The Dower Report: (Thanks to Herb Dower for this information)

FOLSOM, CA–Santa Rosa Fastpitch held off late rallies by both Dry Creek and Elk Grove in Sunday’s final two games to win the rain-plagued Folsom Tournament’s Class C Division. Santa Rosa, which earlier this season won the Fairfield Tournament, again rode the pitching of Jeff Want to the title. Want won all three games on Sunday and went 4-1 overall with a 3.50 earned run average. (more…)

From the Black Sox website: Long Beach Black Sox Win at Lancaster

The Long Beach Black Sox playing without 6 players pulled together and won their 4th ASA Alliance tournament and 8th overall tournament. This would be the Sox 1st ever win at the A/B level. Todd Budke in relief of Chuck Vranich got the win with 5 innings of solid pitching scattering 6 hits with only 1 walk. (more…)

From the So Cal ASA Website: So Cal ASA Lancaster

LANCASTER – LONG BEACH BLACK SOX AND RAS CONSTRUCTION CHAMPIONS

The Long Beach Black Sox used their two game bye to their advantage to take the Championship in the “B” Classification portion of the Lancaster tournament. This is the second May in a row that the Black Sox have won the May Lancaster tournament. After going 3 – 0 on Saturday in the Round Robin, the Sox had to go through the Champions in the previous two tournaments to take the crown. In their first game, they had came out ahead of Rude-Pac 5 – 4 and in the Championship game they beat the Panteras 8 – 5. The Panteras were making their third consecutive Championship game of the year with wins over the Rounders and San Diego Primetime. The players on the Panteras are used to being in the Championship game with a good portion of them being from the Kanakas and Edge teams from the 2003 & 2004 seasons.

While the Panteras have gotten greedy and not letting others in the Championship game, in the C Classification portion of the tournament here was once again two new teams making their first appearances. RAS Construction (formally Santana Concrete) came out of the sixth seed position in the round robin and used plenty of offense on Sunday to take home their first Championship since the 2003 National Qualifier. (more…)

From the LB Black Sox website:
Long Beach Black Sox Top Seed at Lancaster, CA

Todd Budke is a world class player and today he proved he can also pitch when needed as he threw a complete game (6IP) and allowed only 2 earned runs in the Sox 9-4 win over The Amigos giving Long Beach the # 1 seed on Sunday. Budke allowed only 7 hits and 1 walk in the win. At the plate Todd was 1-2 with 2 walks and an RBI. Budke was pressed into duty when Randy Clay could not pitch due to his arm injury suffered earlier in the day. The Sox also brought out the bats again. Leadoff man Paul Rosebush continued his torid hitting going 3-4 with 2 runs. Andy Martinez followed suit going 4-4 with 2 runs. Fred Hanker was 2-4 with a run and RBI. Chris Minogue also stayed hot with a 3 run home run to brek the game open. Brett Semans was 3-3 with a run and a RBI. The Sox hit Amigo ace Anthony Martinez for 14 hits and 9 runs. The Sox now are guranteed at least third place and play at 11:30 versus the winner of 4 and 5.