Toward the end of April Evan's team did another add-on tournament in Westland. There were 4 other teams in the tournament and they had a really strange bracket set up instead of the usual pool play. He had a game on Saturday morning at 8am, but because of rain the night before they pushed the game back to 9. They played the Oakland Reds and I don't know what our deal was, but we played like crap. They lost 13-3. They had another game at noon against the Westland Wolves. Boy did they come back with a vengeance. They won 13-0! Because of that win, they played again right after at 2pm against the Lincoln Park Rails and beat them 17-5.
Sunday we had to crawl our way back up the bracket starting with another 8am game. We played the Westland Wolves again and beat them 15-7. We then played the Southwest Aztecs at 10am and beat them 16-5. We were cooking! Then it was the championship game at noon against the Oakland Reds again. It was a very intense game and we were tied 2-2. Evan came up to bat in the top of the 6th with bases loaded and two outs and hit a beautiful single to drive in two teammates and to take the lead! It was so exciting. The bottom of the 6th they only let the Reds score one run and we won 4-3!
There was quite a bit of drama after the game. Apparently on the bracket on Saturday it showed an "if" game so the other team thought that meant we had a double elimination game and needed to play again at 2pm. The bracket on Sunday did not have that game on it anymore because it was never intended to be used with a team that won as many games as we did. We played 6 games, 3 each day back to back and the Oakland Reds only had to play 3 total games. After a good 20 minutes deliberating with the coaches, umps, and tournament director, they finally declared us champions.
Evan finally has his first ring! He's one happy guy! And we are excited for this season to see what else is to come for these boys.
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