 23-27th

Disney Classic - Orlando, FL - 1st or 2nd week in December

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Team Case Rules: you owe the team a case of beer if....
1.) You strike out or foul out
2.) You ground into a double-play
3.) You fail to score a runner on 3rd base with 1 or none out
4.) You fail to show up to a game or tournament without letting SOMEONE know with 24 hours advanced notice (discretion applied if necessary).

5.) You make two outs in the same inning or last out in a bat around.
6.) Walk three times in a blow-out
7.) You hit a Homerun at Green Field (without permission)
8.) Pop up to the pitcher twice in one game
9.) 3 errors in one inning
10.) If you have a 4 case at-bat, you now owe 5 cases just because you're an idiot.
11.) You were on the bench and didn't keep the book or help coach the bases.
12.) Scorekeeper's must give advanced notice of 48 hours or more, reviewable upon discretion.
13.) You hit a HR to end the inning in advanced play
14.) You hit a HR to make an out in league/playoff play
15.) You don't bring your glove to the game or tournament

16.) Your # expires after 120 days of non-use

17. You hit a SOLO HR

18. Go " O " fer, minimum 3 at bats in a game 

** A $20 bill payable to the team can subsitute a paid case of beer**
***When using the word "case" it refers to nothing other than BEER***

 

Wii Bowling League Beer Rules:

• 1.) If you throw a double gutter ball, you and your teammate owe a case
• 2. If your team doens't break 100, you each owe $5 additional
• 3. Double miss on the head pin 

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Tribe Team Records:

Greatest Washer's comeback:
(down 17-2, Ronnie & Shortbus defeated Jeff & Heath with a 9 point, 4 point and 6 point in the last 3 rounds)
Most skunks in a row - 3 - Snow in the Butt & Heath

4 CASES IN ONE INNING - Pat Hoffman  2006

6 CASES IN ONE INNING - Keith Gerhard - July 2011

29 Runs Scored in one inning vs. Slugger's (Y)  2007
22 Runs Scored in one inning vs. Those Guys (W.C.)  2005
22 Runs Scored in one inning vs. Misfits -playoffs  2006
18 Runs Scored vs. Outlaws (Gap) that was fun too 2006  

 18 Runs Scored vs. TBones (Norristown) - 2011

 52 Runs Scored in a game vs. Slugger's (after 3 innings)  2007
42 Runs Scored in a game vs. Misfit's (after 5 innings) 2006
Largest margin of victory - 45 runs, 52-7 vs. Slugger's  2007
Largest margin of victory - 42 runs, 42-0 vs. Misfits  2006
Most at-bats in one inning - 4 - Scoob, Sr.  2007 
Most times hitting the pitcher in consecutive team at-bats - 4 - 2007 ( FNG, Sr., SIB, Ronnie)                      

Most hole-in-one's in a row on PGA - 2 - Andrew

Most Tribes"men" being arrested or pulled over while in uniform ( 4 ) - Kenny, Adam, Bucky and Tanis

 

 

Icebreaker Tournament - Not so good, 0-2, We more more interested in the Eagles vs. Saints playoff game - no big deal

Norristown Early Bird - cancelled due to the ice sheets on the field

Millenium Early Bird - should have been postponed or cancelled. fields were a filthy mess. Not a bad showing, though we were 1-2.  Lost to Brown's/JG Chemical 9-8 and then lost to Monahan's Pub 25-24.  We hit well for the most part but too many costly errors, a few too many walks and some no so good timing on bad at bats led to the losses.  Pat was crushing the ball. Pugh didn't make an out.  Focker hit the ball well. Buzz talked to everyone at the field.  Killer didn't yell at anyone or kick dirt on them.  Mick hit one through a 747 and back down to earth - the guy still caught it.  Lefty's pussed out and went home to give us one W. 

Norristown Opening Night - vs. Cannon , lost 21-5
Didn't hit too well. Couple of calls that didn't go our way cost us about 13 runs since they would have been inning ending outs.  They made a couple of great double plays and a couple good bounces went their way. Adam played well at 3rd. Pugh continued his hot start at the plate.  The field blows right now.  The lights are horrible and I can't wait to get to the new field.

vs. ODL, win 30-29
Great game, lot's of fun to be part of. We hit the ball real well and more importantly we fought back when we were down.  They scored a bunch and we came back and scored a bunch more. We rolled a double play to end the game. Buckeye went yard for the first HR in Norristown.  It was actually our first win of 2007.  It's been a rough start.  Maybe we're on our way now. 

Opening Night in Gap vs. Longhorns, we split. lost 16-15, then won 16-4
Chilly opening night in Gap. We lost in 9 innings to the new Longhorn team. Couple of big errors cost us pretty bad.  Next game we were pretty pissed off and came out and put up 12 in the second inning. Roger hit 2 HR's for our first one's in Gap.  Bucky threw a laser to get a guy at home (I think it rolled from the pitcher's mound to the plate...LOL)

Opening Day at the YMCA - Taylor Electric forfeit

vs. Spikes - rained out from Nor'Easter

vs. Bulldogs - swept them, 20-0 and 25-24, Robbie and Brownie didn't make an out all night, Roger, Robbie and Focker went yard, defense was horrific in the second game, but we are hitting the ball right now, so that's a plus

