Leisure Time Champions Of USSSA Class E

Nineteen Teams Particpate At Forst Hills Diamonds In Rockford

ROCKFORD: Nineteen teams gathered at Forest Hills Diamonds in Rockford on July 21st & 22nd to play a USSSA Men's Class E State & National Qualifying Tournament and when it was over Leisure Time from Sterling had compiled a perfect 5-0 record to claim the top prize package from this event. The champions earned a paid berth to play at the 2007 Illinois USSSA Men's Class E State Tournament to be held in Joliet during August plus a paid berth to play at the 2007 USSSA Men's Class E Great Lakes national Tournament to be held in Rockford over Labor Day Weekend. Tournament runner-up Infinity Softball / Taco Johns (4-2) from Machesney Park also earned berth to play at both the Illinois USSSA Men's Class E State Tournament plus a berth to the USSSA Men's Class E Great Lakes national Tournament. Third place went to Stadium Auto (4-2) from Machesney Park with Cherry valley Siding (3-2) taking home fourth place. Finishing in a tie for fifth place were both Compak (3-2) from Rockford and United Restoration (2-2) from Rockford and both Baseball Tap (3-2) from Cherry Valley and TR Excavation (3-3) from Rockford finishing this tournament in a tie for seventh place.
The champions opened tournament play with a fist round contest against New Era from Rockford and post a 15-12 win onto the bracket board to advance into the second round of tournament action with a victory under their belt.
Leisure Time squared off with Ogle County Physical Therapy in their second contest and again they came away with the victory as they advanced after winning 10-7. Ogle County Physical Therapy had won their first round game over TR Excavating 13-8 to advance into this second round match-up against Leisure Time.
On Sunday in the semifinals of the winner's bracket Leisure Time and United Restoration tangled with one another as Leisure Time came out on top in this game winning 12-4 to put them into the winner's bracket championship game. United Restoration had posted two win on Saturday earning their way into this semifinal contest of the winner's bracket as they had defeated both Meridian Small Town Swingers from Winnebago 17-7 and than they stopped Cherry valley Siding 10-8 in the second round of play.
Now only two teams, Leisure Time and Infinity Softball / Taco Johns remained unbeaten and on Sunday afternoon they took the field to play each other head to head with the winner being assured of a spot in the tournament's championship game. Leisure Time got the better of it in this match-up winning 12-5 to become the only unbeaten team left in this tournament.
Now Leisure Time had to sit and wait until the loser's bracket play was completed and when it was over they had a rematch of the winner's bracket undefeated game with Infinity Softball / Taco Johns on tap in the tournament's championship game.
Leisure Time kept their focus as they posted another win over Infinity Softball / Taco Johns 14-8 to compete their undefeated run to the tile of this nineteen team event.
Runner-up Infinity Softball / Taco Johns Opened play on Saturday with a first round one run win over Landstar from places unknown in a one run game 4-3. Landstar had to have won a play in game over Carpetland USA from Sterling 14-2 to earn the right to oppose Infinity Softball / Taco Johns in the first round of Tournamtn play.
In Saturday afternoon's second round of play Infinity Softball / Taco Johns and G-Force Labels from Plano went toe to toe with Infinity Softball / Taco Johns winning 9-4 to advance into Sunday's semifinal round of the winner's bracket. G-Force Labels had defeated Al McCauley from Rockford 8-1 in the first round of play to advance into this second round match-up with Infinity Softball / Taco Johns.
On Sunday afternoon Infinity Softball / Taco Johns and Stadium Auto lock horns with each other as Infinity Softball / Taco Johns won 15-8 to advance into the winner's bracket championship game. Stadium Auto made it to this semifinal game of the winner's bracket by [posting two wins on Saturday as they had defeated Klass Financial from Rockford 10-6 in the first round and than stopping Compak by one run 17-16 in the second round of tournament play.
Infinity Softball / Taco Johns and Leisure Time now faced off with each other in the undefeated game with Infinity Softball / Taco Johns coming out on the short end of a 12-5 final score to drop them into the loser's bracket where they needed to defeat Stadium Auto for a second straight time on this Sunday and they did just that winning 15-1 to earn a second chance to playing unbeaten Leisure Time in the championship game.
Leisure Time was up to the task before them as they turned away Infinity Softball / Taco Johns14-8 to send the Rockford based ball club home with the second place prize package from this event.