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.
In their first two games on Sunday, RAS Construction scored 37 runs to give their pitchers room to work with. Their wins came over Palm Springs Express and So Cal Hustlers, the top two in the Alliance standings coming into the weekend. In the Championship game, RAS faced the number one seed of the round robin Latin Heat and came out on top 8 – 7. Latin Heat won their first game of the day against the Beer Nuts 9 – 0.
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