STEADY DRIZZLE CREATES UNSTEADY MOUND CONDITIONS; BATS-LIGHTNING GAME POSTPONED AFTER ONE INNING

GENOA CITY —  Despite making every effort to play their Sunday morning contest at Torstenson Field, the Bats and Lightning were forced to call their game after one inning of scoreless play due to worsening field conditions from a steady drizzle.  The pitchers’ mound was the main concern as solid footing on the mushy hill was difficult to maintain.  A brief conference on the mound between the umpires and the Torstenson Field maintenance representative determined that cancellation was the best option.

It is doubtful the Bats, as home team, would have even attempted to play the game had the first two weeks of the season not been pushed back to the end of the original regular season due to inclement weather.  No make up date has been established or this game.

The Bats (4-0) next game will be at 1:00 PM on Sunday, June 18 against the Marauders (3-2) at Wauconda High School in Wauconda, Ill.

KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

Bats outfielder Mike Steffy travelled 90 miles Sunday morning from Tinley Park, Ill. to Genoa City, Wisc. to be at the game, arriving just as the first inning was underway.  Mike had a previous engagement at the 2023 Illinois Truck Driving Competition where he finished first in the Tanker Division out of 18 competitors.  There were eight divisions overall with more than a hundred drivers showing off their truck driving knowledge, judgement and driving skills at the weekend event.  All the division winners advance to the National Competition.

We congratulate Mike, who has driven for FedEx for more than 30 years, on a job well done behind the wheel.  And we tip our caps to him for his dedication to the team, driving 90 miles early Sunday morning and arriving just in time to get his shoes tied before the game was called.

BATS DROPPINGS

Although the Bats have an overall record of 16-50-1 in the month of June since 2004, their record when playing on Father’s Day is 5-6-1.  Last season the Bats lost, 5-4, to the Lightning at Behm Park on Father’s Day (June 19, 2022) in a game highlighted by Tom Klauba’s 2-run home run in the seventh inning ….  Mike Steffy is the first Bats player to win an Illinois Driving Competition award, an event heretofore unheard of by any other Bats players.