Miller 45's Win 2005 Chicago Championships

Photo By Jack Stout

On Saturday night the Bucketheads stopped the Raiders 14-4 to move on in the winner's bracket. The Raiders made it to the second round of the winner's bracket by opening with a 17-7 win over Stella's Angles in a pig tail game on Thursday night to get into the bracket before they defeated Mavericks 10-6 in the first round on which was also played on Thursday evening.
Next the Bucketheads squared off with Red Star late on Saturday night and posted a 7-3 win up onto the bracket board to move into Sunday's semifinal round of the winner's bracket in this tournament. Red Star had advanced to play this game by defeating Steel Gold in the first round on Thursday night 14-10. Red Star than defeated RIP 12-3 in the second round earlier on Saturday night.
On Sunday the Bucketheads took the field with Flash occupying the other dugout in this game and when the dust settled back down after the last out had been recorded it was the Bucketheads emerging with an 8-6 win over Flash to put them into the undefeated game.
Flash had made it to this game by opening play on Friday night with an 8-2 win over the Riddlers. On Saturday Flash hooked up with the Lemonheads and won impressively 12-2 early on Saturday evening. In a late game on Saturday night Flash flexed their muscles and defeated the Young Guns 15-3 to move into Sunday semifinal of the winner's bracket.
The Bucketheads played the Miller 45's a very close game but came up a little short on the scoreboard losing to the eventual champions 4-1 to drop them into the loser's bracket where they needed to win a game to earn the right to play the Miller 45's in a rematch. The Bucketheads took care of business as they defeated Flash for the second straight time 8-2 to win the loser's bracket and earn the right to play the Miller 45's for the championship.
The Miller 45's were the better team this day as they sent the Bucketheads home with the second place prize money after beating them 11-5.
The Bucketheads did not supply Illinois Softball Report with any team information, stats, highlights or quotes on how they were able to achieve their second place finish at the 2005 Chicago Championship Tournament

Action Shots From The 2005 Chicago Championships

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