Hatalla Flooring Wins ASA Class D State

Sixty-six Teams Particpate at Dodds Complex In Champaign

CHAMPAIGN: Hatalla Flooring (7-1) bounced back in the 'if necessary game' to defeat Brickstone (7-2) 11-8 to win the 2007 Illinois ASA Men's Class D State championship. Brickstone had upended the previously undefeated Hatalla Flooring 10-3 in the first championship game to force the need to have the extra game played between these two squads with the winner getting the bonus of this years state title. K & K Metal Works (6-2) finished in third place with Burton Drywall (8-2) taking home fourth place. Rounding out the top ten finishers were both Dave's Pizza (6-2) and MSR-IL, Incorporated (4-2) finishing in a tie for fifth place, the River Dogs (6-2) and Swinging Dixxx (5-2) finishing in a tie for seventh place and a four way tie for ninth place took place between California Shine (3-2), Davis Insurance (3-2), Colony Inn (3-2) and QMF (3-2). The 2007 ASA Men's Class D State Tournament was held at the Dodds Fields Complex in Champaign on July 27th through 29th.
Hatalla Flooring opened play on Friday evening with a 13-6 win over B & B Homes in the first round of tournament action.
In their second game of this tournament Hatalla Flooring met and defeated the Diamond Kings 19-6 on Saturday morning. The Diamond Kings had beaten Doc's 20-5 on Friday evening to advance into this second round contest against Hatalla Flooring.
Playing in the third round of the winner's bracket on Saturday afternoon Hatalla Flooring was matched up against The Side Bar with Hatalla Flooring posting a 3-1 win onto the bracket board to advance into Saturday evenings fourth round of the winner's bracket. The Side Bar made it to this game against Hatalla Flooring by opening play on Friday evening with a 14-4 win over Brown Tire and Auto / Rage and than defeating Auto Center Wildcats 6-2 on Saturday afternoon to advance into this third round contest against Hatalla Flooring.
On Saturday evening Hatalla Flooring and Colony Inn squared off with one another as Hatalla Flooring was hitting on all cylinders winning big 17-1 to advance into Sunday mornings semifinal round of the winner's bracket. Colony Inn made it to the fourth round by opening play on Friday night with a first round victory over Cheely Chiropractic 10-3. Early on Saturday afternoon the Colony Inn slipped past Office 2 / Titans 5-4, before stopping the Titans 10-9 in the third round of play in the winner's bracket on Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday morn with only four team left alive in the winner's bracket of this sixty-six team event Hatalla Flooring and MSR-IL, Incorporated were set to do battle with the winner gaining one of the two spots in the winner's bracket undefeated game. That spot went to Hatalla Flooring as they prevailed by a final score of 18-7 over MSR-IL, Incorporated. MSR-IL, Incorporated made it to this semifinal game of the winner's bracket by opening play on Friday night with a first round win over Shelby Electric Company 18-5. On Saturday MSR-IL, Incorporated posted three wins in three tries onto the bracket board as they sent 02 / Precision Maintenance to the losers bracket after beating them 11-4 in the second round of tournament play. Advocare fell to 02 / Precision Maintenance in the third round on Saturday afternoon by a final score of 17-3 and than on Saturday evening it was 02 / Precision Maintenance over QMF 11-9 to earn 02 / Precision Maintenance the right to play in a semifinal game against Hatalla Flooring.
Now only two teams were undefeated and they were set to take the field to play one another straight up. Hatalla Flooring got the better of it as they upended Brickstone 13-9 to win the winner's bracket of the 2007 ASA Men's Class D State Tournament.
Now Hatalla Flooring had to wait until the loser's bracket was played out to its conclusion before they would know which team would survive to challenge them in the championship game and when that last out had been recorded into the officials scorers book a rematch with Brickstone was on tap for Hatalla Flooring in the tournament's championship game.

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