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Softball Team Looking for Lean, Mean Senior Citizens

In the rebuilding mode, the Seal Beach Seals are looking for players to round out their slow pitch roster.

Lee Hoyt , of Seal Beach confesses that he used to give his daughter “hell”  when she was playing softball in high school, but now things have changed.

Hoyt 74, is now on the other site of the dug out fence as he tried out for the Senior Citizens Slow Pitch Softball team Monday at Zoeter Field.

“I apologized to her after I started playing senior softball” said Hoyt “It’s a lot harder playing than it is watching.”

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Hoyt joined Seal Beach Seals regulars for a try-out session Monday in hopes of making the team when the new Huntington Beach Senior Softball League starts up again after Labor Day.

Seal Beach Seals player Bill Hurd, 79 of Seal Beach, started playing senior ball after bipass surgery in 1987 because he wanted to stay in shape.

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In the 24 years that Hurd has played for the Seals, the team has won six senior championships, beating teams from Newport, Huntington, Costa Mesa and Fullerton, “teams from all over,” said Hurd.

Seal Beach Seals Team Manager Larry Davidson calls this a “rebuilding season for the Seals.”

The team is made up of players 65 years-old and older.

Davidson is looking for new players to add to the Seals roster next season.

“We need warm bodies,” joked Davidson. “We are looking for outfielders, guys that can run and catch but most of all guys who want to have fun."

The Seals will be holding another try-out on Monday Aug. 15, in Seal Beach at Zoeter Field at 11a.m.

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