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Never Scared becomes Never Scored

Never Scared becomes Never Scored
Photo by Karin Partin

Is Never Scared slipping?

After kicking its way out to a fast start and first place in the Brooklyn Kickball League standings, Never Scared is only 3-1-1 in its last five games, dropping to fourth place.

Never Scared easily dispatched Zeus’ Beard, but only squeaked by its fierce rivals, Bacon Bits, by a score of 2-0 — and then tied the surging Mathletes 0-0, leading many kickball enthusiasts to question the team’s offensive punch and label them, “Never Scored.”

Ouch.

Team captain Sam “Long Johns” Doroff almost won the game for the Mathletes, after he nearly advanced from third base after a late-inning sacrifice fly, but chose to hold up because the kick to right field was too shallow. He ended the inning stranded on third base, kicking away the Mathletes’ chance for its first marquee win of the season.

“We should have scored, we had a chance, but we didn’t capitalize,” said first baseman Devin “AP Calculus” Perera.

Nevertheless, Perera praised the team’s aggressive infield defense, which shut down Never Sacred and left them … maybe a little scared.

“Never Scared tried to play small ball, kicking to our third baseman,” said Perera.

League Commissioner Kevin Dailey called the Mathletes’ defensive play “remarkable,” while also touting Zeus’ Beard, which played a close game with the New Frontiersmen, but got creamed by the Pony Boys and Never Sacred.

“Zeus’ Beard, we still believe, is an up-and-coming team,” said Dailey. “They were short-handed due to Memorial Day.”

The up-and-down Bacon Bits, with a 4-3 record, wasn’t making excuses for its rocky early season play. This past weekend, the Bits lost to the defending champion John Cougar Mellencamps and defending runner-ups Never Scared, but beat the 4-4 Drinkers with a Kicking Problem, proving that the team is good at handling weaker squads.

Don’t look now, but those pesky Mellencamps are back to a .500 record (3-3), clawing back into the race after getting blown out in its first game of the season.

Next week will feature perhaps the biggest game of the league’s early season, when first place Majesty, led by Rochelle “RoRo” Fainstein, will face off against second place Brooklyn United, led by Justin “Prison Break” Taylor.

It is one of the earliest top-two matchups in Brooklyn Kickball history and both teams have been talking trash for weeks during their respective byes.

Dailey believes that all bets should be on Brooklyn United.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt about that,” said Dailey.

Again, ouch.