Sponsor Angie Lozano’s team won its fourth title in five years as an underdog, while head coach Moe Ballesteros and his Balls and Dolls went an extra game to enjoy their first taste of the Cottonwood Parks and Recreation department’s slow-pitch coed softball league title Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Shaq Attack also went an extra game before winning its league title Oct. 21, 7-3, over the Soup-a-Bears in the last of the three league championships to conclude Oct. 21. The two teams played for the C League crown, while Balls and Dolls won the crown of the B League and Angie’s House, under Lozano’s husband, head coach Pedro Gonzalez, took the title of the A League, 20-13, over Arizona Home Works/Trinity Tan — a team it had beaten to open the double-elimination playoffs Oct. 14.
Angie’s House had been regular-season A League champs and No. 1 playoff seed the past four years before winning it all this fall as a No. 3 seed with four losses.
“Most of the losses we got, we were short on players,” Gonzalez said. “Robert, Jimmy and Carlos didn’t show up.”
Shortstop Robert Gonzales, pitcher Jimmy Midgett and outfielder Carlos Abrigo all showed up Oct. 21 and hit home runs, however. Gonzales’ grand slam in the second inning opened up a five-run lead that Angie’s House would never relinquish, in spite of Arizona Home Works’ inside-the-park grand slam that capped the team’s scoring in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Ballesteros, pitcher for top B League seed Balls and Dolls, allowed 13 runs to third seed Grasshopper Grill/Old Corral to lose, 13-12, in the championship. However, since it was the Balls and Dolls’ first loss, they would play again, leaving no doubt about the best team in the B League with a 15-2 victory.
Shaq Attack made a similar recovery to win the C League after taking a 10-run loss to Soup-a-Bears, 16-6.
