From the Du Quoin Evening Call:
By Jeff Profitt/American News Service
Despite an opening round loss Friday night, Elkville Fastpitch bounced back nicely to claim a top six finish at the 23rd Annual Kelso, Mo. Klassic Tournament Sunday.
Elkville is now 12-5 and plays again Thursday as the 10th Annual Terry Deering Memorial Tournament begins at Radom.
Saturday afternoon in Kelso, Elkville rallied from way behind to pull out an 8-7 win in eight innings over Radom’s Lee’s Sports Falcons.
Barry Maynor’s two-run double won the game after Radom had pulled ahead 7-6 in the top of the eighth.
Elkville rallied for five runs in the seventh to force overtime, knotting the score on Drew Porter’s two-run double.
Porter and Lance Bedar each had two hits in the game.
For Radom, Ryan Colle and Kelly Bauza enjoyed multi-hit games.
Troy Downen and Mark Radake were the pitchers of record.
Elkville then bounced back Saturday night to eliminate defending ASA Class B National Champion Memphis, Tn. Posse 5-4.
With the score tied at 3-3 in the fourth, Elkville plated the decisive two runs.
Shawn Hunter singled and scored on Waylon Leonard’s RBI double. Leonard then slid across the plate after a throwing error.
Yates and Hunter had produced RBI during a three-run Elkville second.
Les Wood was the winning hurler.
Sunday, despite Wood’s 11 strikeouts, Elkville fell 5-2 to Springfield, Il. Brandt’s.
Aaron Hunter and S. Hunter knocked in runs for Ekville.
Radom also lost to Vandalia Guaranteed Air Freight 12-4 and Hermann, Mo. Black-Gold 5-1 Saturday and finished the tournament with a 1-3 record.
Against Vandalia, C.J. Cruser and Josh Fisher each had two RBI.
Cruser knocked in the lone run versus Hermann, Mo