California A’s are 2011 Peligro Cup champions
The California A’s captured the 2011 Peligro Cup, and $10,000 prize money, with a 7-0 win over runner-up Dominicana, in a game that ended at 2:00 a.m. Monday at Crotona Park in the Bronx, New York, just a couple of miles up the road from Yankee Stadium.
The California A’s rebounded from their opening night loss to the New Zealand Black Sox, 2-0 in a semi-final win, powered by a 2 run homer by Paul Rosebush, then ran away with the finale to clinch the Cup. The A’s combined good offense, with dominant pitching.
For most of Sunday, it looked like the tournament’s final day of playoff games would be rained out. But tournament organizers scrambled to repair the wet fields and even find another field to complete the 2011 tournament.
Playoff games that were set to begin at 10:00 a.m. EDT finally began just before 5:00 p.m., and ran into the wee hours of Monday morning. The championship game wound down with New York’s finest ready to close things down due to the 2am curfew, after the game was moved from Randall’s Island to a park in the Bronx with lights.
Tournament Coverage
2011 Peligro Scoreboard at Al’s Fastball
At the Ballfield (Jamie’s blog)
Pool Play Standings
RED – Division A (Wins-Losses)
Excellent NY (3-1)
Chicago / NY (3-1)
PA Power (2-2)
Lanceros de Vargas (2-2)
Combatientes (0-4)BLUE – Division B (Wins-Losses)
California A’s (3-1)
New Zealand Black Sox (2-2)
Industriales De Calabobo (2-2)
Dominicana (1-3)
NY Sports Bar (1-3)
Padres de Venezula (1-3)Jamie/Al’s Game Details
Click here to view all games on one page. (large file so give it time to load).Click PDF link for details of each game:
Game1
Excellent NY 3, Chicago/NY 2Game2
New Zealand 3, California A’s 0Game3
Lanceros 3, Combatientes 0Game4
PA Power 2, Excellent NY 1Game5
Dominicana 10, NY Sports Bar 3Game6
New Zealand 3, Industriales 2Game7
Excellent 1, Combatientes 0Game8
Dominicana 7, Padres 3Game9
NY Sports Bar 4, New Zealand 3Game10
California A’s 8, Industriales 0Game11
Chicago / NY 9, Combatientes 2Game12
Lanceros 7, PA Power 0Game13
Industriales 5, NY Sports Bar 3Game14
California A’s 7, Padres 0Game15
PA Power 3, Combatientes 0Game16
Chicago / NY 8, Lanceros 1Game17
California A’s 4, Dominicana 0Game18
Padres 4, NY Sports Bar 2Game19
Excellent NY 9, Lanceros 2Game20
Chicago / NY 2, PA Power 0Game21
Dominicana 3, New Zealand 0Game22
Industriales 8, Padres 2Sunday, July 3, 2011 Playoff Games
Playoff Round
PG-1:
10:00 am Red Division # 3 Lanceros vs. Blue Division # 2 Dominicana
Dominicana 8, Lanceros 0
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Playoff Game 1PG-2
10:00 am Red Division # 2 Chicago / NY vs. Blue Division # 3
New Zealand Black Sox
New Zealand Black Sox 4, Chicago/NY 3
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Playoff Game 2PG-3
Noon – Red Division # 1 Excellente vs. Dominicana
Dominicana 4, Excellente 2
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Playoff Game 3PG-4
2:00 pm – Winner PG-4 v. Loser PG-3
California A’s 2, New Zealand Black Sox 0
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Playoff Game 4PG-5
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
4:00 pm – Winner PG-3 v. Winner PG-5
California A’s 7, Dominicana 0
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Playoff Game 5
The teams are arriving in the Big Apple today and the games start July 1, Canada Day on Randall’s Island Park. The Peligro site has team rosters being added. The Schedule and Results page is live and running.
Jamie Hillhouse’s blog, “At the ballfield“.
Arrival
We arrived in Fort Lee, NJ last night. We managed to catch an earlier flight and got in around 5pm. The 15 minute drive from LaGuardia to the hotel took almost 2 hours. If you’ve never experienced rush hour traffic, it isn’t much fun. I have a whole new appreciation for the people who do that everyday.We met with Jose, Doug and Eddie from New Zealand, and a good number of umpires. I cannot adequately describe what that was like. Then Paul Walford sat down. Then Chubb Tangarroa. I was surrounded. It was pretty neat, listening to these guys reminisce.
Today we will be visiting the fields and getting paperwork in order. The manager’s meeting is scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) at 11am at the Holiday Inn in Fort Lee, NJ. Games start tomorrow night at 6:15pm at Crotona Park (1682 Boston Road, Bronx) with Chicago/New York playing Excellent NY and at 8:15 the New Zealand team takes on the California A’s.
Here is the entire schedule for Friday and Saturday….
Friday 6:15 – Chi/NY v. Excellent NY
8:15 – New Zealand v. California A’sSaturday 9 am – Combatientes v. Lancero’s
Excellent NY v. PA Power
Dominicana v. NY Sports Bar
New Zealand v. Industriales11am – Excellent v. Combatientes
Padres v. Dominicana
New Zealand v. NY Sports Bar
Industriales v. California A’s1pm – Chi/NY v. Combatientes
PA Power v. Lanceros
Industriales v. NY Sports Bar
California A’s v. Padres3pm – PA Power v. Combatients
Lanceros v. Chi/NY
California A’s v. Dominicana
NY Sports Bar v. Padres5pm – Excellent NY v. Lanceros
PA Power v. Chi/NY
New Zealand v. Dominicana
Industriales v. PadresTime to start the day. Have a great one everybody.
Click flyer for official website.
Teams (with rosters at the official site, click above)
California A’s
Chicago New York
Combatientes (Vene)
Dominicana
Excellent NY
Lanceros (Vene)
Industriales
New York Sports Bar
New Zealand Black Sox
Padres (Vene)
PA Power
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