Date

Organization

Location

Style

April 14, 2001

NSA

La Mirada, CA

Double Elim.

1st: Madden Cruisers (3-1)

2nd: RipTide

3rd: Gotcha

RBI CHAMPION:
Jason Sullivan 15 RBI

OB% Champion:
Bruce Wonderlick .765

Nick Cantu strokes a line-drive (AP)

Dana Oviett makes his debut (AP)

Bickley and Vinny Turn two (AP)

Pepper! (AP)

More Pepper! (AP)

Sully looking to go YA YA (AP)

Vinny warms up (AP)

Playas watch the action on the field (AP)

Bickley goes to right (AP)

Three different Cruiser shirts (AP)

Team

Result

Score

The Skinny

@. Riptide

Loss

6-5

The Cruisers made their NSA debut this weekend, and Jim Barr made his pitching debut... both turned out to be a success! We jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead through 2 innings. We were unable to score another run thereafter. Riptide plated 3 runs in the 3rd and 3 runs bottom of the 6th to take the victory. Cruisers went 1-2-3 in the top of the 7th including two line-outs to 3b... Line-outs was the story in this game, as the Cruiser had 7 lineouts in this game. UGH.

@ Team Bullet

Win

20-10

The loss sent us to the losers' bracket to play Team Bullet. Again the Cruisers jumped out to a small lead to start things off, but saw everytnig tied at 4-4 a piece after 3 innings. a big 4th inning saw the Cruiser plate 8 runs. We went on to Mercy Rule Team Bullet in 6 innings (10+ runs after 5th inn) Jim Barr was clutch in this game delivering 2, 2out, 2 run scoring hits. Tim Wilson left for the day after this game, leaving us with 11.

vs. Gotcha

Win

6-5

A second low scoring afair... Teams moved over to Field #4, where the winds kept everything down and in. Cruisers built a 3-1 lead through 5 innings... and took a 6-2 lead into the top of the 7th... Gotcha rallied for a few runs, but fell short. Nick Cantu snagged a ball down the line to end the game. Dana Oviett left after this game leaving us with 10.

vs. Riptide

Win

19-8

Grudge match of sorts, as we we're looking for some redemption. Things started off better as we were able to plate 6 runs in the bottom of the 1st... yes 1 run more than the first time we played them... The game was tied at 6 a piece going into the bottom of the 3rd... where we exploded for 12 runs. We went on to gain a 2nd mercy win after 5 innings.

vs. Softball Club

Win

n/a

FORFEIT WIN... here WAS the scoop: Tough game, as the outfielders were just beat. With no subs, playing back-to-back-to-back-to-back games we looked a bit sluggish. Softball Club jumped out to a big 18-3 lead through 3 and a half. Cruisers need to plate one run to keep playing, and managed to push 3 across. After seeing the lead grow to 20-6, the Cruisers need to plate 5 runs to keep playing... we were able to put 6 across this time. We fought back enough to have a chance in the bottom of the 7th, down only 6... but the sticks went back to sleep. All in all, a great tournament, and a GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!!