St. Louis Diamond Cats

October 23 – 24, 2010

NSA Fall Scholarship Tournament – Record 4 – 3

2^nd place out of 18 teams

Our first serious tournament with teams in our age bracket, and we get a NSA berth to nationals in Chattanooga, TN.  We did not have a great day on Saturday during pool play, but were able to get serious when bracket play started.  We started bracket play beating the Nails, and that gave us a chance to actually get our bats going.  After that, we beat the Chaos and the other Diamond Cats to get into the finals.  We chose to play our entire team, and had the game knotted up at 4 when the Esprit went on a good offensive run, and the Cats had some defensive miscues to give them 4 more.  Team batting average was .391, team OB% .450, and the other teams hit .217 against us.  Our 11 errors were a problem, but we will get that worked out as we work together.

1.    vs. Collinsville Extreme (12U) – won 7 – 0 by forfeit

2.    vs. Worth Prospects (Jones 12U) – lost 1 – 11

3.    vs. St. Louis Chaos (Wise 12U) – lost 1 – 7

4.    vs. Columbia Nails (Dillinger 12U) – won 14 – 0

5.    vs. St. Louis Chaos (Wise 12U) – won 3 – 2

6.    vs. St. Louis Diamond Cats (Ozersky 12U) – won 13 – 0

7.    vs. St. Louis Esprit (Federhofer 12U) – lost 4 – 8