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Results of June 25 to 28 Tournaments |
Moorhead Brewers - Tourney Champs Wahpeton, North Dakota
It was a good weekend for tournaments and all went well for most of the host teams. The Chicago Wildcats made good on their promise to win the SPAMtown Challenge in Austin and Loretto pulled off the upset and won the Miller Lite tourney in Green Isle and Hamburg. Elko kept up its winning ways and won the Hinckley tournament and another DRS team, Webster, won the Cologne tournament.
There are no tournaments scheduled for this week, however, many teams do play on the fourth of July. Here are the results of the eight tournaments played last weekend:
In Austin, it was a weekend full of baseball as teams from all over the U.S came in for the SPAMtown Challenge. Two Chicago teams battled it out for the championship with the Chicago Wildcats beating Chicago VeePak 2-1. The Wildcats beat Minnetonka 7-6 on a walkoff 10th inning HR to gain the finals. VeePak defeated Chaska 11-1 to get there. Other tournament scores:
Chicago Wildcats 6, Austin Blue Sox 2 Chicago VeePak 6, Austin Greyhounds 5
Prescott 8, Wildcats 1 Peekskill 4, Blaine 3
LaSalle 7, Jamestown 5 VeePak 15, Brookings 4
Greyhounds 12, St. Michael 2 Chaska 6, Omaha 3
Minnetonka 4, LaCrosse 3 Blue Sox 1, Cold Spring 0
Omaha 4, Peekskill 1 Brookings 9, St. Michael 6
Minnetonka 7, Jamestown 1 Chaska 8, Peekskill 5
LaCrosse 7, LaSalle 4 Cold Spring 7, Prescott 2
Blaine 12 Chaska 4 Minnetonka 7 LaSalle 2
VeePak 18, St. Michael 4 Wildcats 8, Cold Spring 5
Sunday:
Chicago Wildcats 7, Minnetonka 6 Chicago VeePak 11, Chaska 1
Championship: Wildcats 2, VeePak 1
Tournament MVP was Chicago Wildcat player/manager Tony Huntley.
Tony Huntley - SPAMtown Tournament MVP
In Green Isle, there were many very competitive games. In the first round Green Isle beat Edina 8-5, St. Joseph lost to Blue Earth 8-6, Young America beat Fairfax 7-0, St. Francis lost to Watkins 2-1, Hamburg beat New Richland 7-6, Loretto beat Montgomery 3-0, Hastings beat Fergus Falls 3-2 and Litchfield beat Elk River 2-1.
In the losers’ bracket, Edina beat St. Joseph 2-1, St. Francis beat Fairfax 3-2, Montgomery beat New Richland 8-1, and Fergus Falls beat Elk River 2-1. Then, Edina beat St. Francis 10-0, and Fergus Falls beat Montgomery 6-4. Edina won the consolation championship by beating Fergus Falls 5-3.
In the winners’ bracket, Green Isle beat Blue Earth 3-1, Young America beat Watkins 7-4, Loretto beat Hamburg 1-0, and Hastings beat Litchfield 11-0. Then Green Isle beat Young America 6-1, and Loretto beat Hastings 4-2. In the championship, Loretto beat Green Isle 3-2 to win the 2009 Miller Lite Invitational.
Veteran Lefty Tom Traen, Loretto, was named the tournament MVP. All-tourney team was: Tom Traen, Tyler Maher, Nate Tripplet and Kent Koch from Loretto. John Schaffler, Mac Zachow and Matt Breyer from Green Isle. Brashard Johnson, Bobby Gergoire from Edina, Derrick Hanson from Fergus Falls, Nik Frank from Young America and Nick Rost from Hastings.
In Hinckley, first round games went like this: Brooklyn Park 5, Hinckley 4; Elko 5, Brownton 0; Champlin 8, Shakopee 2; and Maple Plain 11, Hibbing 1.
In the consolation round it was Hinckley 8, Brownton 1; Hibbing 6, Shakopee 3. Hinckley beat Hibbing 3-0 in the consolation final.
In the winners’ bracket, Elko beat Brooklyn Park 6-2 and Champlin beat Maple Plain 6-4. Brooklyn Park beat Maple Plain 5-0 for third place and Elko prevailed 8-6 over Champlin for the championship.
In Carver and Cologne, Cologne beat Kingston 3-0; Rockford lost to Cleveland 4-3; Mound beat Carver 6-5; and Webster beat Norwood 2-0.
In the losers’ bracket, Kingston beat Rockford and Carver beat Norwood 17-1. Rockford beat Norwood 2-0 for seventh place and Kingston beat Carver 4-0 for fifth place.
In the winners’ bracket, Cologne beat Cleveland 2-1 and Webster beat Mound 4-2. Mound beat Cleveland 4-3 for third place and Webster beat Cologne 3-1 for the first ever championship in the Carver/Cologne Tournament.
In South St. Paul at the Stockmen’s Irish Invitational all six teams finished pool play at 1-1. So using the tie-breakers, Rosetown defeated the Minneapolis Cobras 5-3 for fifth place. Stillwater beat Stockmen’s 13-4 for third and St. Louis Park beat Green Mill 6-5 in eight innings for the championship.
Here are the other scores in the tournament: Green Mill 13, Rosetown 7; Rosetown 10, Stockmen’s 5; St. Louis Park 4, Stillwater 3; Stillwater 11, Cobras 7; Cobras beat St. Louis Park; and Stockmen’s 3, Green Mill1.
In Wahpeton, North Dakota, the Moorhead Brewers won their own tournament defeating the Jamestown Elks 8-3. St. Cloud Orthopedic finished third beating Shakopee 10-9 and Mayville beat Midway 8-6 for fifth place.
Here are the other scores from the tournament: Moorhead 4, Mayville 2; Jamestown 4, St. Cloud Ortho 1; Moorhead 8, Shakopee 6; St. Cloud 5, Midway 3; Jamestown 6, Midway 4; and Shakopee 7, Mayville 3.
Dale Dingman from Moorhead was the tournament MVP. He was 5-8 for the weekend and had two doubles, one HR, five RBI and he scored five times.
In Cambridge, the Exeland Braves Won the Rum River Bandits Bash.
In a thrilling championship game, the Exeland Braves defeated the defending champs, the Bloomington Bandits 6-5. Braves pitcher Adam Rothenbuhler went the distance, striking out 14 Bandits and singling in the go ahead run in the 6th inning. Bloomington’s Jason Meyer hit a 2-run home run, his 3rd of the tournament. Ham Lake beat Quamba for 3rd place and Princeton beat the host Rum River Bandits 18 - 6 for 5th place. The tournament saw 15 home runs fly out of Larson Field, one a grand slam by Princeton’s Brian Dorr, a triple play by the Princeton Panthers and a one-hit shutout by Exeland pitcher Joe Granica.
In Howard Lake at Good Neighbor Days, Atwater beat Kimball 6-5 in 10 innings and Winsted defeated Howard Lake 2-1 on Friday night. Tony Kley threw a two-hitter for Winsted. On Saturday, Howard Lake beat Kimball 8-5 for third place and Winsted won the championship by beating Atwater 2-1. Kley was named the tournament MVP.
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