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Street Kids Finish Third in 2007 Debut

Fort Wayne, IN-

In their 2007 tournament debut, the Street Kids/Tanel Softball team traveled to Fort Wayne, Indiana to play in the Dome and battled for five games and ended up finishing third, eliminated by Softball Fans of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the eventual tournament winners.

The Street Kids came out a little slow in the first game, and lost to Forest River/Hoopland Farms 11-10 due to a time limit rule. The Kids scored eight runs in the sixth inning, but they ran out of time to begin the seventh inning. The came back in game two against MES and won 15-6, quickly figuring out the indoor way the game is played inside the dome. In the next round, the Street Kids defeated Shipshewana Merchants 17-6, and then moved into the next round of the losers bracket for a revenge match against Forest River/Hoopland. They won that game 15-11 and set up for a semi-final showdown against Softball Fans, a team the Kids have defeated three times in Kalamazoo in 2006 during their two tournament wins in Michigan.

But Softball Fans would prove to have too much, and the tired and sore Kids could not get anything going offensively, and lost to the Fans, 21-10. Fans went on to defeat Arsenal/Wolfpack in the final match and won the tournament.

No stats or records were kept for this event, given the indoor rules. Members of the Street Kids team will participate with members of Network Design next week to play in the Corvilla Snowball Softball tournament in Mishawaka.