Howey's Precision Structures Wins Plano Earlybird

24th Annual Preseason Tournament Held At Klatt Field In Plano

PLANO: Howey's Precision Structures from Aurora ran the table going 4-0 to win the Plano's 24th Annual Rock Creek Earlybird Tournament on April 16th through 20th. The champions pocketed three hundred dollars for their play from this event. G-Force Labels (3-1) from Plano finished in second place after dropping the championship game to Howey's Precision Structures 6-5 in eight innings. Fabri-Tek (3-1) from Aurora took home third place with St George's (3-1) from Aurora taking home fourth place from this four game guarantee event.
Howey's Precision Structures opened their tournament play on Wednesday evening with a 9-5 win over the Wreckers from St Charles in the first round of play.
In their second game they stopped St George's (no score was reported from this game) from Aurora to advance into the semifinal of the winner's bracket. St. George's had previously defeated Plano Legion 21-11 on Thursday evening to advance into this second round contest with Howey's Precision Structures.
On Sunday afternoon Howey's Precision Structures tangled with Fabri-Tek and posted an 8-6 win onto the bracket board to advance into the tournament's championship game.
Fabri-Tek made it to this semifinal game of the winner's bracket by opening play on Wednesday evening with a 9-4 win over Life Construction from Plano before stopping CRC from Aurora 12-6 in the second round of play in the winner's bracket to earn them the right to challenge Howey's Precision Structures in a semifinal game of the winner's bracket of this tournament.
In the championship game of the of the 24th Annual Plano Earlybird Tournament Howey's Precision Structures and G- Force Labels locked horns in a classic championship game taking eight innings to decide and when it was over a single run separated these two ball clubs with Howey's Precision Structures winning 6-5 in the deciding game.
G-Force Labels made it to the title contest by opening play on Wednesday evening with a first round 5-4 win over Klubs from Sycamore to move into Saturday's second round of play.
On Saturday G-Force Labels and Little Bro Joe's Pizza from Plano squared off with one another and when it was over G-Force Labels posted a 12-1 victory onto the bracket board to continue their advancement towards the championship game.
Little Bro Joe's Pizza had beaten Stan's Alone from Plano 8-4 in their first round game on Thursday evening.
On Sunday G-Force Labels and Shala Farms Oswego locked horns with one another in semifinal game of the winner's bracket with G-Force labels getting the better of it between these two squads winning 11-1. Shala Farms made it to this semifinal game of the undefeated bracket by opening tournament play on Thursday evening with a 14-8 victory of Caterpillar from Aurora. On Saturday Shala Farms and M & L Distributor from Plano were paired up and in a high scoring game Shala Farms was one run better on this day winning 16-15.
In the championship game G Force labels gave it their best shot and took the game into extra innings before falling a single run short losing to Howey's Precision Structures 6-5 in eight innings to finish in second place at the 24th Annual Plano Earlybird tournament.