2010: Earthquakes, Icelandic Volcanoes, Eclipses - Oh My!

been a wild year and we going out with a bang - earthquakes in Iran and Japan - torrential floods in California (and a bit of rain here too, eh?) - the moon running blood - blizzards despite global warming - tea party shenanigans...is the world coming to an end?...depends who you ask. i'm sure many of our newly-elected washington folks are rootin' for the rapture.

but unfortunately, we can safely say that Na Pahu Piha softball in 2010 is over - and i'd say 'twas not a bad one...we won 10 games, nearly swept the division 2 championship for the year, and didn't have to forfeit a game

plenty more Na Pahu in 2011. see you then

12/8: Bubble Boy

It's official - Hemant needs a bubble.  In his defense, he is a trooper and played through the pain, going home with the equivalent of a golf ball on his forehead and his leg - with the latter oozing some sort of puss. However, his injury rate is rapidly approaching his batting average. Maybe next season in addition to the league fees we all chip in to buy him his own bubble, i'd bet a softball would fit in them holes.

Na Pahu fought through a tough double-header schedule on a wednesday night - facing the division 1 runner-up and the division 2 champion - with the "weeknight" hangup. Although I would say it was some of the best softball that the city-wide softball league has seen in awhile.

In the first game against the Outcasts (Matsuno) Na Pahu had 2 home runs and was knotted at 5-5 after 5 innings...unfortunately, the bad guys were able to plate one during their last at-bat....me thinks it may have been the first time we haven't gotten mercy ruled against these guys (see 5/21/2008, 10/29/2008 blog posts for representative examples)

Final Score
Outcasts (Matsuno) 6
Na Pahu Piha 5

Game two was a rematch of the Season 7 division two championship game - you know that one where On The House denied us a three-peat. dem buggahs! not much to really comment on this game - pretty consistent division two softball play on both sides. On The House charged out to a 6-3 lead and Na Pahu crept our way back into it. down one in our last at-bat, Steve was heads up on the base paths and more or less stole home as they were putzin' around after the second out of the inning. saved the day for Na Pahu as it looked like we were done for and we came out with a tie. mo bettah than a loss - and given the reaction from a few of the competitive folks on OTH...it felt like a win.

Final Score
On The House 6
Na Pahu Piha 6

12/3: The Winds of Mo'ili'ili

they say it is windy in wyoming, but wyoming had nothing on mo'ili'ili this past friday night. Na Pahu found itself in a blustery matchup with our good friends Public Assistance and a chance to even up our record for the season.

a quick three-n-out on defense and we had an all-star lineup that looked poised to post a quick 8 (at least) and put the game out of reach in our first at bat...a solid leadoff was followed by a solid letdown - an droopy 3 out-er onto king st.

PA plated one in the third and Na Pahu answered right back with a quick one and seemed ready to blow it open with two on and coach promptly dinked it back onto king st. for another dirty 3. some officiating shenanigans and the remnants of coach's 2-out 3-out dump from the prior inning and PA was in good shape with a 3-1 lead after four innings, on pace for the fastest game in softball history.

inning 5 and Na Pahu finally came alive - i guess the allstar lineup just needed a warmup round because the scorebook got a lot darker the rest of the way...and Na Pahu cruised back to 0.500 for the season

Final Score

Na Pahu Piha 10

P-ass  5

while we deeply missed the presence of our inspirational leader...jefe was nice enough to share a photo from the wedding he was attending in America South.