Recap from the official SCIFL website:

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2010 Santa Fe Springs I Tournament

Liberty Rings Out

The first tournament of the year is complete with Liberty FP taking home the championship at Little Lake Park in Santa Fe Springs. Temperatures were in the high 70’s all weekend with overcast mornings, perfect for playing. The tournament had 15 teams entered at various levels and quality play was displayed all weekend, so I’m guessing we didn’t get the message that fastpitch needed to be saved in So Cal after all.

Going into Sunday’s single elimination, 4 teams (San Diego Primetime, Maccabi USA, Long Beach Black Sox and Liberty FP) posted 3-0 records and all were separated by 5 runs in the runs allowed tie breaker. Two of the teams had to go to the next tie breaker which was runs scored, and once again only 3 runs separated them. San Diego earned the top spot by only allowing one run in the round robin much to the shock of the other 3-0 teams who all thought they had the best record.

There were a few new teams in the tournament such as the Bandits who also play in the SCIFL’s Master League but bought in some new young faces this past weekend from the Artesia league. Also J&B Painting also played in their first SCIFL event with players from the local Burbank league that plays Wednesday nights throughout the year. Mi Tierra is a team from players from teams that have folded the past couple of seasons and earned a 6th place seed into the single elimination bracket using the arms of Tommy Obergon and Johnny “Pee Wee” Rodriguez. Mi Tierra also had a big win on Sunday against the Panteras in the first round of the single elimination. Balboa also had their first SCIFL event with long time veteran Cecillo Smalling starting a new team and allowing additional players the opportunity to play and/or learn the game. Also the Rez Dawgs from Central California played in the tournament and hope to be back at a few more this year.

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Round robin scores.

Round Robin Standings

Single Elimination Bracket.

Long Beach Black Sox News on their third place finish at Fred Hanker’s LB Black Sox website.

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