Red Sox to play for district championship today

Friday, July 20, 2012

Red Sox' Cole Sanderson pitching in Wednesday's game with Warrensburg in the second round of the district tournament.

Nevada Daily Mail

The Nevada Red Sox AAA Legion team won their district tournament elimination game with Windsor Thursday afternoon with a score of 17-1, in a seven-inning run rule-shortened game in El Dorado Springs, setting them up for a rematch with Warrensburg in the first game in the championship round played at 6 p.m., which the Red Sox won 11-3 in nine innings.

The Red Sox lost to Warrensburg in their second round game Wednesday 11-9, putting Nevada into Thursday's elimination games.

"I was impressed -- playing two back-to-back ball games starting at 3:30," Red Sox coach Matt Ketterman said. "They were a couple of good wins,"

In the first game Ketterman said that Joe Lean from Weaubleau pitched the first four innings for the Red Sox against Harrisonville and Bubba Banes closed out the final three innings.

In the first of what will be a two-game championship series, Ketterman said that Cole Sanderson pitched all nine innings for the Red Sox.

"We led 11-1 going into the ninth inning, and they scored two runs in the ninth," he said.

Ketterman said that Lane Ketterman batted 3-5, with two doubles, Alex Payne was 3-4, Colton Selvy from Liberal was 2-4, Caleb Kauffman from Weaubleau went 2-5 and Austin O'Neal, Weaubleau, was 2-5 in the game with Warrensburg.

The final game of the double elimination championship against Warrensburg, undefeated in the tournament going into Thursday's game, will be played at 5 p.m., today.

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It's a shame the local tournament director decided to ignore the rules and allow teams to play without the correct number of players on the bench. Legion rules require 12 rostered players to be on the bench during games starting with districts and beyond. Though his intentions were good trying to provide accommodations due to the excessive heat, the local tournament director did not get permission from the state or national officials to alter the 12 player requirement. The result is that Nevada forfeits its win against Harrisonville from Thursday.

Now Harrisonville and Warrensburg will meet up today (Friday) at 5 pm for the district final. I'm still waiting to hear whether or not all of Nevada's wins will be forfeited or not. But at this point, only one will be.

-- Posted by royalones on Fri, Jul 20, 2012, at 9:20 AM
Update: The Moose were unable to get the required 12 players, so the game will not be played. In addition, the district legion officials wanted to restart the tournament. What a shame - what a mess!

-- Posted by royalones on Fri, Jul 20, 2012, at 10:16 AM

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