The Capital City Cardinals won the Championship game in a 4 inning mercy rule beating the Carolina Falcons 24-2. The Falcons were probably favorites going into the game having beat us 17-15 in the first game of the day and went undefeated in pool play also beating the Big Cats. We had to pay the Big Cats in pool play and then to see who would play in the Championship game and won both games 27-8 and then 17-2. The Championship game was our 4th of the day. Although our boys had to have been tired from all the baseball they played, the extra game time increased their sharpness on defense and got their bats going at full throttle. Our first game of the day against the Cardinals was one to forget as we seriously looked like we could not make a play. We seem to be a team that transforms itself from night to day from the 1st to the 2nd game as this is what happened in our last tournament in Rocky Mount. We came back and won the final by an amazing score of 24-2. Wow.
The Cardinals can enjoy their 1st tournament Championship. We were not content to get the 2nd place trophy last night and played like it. Some of our players made incredible improvement in hitting and defense in this tournament like Will Thistle and Petyon Bloom. Everyone on our team hit the ball well this weekend and contributed in major ways. I truly believe that many of our players still have not reached their full potential even though we played this well in this tournament. We are all enjoying this victory and all the difficulties of getting this select team together all seems worth it when you see our kids coming together like this and enjoying the game of baseball and putting their abilities to use to help their team play well. I am so proud of them for playing so well. Congratulations Cardinals and for each and every person who contributed to make this a great success! What a fun time we had.
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