SEQUIM – Warren Hunt, chairman of the Sequim Senior Softball Club, is looking for a little competition – and he also wouldn’t mind finding a few more like Durward Hill.
Hill, who started the Sequim club in 2005, had played in the senior World Series of softball, and has the ring to prove it.
He fielded eight players in Sequim two years ago and watched the group multiply to about 60 before he relinquished chairmanship of the group to Hunt in October.
Hill still plays “religiously, and he is a great guy as a sounding board,” said Hunt.
Using Hill’s advice, Hunt is now on a quest for senior soft ball players who can play either in Sequim or provide the Sequim club with competition from other North Olympic Peninsula cities.
Last year the Sequim team – which has players from both Clallam and Jefferson counties – played senior soft ball players from Bremerton and Redmond, and good times were had, Hunt said.
But he’d also enjoy games – even tournaments – closer to home.
Hunt envisions other clubs forming across Clallam and Jefferson counties, to make a vigorous softball scene.
“I know there are a lot of seniors,” out there, he said.
He wants to see a North Olympic Peninsula league of senior softball players.
“We’d like to have three clubs – in Sequim, Port Angeles and in Port Townsend,” said Hunt.
Players need to be, shall we say, mature – over 45 for the females, soon-to-be 50 or better for the males.
“If they would contact me, we would come to their city and work with them,” Hunt said.
“We’d help them do anything necessary to get their club started.”
