DLB/Sports Physical Therapy will have to wait until Sunday night to see if it can win both of the city’s major softball tournaments this summer, but Friday night the team hardly broke a sweat.

DLB blasted five home runs as part of its 26-hit attack in a 21-3, four-inning victory over Bradshaw Medical in the first round of the 45th annual Kiwanis Breakfast Club City Softball Tournament at Poerio Park Diamond No. 4.

Last month, DLB stretched its Rotary Tournament winning streak to 11 games en route to defending its title. Today and Sunday, it will try to accomplish something it couldn’t last year when it finished runner-up at the City Tournament — pull off a summer sweep.

Pitcher/coach Keith Anderson, one of six DLB players to collect three hits Friday, said that is a very realistic possibility.

“We’ll have a good team this weekend, for sure. We’ve had a lot of success lately,” Anderson said, noting DLB’s USSSA Class B State title in Illinois last weekend and the aforementioned Rotary victory.

“We’re coming to our biggest time of the season. I think we have a really good chance. Everyone is in midseason form. Last year (at the City Tournament) we fell to Woman’s Touch Painting when they got some timely hits. (This year) we’re seeing the ball really well, and the guys are hitting it hard.”

DLB batted around in its seven-run first inning, which included Anderson’s two-run homer and Brandon Reese’s three-run blast in consecutive at-bats.

DLB sent 11 hitters to the plate in the third and again batted around in the fourth. Jeremy Maginn hit a three-run homer and Reese ripped a two-run shot in DLB’s eight-run third, and John Czarnecki launched a three-run homer to straightway center field in DLB’s six-run fourth.

Czarnecki, the No. 11 hitter, had five RBI, while Reese and McGinn each drove in four runs for DLB, which will play Jay Bee Auto/Coins Sports Bar at 11 a.m. today on Diamond No. 3.

Defending champion Woman’s Touch Painting/Big Shotz, which had a bye, will make its 2009 debut in the double-elimination tournament vs. Sunnyside/Miller Lite at 10 a.m. today on Diamond No. 2.

Poerio’s No. 3 and 4 diamonds feature shorter fences, and teams are only allowed five home runs per game before each ball hit over the fence is ruled an out. However, when his team plays at the regulation-sized Diamonds No. 1 and 2, Anderson said it still has an advantage.

“A lot of our guys are longer hitters,” he said. “The fences will suit us well this weekend. At some of the tournaments we play, there is a (home-run) limit of eight and we hit that many. We’re going to hit a lot even on the larger diamonds.”

Other first-round winners Friday included Limbach/Super Sports, Sunnyside/Miller Lite, Stan’s Place, Chutes & Ladders, Jay Bee Auto/Coins Sports Bar, Sunnyside/Limbach/McTernan, on3 Promotional Partners and Native Construction.