“The Dower Report” from Herb Dower:
Fat City won the Grass Valley Tournament over the June 21-22 weekend.
They defeated Brotherton Pipe of Oregon. which finished third in the Boatnik Tournament in Grants Pass last month, in the finals, 7-4.
In Sunday’s single-elimination, Fat City trailed one of the local teams, 5-0, going into the fifth inning before coming back to win to stay alive.
Brotherton Pipe is the same team that finished second in the Class C Nationals in Stockton while playing under the Global Pacific banner, losing in the finals to Pennslyvania Power. They are a good team.
Earlier at Grass Valley they defeated Santa Rosa Fastpitch 8-0 in five innings.
Santa Rosa was 1-2, winning its opening game Saturday 10-9 with a four-run rally in the bottom of the seventh inning and then losing Sunday, 7-5, in a five-inning time-limit game.