Winter 2026 Red League Standings

RED LEAGUE FINAL STANDINGS

Game Reports

Ranalls Realty 15    Camino Del Sol Chapel 2

Erics take: Ranalls won their last game of the season against Camino 15-2. With 4 hits each Troy MacQueen, Dave Elkins and Pete Semenak. With 3 hits John Nicodemo. Thanks to all for a great season. See you next week with a new start.

Jerrys take:  First, congratulations to session co-champions Thunderbird Auto and Janelle Hanson Realty One. Their game was exciting and tension filled and was enjoyed by the entire Thirsty Thursday crowd. The crowd expected the final game of the session to be equally as exciting, but they were disappointed as the home team Camino del Sol Chapel was dismantled by Ranalls’ Realty 15 to 2 in five innings. This loss locked up the last place session finish for Camino. Camino went 0 and 3 against Ranalls’ Realty for the fall session. After the game the Camino team owner cleaned house by firing the president of softball operations, the general manager, the entire coaching staff, including manager Lisa Pelletier, bench coach Jerry Lubeck, the hitting coach, the pitching coach, the entire player roster and the bat boys. Lisa and Jerry quickly agreed to a contract with Implant Periodontics. The terms of the contract were surprisingly disclosed, with Lisa and Jerry agreeing to coach Implant Periodontic’s new roster for the sum of $0. All kidding aside, I’d like to thank the players on the Camino team for their good attitudes and efforts throughout the tough session and wish them all good luck in the upcoming winter session. Thanks also to our substitutes, Lee Libera, Dave Hammel, and JP Guzik. Thank you to Bruce Lowe and Rob White for umpiring, and I’m sorry but I don’t recall who was operating the scoreboard, but all three did an excellent job. We also appreciate all of the red league players, coaches, the grounds crew, the softball board and especially our commissioners, Don Ranieri and Craig Nelson, who make the red league run so smoothly.

Implant Periodontics   13   Angelas Kitchen   4

Jamies take: Implant Periodontics and Angela's Kitchen played the preliminary game before the big finale for first place. Kinda like the early race before the Kentucky Derby.. Once our game was over, there was even a fly-over before the big game (a couple Canada Geese).. Anyway, I digress. IP won our game over Angela's, 13-4. We held them to 5 innings of 0's, everything they hit was hard at one of our fielders. Some games just go like that. John Blevins and super sub, Gary Finer, both had 4 hits. ZZ also had 3 RBI's, as did Joel Breiner. A very enjoyable session for our team, we had a couple hiccups during the season, but we did come away with 3rd place money, the bronze medal. Not sure what that pays, but I'm sure it will be a fairly substantial payday for our guys. Hats off to our teammates: Jim McDonald, Joel Breiner, John Blevins, Roger Guth, Scott Kibby, Pete Sluys, Ralph McKeever, Terry Graves, and managers Dave Fusaro and Jamie White. It was a lot of fun, that's what it's all about. Huge thanks to Don Raneiri and Craig Nelson for all their hard work, much appreciated. Congrats to Janelle and T-Bird for their winning ways. Close standings all the way. That's always fun when it's close. 

Verns take: Well on a great sunny day to play ball, I think Angelas were thinking about the after-game refreshments as our sticks were as cold as ice! We had 11 hits the whole game and Jamie and Dave’s team played solid d and hit well enough to almost make it a run shortened affair. Joel’s spinner had us flying out a lot and although we had some great defence especially sub Kenny Silva with a over the shoulder grab and Brian Combs with a number of running catches in the outfield allowed us to keep  it somewhat close. Hitters for the day were Brian C going 3-3 with a double, Vern M 3-3 and Garry W going 2-3 with 2 doubles. Thanks to all the contributions from my teammates including those who showed up and helped out when injuries got in the way!  So Congrats to Impact and thanks to our subs Dave Hammel, Ken Silva, Jerry Lubeck and Kirk Andes. Thanks to Dave Zucker, Craig Nelson  and Pete Houghton for umping and tower duties.  Finally congrats to both Janelle Hansen and ThunderBird for sharing the Fall league title.  Special thanks to the Commissioners for a successful Fall season. See you Tuesday with the new rosters!

Thunderbird Auto 19    Janelle Hansen Realty 18

Jeffs take: Once the dust had settled in Thursday’s battle for first place, the Janelle Hansen Realty Team found themselves on the short end of a one run game. The long ball was their nemeses as the Thunderbird Automotive squad hit three homers, the third being a walk off solo home run. The fact that the JHRO team was the only squad to win ten games truly is indicative of the parity and competitiveness of this sessions Red league.  So the championship trophy ( actually, bragging rights) will be shared by Beckers team and the Hollis team for the next four days until the Winter session commences on Tuesday. Congrats to both teams on their accomplishment.

Pauls side note:   I want to thank everyone on the team and all the subs we used to make this a successful season. Also thanks to all the people who make the Red League run as a smooth machine and a special thanks to Jeff for doing all the write-ups.

Robs take:    Have a seat.  This may take a while:

* Thank you to Craig and Don and Nico and Ted and Ken and the balance of the people that drive the Grand Softball League. You are amazing.

* Thank you to all the teams and players who made this session a bunch of fun.  Never once, did sportsmanship ever come into question.

 * Congratulations to our co-champions Janelle Hansen Realty team and manager Paul Becker for your tremendous play all season. 

 * Congratulations to all our Thunderbird players on an amazing comeback today. While we had many stars in today’s game, this win belongs to the team as a whole. Despite being down 10–1, our players knew we were not out of it. Inning by inning, batter to batter, catch by catch, we did not give up, as we did not all year long. In the end, we got the job done, and it was in a dramatic walk-off fashion. 

Ralph and I thank all our players for unconditionally buying into our "equal opportunity" system, where players were able to run for themselves and to play various positions throughout the season, including catcher.    To a man, you guys never complained and you gave it your all.   We could not be happier for you all.   

On behalf of the entire T-Bird team, we wish all Red League players a fun, safe and enjoyable second half of the season.