NPC Softball

The NPC softball team concluded its 2008 season by winning one of three games in the MMSL playoffs, losing to Allbritton and knocking out top-seeded Gazette before succumbing to Atlantic Video.
In game 1, NPC scored three runs in the top of the first, only to have Allbritton score four in the bottom of the inning. […]

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Press Club members are invited to come and watch the softball team in action this weekend in the annual Metropolitan Media Softball League playoffs. The games will be played at Cabin John Regional Park, near Montgomery Mall and the same park that hosts Shirley Povich Field and the Bethesda Big Train college baseball team. Come […]

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#Atlantic Video
10-4
9-1
–

#National Press Club
9-5
7-3
1

#Team Video
7-7
6-4
3

Assocated Press
7-7
5-5
3

Examiner
3-10
2-7
7

City Paper
0-13
0-9
10

#- clinched playoff berth. First column is overall won-lost record, second column is divisional W-L record, and third column is games behind the division champion.

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National Press Club
2008 Record: 9-5/No. 11 seed
2007 Record: 8-8
Coach: Jonathan Salant
Key Returning Players: IF/OF Sarahanne Driggs, 3B Frank Fuhrig, 1B/OF Mike Diegel, P Ryan Donmoyer.
Valuable New Additions: IF/OF Clay Kaufman, IF/OF Henry Brier, P/OF John Domen, 2B Dana Brown, C/OF Melissa Robinson, OF Ken Giglio.
Key To Success This Season: The addition of Brown enhancing an […]

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The National Press Club returned to the MMSL playoffs in spectacular fashion, scoring six runs in the first and five in the second en route to a 13-2 pasting of Team Video, including five strikeouts (four swinging) by Ryan Donmoyer. NPC had its first six batters reach base, and a series of Team errors gave […]

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About three inches is all that stood in the way of a doubleheader sweep and a first-place tie in the Layhill Division for Big Blue Saturday. With two outs and the bases loaded in a tie game in the top of the sixth inning, Bill Holland launched a line drive over third base, only to see […]

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After winning two of three games in 98 degree heat last weekend, the National Press Club went into the second half of the season with a 5-3 record, good for a tie for first place in the Layhill Division and good enough for a playoff spot if the season ended today.
Newcomers Melissa Robinson and her […]

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Yes, it rained again Saturday. NPC got one game in, defeating City Paper, 18-5, before game 2 was rained out. Looks like tripleheaders are in our future.
For our opponents’ view of things, check out their posting at http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/06/02/shadows-softball-2008-in-which-god-emerges-as-a-city-paper-fan/

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Who’d think that the Media League would go through the second month of its season without a game being played? The month of May ends this Saturday, and between one week off, two rainouts and the Memorial Day weekend, there have been no games played in more than a month. The weather forecast so far […]

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For the second time in two weeks, the media league softball games were postponed due to wet fields. With the league off for the Memorial Day weekend, the next games are scheduled for May 31, weather permitting.

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