League History

May 1st 2010 sees the launch of the Guelph Coed Slopitch League. While mother nature didn't completely co-operate, nothing could dampen the spirits of the 6 teams that took the field that day for their first two games. At the homerun derby 10 competitors slugged it out for the right to be named champion. The first round was pretty uneventful having only 3 players (Todd Swift, Taylor Dekking and Adam Mclean) put a ball over the fence. The finals were a different story however. Taylor lead off the finals with an incredible 11 homeruns setting the stage for an exciting finish. Adam went second and hit some balls deep but unfortunately was eliminated. Todd went last and after a couple of quick outs began hitting moonshots! However with 10 homeruns and 9 outs Todd ran out of gas and the leagues first homerun derby championship went to Taylor Dekking.

May 2nd sees the first league games for the Guelph Coed Slopitch League played. The first pitch flew at 2:01pm with Louise McCluskey throwing to Colin Libiec who hit a single to centre field.

On July 10th we held our first mid-season tournament with great success. The round robin saw the Mad Batters go 3-0 and The A Team go 2-1. There was a 4-way tie for the last 2 spaces in the semi finals! Greenway earned the 3rd semi final spot and Mac Tools checked in with the final spot in the semi's. Greenway and Mac Tools were overpowered in the semi's so it was The A Team and Mad Batters in the finals. The Mad Batters got out to a fast start in the finals and never looked back winning 16-6.

On the final day of the regular season 1st place was still up for grabs as well as last place. The Mad Batters made quick work of the Bat'titudes and Mac Tools to win the Pennant. Despite much trash talk from Greenway Captain Josh Peer, in the last game versus Pennywhistle to decide 5th place, Greenway failed to score a run in a 15-0 loss.

The playoffs were a completely different story. The Bat'titudes went 3-0 and the mighty Pennywhistle PNS shocked everyone with an 16-14 win over the Mad Batters and a 23-11 spanking of Mac Tools and finished 2nd. Mac Tools finished 3rd with a 2-1 record, and the shock of the tournament was the prohibitive favourite Mad Batters being edged out of the last semi final spot by Greenway.

In the semi finals Mac Tools returned the 23-11 victory over Pennywhistle and Greenway began their power display with more homeruns than anyone can remember.

The finals saw Greenway continue hitting homeruns all the way to the championship. Congrats Greenway on an incredible turn around from last in the regular season to 1st when it counts!

After a busy offseason of recruiting, the Guelph Coed Slopitch League secured another 7 teams going from 6 teams to 13! Mac Tools and The A Team are re-named to Jeters Never Prosper and Sons of Pitches. Our May 1st Tournament is rained out so our first games take place on May 8th. The first pitch flew at 9:05am with "Chunkz" throwing to Nate Benson. Despite much trash talk (again!) by the Greenway captain Joshee Poo (as he's now affectionately known) the re-match of the 2010 finals was anti-climactic at best with Jeters Never Prosper spanking Greenway 38-16. MasterBatters, Braving The Elements, Brew Jays, Aristabats, Active Therapeutic, Sultans of Swing and Metalumen all made their debuts with varying degrees of success.

The mid-season tournament was very exciting this year with lots of great games and awesome finishes. The MasterBatters finally won their first game of the season in the round robin! The surprise of the tournament was 2-9 Metalumen going 3-0! They won their semi final game and went on to face Active Therapeutic. Active Therapeutic also went 3-0 in the round robin and won a hard fought semi final against the Brew Jays. Active continued their momentum defeating Metalumen in the finals 14-12, scoring their last 2 runs in the last inning.

The homerun derby went to "sudden death" with Todd Swift winning the derby over Tim Kostal.

What a great weekend of ball! Expect the unexpected describes this years playoffs perfectly. The 1st seeded Mad Batters and the 2nd seeded Brew Jays moved on to the Semi Finals with ease both going 3-0 in their divisions. After that, nobody could have predicted what happened next. 10th seed Braving the Elements surprised everyone (Including themselves! We were told that many of the team had other plans for Sunday afternoon.) by going 3-0 beating 3rd seed Bat'titudes, 6th seed Sultans of Swing and 10th seed Pennywhistle PNS.

With all 3 division winners determined the Wildcard lived up to its name. With the Aristobats, Sultans of Swing and Jeters Never Prosper finishing with records of 2-1, they all needed some help from the MasterBatters. Sons of Pitches had gone 2-0 with 1 of those wins coming over the Jeters for the first time in their existence. With a win or a tie against the MasterBatters the Sons of Pitches would guarantee themselves the Wildcard. A loss would force a 4-way tie and force Louise and Mike to do some math. :) In the bottom of the last inning down 3 with 2 out and 2 runners on, the Sons of Pitches hit a 3 run homerun to tie the game! The game would end in a 14-14 tie sending the Sons to the semis and keeping the calculators in the car. :)

The semi finals were also very exciting. The Brew Jays held off a late surge by Braving to win 10-5 and the Sons of Pitches shocked everyone again by beating the Mad Batters for the first time ever (11-8)!

Sons of Pitches ran out of gas in the Finals and the Brew Jays went on to win their 1st title. Congratulations Brew Jays!