Monday, July 26, 2010

Cardinals kept from championship game by 1st inning against Level Cross

After allowing 5 runs in the first, the cardinals played great defense the rest of the game allowing no more runs to a good little team called Level Cross. Level Cross scored 7 in last weeks IBA World Series championship game against WR Red that the red team pulled out with an 8-7 win. Both Level Cross and the Cardinals found themselves in the silver bracket this week with hopes of bringing home the championship trophy. In the end, it was Level Cross that would advance as they held on to win 3-5.

After hitting well the first inning and putting 3 runs on the board in the top of the 1st, the cardinals bats went silent with the exception of Daniel who took home the MVP award for the Cardinals going 3 for 3 and making many good plays at short stop including a diving stop to throw a runner out at first. The MVP of Level Cross was the Short stop for Level Cross, Alex Ramirez.

In the bottom of the first, after Daniel retired Alex Ramirez on ground ball to Daniels left, we gave what appeared to be two easy outs, into errors that put runners on 1st and 3rd. Then the hit parade started for Level Cross and we ended the inning 5-3. Our defense then became awesome and in the top of the third, Daniel started us with a triple but we were not able to bring Daniel home.

In this tournament, Daniel went 8 for 10,
Will Matejowski went 6 for 7, Ben Peterson went 6 for 10, Alex Hatcher went 5 for 8 and Ethan Oakley went 5 for 9. The cardinals had 5 hitters with 3 hits and 3 hitters with 2 hits in their first game of the series against the White Sox and went 12 for 20 in their pool play game against Level Cross but were not able to put it together at the plate on Sunday to advance to the championship game.

My son Daniel and I watched the championship game from the sidelines for the 2nd week in a row as Level Cross easily won the championship game of the Summer Showdown. The Cardinals added 8 new players this week as we lost 10 players after finishing our planned 4-5 tournaments for the summer. Will M., Anthony, and Daniel were the only core players to continue from the team we started with this summer.

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