Castro Concrete Tournament – Updated with Final Recap of Memorial Weekend May 28-29, 2011 – Austin TX

From John Limon in the Great State of Texas

Monterrey Diamante win the Castro Concrete Memorial Weekend Tournament in Austin Texas

Diamante from Monterrey Mexico sweep through the competition at this years Tournament with solid pitching from Tournament Most Valuable Pitcher and Player Eduardo ” Lalo ” Escobedo and dominant hitting from Tournament’s Outstanding hitter Guillermo Rios.

Escobedo threw 3 shut-outs in 3 of his 4 victories Including two unbelievable one hitters against the state of Texas hottest team The San Antonio Titans . Diamante’s bats were lead by the hot hitting of Guillermo Rios ( .778 batting average ) Along with Mario Valerio ( .667 )Tavo Prishker ( .600 ) and Fernando Rios ( .600 )

We really enjoyed having the Diamante team and want to thank them for making the long trip from Monterrey . I personally want to thank Diamante manager Juan Calvillo for attending the event and not to mention Thank you for the bottle of Tequila.

Our Tournament was a joyful and eventful weekend mostly due to our sponsor Honoring members from the 1961 Jokers along with having 78 year old Texas Fastpitch Living Legend and the first Joker pitcher Louis Murillo. In Typical Louie fashion he tells Titans catcher David Rocha ” 1 is a fastball 2 is a curve and 3 is the change up”. We all laughed . Murillo then took a shot at the modern day pitcher by mimicking a crow hop and then going into his regular motion he throws a perfect strike to Rocha. Priceless.

2011 Champion – Monterrey Mexico
Runner – Up – San Antonio Titans
3rd Place – Austin A’s ” In Memory of Anthony Sepeda ”
4th Place – San Antonio Compardes

Most Valuable Player : Eduardo “Lalo” Escobedo
Most Valuable Pitcher : Eduardo “Lalo” Escobedo
Outstanding Hitter : Guillermo Rios

ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM

Diamante : Mario Valerio , Guillermo Rios , Fernando Rios , Gustavo Prishker
Titans : Maxi Montero , Mark Barrera , Chris Maas
A’s : Jesse Ardia , Edgar Priskett , Edgar Gonzalez
Compardes : Oracio “Lacho” Berrones , Mario Gonzales

A huge thank you to all twelve teams who participated and all the wonderful fans.

See you at a park soon.

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“Your Friend In Softball”
John Limon
texasisc (at) gmail.com

Earlier post

Hello Fastball Fans ,
If your in the area , we would love to see you at the 15th Annual Men’s Fastpitch Softball Tournament at the Del Valle Softball Complex ( just off of Hwy 71 east of the ABIA airport ) We have Twelve teams in this years Tournament,

Austin 76er’s
Austin A’s
Austin Bluejay’s
Austin El Rey
Austin Indians
Houston Colts
Houston Geo-Per
Monterrey Mexico Diamante
Pearland Posse
San Antonio Compardes
San Antonio Glo – Worm
San Antonio Titans

All games begin at 8:00 am Saturday Morning , with the final games finishing around 10 p.m. Sunday’s games begin at 9:00 am and the Championship set for 3:00. Come enjoy some good Men’s Fastpitch Softball , good food , cold beer and plenty of shade.

I would like to Thank Benjie Hedgecock for letting use his NAFA Bracket . I really appreciate it.

GOD SPEED and we hope to see you at the Ball Park.

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“Your Friend In Softball”
John Limon
Texas ISC Commissioner
2005-2007
texasisc (at) gmail.com