Gap League Tournament - won the tournament with a 5 - 0 record, Ash was named MVP. he hit the snot out of the ball all day and played an awesome 3rd base. beat the Panthers, Longhorns, Brawlers, Predators, and the Outlaws (finals).  Best part of the day - the umpires were great!  well, let's not get carried away....they did a very good job...more to follow

vs. the Pretenders - won 15-5, new team at the Y, not very good at all, Kristy made her 07 Tribe debut, played very well at first and got on base a couple of times too

vs. Paragon - lost 18-6  -didn't hit the ball, ump blew a great call at first - lol.  they went to turn two on us and the ball hit off the firstbaseman's glove and went into right field. ump turned his back and called the double play and we let the ump get the best of us - myself included.  Paragon hit the ball well and they certainly deserve to have their shot in "A"

vs. Spikes (make-up from the rain) - won 19-14 -  came back in the 9:00 game after a couple beers and hit the ball real well against a Spike's team that was up and down all night.  defense was great. focker hit his first HR out of Heel's field.  Adam was 4 for 4 that game and Bucky is starting to catch fire after a slow start with the Tribe.

vs. Misfits - won 27-14 - they still stink, we played 9 vs. 9, Kristy finished the game for Koach as he was needed to heel a battle scar on Carli, Scoob started the game off with a bomb to centerfield, he missed 3rd so the retard was called out - that's our boy!  Sr. made his 07 debut with Tribe after missing some time with his 50 + team,  Shortbus rolled with a 5 for 5 game


vs. TNT/Mel's - lost 32-29,  we showed a ton of heart in this game and did so for the first time since we started playing in Norristown.  Down 28-8 going into the bottom of the 5th, we put up 15 runs to keep things going.  we outscored them 21-15 in the last 3 innings but we hurt ourselves with cold bats and a few mistakes in the field in the early innings.  great game to be a part of. i think we earned a little respect and proved to ourselves once again that we can play with anyone in the league.

vs. Outlaws - split with them on the night, surprisingly we didn't have much drama with them, most of the team hit the ball pretty well,  defense is still a little suspect right now but it will come, Focker finally really got into one down there and yanked one over the RC fence, they appear to still be using "the bat", but what can we do?

vs. Bonecrusher's - 21-0, not much to say. everyone hit the ball well and the other team stunk it up

vs. Predator's - make up games, lost 22-20 and then won the second game 22-21, way, way, way too many stupid errors cost us a game and almost both games.

D National Qualifier  what the F....we sucked. couldn't hit our way out of a wet paper bag. lost 9-7 to sun's village and 9-8 to the outlaws of delco. modi's team ended up winning it all. we were in the parking lot before lunch was even over.

vs. Cannon  won 19-9 in 5 innings.  we bounced back well to stay hot down in norristown.  ash pitched a nice game and was 4 for 4 at the plate. Robbie had a grand slam in a big 8 run second inning.  that was the first time we've beaten Cannon and now puts us at 5-3 and in 3rd place.

The official begining of The Tribe began with the introduction of the signature lime green back in 2002. I can remember talking with Ty Jones in the off-season about getting lime green shirts. Ty, being the fashion queen that he is, wasn't real keen on the idea, but he produced the first set of lime green uni's for us. Why lime green? No particular reason. I just hate having the same ole uniforms as everyone else. Either gray or some version of blue, maybe red or kelly green. I wanted something different that no one else had. I wanted people to know exactly what team they were playing against or watching when they showed up at the field. The unofficial begining of this team begins back in 80's when Rick Pratt began playing at the Brandywine YMCA on Sunday's with the Sheller Oiler's. The team was sponsored by lefty 1B Bruce Sheller of Sheller Oil, who was also a relative of Rick's wife. Rick asked my father to play on the team, Ron, Sr. and, eventually, in the midst of my college years, he would get me to come join the team bright and early on Sunday mornings - fresh off of a late Saturday night in Millersville. I joined the team in 1995, although I made a few guest appearances here and there starting back in 1992. The mid 90's team eventually was taken over by Rick's future son-in-law Billy Wasko, who was better known in the earlier years as one of "the 4 Woodsmen". Billy, Denny King, Greg and Mike Takach would come strolling out of the woods on the upper field about 45 seconds before game time. Other members of the team included my classmate Bear Stephens, "skinny, black" Mo, big Shawn...Billy got tired of coaching and collecting money and getting sponsors and he was starting to put a family together himself so he gave the book to Bear and the little cub decided to run the team around 1998. Bear brought Jeff Miller, Chucky Brown and Paul Carpenter to the team, (along with those hideous orange with red lettering shirts) and I added another infielder in bringing my Dad's longtime teammate in the Phoenixville league, Steve Forgue. Bear started camping a lot down the shore and he too was starting up a family of his own so the coaching thing was geting a little more difficult to committ to. I had just moved back from living in Reading for 9 months and decided that after only playing about half the season in 1999, that I wanted to play full time again in 2000. When I came back, Bear basically handed the book down to me and said that I was welcome to take over if I wanted to. I gladly accepted, although my Dad warned me of what I was about to get myself into. So I took over in 2000 and mid-way through we wore the navy blue shirts with the Merrill Lynch bulls on them - yeah, I know. Navy blue - plain, but hey, the shirts were free and Jonesy did the numbering pretty cheap so, who cares? I think that was the year we added Adam "Smokey" Miller and Brian Pugh to the team and starting losing "the Woodsmen". Bear still played, however, not as much. Each year we somehow managed to get him enough games to be playoff eligible. Just as Billy, Denny and the boys were parting with the team, Billy mentioned he had a friend that wanted to play so we added Rodney McKee to the mix, Rodney played a couple of years with us in the outfield. Sometimes he was coming off of a double shift over at Lukens. In the playoffs in 2004, Rodney blew out his knee and hasn't made it back to the field since then.