After 2nd Place Finish In the Miken Super Series Event #1 the Mudcats came through undefeated to take their first ever tournament title in Event #2. The win also jumped the Mudcats into 1st place on top of the Series Standings.
The Mudcats won their first 4 games on Saturday using some stellar defence. In only one game did they score 20 runs. The Mudcats battled through all the games showing heart and solid defence to play in the undefeated game Sunday morning. Again the defence came through to have the team take a tough match from a game Sunoco (Grand Valley) club.
Sunoco came back around to beat the Pirates and face the Mudcats in the final. After Sunoco put up a 10 run top of 2nd inning to take a 7 run lead Mudcats answered right back with a 8 run bottom half inning of their own and never looked back winning the finals by 4 runs.
Mudcats Coach Mike “Eeyore” Landry stated “we are very excited by the good start for 2010 and are ready for the challenges ahead in the rest of the series.”
No matter how bad the weather, Event #2 had to be better than the cold rainy and windy first weekend. Well this weekend it was not as windy and much warmer but we did have a lot of rain Saturday morning and early afternoon. By Sunday afternoon it was downright hot and sunny. Whatever the weather, the action on the field was fantastic. In fact over half the games were decided by 5 runs or less and nearly 1/3 were decided by 2 runs or less.
