Maybe there’s something to those homemade chocolate chip cookies.
Fueled by his wife’s pregame snack, David Koch hit a three-run homer for the maroon team Thursday on field 2 at Brahan Spring Park. Maroon beat green 15-7 in a matchup of teams atop the 55-and-over Rockets league in Huntsville Senior Softball.
Koch went 4-for-5 and scored two runs for maroon (16-14). In the dugout before the game, he invited his teammates to the cookies made by his wife, Cindy. He said he ate a couple.
“Nobody else would eat any. I didn’t want my wife to feel bad,” Koch said laughing.
The third baseman, 63, is in his second season in the league. He moved here from Sacramento, California, in 2018 and resides in Owens Cross Roads.
“Honestly I felt in rhythm,” Koch said of his night for the maroon. “Just felt really comfortable at the plate.”
Asked if this was his best game of the year, he said, “It’s up there. I had a game-winning grand slam about three weeks ago.”
Koch is a senior manager of proposal operations for Aerojet Rocketdyne, which builds rocket engines for NASA and defense.
Batting cleanup, he hit his three-run homer in the top of the fourth. Scott Landers hit a two-run homer in maroon’s five-run third. Mike Gundersen, player/coach Chris Maggio and winning pitcher Chad McGuire had four hits apiece. Landers, Jeff Crews, Bill Santi and Pedro Garrido had two hits apiece.
“Excellent defense,” Maggio said. “And everybody contributed hitting.”
Tom Fickling, Randy Keffer and Ron Baer had two hits apiece for green (15-15). Denny Reasner took the loss.
“We just were not hitting,” green player/coach Tim Lawter said. “No excuses. Just not hitting. We were fielding well, just not hitting.”
Maroon avenged their previous meeting with green, a 12-8 loss on Aug. 8.
Each team has two scheduled games left before the six-team league’s tournament, double elimination, slated Sept. 8-15.
