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Battle of Omaha Baseball Tournaments
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Ft Collins Lobos and Topeka Blue - Co champs
| Congratulations to both the Ft. Collins Lobos and the Topeka Stars (Blue) for their impressive runs through the Battle of Omaha in the 19U 48 team event. Both teams went undefeated through pool play, but due to weather conditions were not able to meet for the final gaame.
Ft Collins (from the Skutt pool) rallied in their semi-final game as they were down 7-5 to Prolific Power out of Greeensboro NC Ralston winner). After evening the score in the 6th, the Lobos struck with a 2 run - 2 out walkoff homerun to advance to the finals. In the finals they defeated 2-2 Olathe South (Burke pool) 12-2
Topeka Blue (Central winner) defeated the South Anchorge Wolverines (Bryan) 8-0. The wolverines took the spot of Gretna who was unable to play. In the finals, the Blue defeated Omaha Northwest 14-0 to capture the crown
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Dallas Yankees 17U Champions
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Congratulations to the Dallas Yankees as they took the 2009 - 17U title for the Battle of Omaha. The Yankees finished the tournament 6-0 with wins over the Macon Tigers, Omaha Bryan and Limestone, IL in pool play. In the quarter finals, the Yankees beat Watertown SD 10-0 and beat the previously unbeaten Red Lizards out of Baton Rogue 8-0.
In the finals, which were held at Millard South, the Yankees met another unbeaten in the Andrew County Kings. The Yankees held an 3-2 advantage heading into the 4th before erupting for 5 runs in the 4th. Dallas closed out the Kings 10-2
Andrew Country, out of Missouri finished the tournament 5-1. During their run to the Championship they too defeated 2 previously unbeatens in Millard North and Millard South. Congratulations to both teams
We would like to thank the players and fans for a great weekend. We hope to see you again next year. A special thank you to the host sites for getting your sites ready following the Friday rain that washed out afternoon play.
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17U Standings and results
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call the site directors for more details - info under handouts
Rain, rain and more rain was the theme of the day. Despite the cancellation of games we will be proceeding to the Championship round with all sites. Although we had 2 sites where the teams did not have head to head and only played 2 games - we went to the tie breaker where the runs allowed and runs scored came into effect. Semi finals games are as follows:
@ Millard South - Cincinnati vs M South (change from Burke HS)
@ Skutt - Watertown vs. Dallas @ Gretna - AC Kings - M North @ Gross - Zachary vs Red Lizards All games have been moved back 1 hour to 9ame. Due to games being rained out today, we are scheduling teams that have only played 2 games thus far for Saturday. At this point times are 9 and 11:30. The Consolation games for Sunday will still be played the schedule for that will come out later this evening. Saturday's games will not matter towards final seeding. @ Burke 9am Olympia vs.Elkhorn 11:30 Sox vs. Beatrice
@ Central 9am Moline vs. USA Select #1 11:30 USA #1 vs L East @ Bryan 9am Macon vs . Niwot 11:30 Watertown vs. Bryan @ Northwest 9am Legend vs. MW Cats
11:30 Papio South vs. USA #2
We do have access to a game at 11:30 at most of the sites if there are out of town teams that want to get an extra game in - please contact me at 402-203-7070. We are taking into consideration teams from out of town wanting to see the CWS. Let us know if you want a later game
Please check out our site later this evening for the schedule for Sunday
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Chandler Reeves tosses no-no
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Congratulations to Chandler Reeves of Parkview Baptist out of Baton Rogue, who tossed a no hitter against Danville, IL @ Gross High School. The Sr. right hander (to be)vtook a perfect game into the 5th, but was done in by a walk. Whats even more impressive about Reeves no-no is that fact that his defense came to play, as he recorded only 1 punch out. During the same game Jr. Garrett Deschamp was 1 -2 with a grand slam.
There are only 2 weeks remaining till opening pitch of the 8th Annual Battle of Omaha. We have update all schedules and have placed the field locations under the handout icon. To tip off our event, we will be hosting a Homerun Derby for the 17U group - June 10th at Orval Smith Field in Ralston. Orval is located at 84th and Park Dr. This event will begin at 7:30pm Last chance to pre-order your tournament t-shirts is Sunday May 31st. If you are a parent, please help the coaches gather this information. T's are $12 and $14 for XXL and above We look forward to you coming to Omaha and trust that you will have a great stay and will experience some exciting baseball as well. Check back during the tournaments for scores and updates
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Joe Martin takes homerun crown |
Congratulations to Joe Martin from Zachary Baton Rogue, who won the 17U Homerun Derby at Orval Smith on Wednesday evening.
Martin who led off the event, showed his competitors they needed to bring their A game, as he swatted 7 homeruns in the opening round. Martin was joined by JJ Benes (2) of Ralston, Ben Raynor (1) of the Niwot Twins, Chris Akmon (1) and Brian Fuacher (1) of USA Select, Brandon Theil (1) of the National Eagles and Quarteroli (1) of Skutt in the Championship round.
Martin picked up 3 more dingers in the 2nd round to take the title. Benes netted 2 in the 2nd round for 2nd place. As the 1st ever champ of the derby, Martin pickes up a pair of batting gloves, a new Nike mit, a plaque and a new blue CX2, which is 1 of only 60 made. We will have pictures of the champ and runner up shortly.
Congratualtions to all the players and fans on a great start to the tournament. A special thanks to Nike and Decker for their sponsorship of this event.
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Indiana Saints win 17U tournament!!!!!!
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Indiana Saints
17U Champs
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Congratulations to the Indiana Saints, who defeated the Arkansas Rockets 5-4 in the Finals of the Battle of Omaha 17U Tournament at Omaha Northwest field.
We want to thank all the teams who participated in this years event. Your patience was greatly appreciated as we ran into scheduling difficulties due to the rain storms. At 35 teams, we nearly doubled last years event . We have already begun planning next years tournaments as we look to increase to 40 teams. We would welcome your input as we ponder moving to playing 4 games or 5, staying on a 4 day schedule so teams can go to the series and a homerun derby
A special thanks to the host sites as their countless hours of field work allowed us to stay on somewhat of a normal schedule - you all did a great job!!!!!!!
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