The start of the 2024 Manhattan Beach Senior Softball Association’s Thursday Sponsor League had the BrokButcher Realty Team opening the season againt the Jets.   The 1st game of the season was a back and forth barn burner with the Jets victorious in an exciting 9th inning walkoff single by Mike Barnett.  The Jets were powered by Dario Serna with 4 hits, Ward Brown, Joe Lamay (triple), Andy Shelby all with 3 hits in the game, while Bryan White, Doug Bagley, Mike Barnett, Lincoln Chung (Triple), Doug Freeman, and Howard Rudich all adding 2 hits.   Final Score Jets 18 BrokButcher 17.  No Report from BrokButcher.

The 2nd game saw the visitors Grunions start their season off against last seasons 2023 Champions Admiral Risty with Grunions falling to Risty in the 19-6 contest.  The Grunions played valiantly and were led by Joe Rassulo and Bart Mills each with 3 hits each.  Jim Berger, Ken Sackman and Bill Louie added 2 hits each.  The Risty’s were led by Wayne Galer with his superb pitching and added 5 hits, Dave Taylor with 4 hits and Alan Kiser, Rick Mansker and Adam Garcia all with 3 hits in the game.  Garcia also added a triple and  a home run with 6 rbi’s.