Windy City beats Wallace at Naperville

NAPERVILLE, IL - Windy City (7-0) ran the table on the field of eight teams at the 30th Annual Naperville Spring Tune-up Sixteen Inch Tournament to claim the top cash prize of five hundred fifty dollars. Wallace (6-1) took home second place earning three hundred fifty dollars with both Bevis Iron (3-2) and Jaxx (3-2) finishing in a tie for third place.

Windy City started their Sunday of softball with three games in Pool Play competition. In their opening game Windy City met and defeated Jaxx 12-2. In their second Pool Play game it was Windy City over Bevis Bar 15-5. Windy City completed their sweep of Pool Play opponents by stopping Aces Full 12-6.

Each of these three victories earned Windy City twenty-five dollars each plus for winning their Pool Play division they earned a one hundred dollar bonus.

Pool A champion Windy City drew Pool B fourth lace team in the first round of the single elimination tournament and Windy City posted a 9-1 win onto the bracket board over Ragamuffins to advance into the semifinals of this tournament. With this win Windy City earned another seventy-five dollars to add to their growing kitty.

Their semifinal game was a nail bitter going nine innings before Windy City found a way to edge out Bevis Iron 4-3 to earn their spot in the tournaments championship game. This win earned Windy City an additional one hundred dollars. Bevis Iron had defeated Cash 11-10 in the first round of tournament play to earn the right to face Windy City in this semifinal game of the tournament.

The championship game featured two team sporting a perfect 5-0 records coming into this head to head show down. Windy City got off to an early lead and never let Wallace back into the game winning 9-1 to claim the two hundred dollar cash prize that goes to the winner of the championship game.

Windy City took home a total of five hundred fifty dollars for their play in this tournament.

Tournament runner up Wallace swept their Pool Play opponents starting with a narrow 13-12 win over Cash in their opening game of the pool play portion of this tournament as they picked up twenty-five dollars for this win.

In their second contest of the Pool Play Wallace and Bevis Iron went at one another with Wallace winning 9-1 to earn another twenty-five dollars for a pool play victory.

Wallace complete their sweep over all Pool B players when they won game t number three 20-0 over Ragamuffins. This win also gave Wallace the championship of Pool B and earned them a one hundred dollar bonus that goes to all pool champions at the Naperville Spring Tune-up tournament.

In the eight team single elimination tournament that followed pool play Wallace drew the last place team from Pool A Aces High and quickly posted a 11-1 win onto the bracket board to earn another seventy-five dollars and a place in the tournaments semifinals.

Wallace & Jaxx were paired in a semifinal game that was not decided until the last out had been recorded into the official scorers book. Wallace found a way to win and hung a 6-5 win up on the bracket board to earn another one hundred dollars and also a place in the tournaments two hundred dollar (to the winning team) championship game. Jaxx had won their first round game over Cash 9-5 to advance into this semifinal game against Wallace.

Wallace came up on the short end of a 9-1 score in the title game to finish in second place with a progressive pay-out of three hundred fifty dollars earned by them in this tournament.

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