[Alsfastball] Notes on a Scorecard at Red Rock

[Al Doran]

Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 12:06:53 -0400
From: jim at fastpitchwest.com
To: fastball at pmihrm.com
Subject: Notes on a Scorecard at Red Rock




After a Broken Bow sweep of the Red Rock tournament in 2004, this year's Red
Rock title appears up for grabs.  After twenty four (24) games Saturday, an
"Elite Eight" emerged, and  head into a single elimination championship
bracket, while the other eight will compete in a consolation bracket.  Two of
the top four seeds were grabbed by Utah teams, who apparently play well with
home cooking, Larry Miller Chev and Castlewood.  Both finished the day with 3-0
records, as did the other two top seeds, Team Rainey from Southern California
and the High Desert Dawgs (FSR).   Page Brake also qualified for the
championship round, giving host state Utah three teams in the Elite Eight.

It was a day that started with a wild 17-10 game between Mexicali and
Castlewood. Castlewood trailed 10-2, but rallied for 15 runs, on a pair of
grand slam home runs.  Imagine -- from down 8 to up 7 in the blink of an eye.
The California Savala Painters, with the addition of Dean Holoein and Todd 
Budke
finished 2-1 on the day and earned a spot in the championship bracket today.
The highest ranked team in the tournament, the (#19) So Cal Bombers fell to the
High Desert Dawgs in their morning game 6-5, but rebounded to win two and a 
spot
in the Elite Eight by taking it out on their next two opponents, 9-1 and 10-0.
#20 ranked Team Rainey won three, including two with big Sonny Perkins on the
mound.  Perkins helped himself out with a 3 run homer in his morning game, and
came back to pick up a win in the nightcap, broadcast on ballparkradio.com, an
8-5 win over Page Brake, a game in which Chris Hunt homered twice, and drove in
4 with a pair of rockets, and Bricklen Anderson struck out 5 in the final two
innings for a save.  And speaking of two-home-run games, Rod Rainey proved the
shoulder surgery was a success, hitting two against DeMarini.  The doctor's
reports say he'll be ready to play by June.  Despite the loss to Rainey,  Page
Brake earned a spot in the championship bracket by winning their other two
games, including a 1-0 shutout over CR DeMarini, a game that determined which
of the two teams went to the Elite Eight and which one wound up in the
consolation bracket.   #21 ranked Pueblo Bandits struggled to an 0-3 mark,
though playing much better than the results indicated, and without the benefit
of one of their two Manley aces, Jeremy, who'll be on the DL until next month
with a strained tendon.   Pueblo dropped a couple of close games and could have
wound up in the championship round wtih a break here or there. Likewise, ISCII
#34 ranked River City Rockers, one of the teams that knocked off Pueblo, but
lost a crucial game to the Painters by one run.   Mexicali bounced back after
that 17-10 loss to win two and a spot in the championship bracket.  Vannelli's
of Minnesota was in every game, as you'd expect with Darcy Byrne and Blair
Ezekiel, but lost a couple close ones to Castlewood and Mexicali by scores 3-1
and 5-4, low scoring affairs compared to most other games.  They should be in
the hunt in today's consolation bracket.  Raymar, stepping up from the "C"
classification after taking third in last year's Nationals among 70 teams took
their lumps, but led in two of their three games and gave fans a look at some
promising young players, including pitchers Anthony Martinez and Gerald Pyle,
on loan from the Amigos and Rounders, respectively.   Todays' bracket pits
Mexicali against Rainey and the So Cal Bombers against Larry Miller, High
Desert vs. Page Brake, and the Painters against Castlewood.   Or to look at it
another way, Mexico vs. So Cal, So Cal vs. Utah, Arizona v. Utah and California
v. Utah.  However things shake out today, it will provide some exciting 
fastball
for fans at the Canyons Complex in St. George, Utah, and for those listening to
the 1pm semifinal and 3pm championship game on ballparkradio.com

best regards,
Jim Flanagan
http://www.fastpitchwest.com
http://www.ballparkradio.com
mailto:jim at fastpitchwest.com

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