VA Peninsula - Fall '15 Week 3 Round Up

"Create history! Move forward! Never look back!"

It was a beautiful night for kickball on Wednesday. Pretty soon it will be hoodies and layers, but for week 3, it was a warm 80 degrees out. The only thing hotter than the temps was the action on the field. Let's take a look at WAKA VA Peninsula's week 3 round up.

(Reminder: I won't necessarily talk about every team or even every game. With 9 games a night, I obviously can't see or hear about every cool thing that happened on a WAKA Wednesday. If I miss something, please feel free to post in the Facebook comments.)

Results

DCOMB 2, Rumspringa 0
Kick Ass 12, Fireballs 1
PBJT 4, Chaotic KILFs 3
The Situation 1, Kick Ass 0
PBJT 7, Fireballs 3
Foul Balls 4, Chaotic KILFs 1
Cardiac Arrest 1, WAKA'm To The Jungle 0
Smokin' Bunts 9, Five Toe Death Kick 7
Hot Dogs & Tacos 13, Alcobalics 4

News, Notes, and Observations

• You couldn't ask for a better defensive start than the ones displayed by Cardiac Arrest and DCOMB this season. Both teams have yet to allow a run in their first two victories. And it's not that they've been playing scrubs. DCOMB has shut out Foul Balls and Rumspringa. CA has blanked The Situation and The Jungle. It'll be interesting to see how long both teams can keep this up. 
• Kick Ass nearly joined these two teams in the '0 RA' club. Heading into the 5th inning, they were tied 0-0 against The Situation. After Sitch loaded the bases, George Bunch's single drove earned the walk off win in the 5th.
• Who would've thought that it would take The Situation 10 innings before they scored their first run of the season? 
• By the way, I predicted the 1-0 win for Cardiac Arrest on last week's 3 Up 3 Down. Thanks to Jill Simms' great running catch of a very deep Geoff Morehart blast in the 5th, the prediction held. 
• The Foul Balls were held completely hitless in their last game, but were determined to reverse that in week 3. Curtis Faubion's triple home run cleared the bases and the defense held the KILFs to a single run. 
• Todd Schimmel and Manny Zapata helped lead DCOMB over Rumspringa with a couple of hard strikes that drove in runs. These two are developing into one of the most prolific 4-5 kicking combos in the league. Although, Todd's status is questionable for week 4. In addition to his healing collarbone injury, he appeared to have hurt his lower leg sliding into home on Wednesday. 

You can almost see her thinking, "My husband is an idiot"

• While we talked a lot about defensive battles above, the Five Toe / Smokin' Bunts game was anything but a pitcher's duel. Sixteen combined runs were scored between the two, with the Bunts come away with the shoot out win. Casey Frye was doing her best Pete Rose impression, diving head first into home twice during the contest. Maybe we should start calling her Casey Hustle? 
• Huge night for the PBJT franchise. With an inexperienced team, many pundits predicted the Jelly to finish in the bottom of the table this season. But the rookies seem to be picking up the game at a much quicker pace than expected and the veterans are providing a consistent stability. Really impressed with their 2-1-1 start. Hats off to captain Christina Obershaw. 
• I'm 0-2 in kick away situations since posting my kick away tips on the blog. I am officially declaring myself jinxed.