Get your calendars ready

By Sue Snow
Sandusky Rec Dept. Secretary

Folks gathered in front of the Rec Department office window this morning at 8 a.m. when the official Sandusky Monday Night Men's Softball League schedule was released, as mandated by league commissioner Harvey Wilcox, Jr.

As always, there are several highlights to discuss with this year's schedule, which features 10 teams hungry for a championship. Rec Dept. employee Martha Burgess presented a live blog on www.sanduskyrec.com during this morning's proceedings, and Harvey answered questions online as part of a live two-hour chat.

Unfortunately, we had to share our schedule release with another league, but that didn't dampen our enthusiasm. We went right ahead with the festivities.

Probably the most exciting matchup of the year will pit Bob's Bakery against Fireman's No. 323, in Week 3. As you know, the second week of May is often a rainy one, so there is some concern that this game could get moved to a week after the originally-scheduled regular season. If the Farmer's Almanac is correct and we do get the showers, this would set up one heck of a season finale, against teams that took first and third in last year's standings.

That Battle of David Coulthard will take place in Week 7, when Enetek Systems (having recently fired David after a heavily publicized sexual harassment lawsuit) battles with David's new team, IniPro. David hit .689 last year with 20 home runs in 42 plate appearances, making his offseason move the most significant in the Sandusky Rec Softball League. There's bound to be some bad blood and I, for one, am simply in a tizzy.

Rivers, Johnson and Schlosser and Associates, one year after suffering through several injuries and finishing just 1-9, will return with renewed optimism. They get the featured 9:10 p.m. game next Monday in Week 1, taking on The Watering Hole, which was able to re-assemble a team this year after a series of DUIs cost the team its infield last year, compelling a series of forfeits. Remember that if your team fails to show, you forfeit your 200 dollar deposit, and you also get an angry Sue Snow on the case! Tee-hee-hee.

Sue's Game to Watch: Week 6 -- Bantam Corp vs. Enetek. One week before facing old foe Coulthard, will Enetek look past a Bantam team looking to jump into the league's upper tier? Pitcher Bill Villalobos, who issued only 6 walks last year, returns to Banta.

As always, stay tuned to sanduskyrec.com for updates.