July Tournament Recap

As we move another day closer to the start of the season, I'll continue my recap of last years tournament play.

The first tournament of July was hosted by Harmony in Lyndon Station. They tournament had a small showing with only five teams in the tournament. Both Harmony teams were there, along with Misfits or something like that from the Lyndon/Mauston area, Leahy's Pub, and then Winning Connection who had the bulk of their players from Cejays and had guys from Baraboo, Portage, and Mauston. With only five teams the tournament was set up as a round robin that was only a one day tourney which allowed each team to play four games.

First game of the day we took on Misfits who were a very young from the area and we handled them with some ease. Second game we took on Leahy's Pub which was looking some what weak this weekend and we cruised to an easy victory. The third game of the day was a nail bitter against Winning Connection. In the top of the seventh inning we were down 18-16 and I hit a triple off the right field fence with bases loaded to give us a 19-18 lead. In the bottom of the seventh a hit and then a pair of walks loaded the bases and then a walk off grand slam ended the game with WC winning 22-19. The final game of the tournament paired the two Harmony teams against each other. Harmony two was in control for much of the game but, we kept climbing back from falling to a run rule. The final score was 24-15 or somewhere in there.
Final Standings
1. Harmony 2
2. Winning Connection
3. Harmony 1
4. Leahy's Pub
5. Misfits

The following tournament was our highlight of the summer. We traveled to Cazanovia to play in the Baryenburch tournament or something like that. We completely dominated the weekend as we took advantage of playing on the baseball field and used our team speed to take extra bases every chance we got. Super blue dot balls and Miken Ultra 2s added for some 400 foot home runs. This tournament was a bit of a lower level tournament as their was two other tournaments going on the attracted some of the better teams in the area. Can't remember all the game but, in the semi final we won 33-1 over JJ Underground and the championship was just as easy as we beat Pinnacle Custom Construction 34-3, surprising for semi and final games these were our biggest blow outs of the tournament.
Final Standings
1. Harmony
2. PCC Verona/Baraboo
3. JJ Underground Lavalle/Caz
4. Mean Streets no idea

The following weekend we were back to Cazanovia. This tournament appeared to be a little more difficult as we ended up taking fourth place I think. This weekend was really a blur as we had a wedding to jump back and forth between. The first night we beat a Fishy's team in a controversial game that was ended because of time limit. The following day I missed the game where we lost to Mt Tabor. Then on Sunday I remember we beat JJ Underground by run rule and then ended up losing to C&H in a game where we played terrible to get eliminated. We also beat a something farm team on Sunday also. I think I might be missing a game but, not sure. I believe we finished fourth in this tournament and I have no idea what the final standings were of this tournament.

Tomorrow I will finish up the recap on the tournaments of next summer and then move on to some league talk and then possibly some other softball thoughts.