July 13, 2008
Lux Finishes Kent SI Tournament as Silver Runner-Up

An exciting (and exhausting) nine-day stretch of baseball ended on Sunday with Lux placing second in the Silver championship bracket of the inaugural Kent Sports Illustrated tournament. Lux finished 6-5 over their 11-game, 9-day stretch which included just one home game and multiple trips to the south end for tournament as well as league play.

In the opening day of round robin play in the Sports Illustrated tournament, Lux dropped two games - 8-0 to Dow Baseball and 8-5 to the eventual tournament champion SBA Bombers. They bounced back on Friday with a 16-8 win over the Triple Play Swarm. Based on winning the tiebreaker between Triple Play and Woodinville Baseball, Lux earned the #3 seed from the pod to advance into Sunday’s silver bracket final four.

The Silver bracket semi-final featured a matchup with the Seattle Stars. Lux rode the wave of a 6-run third inning en route to a 9-5 win to advance to the Silver bracket finals. Jamie Wallace cruised through 6 innings before giving way to Andrew Villeneuve, who recorded the final three outs. In the Silver championship, an exhausted Lux team ran out of gas, leading 9-6 after three innings only to give up 11 unanswered runs in a 17-9 defeat to the Washington Ravens.

Lux will play two wood bat practice games this week in preparation for the final week of the season, which they will spend in Grand Junction, Colorado at the Triple Crown World Series. The tournament, which was won in 2007 by the Kirkland Merchants, is a wood bat championship featuring teams from Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Utah and Washington. Tournament play starts on Monday, July 21st.

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