SFL Wins USSSA D/E In Sugar Grove

Twenty-two Teams Participate At Sugar Grove Sports Complex

SFL The 2006 Sugar Grove 'Corn Boil' Champions

SUGAR GROVE: SFL from Bloomingdale ran the table on the field of twenty-two teams going 5-0 to win the USSSA Men's Class D/E Equalizer Sugar Grove Corn Boil Tournament held at the Sugar Grove Sports Complex on July 29th 30th. Hell Yeah (6-2) from Schaumburg made a gallant run through the loser's bracket on an extremely hot weekend after dropping their second game to finish in second place. Who's Drivin' (4-2) from Romeoville took home third place with Chaos (4-2) from Spring Grove finishing in fourth place. Both G-Force Labels & Printing (2-2) from Plano and Lord Stanley's (2-2) from De Kalb tied for fifth place with C.A. Bruckner (3-2) from Aurora and Who Are They? (2-2) from Sycamore finished in a tie for seventh place at this tournament.
SFL opened play with a first round bye before taking on and defeating Integra 18-7 in the second round of action. Integra had beaten IBEW # 461 9-3 in the first round of tournament play to advance into this second round contest with SFL. Later on Saturday it was SFL and C.A. Bruckner going at one another with SFL winning big by a final score of 18-7 to advance into Sunday morning's semifinal of the winner's bracket. C.A. Bruckner had opened play with a first round 8-3 win over Richwrap from Aurora in the first round before defeating C & C Plumbing 12-2 in the second round of action to earn their spot verses SFL in the third round of tournament play in the winner's bracket on this hot Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday morning it was SFL slipping past G-Force Labels & Printing by the slimmest of margins winning 10-9 to move into the winner's bracket undefeated game. G-Force Labels & Printing had a first round bye before stopping Mulligan's Bar & Grill from Rockford 18-6 in the second round of play. G-Force Labels & Printing had to go extra innings to get past Hell Yeah on that very hot Saturday afternoon to earn their way into Sunday morning semifinal game of the winner's bracket against SFL. Hell Yeah
In the game that featured the last two remaining unbeaten teams left in this tournament. SFL and Who's Drivin' took the field to play one another late on Sunday morning with SFL bringing their hitting shoes to this game scoring twenty one runs as they won easily 21-11 to become the only unbeaten team left in this tournament.
Now SFL had to sit and wait as the day grew hotter and hotter as the loser's bracket needed to be complete before the SFL ball club would know who their opponent would be in the championship game. When the loser's bracket was complete SFL looked up to see Hell Yeah as the team still standing earning them the right to challenge for the title to this tournament. SFL was a tea, on a mission and they went about doing what was necessary in order to win as they completed their sweep on the field of twenty-two teams by berating Hell Yeah 15-9 in the championship game to finish with a perfect 5-0 record and the paid berth to play at the 2006 USSSA Men's Class D Great Lakes National Tournament to be held at Milford, Ohio over Labor Day Weekend.
Hell Yeah did things the hard ay as they lost their second game on Saturday and than had to win five straight games with their back against the walls just to reach the championship game of this tournament. Hell Yeah opened play with a first round bye before taking on and defeating Voodoo Softball from Addison 11-1 to advance in the bracket. Hell Yeah took the field to play G-Force Labels & Printing with the winner going home for the rest of the day on this very hot Saturday and the loser having to win another game in order to survive until Sunday in this tournament. Hell Yeah went down to defeat in extra innings losing 10-9 so they had to play another game on this hot afternoon and they went up against Deerpath Development in a game that was dominated by defense by both ball clubs. Hell Yeah managed to slip one more run across the pay station to win 3-2 to survive till Sunday morning in this tournament.

Continued: