April 1st – Seattle Takes Two

The Seattle University RedHawks are the only victims to have ever lost to Evergreen State on the diamond. But this time around, there was no mistake in proving who the better team was as Seattle took both games in the double header.

The first game started out terribly for the Geoducks as in the top of the first, the RedHawks jumped out to a 15-0 lead. But only 5 of those runs were earned as the Geoducks beat themselves with errors aplenty. The bleeding didn’t stop in the first game as Seattle cruised to a lopsided 37-0 victory behind the pitching of Sean Namanny. Namanny’s only mistake was to the first batter he faced when senior Geoduck shortstop, Antonio Olguin ripped a fastball into the right center field gap for a lead off double. After that, Namanny was locked on as he retired the final 15 of 16 batters with 6 strikeouts and never let a ball get out of the infield.

The second game was more of the same ending in a 27-0 RedHawks win. RedHawks pitcher Nick Richey was named national pitcher of the week as he threw a perfect game against the Geoducks, only the second ever in the leagues short 7 year history. Evergreen State was not surprised to see one of their opponent’s players be the player of the week in the league, let alone the conference seeing as it happens on a regular basis. “What are we supposed to do?” commented manager Kip Arney. “We don’t have any fireballers on the mound and we never see any pitching in practice. So it doesn’t surprise me to see other teams excell against us. A lot of teams begin the season with goals of winning the conference and then winning the league championship. Our goal…not to let other teams have their statistics skewed because they’re superior to us by a wide margain.” Arney continued to vent his frustration after the series by saying, “We aren’t this bad. But with our lack of practice, I don’t see us getting much better.”

Evergreen State has fallen to 0-4 on the season and has yet to score a run. On the season, the Geoducks have been outscored 114-0. “Are you kidding me?” asked Kip when he was told of the stat. “That’s ridiculous.”