13U Tournament Results - Michigan Major Elite NIT Day 1

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13U Tournament Results - Michigan Major Elite NIT Day 1

MSA Black Wallops ‘Em on Day One of the 13U Michigan Major Elite NIT

By Rich Kincaide

Friday, June 13, 2008 (Ypsilanti, MI) -- Host MSA Black, ranked 6th Nationally (13U) by Travel Ball Select, made plenty of noise today as play began in the Michigan Major Elite NIT. MSA spent the day racking up back-to-back 11-0 wins, defeating Mid-Ohio on a combined 1-hitter by Brandon Cichocki and Ryan Goff in the morning, then dispatching Capitol City by the identical score under the lights.

It was a routine day for TBS #7 RBI Redwings, if by “routine” one means winning. RBI tends to suffocate their opponents in what could best be described as workmanlike fashion. Today’s victims were the South Oakland A’s 4-1 in the morning and the Indiana Bandits 7-2 in the evening.

TBS #15 Coral Springs came from behind in their 5-2 win over the Indiana Prospects, a TBS Honorable Mention this week. The Prospects led 2-0 in the third when the Diamonds’ Brandon Diaz hit a ball off the top of the wall with a man aboard and had to settle for an RBI triple. Three inches more and Diaz would have hit a game-tying homer. As it was, he was stranded at third and it looked like it was going to matter, too, with the Prospects still leading 2-1 in the bottom of the 6th. That’s when Coral Springs erupted to score four runs, two plated on a double by Chucky Lopez. Lopez started and worked 2 innings for Coral Springs, Ryan Richman tossed 3 shutout innings and Stephen Kerr pitched the last two to get the win, allowing no runs and working out of a bases-loaded jam in the 7th to end the ballgame.

The Lapeer Outlaws, a AAA team playing in the Majors this weekend, spotted the Kentucky Kids 6 runs in the second then came roaring back like they were the Boston Celtics or something to win 12-6. Trailing 6-0, the Outlaws scored 1 in their half of the second, 3 in the 3rd, 1 in the 4th and 2 in the 5th to go ahead 7-6. In the 6th, Zeke Stone led off with a long home run to left and Lapeer would go on to add 4 more runs in the inning before the game was called due to time limit with the Outlaws ahead 12-6. The loss capped a tough day for the Kids, losers by the narrowest of margins, 1-0 against Tipp City Lumber in their first game of the day.

South Oakland rebounded from their loss to RBI to knock off the Hilliard Colts 4-1 as TBS Top Prospect Niko Gonzales drove in a pair of runs in the A’s 3-run, first inning rally.

All told, in the 22-team field, 8 teams (MSA Black, RBI Redwings, Coral Springs Diamonds, Illinois Lightening, Quad Cities Hitmen, Lapeer Outlaws, Tipp City Lumber, Columbus Cobras) are 2-0; 6 teams (Cincy Flames, Lake Shore Graysox, South Oakland A’s, Orland Sparks, Chicago White Sox Elite, Indiana Prospects) are 1-1; 8 teams (Capitol City Bombers, Mid-Ohio Mustangs, Hilliard Colts, Indiana Bandits, Gold Medal Titans, Kentucky Kids, Michigan Wolves, Livingston Storm) are 0-2.

It was quite a day for Tournament Director (and coach of MSA Black) Rick Goff as weather shut things down for almost two hours late in the afternoon. Great work by Goff and the Eastern Michigan University grounds crew meant games could resume after the delay and all scheduled games were played-even if the last pitch of the last game didn’t come until 10:55, just five minutes before all the lights would have been turned off.

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