After panicking about not having enough players, we rounded up some friends and members from another MPLS team to enter the North Star Classic this past Memorial Day weekend.
The tournament started with a 2-game 'round-robin-ish' thingy to determine where you'd start in the brackets. We won one and lost the other. That put us smack dab in the middle of the division and up against the Saloonettes (from Mpls). We go to the feld and only two of their people had shown up. So, win by forfeiture. *shrug* Not pretty, but we'll take it!
Two more wins on Saturday and our sole reason for winning those was so we wouldn't have to play at 8am in the morning!!
We were back at the fields for our game against the Penetrators (from MPLS). They had stayed out late drinking and partying and I think we got a little too confident. Our bats didn't get a chance to push in enough runs to win the game. We lost 6-4.
Onto our 2nd/3rd place battle against the Sterlings (also from MPLS). Peter, the coach, is also a good friend of mine. They are probably one of our best competitors in our league and they usually SKOOL us. The Pups were on FIRE and DID NOT let them win. We ended up getting enough runs to invoke the 'run rule' in the 5th inning.
YAY!! Guaranteed 2nd place! I was in shock. I had no idea we'd be able to make it that far. All I could do is make sure our bench and our fans we louder than the competitors. The only people who could win this were us! We needed to do this!
Enter the Penetrators...
Yes, that's right. The drunk-ass bitches that beat us earlier Sunday were back again and undefeated. This meant that we'd have to try and beat them TWICE in order to claim the Championship.
In the first game, our bats were on FIRE!! We climbed to an early lead and they kept sending their line drives and pop-ups right into our gloves! It was VERY exciting! Our fans were going nuts!! We even split-up the Mavericks (who are a team our level that are VERY competitive in the league) and had a bunch of them cheering for us! A bunch of the Grizzlies cheered us on from the first game all the way to the Championship. THANKS GUYS!!
We had some issues in this game with the coach of the other team not telling us when he subbed people in and out. He also didn't have anyone keeping score and one inning gave himself an extra run that out score-keeper argued, but we let them have it in the end.
I think the Penetrators' partying got to them because they gave that game up with us scoring 10 more runs than them.
Now, the REAL Championship. The Penetrators were struggling. After being steam-rollered by us in the last game (and nursing hang-overs) the Penetrators were NO MATCH for the fury of the Minneapolis Bad Puppies!!
We won this last game AGAIN with the 'run rule' and made our day!!
This tournament meant a lot of Mickee (who played an OUTSTANDING 2nd base) and gave us all a very good sense of what it's like playing together and winning.
Thanks to everyone who played and all our fans!! THANK YOU!!
Now I need to get to the gym and stretch my legs... Stairs were giving me issues yesterday :)
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