Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Every day is like Saturday night, but I can’t wait for Sunday Morning!!!

Here we go….show time. Scores are sketchy, but wins and loses are accurate. The quarter final games matched up:

Torn Ligaments Vs. Dislocated Joints

Rusty Rebels Vs. Grisslies

Dusty Cleats Vs. The Wild

Dodge City Rounders Vs. Dog Catchers.

Torn Ligaments Vs. Dislocated Joints. Torn Ligaments had faced the Joints 3 times already. The Joints held a significant edge with a win and a tie in the regular season (the win being only by 3 runs), but they had also won by 10 in the round robin. This gave the Joints a 2-0-1 edge and lots of confidence heading into this game. Unfortunately for the Ligaments, the trend continued and the Joints dominated from beginning to end winning by a score of 19-3.

Rusty Rebels Vs. Grisslies. The Rusty Rebels had beaten the Grisslies twice this season by scores of 19-1 and 9-6. Outscoring the Grisslies by total of 28-7 gave the Rebels every legitimate reason to be confident. However, the Grisslies offence was just enough in this game plating 8 runs and the defense and pitching was stellar giving up only 5. This was one game where the season trend was not a factor. Grisslies move on 8-5.

Dusty Cleats Vs. The Wild. The Wild finished 1^st overall in the regular season, but the Dusty Cleats were no pushover for them. The Cleats had lost once to them by a run (20-19) and had beaten them by 6 (10-4). The Wild’s big bats were slow to wake up on Sunday morning and the Cleats played with the confidence of a team that had played tough against their competition. The Wild prevailed on good pitching and solid defense to win a tight 7-3 game.

Dodge City Rounders Vs. Dog Catchers. According to one Dodge City player, “I didn’t think we had a chance to make Sunday, we’re playing for free now!” True enough. Dodge City eked into the playoffs through the proverbial backdoor and knocked off the heavily favoured Recycled to see Sunday. The Dog Catchers on the other hand got the bye to Sunday by finishing with a 3-1 record with wins over the Dusty Cleats, Red Dogs and Grisslies. The only team they lost to in the Round Robin? You guessed it, Dodge City Rounders. Go figure. Add that to the fact that Dodge had beaten the Dog Catchers twice in the regular season, it really didn’t matter that the Dog Catchers had the bye or finished with a better record in the season. This was the best possible matchup for Dodge City and they rode that to 13-11 and provided the only upset of the quarter final round.

Quarter finals concluded with a total of 9 teams gone (and still not forgotten) in the Hot Tub Woody’s, Banshees, Lucky Stiffs, Recycled, Red Dogs, Dog Catchers, Dusty Cleats, Rusty Rebels and Torn Ligaments.

Match ups for the afternoon’s semi-finals, FINAL FOUR elimination games were:

Dodge City Vs. Dislocated Joints.

The Wild Vs. Grisslies

More to come…..