This was a matchup of two of the hottest teams in the six-team seniors league.
The green team stayed hot.
Randy Keffer had two hits as green beat maroon 12-8 on Aug. 8 at field 2 in Brahan Spring Park. They play in the 55-and-over Rockets league in Huntsville Senior Softball.
Batting cleanup and playing left field, Keffer went 2-for-3 with one run batted in and a run scored. Green improved to 12-13 with their fifth straight win.
“It was big,” Keffer, 56, in his first season, said. “We had a chance to give it (away) to the other team, but we picked ourselves up, laughed it off and continued to play good.”
He is a logistics specialist for contractor SAIC in support of the Software, Simulation, Systems Engineering and Integration Directorate in the Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center.
Player/coach Tim Lawter went 2-for-3 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs. Shawn Gordon, Tom Fickling and Larry Guthrie added two hits apiece.
“We just started to jell,” Lawter said of the five-game winning streak. “The chemistry’s there now, where the first of the year we didn’t have any chemistry.
“Batting in the right order, everybody batting. It’s a team effort. Everybody loves to play together. And because of that chemistry, we’re killing it.”
Lawter, who served four years in the Air Force, is principal of FiberRise, an engineering consultant company in Huntsville.
Winning pitcher Jim “Hitman” Myers scattered 12 hits for eight runs with two strikeouts and two walks in seven innings. He also made four assists on comebackers up the middle.
“Up, down. High, low. No two pitches in a row,” Myers said. “You’ve got to mix them up and try to get everybody to hit a bad pitch that looks like a strike.”
Scott Landers went 3-for-3 with a two-run homer and four RBIs for maroon (13-12). Mike Gundersen went 3-for-3 with one RBI and scored twice. Player/coach Chris Maggio pitched the first four innings and took the loss. Maroon had won six of their previous seven games.
“They outhit us,” Maggio said. “They just outhit us.”
