Lumber Company

The Lumber Company was knocked out of the Joliet City Tournament's open division on Wednesday night by Alfa's/Classic Construction by a final score of 21-18. The Lumber Co. jumped out fast as the visitors in this game scoring 7 first inning runs. Through 2 1/2 innings the LoCo owned a 10-4 lead. However a 14 run bottom of the 3rd inning put Alfa's/Classic Construction on top by a score of 18-10. The LoCo would battle back and cut the lead to 2 runs going into both the bottom of the 5th (18-16) and 6th (20-18) innings. Alfa's added an extra run in the bottom of six to stretch their lead to 3, 21-18. The LoCo had two men on base in the top of the 7th but were unable to push across any runs, giving Alfa's/Classic Construction the 21-18 victory. In other open division action D'Arcy/Manino Construction defeated Creative Design, Ken's Beverage beat Primetime, KGB run ruled Creative Design knocking them out of the tourney and Primetime run ruled Alfa's/Classic Construction ending their tournament run. Open Division games for Thursday (7/28) night have Ken's Beverage vs. D'Arcy/Marino Construction in the winner's bracket championship game on field #5 at 7:30 and KGB vs. Primetime in the loser's bracket game on field #2 at 7:30. The Ken's Beverage/D'Arcy Marino Construction loser will then play the KGB/Primetime winner at 9:00pm on field # 1. The Open Championship game will be Friday (7/29) night on field #1 starting at 7:47pm. Leading the Lumber Co. offense during the City Tournament was A.Blazekovich, 1.000, 7 RBIs; R.Motta, .833; R.Nurczyk. .800, 2 HRs, 8 RBIs; E.Boe, .750; J.Pool, .600; M.Wallace, .500, 1 HR and B.Walsh, .500. Lumber Company's next game will be on Thursday, August 4th in JPD League play against Primetime at 7:30pm on field #6. Lumber Company will have the next 3 weekends off (July 30th & 31st, August 6th & 7th and August 13th & 14th) before starting a run of some big time end of the year tournaments in three straight weekends. Those tournaments are as follows. August 20th & 21st - USSSA Elite "D" State, Rockford, IL (various parks) August 27th & 28th - NSA "D" Regional, Arlington Heights, IL (Melas Park) September 3rd - 5th - USSSA "D" National, Blaine, MN (BeBops Sports Complex) Lumber Co.'s last scheduled tournament at this point will be the NSA "D" World Tournament in Indianapolis, IN (Midwest Sports Complex) over the weekend of September 17th & 18th. Please check back to this site and see how the Lumber Co. makes out in upcoming post season play.