[Alsfastball] ASA Men's A Nationals - Lancaster, CA

[Al Doran]

Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:21:18 -0700
From: Robert Hernandez <rhernandez at socal-asa.com>
To: fastball at pmihrm.com
Subject: ASA Men's A Nationals - Lancaster

The first day of the ASA A Nationals in Lancaster, California are complete 
with McKie Sports (Oswego, New York) taking the top seed in the double 
elimination bracket.  McKie Sports went 2 - 0 in the round robin with a 2 - 
0 win over the Savala Painters (Stockton, CA) and a 8 - 1 victory over the 
Santa Barbara Bucks (California).  Shawn Sampson recorded the victory in 
the first game and Rod Bunge started the second game and earned the win 
with Scott Durral coming for relief.  Derek Stevens homered for McKie.

Six teams finished at 1 - 1 with the Savala Painters placing second using 
the time breaker.  The Painters defeated Duncan Bullets (Elkhart, Indiana) 
in their afternoon game 8 - 0 with Cary Weilier getting the win and Keith 
Fry coming in the assist.  Russ Snow took the lost in the first game.

CR/Adidas (Portland, Oregon) placed third with a win over Duncan 
Bullets.  Steve Thompson had the win for Adidas.  In the second game CR 
lost to Team Rainey , (Whittier, California) with Dan Kolda taking the 
lost.  Louie Nasuta homered for CR.

The Bucks finished as the fourth seed with their win coming against 
Keatings Fitness Center (Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania) 6 - 1.  Mark Bennett 
earned the win.  Hank Schied took the lost against McKie.

Team Rainey and Keatings Fitness Center had the wildest game of the day 
with Keating coming on top 9 - 8.  After two innings Rainey was leading 7 - 
1 but Keating fought back with four in the fourth and one on the sixth to 
cut the lead to one.  Rainey got an insurance run in the top of the seventh 
but Keating kept fighting and scored three in the bottom of the inning for 
the win.  Art Devoe earned the win for Keating with Tony Peeples taking the 
lost for Team Rainey.

Double elimination starts Saturday morning with Keating Fitness Center 
facing Team Rainey facing Keating and CR/Adidas will face the Bucks in the 
first two games of the day.  Duncan Bullets will play Savala 
Painters  and  McKie Sports will face the winner of the Keating/Rainey game.

For current brackets and stats, please go to:

<http://www.big8softball.com>www.big8softball.com

Robert Hernandez
Southern California ASA
Adult Softball Commissioner
<mailto:RHernandez at socal-asa.com>RHernandez at socal-asa.com

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