While ultimate power in Sedona adult softball continues to rest in the West, the battle for heir apparent in the Sedona Parks and Recreation league, after the halfway point of the season, has shifted.

The much-anticipated July 3 showdown at Posse Grounds Park between A Day in the West and Red Rock Rotary went, sadly for Rotary, as anticipated.

But Los Illegals and Rokzoo Bucket List took advantage by winning their games July 3 to move within a game of first place.

After holding an early league lead, Rotary fell into fourth place after the halfway point of the regular season after a six-run sixth inning resulted in an
18-12 loss to A Day in the West on the lower field of Posse Grounds Park.

“These are our seeding games we want to win to advance as easily as we can in the playoffs,” A Day in the West head coach Pedro Ortega Sr. said. “I think we played good defense, and that’s where defense counts: It gives you that extra play, that extra bat.”

Ortega’s team managed with only nine players and survived a fourth-inning effort at sabotage from John Bradshaw, whose towering solo home run for Red Rock Rotary pulled the team to within a 9-7 score of his business-sponsored team, A Day in the West.

To read the full story, see the Friday, July 11, edition of the Sedona Red Rock News.