Back in the Adam and Eve days, people couldn’t forge steel or build a wheel. They couldn’t harness electricity or split atoms. They couldn’t build bridges, fly planes, or write code.
Our world didn’t go from the garden to gravity to Google overnight.
Everything was already here but it had to be uncovered … in order.
No one splits an atom before they learn to build a fire. You can’t write code if you haven’t first carved a wheel. You have to walk before you run — and then you get old and have to walk again!
Each breakthrough depends on the one before it. The iron was in the ground, but someone had to dig. The spark was in the sky, but someone had to study the storm. The math was in the stars, but someone had to find the pattern.
Everything exists — but not everything is ready. Some answers take time. Some problems are too hard for one generation, so they get handed down to our younger brethren to help complete the assignment.
On Tuesday night, our fresh-faced Cougar cadets were back in action and joined forces with the gray and grizzled veterans to take on Tito’s and solve a seven-inning puzzle.
1st Inning
CharleyRads set the tone with a laser to left, and Pekar followed by finessing one to right to put runners on the corners. Fort stepped in and pounced on the first pitch, sending a clean RBI to right-center.
On defense, Ev snagged a line drive, Charley handled a grounder and fired a dart to Li’l Rads, and a smooth Ev-to-Pekar forceout closed the frame.
Cougars 1 – Tito’s 0
2nd Inning
Eddy stroked a sweet shot to center, and Big Ball Jimmy mirrored him with a liner to left-center, putting Cougars on 1st and 3rd. Li’l Rads swung a mighty bat and delivered a sacrifice fly to bring one home.
Tito’s scraped a run, but the defense held firm — Eddy tracked a fly in center, Martini kept his rhythm on the mound, inducing a foul out, and Kev hauled in a clutch fly ball to end the threat.
Cougars 2 – Tito’s 1
3rd Inning
CharleyRads burned down the line to beat out an infield grounder. Ev followed with a clean shot to center, and Pekar came through with a smart right-side grounder to plate a run. Fort added a sac fly frozen rope for another RBI.
Tito’s managed a run, but the Cougar hands of leather locked it down: Charley tracked a pop at third, and Eddy covered deep ground in center and ended the inning with two snags.
Cougars 4 – Tito’s 2
4th Inning
Kev uncorked a rocket, but was stranded.
Defensively, Kev absorbed two chest-high shots, and Fort flipped to Li’l Rads for the third out.
Cougars 4 – Tito’s 2
5th Inning
CharleyRads painted one between the first and second basemen like a brushstroke in motion. Ev shaped a parabola to center for men on one and two, setting the table. Pekar skied one to center, and Tito’s gave us a gift — both runners scored.
Tito’s got one back, but the Cougars cut them off: With sweet hands, Ev gloved a roller and tossed to Li’l Rads, CharleyRads snared a screamer at third, and Kev made a highlight reel catch in left.
Cougars 6 – Tito’s 3
6th Inning
Martini dropped in a sharp single, and Big Ball Jimmy followed with a spin-job blooper, but the Cougars couldn’t convert.
Tito’s roared back with two singles. An infield fly rule gave us the first out, then a Fort-to-Pekar force at second, and finally a CharleyRads-to-Pekar relay ended the rally. Tito’s plated two, tightening the game.
Cougars 6 – Tito’s 5
7th Inning
Crawdaddy battled for a walk, but the Cougar bats were quiet otherwise.
In the bottom half, the defense slammed the door. Tito’s got a lone single, but Martini flipped to Li’l Rads for one, and Ev turned two smooth grounders into two crisp outs to Li’l Rads.
Cougars 6 – Tito’s 5
Ballgame.
And that’s how it works — in life, in softball, and especially in our 16-Inch variety.
You don’t win in the seventh without grinding through the first six. Every inning stacks.
You keep the line moving, pass the bat, and trust that someone’s gonna come through when it counts.
Tuesday night, it wasn’t magic. It was just good, honest Cougar ball — the young and the old — together we scratched and clawed until the win was revealed.
And just like Adam and Eve, we went to the postgame to celebrate our victory and enjoyed a few apples.
Go Cougars!
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