Rounders, Rude Pac Among 16 Unbeatens; Amigos, RAW and Primetime to Play Elimination Games Saturday
The El Segundo Rounders, CA won their third game without a loss at the ASA “C” Nationals at Stockton, CA, a hard fought 8-5 win over a very good hitting A-1 Tank team. Rude Pac won their second game without a loss, a harrowing 9-8 win over Team Texas, who had beaten the Savala Painters in the first round. Both the Rounders and Rude Pac are among the 16 remaining unbeaten teams in the tournament and will play again tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon. The Rounders will face Country Club Villa of Northern California at 4pm, while Rude Pac will play Black Oak Casino, which defeated RAW 12-9. The Black Oak Casino team features ISC World Tournament players Nate Devine and Mike Butler, who played for the So Cal Bombers during the 2005 season, finishing 10th in the world. Black Oak has scored 12 runs in each of their first two games, and reportedly hit 4 home runs in each game.
The Rounders scored 8 runs in the first three innings. The Rounders tallied 4 runs in the 2nd inning on consecutive hits from the 1-2-3 and 4 spots in their order, Erik Geierman, Michael Thomas, Mark Villalobos, capped by the home run by Linnell Culver — all coming after the first two batters in the inning were retired. A-1 scored their runs in the final three frames, to put the tying run on deck when the final out was recorded. Gerald Pyle went 5 strong innings, surrendering 1 run to pick up the win. All three Rounder pitchers have a win in the tournament thus far. Michael “Spanky” Thomas was 3 for 4, drove in 3 runs, and scored two while Linnell Culver was 2 for 4 with a two run single and 2 run homer, a tape measure shot that cleared the 300 foot slo pitch fence beyond the portable fencing at Regional Sports Complex. Mark Villalobos drove a run, while Erik Geierman was on base three times, with two hits and a walk, and scored two runs.
Primetime of San Diego lost a heartbreaker to Global Pacific, 7-5 on a walk off grand slam home run, and will return to play in the elimination bracket game tomorrow against Elk Grove, CA at 8am Saturday morning. A win would send them to Sunday, where they would need 4 wins to survive to Monday.
RAW will face Sports Club at 8am, and with a win, would also need to win 4 games to survive to Monday.
Tom Biko’s KHT Pumpers lost their first game today, 6-3 to Bay Area High Reach, and will play the (Long Beach) Savala Painters, CA, at 8am Saturday, who eliminated the Rose City Merchants, 2-1 today.
The pairings in the winner’s bracket (reading the bracket from top to bottom) look like this:
Game #/Teams
83) Black Oak Casino, CA vs. Rude Pac, CA
84) Bay Area High Reach, CA vs. Global Pacific
107) Winner of 83 vs. Winner, Sunday at 2pm
99) Loser of 83 vs. Winner of Game 91 (Amigos, Mels or one of two unknown teams) Sunday at 10am
100) Loser of 84 vs. Winner of Game 92, (IAC, JRW or one of two unknown teams) Sunday at 10am
85) Country Club Villa, CA vs. El Segundo RoundersCA
86) Team Taylor, CA vs. Nielson Gamblers, CA
108) Winner of 85 vs. Winner 86, Sunday at 2pm
93) Loser of 85 vs. Winner 93 (Bonanza, Twin Pines, or two unknown teams) Sunday at 10am
94) Loser of 86 vs. Winner 94 (Savala Bakersfield, Cleons or one of two unknown teams) at 10am
The rest of the Winner’s bracket was still being decided at 4pm and 6pm this evening, results not yet available.