Lakota Tribe Wins ISA D In Eureka

EUREKA: The Lakota Tribe won the five team ISA Men's Class D qualifying tournament held at Eureka Lake Park in Eureka on April 30th with a perfect 3-0 record. Balls Deep/P.A.L. (3-2) finished in second place with the Yellow Jackets (2-2) taking home third place.
The Lakota Tribe opened play with a big 23-13 win over Clanahan Chiropractic Center in their opening game. Game number two was the winner's bracket championship game and Lakota Tribe's opponent was Balls Deep/P.A.L. with Lakota Tribe recording a 22-12 win up on the bracket board.
The Lakota Tribe ball club now needed to sit back and wait as the loser's bracket needed to be played out to it's conclusion before they would know who would be their opponent in the tournament's championship game. After the dust from the loser's bracket settled back down on the field of play a rematch for Lakota Tribe against Balls Deep/P.A.L. awaited them in the title contest. Lakota Tribe had their hitting shoes on this day scoring twenty-five runs as they won the tournament 25-19 over Balls Deep/P.A.L.
The Lakota Tribe softball club did not provide Illinois Softball Report with any information, team highlights, stats or any quotes on how they were able to win this tournament.
Runner-up Balls Deep/P.A.L. opened play with a narrow one run win defeating the Yellow Jackets 18-17 in the first round of play in this tournament. Miken Hitmen were Balls Deep/P.A.L. next opponent and they fell to Balls Deep/P.A.L. 20-18 advancing Balls Deep/P.A.L. into the winner's bracket championship game.
Balls Deep/P.A.L. lost this next game to Lakota Tribe 22-12 dropping them into the loser's bracket where they needed to defeat the Yellow Jackets in order to earn a second shot at the Lakota Tribe squad in this tournament. And defeating the Yellow Jackets is what Balls Deep/P.A.L. did as they posted a 20-9 win onto the bracket board. In their rematch with the Lakota Tribe Balls Deep/P.A.L. made a strong showing but this day belong to the Lakota Tribe as Balls Deep/P.A.L. had to settle for second place after dropping the title game by a final score of 25-19.
Balls Deep/P.A.L. did not supply Illinois Softball Report with any team information, stats, highlight's, or quotes on how they were able to take home second place from this tournament.