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Fruitcake Buys Some Beers!

Romeoville, IL
September 27, 2013

Attendance: 18

The Brain Played Goalie for Both Teams!
Last week the following was posted in Duffer News Number 718:  "The Goalie Pimp was able to settle his labor dispute and deliver us 2 real goalies who played a fine game."  That labor agreement only lasted one week.  Brian was the only goalie to show up, so he played for both teams.  He started out as the White goalie.  Half way through the period, he switched sides and became the Red goalie.  He did that for the rest of the game.  He gave up 3 goals to the Red team and had a shutout going against the White team with only 12 minutes left in the game.  It looked like he had a sure win, but the Whites scored 3 goals in the closing minutes to give him a tie and a tie.

Happy Birthday

I guess that is as good as a win and a loss, since he gets 2 points.  Nobody would own up to the goals that were scored.  I only remember the first one that I scored when Bill BTW fired a pass to me.  I fanned on the redirect attempt, but the puck hit my skate and slid past the Brain.  That is the 2nd goal in 3 weeks that I scored with my magical skate.  2 weeks ago, my grandson fired a pass that I redirected onto the toe of my skate and into the back of the net.  White goals may have been scored by Brinks, The Czar, Cousin Mazz or Rags.  Red goals may have been scored by Beak, Bill BTW, Drago, Terry or MagooFruitcake scored when the Czar was playing goalie, but we couldn't keep track of all of those goals, although Bill BTW and Terry made some spectacular saves while filling in for the goalie who never showed up.
Final score Reds 3, Whites 3.  The Brain picked up a Meaningful 1-0 shutout


Memorable Moments:

  • Fred "Fruitcake" Bobka  was 65.99 years old when the game started, so he bought some Strohs.
  • The Duffers only had one goalie, but we had fun
  • The Brain tied himself 3-3

The following 6.5 Duffers are in the running for the Tim Smith Perfect Attendance Award

Beak, Terry, Fruitcake, Hacksaw, V-Man and Magoo.  Greg Z had an excused absence, he e-mailed and said he would be out of town.

Only 4 Duffers have won the Tim "Basketball Jones" Smith Perfect Attendance Award.


Joe and John

We had a goalie Malfunction!

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These guys have made 66 trips around the sun. 

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Frank's eyes are wide open!

 

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Michelle Spillman

Michelle Spillman 10-31-10

Michelle hits a 2 run home run for Romeoville High School in a 3-0 victory against Joliet Catholic Academy.

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Michelle Spillman hit a 2 run Home run to beat Joliet Catholic on April 18, 2012. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman and Romeoville High School. ...

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Michelle Spillman hit her 4th homerun on April 21, 2012 to beat Hershey High. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman "outdoor sports" ...

 

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Michelle hit a triple to help beat Highland Park High 8-5 on 4/21/2012.