Photo By Clifford Davis | JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (May 23, 2017) The Fleet Readiness Center Southeast softball team,...... read more read more
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fleet Readiness Center Southeast Commanding Officer Capt. Chuck Stuart congratulated members of the facility’s softball team Tuesday, as they posed for photos with the team’s second Captain’s Cup trophy in as many years.
The FRCSE team, known as the Walking Wounded, claimed their second championship by defeating a combined team of VR-58 and VR-62 by a score of 19-16 on May 23.
“Winning back-to-back titles is difficult, to say the least,” the Walking Wounded’s coach Rick Raber said. “There are some tremendous athletes on this base.”
The team’s name is a good-natured jab at the age of many of its players.
Unlike many of the teams with which they face off, made up of young, active-duty Sailors, the Walking Wounded have a number of players who are long in the tooth.
“We have four starters on our team that are 55 or older,” Raber said. “We don’t know how long we will be playing this game, so this is special.”
Still, with age comes experience.
The Walking Wounded recorded a 14-1 record through the regular season, along with four shutouts. The team went on to finish the double-elimination, post-season tournament undefeated.
“We do not have a weak spot in our lineup,” said the team’s pitcher Mark Thomson. ““If we have one or two players who are struggling in any particular game, we don’t worry about it because we know the next man up will take care of business.”
Collecting Captain’s Cup trophies is beginning to be somewhat of a pastime for FRCSE.
The Walking Wounded’s second-consecutive Captain’s Cup championship comes on the heels of the men’s basketball team’s sixth-consecutive title.
| Date Taken: | 06.16.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 06.16.2017 14:04 |
| Story ID: | 238229 |
| Location: | JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, US |
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