Salty Dogs Wins ASA Class C Northern State

2nd - ASA Men's Class C Northern Illinois State Tournament Lakota Tribe From Champaign

The Lakota Tribe came out on fire and promptly defeated the Salty Dogs 15-2 to even this tournament at one loss each and set the stage to have the 'if necessary game' played between these two squads in order to be able to determine which of them would wear the crown as the 2007 ASA Men's Class C Northern Illinois State champion.
The Salty Dogs regained their focus as a team in that extra game winning 14-7 to put their names into the record book as teh2007 ASA Men's Class C Northern State champion.
Tournament runner up the Lakota Tribe made it to the championship game by opening play on Saturday evening with a 6-4 win over Parkway Auto Laundry from Bloomington in the first round of tournament action.
On Saturday morning it was the Lakota Tribe playing Well Hung Drywall in a close game that saw the Lakota Tribe being one run better on this Saturday morning winning 10-9 to advance into the third round of play later on Saturday. Well Hung Drywall had received a first round bye to advance into this second round contest against the Lakota Tribe.
Now playing on Saturday afternoon the Lakota Tribe met and defeated E.M. Sheet Metal from East Moline 16-4 to advance them into a semifinal game of the winner's bracket at the 2007 ASA Men's Class C Northern Illinois State Tournament.
On Sunday morning bight and early the Lakota Tribe stopped the Frozen Ropes 7-4 to advance into the game that would feature the last two remaining unbeaten teams left in this tournament. The Frozen Ropes made it to this semifinal game of the winner's bracket by opening play against Casey's tavern wining 12-8 on Friday evening. On Saturday morning it was the Frozen Ropes over Logan's from Freeport 14-11. On Saturday afternoon the Frozen Ropes had met and defeated the Bad Boys 12-8 to advance into Sunday mornings semifinal of the winner's bracket and a date with the Lakota Tribe.
The Lakota Tribe would taste defeat I their next contest as they were beaten by the Salty Dogs16-8. Now playing with their back against the wall the Lakota Tribe softball club bounced back to send home the Scooters with third place after beating them 13-10.
Now the Lakota Tribe had the opportunity to take some revenge over the team that had put them into the loser's bracket earlier in the day and they did just that winning 15-2 over the Salty Dogs to even this tournament at one loss each for these two ball clubs. Now in the 'if necessary game' the Lakota Tribe came up on the short end of a 14-7 final score force them to accept second place from this tournament.

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