2005 Miller Lite Kiss It Won By Haywood Softball

Manager's Shane Hughes of Haywood Softball said, "It was great to see this team click when it counted. It took a couple of games to knock the rust off seeing this was the first tournament of the year for this team. This team was built around defense first, speed second and hitting third. And it certainly showed all weekend! Tony Jonas and Kevin Schepke pitched outstanding all weekend and the team hit .600 for the tournament. Next up for Haywood, is a possible outing in Rockford for the Men's C State Tournament."
The leading hitters for the Miller Lite / Kiss-It Tournament for the Haywood Softball club were Shane Hughes (.882), Mike Aydt (.833), Tony Jonas (.666), Lenny Gooden (.631) and Tom Filkowski (.600).
The Posse Softball Club/Sage made it to the championship game of the 2005 Miller Lite/Kiss-It tournament by opening play with a first round bye before taking on and defeating Juco Trash from Woodstock 15-5 in the second round of tournament action. Juco Trash had won their first round game over Krush/46 Zone from Romeoville 7-6 to advance into this second round game.
The Posse Softball Club/Sage upped their tournament record to 2-0 on Sunday morning with another impressive offensive showing as they defeated the Lynch Mob 18-12 in the third round of tournament play. The Lynch Mob made it to this third round contest by opening tournament play with a 14-6 win over The Village in the first round and than defeating Twisted Justice 18-1 in the second round of tournament play.
In their semifinal game of the winner's bracket the Posse Softball Club/Sage squared off with Lovell's and came away with a 13-6 win to move into the winner's bracket championship game where the last two remaining unbeaten team would clash head to head. Lovell's made it into this semifinal game of the winner's bracket by opening tournament play with a first round bye before defeating Rob Dal Santo Painting 15-5 in the second round on Saturday and than beating Kline Construction 12-2 on Sunday morning to qualify to play in this semifinal game of the winner's bracket.
In the battle between the last two unbeaten teams the Posse Softball Club/Sage ball club looked to be in control of this game early before the bottom fell out on them. Leading 16-0 entering the bottom of the fourth inning against Haywood Softball the Posse Softball Club/Sage had everything go wrong that could go wrong as Haywood Softball scored fourteen runs giving them the confidence back to win this game over Posse Softball Club/Sage by a final score of 19-17.
This loss dropped the Posse Softball Club/Sage into the loser's bracket finals where they met and defeated Kline Construction 8-2 to earn a second shot at Haywood Softball and the2005 Miller Lite/Kiss-It championship.
Haywood Softball hit Posse Softball Club/Sage with a haymaker to start the game scoring twelve huge runs in the first inning but Posse Softball Club/Sage did not give up they kept chipping away as they scratched their way back into this game until Haywood Softball hit them with a six spot in the bottom of the sixth inning to put the game out of reach. The Posse Softball Club/Sage did not roll over and die as they rallied in the last inning to make it close before they ran out of outs to use trailing on the scoreboard 18-14. This loss sent Posse Softball Club/Sage home with second place from the 2005 Miller Lite/Kiss-It tournament.
Posse Softball Club/Sage did not provide Illinois Softball Report with any tem information, stats, highlights or quotes on how they were able to achieve their second place finish at the 2005 Miller Lite/Kiss-It softball tournament.

2nd Place Posse Softball Club / Sage From Crytsal Lake

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