Longnecks Sports Grill/ RA Softball

2010 Tournament Results

Groundhog Tournament

We started off our season in the Groundhog again this year. Are first game was against Big Pete's House of Muench, we won this affair 5-4 in 5 innings after hitting the hour limit. The second game we hit the hour limit as well in the fifth inning but since we were tied we played on, in a back and fourth game eventually losing in the bottom of the 8th 18-17 to Susan's Salon which tied us for 8th out of twenty teams to start are year off!

Lindsey Sendelback Memorial Tournament

In are first tournament of the 2010 summer we played in the Lindsey Sendelback Memorial Tournament for the fourth year in a row! The first game we played Mitches Bitchs and won 13-0 recording are first no hitter of the year pitched by Nick Ziegler, then we had The Arnolds and won 18-2, next up was 4 time defending champions Schultz Builders who beat us 12-8 in a great back and fourth game, after that loss we had to win to make it to the finals and we were playing The Nasty Boys who we took into the 8th inning tied 15-15 when they hit a walk off grand slam to win it 19-15, eliminating us and giving us a third place finish for the second year in a row!

Our Team Stand Outs were:
MVPAdam Ruth 7-9(.778)avg. 10-14(.714)obp. 8R, 3 BB, 2B, 2-3B, Grand slam, 14 RBI's, 16 PO, A
Co-MVPPaul Van Benschoten 8-10(.800)avg. 12-14(.857)obp. 5R, 4 BB, 2B, 10 RBI's, 12 PO, 6 assist
Honorable Mention Justin Schalk 5-7(.714)avg. 13-16(.813)obp. 8R, 8 BB, 2B, 4 RBI, 8 PO

NSA E Bluegrass Games

Playing in Bluegrass games for the first time ever. We pulled out a real close win are first game, 11-10 against the bombers. For are next game we were paired up against blitz softball and after an extended lightning delay we won another nail biter 19-18 to make it to sunday undefeated and in the elite 8 round! So saturday night we deciceded to go out and celebrate, that turned out to be a bad decision. We showed up sunday half drunk, half hung over, and not ready to play. It showed as Yard Dogs beat us easily with a score of 26-16 and then the next game we lost to Weiss Construction 14-13. A game in which we were winning 13-2 in the bottom of the 7th when are wheels fell off. So we finished 2-2 on the tournament good enough to tie for 9th out of 37 teams but bad enough to know we have plenty of room for improvement

Our Team Stand Outs were:
MVPDustin Martin 11-15(.733)avg. 12-16(.750)obp. 8R, BB, 2-2B, 3B, 3 RBI's, 22 PO, assist
Co-MVPNick Ziegler 10-13(.769)avg. 11-14(.786)obp. 3R, BB, 2B, 9 RBI's, 11 PO, 6 A
Honorable Mention Jeff Henry 9-15(.600)avg. 10-16(.625)obp. 8R, BB, 2-2B, 3B, HR, 9 RBI, 7 PO, 6 A, 4 E

NSA E State Games

For our first game we drew TPS/Pony Express and are bats were cold but fortunatly we caught just about everything they hit giving us the win 10-4. The second round game was against Pearson Construction, in this game we continued to glove it and woke the bats up as we ten run ruled them 15-5. Advancing us to another elite 8 but this time we got to play the elite eight game on saturday night which made a difference as we played RBI beating them 17-16. We were the only team to beat RBI all weekend as they would come back through the losers brackett and win the whole tournament, Way to go RBI you guys deserved it! So we made it to sunday 3-0 and in the final four of the winners brackett. Are first game was against after hours and we had the sunday morning blues again as we lost 15-5 forgetting how to hit in that game. So on to the losers brackett we went, where we played Young Guns first game, they were on fire when we played them but are bats woke back up and we managed to win 17-14. We then had to face RBI again and they had been killing the ball since we beat them saturday and it didn't change in this game as they beat us 16-5. Overall it was a great tournament for us going 4-2 and finishing 4th out of 25 teams. Dustin Martin made the all tournament team with a .783 avg./ 1.000 slg./ .792 obp./ 11 runs, 3 doubles, 1 triple, 5 RBI's, 15 Put outs, and an assist. Way to go D mart that was the most impressive hitting display anyone has ever had for RA softball!

Our Team Stand Outs were:
MVPDustin Martin 18-23(.783)avg. 17-24(.792)obp. 11R, BB, 3-2B, 3B, 5 RBI's, 15 PO
Co-MVPNick Ziegler 13-19(.684)avg. 13-21(.619)obp. 8R, 2-2B, 2-3B, 2 SF, 16 RBI's, 9 PO, 2 A
Honorable Mention Paul Van Benschoten 10-19(.526)avg. 13-23(.565)obp. 8R, 3 BB, 2-2B, SF, 4 RBI, 9 PO, 16 A, 3 E

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