16U USSSA State Tournament - Beavercreek

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Any results from this past weekend?

 

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1. Heath Crush
2. River City Rockers
3. Ohio Heat Impact
3. Ohio Danger (Rob)

 

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I thought that I read somewhere that the Buckeye Heat (May) 16U played in the semifinals of this tournament. Maybe I got the wrong tournament?

 

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This tourny 's brackets are 'odd'. The winner's bracket play for positions 1 & 2. Once you lose, you fall into the loser's bracket which does not play all the way out but instead play's its 'semi-finals' as 'finals' and two 3rd places are awarded. The Buckeye Heat may indeed have been in one of the loser's brackets semi-finals. I know there was a Buckeye Heat team there. The Ohio Heat Impact beat the Cincy Chill 7-2 in the other. the Impact went 7-1 in the tourny.

 

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Buckeye Heat tied for 7th with Cinncy Elite

 

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According to the Buckeye Heat website http://www.buckeyeheat.org , the 16 U May team went 4-2 for the weekend. Looks like most of their teams made some noise this past weekend.

 

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There were a lot of very solid teams at Beavercreek and at least 8 of them could have won it. There were at least 6 one run games in the elimination round out of the 32 that were played and 4 went to the ITB. A break here or there or a close call going the other way may have made the difference. The Heath Crush, for example were down 5 to 0 in their first game but battled back to win by one run. They went on to win it all.

The format may have seemd odd, but it was nothing more than a single elimination event to determine the winner and runner up. Other than the top 2 teams, if a team lost in the winner's (single elim) bracket, they didn't have to go home, but rather they had the opportunity to battle back for 3rd place, which was a lot better than being tied for last place out of 19 teams. As it was, teams that fell into the loser's bracket right away had to play 5 games on Sunday to get 3rd and at least one team comes to mind that did that. To have played out the double elim would have taken at least 3 games and maybe 4 more and the teams could have easily been playing close to midnight. I didn't hear any of the last 6 teams, except maybe the 2d place team say they wanted to play anymore--I'm sure if I had come in 2d I 'd want another shot as well. If I had 8 or less teams I might would have done a traditional double elim but in this case of 19 teams, I didn't think it was practical, nor do I think it is practical to wear out a team this early in the season--that should be saved for the National Event.
My thanks to all the teams for playing and best of luck for the remainder of the season..Bob

 

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this tournaments bracket was quite odd, but it is a very competitive tournament and i love coming to it each year. congrats to the heath crush for the win. and go ohio heat impact on third place. it was well earned!!! heat #13