Throwin Leather Champions Of 'Nate's Buddy' Recreational

Ten Team Partake At Melas Filed In Arlington Heights

Action At First base From The Nate's Buddy Tournament

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS: Throwin Leather (5-0) ran the table on the field of tem teams to win the Nate's Buddy Rec division tournament held at Melas Park in Arlington Heights on March 31st & April 22nd. Rainy spring weather forced the tournament to be postponed in the middle of the event and continued on an open date in April. The Lightweights (4-2) took home second place with the Legends (3-2) finishing in third place and the Screwballs (2-2) taking home fourth place.
Throwin Leather opened play with a pigtail game against CB Primus and posted a win onto the bracket board (no score was reported) to advance into the first round of tournament play. Throwin Leather improved to 2-0 with a 17-7 win over Piehouse in the first round of tournament play. Throwin Leather improved to 3-0 on that last Saturday in March with a win over the Screwballs (no score was reported) to put them into the winner's bracket championship game. The Screwballs had defeated Cobra Kai 17-6 in the first round of tournament play to advance into this contest against Throwin Leather in the second round of play.
It was at this point that weather caused to rest of the tournament to be played at a later date in April. When action resumed Throwin Leather was to face the Legends in the undefeated game but the Legends could not field a team on the date chosen to finish this tournament so they forfeited the game to Throwin Leather 7-0. The Legends made it to the undefeated game by opening play with a pigtail game in which they defeated Rock Enterprises (no score was reported). In the first round of tournament play the Ledgends stopped the Lightweights 16-9 to advance into the semifinal of the winner's bracket. The Legends improved to 3-0 with a 14-4 win over Good To Go. This win put the Legends into the tournament undefeated game but they were not able to continue playing as a team when the tournament was resumed in April.
Now Throwin Leather had to sit and wait until the loser's bracket play was complete before knowing that they would be playing the Lightweights in the title game.
Throwin Leather complete their undefeated run to the title of the 2007 Nate's Buddy Rec Tournament by defeating the Lightweights (no score was reported) in the championship game to claim the top prize from this tournament.
Tournament runner-up Lightweights opened play with a first round loss to the Legends by a final score of 16-9 sending them into the loser's bracket from the get go of this tournament.
The Lightweights rebounded from this loss to get things going as they sent home Rock Enterprise first after beating them 15-1 to advance in the bracket.
When the tournament was resumed in April a game with Good To Go was first up on the docket and the Lightweights prevailed by a final score of 13-3 to advance into the next round of play. The Lightweights than defeated the Screwballs 14-9 to move into the loser's bracket championship game where they were to meet the Legends but the Legends could not play when the tournament was resumed so the Lightweight won by forfeit 7-0.
Now the Lightweights met unbeaten Throwin Leather and the Lightweight went down in defeat to finish in second place at this tournament.