Finish Ft Myer Roy Hobbs Baseball Tournament

The Pheasants made it to the final game in the Championship bracket of the tournament with a 3-1 pool play record. We were beaten soundly (15 - 5 in 5 innings!) by the tournament favorite from Detroit in the 3rd game of pool play, mainly as a result of our own errors. I have never seen this group play as poorly as they did in that game. We recovered to enter the championship round at 3-1.

This record seeded us 6th out of 8 teams in the championship. We first played and beat the #2 seed, then avenged our loss against the #1 seed, Detroit. That knocked them into the loser's bracket where they had to win Saturday am to play for the championship. They did and we faced them again Saturday afternoon for all the marbles.

Unfortunately, our starting pitcher had not recovered from the 11 inning game he pitched on Monday and Detroit scored 3 in the 1st and 2 in the second. We hit a bunch of "atems" in those innings, but did not score. From that point on it was a good game, but the damage was done and we lost 13-6.

Everyone was disappointed at the outcome, but by the time we cleared out the dugout were looking forward to coming back next year!