A very quiet weekend with only Saturday lunch with Jenny on the docket. The Southern End Softball League regular season is over, the postseason playoff tournament began on Monday evening at Garrett Park. The top five finishers were seeded into a double-elimination bracket, on Monday the only game was the 5 vs 4 matchup at 7:00. Riverside won over LCM 12-0 in three innings via the mercy rule, that result consigned LCM to the lower bracket and placed Riverside into the winners bracket semifinals on Tuesday. The Tuesday opener at 7:00 was the 3 vs 2 pairing featuring Memorial and Kelly's and it was a thriller just about all the way. Kelly's erased a 2-1 deficit with a five-run fourth inning, Memorial scored once in the sixth and twice in the seventh to force extra innings. In the bottom of the eighth Kelly's had the bases loaded with nobody out but Memorial managed to escape, the game finally ended when Kelly's pushed home the winner in the bottom of the tenth. The second game was scheduled for 8:30 but didn't start until almost 9:15, #1 seed Peach Bottom beat Riverside 9-0 in five innings via the mercy rule. The tournament continues on Thursday the 27th, the winners bracket final with Kelly's vs Peach Bottom is scheduled at 7:00 followed by LCM and Memorial in a lower bracket quarterfinal with the loser eliminated. Take care, thanks for reading.
