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As the cooler autumn temperatures arrive, the co-ed adult softball season is winding down. The Lyons Parks & Recreation Department wants to remind all ballplayers, or wanna be ballplayers, that if there is enough interest, they will conduct a “fall-ball” league. Interested teams and individuals are requested to contact Marissa at Parks & Rec., ASAP, at 303-823-8250 for more information or to sign up.

Just because the temperatures are cooling, that doesn’t mean the action wasn’t hot over at the ball fields in Bohn Park Monday night. In the first contest of the evening, Gray’s Heating/Cooling (aka the McHeaters) torched the Lyons Fire District. Things got uncomfortably warm in the second inning, when the District turned a close game into a rout, by giving up 14 runs to the HVAC specialists. The Fire Fighters scored six runs of their own in the next inning, but that only made the final outcome 21 to 6.

The second game pitted the Beverly Hicks Bombers against the Waiters of Oskar Blues (Lyons). This one got out of hand early, as the Bombers lived up to their name; scoring six in the first, four in the second, and eight in the third. After the last course was served, the check read Bombers 18, Waiters 3. Rumor has it the Bombers didn’t even leave a tip!

In the eight o’clock game, the undefeated Natural Disasters tangled with the Lyons Community Montessori Teachers. Most of “Team Teacher” was absent or tardy (they won’t be getting positive office referrals) and the cobbled together crew got taken to the woodshed. The Disasters buried the LCM in an avalanche of runs in the first inning. Nine to nothing.  It looked like the Pre-school Profs might make a game of it, they scored three runs themselves, quelled the storm with a 1,2,3 inning, and tacked on another to make it 9 to 4 going into the home half of the third inning. That’s when the Disasters struck like a tsunami, crashing down a wave of scores, twenty-one to be exact, on the overmatched Educators.

The final match of the night saw the Bull Snakes take on the Chamber Rockers. This one went back and forth, with several lead changes over the first couple of innings. But like the previous three outings of the evening, one big inning proved to be crucial. The Snakes rocked the Chamber squad for six runs in the third, and try as they might, the Business Owners just couldn’t make up the deficit. The two teams traded four runs each over the final two innings, with the Snakes feeling charmed to walk away with a 16 to 9 victory.