Cal Cup III – Update – Saturday, October 28th, 2006

WOW! HAPPY HALLOWEEN that’s the best way to describe the opening day of Saturday’s Cal Cup III tournament in Hayward. The weather in beautiful Hayward, California was absolutely perfect and the ball fields were primped to perfection.

Dave Jordan and the Cardinals rolled in to Larry Standley Field to start the tournament off with a 9:00 game against Romie’s Angels of Hayward. After all pleasantries were exchanged Dave handed the beautiful CAL CUP Trophy to me for safekeeping. He stated that he would be back to claim it on Sunday. Rick Appiano manager of Romie’s Angels stated that he had 1 pitcher for the day and that they will see what happens he also wished me good luck in figuring out all of the tiebreakers for the first round of play. Of course I responded with the usual “hopefully that would be the least of my worries.” At the Hayward Sports Complex 3 fields were being used by the NSA girl’s fastpitch program and they were already well into their first games of the day (they start at 8 a.m.), what a great way to recruit x-fastpitch dads back into the game….more on that later! The Bay Area Merchants and Fat City teams were gearing up for the start of a long day!

Okay we are ready to go, oh wait a minute UMPIRES, “who do we have today?” I said to myself. Yes Vanessa “theeeyyyy’rrree here” HAVE YOU EVER SEEN POLTERGEIST? I’ll let Dave Jordan (Cardinals); Bob Piddock (A-1 Tank); Shawn Ching (Da Bruddah’s) and whoever wants to chime in on this subject hash this one out on the forum later!
Pull out the rule books folks we will be having a discussion on this one for a while.

I could go on and on about the ghostly events of the day from a Tourney Directors point of view but all in all the day ended with everyone having a few beers and most of the younger guys and some of the perky seniors making it to their Halloween parties on time, and, lucky for me I only had to do one coin flip to break a tie for the seeding bracket. As far as POLTERGEIST gang, as I said before I’m sure the discussion will happen.

So here’s the run down of Saturday’s game scores, I will have game highlights after the tourney is completed….MVP awards are at stake!

Saturday, October 28, 2006
2 Game Round Robin Schedule – To determine seeding

A-1 Tank (2-0) 1st Seed (+8)
Fat City (2-0) 2nd Seed (+5)
Romie’s Angels (2-0) 3rd Seed (+4)
Da Bruddah’s (1-1) 4th seed even
Cardinals (0-2) 5th Seed (-2)
Stockton Outlaws (0-2) 6th Seed (-9) *Coin Flip
Bay Area Merchants (0-2) 7th Seed (-9) *Coin Flip

Sat. 10/28 9:00a Bay Area Merchants (5) vs Fat City (6) HSP #1
Sat. 10/28 9:00a Romie’s Angels (6) vs Cardinals (5) Standley
Sat. 10/28 10:45a Bay Area Merchants (2) vs Da Bruddah’s (10) HSP #1
Sat. 10/28 10:45a Romie’s Angels (6) vs So. Stockton Outlawz (3) Standley
Sat. 10/28 1:00p Fat City (5) vs Da Bruddah’s (1) HSP #1
Sat. 10/28 1:00p Cardinals (0) vs A-1 Tank (1) Standley
Sat. 10/28 2:45p A-1 Tank (9) vs So. Stockton Outlaws (2) Standley

Double Elimination Bracket 1st Round Seeding

Game #1 4th Seed – Da Bruddah’s (6) vs 5th Seed – Cardinals (1)
Game #2 3rd Seed – Romie’s Angels (11) vs 6th Seed – Outlaws (3)
Game #3 2nd Seed – Fat City (9) vs 7th Seed – Bay Area Merchants (5)
Game #4 1st Seed – A-1 Tank (8) vs Winner Gm #1- Da Bruddah’s (4)

Sunday, 10/29/06 Game Schedule

Game #5 Romie’s Angels vs Fat City 9:00 am @ LS
Game #6 Outlaws vs Bay Area Merchants 9:00 am @ HSP#1
Game #7 Cardinals vs Loser Game #5 10:45 am @ LS
Game #8 Da Bruddah’s vs Winner Game #6 10:45 am @ HSP#1

Game #9 A-1 Tank vs Winner Game #5 1 pm @ HSP#1
Game #10 Winner Game #7 vs Winner Game #8 1 pm @ LS

Game #11 Loser Game #9 vs Winner Game #10 2:45 pm @ LS
Game #12 Winner Game #9 vs Winner Gm #11 5:00 pm @ LS
Game #13 Loser of Gm #12 “if” 1st loss vs Winner Gm #12 6:45 pm @LS
“IF Game”

P.S. As the games got underway at the Sports complex, the dads watching their daughters games started inching their way to the men’s game, I had 1 dad approach me, handed me his card and expressed interest in playing. He stated that he was a pitcher, pitched in So Cal and now lived in Dublin CA, his name is Phil Tucker, he told me who he had pitched for in So Cal, but sorry it slipped my mind. Anyway, East Bay teams wanting to get in touch with him, just e-mail me @ SCSAHAYCA@aol.com. Anyone expressing interest in MFP deserves a chance!

Stay Tuned!

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