Peanut Butter Jelly Time Wins USSSA Class E NIT

Champions To Play at USSSA Class E World Tournament In Florida

USSSA Men's Class E NIT Champions Peanut Butter Jelly Time From Bolingbrook

JOLIET: Peanut Butter Jelly Time from Bolingbrook was a perfect 4-0 winning the first ever Illinois USSSA Men's Class E N.I.T. World Tournament Qualifying Tournament held at the Inwood Sports Complex in Joliet on July 21st & 22nd over a field of fifteen teams. The champions earned six hundred dollars sponsor travel money plus a paid berth to play at the 2007 USSSA Men's Class E World Tournament to be held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida on September 13th through 16th. Playoffs Sports Bar & Grill (6-2) from Joliet was took home second place with Xtreme (3-2) from Aurora finishing in third place and Sharp Softball (3-2) from Romeoville taking home fourth place. Rounding out the top eight finishers were both Westchester Buzz (3-2) from Westchester and the Adobe Grill (2-2) from Chicago finished in a tie for fifth place with both Dynasty Softball (2-2) from Chicago and the Benchmob (1-2) from Crete finished in a tie for seventh place at this tournament.
Peanut Butter Jelly Time received a first round bye because they as a team had accumulated the most 2007 USSSA team points earned through tournament play of any team entered into this tournament so they opened play in the second round with a match-up against Playoffs Sports Bar & Grill and posted a 12-6 win onto the bracket board to advance into Sunday morning's semifinal of the winner's bracket of this tournament.
On Sunday morning Peanut Butter Jelly Time met Sharp softball as they used their smothering defense to post an 8-0 win to advance into the winner's bracket undefeated game. Sharp Softball had won two games on Saturday morning to make it into this semifinal game against Peanut Butter Jelly Time as they stopped Money Shot from Romeoville 17-7 in the first round before defeating Fabri-Tek from Sugar Grove 10-2 in the second round of play.
Peanut Butter Jelly Time and Xtreme from Aurora were matched against one another in the winner's bracket finals with Peanut Butter Jelly Time getting the better of it on this Sunday afternoon winning a close game by the final score of 4-2 to become the only unbeaten team left in this tournament. Xtreme made it to the winner's bracket finals by opening play with a first round game against Dynasty Softball and posting a 8-7 win onto the bracket board before closing out their play on Saturday with a 8-6 win over Westchester Buzz to move into Sunday morning's semifinal round of the winner's bracket. On Sunday morning Xtreme opened play with a game against the Adobe Grill with the Aurora ball club winning a close game 18-17 to put them into the winner's bracket final and the battle of the last two unbeaten teams left in this tournament when they took on Peanut Butter Jelly Time in that game later on Sunday afternoon.
Now Peanut Butter Jelly Time had to sit and wait until the loser's bracket play was completed and when it was over Peanut Butter Jelly Time had a rematch with their second round opponent Playoffs Sports Bar & Grill in the championship game.
Peanut Butter Jelly Time completed their mission as a team winning 12-4 to complete their undefeated run to the title and claiming the first ever Illinois USSSA berth from a Men's Class E NIT to the World Tournament.
Tournament runner-up Playoffs Sports Bar & Grill opened play with a first round match up with the Benchmob and posted a 5-4 win onto the bracket board to advance in the bracket. In their second contest they met and lost to Peanut Butter Jelly Time 12-6 to send the Joliet based ball club into the loser's bracket. Playoff Sports Bar & Grill completed their Saturday with a 16-5 win over Comet Lanes from Crete.

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