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Doc's Baseball Forever

Welcome to the South Shore Baseball Homepage. I hope you enjoy your stay with the 1997 11 year old team. After they won the States, the 11 year old team went on to Florida for the Nationals. They went 3-4. The first game was against Eden Prairie, Minn. They lost that game 14-0 after 4 innings by the mercy rule. The second game was against Tampa Bay, Florida. South Shore was defeated 9-3. So their hopes of going to the medal rounds were rapidly falling. The third game was against Cinncinati, Ohio. South Shore dominated winning 11-0. Their record was not good enough for the medal rounds so they went on to the consolation rounds. There they met the Lakeview(New Orleans, Louisiana), Vikings. The game was a defensive battle. South Shore gave it all they had, but that was not enough. Lakeview came out on top 3-1. In a do-or-die situation, South Shore played Iowa. This time, South Shore were the ones who came out on top winning 7-6. Now in order for them to make it to the last eight teams in the consolation round, alot of prayers had to be said and alot of things had to be put in place. First, Lakeview had to lose to Iowa by 6 runs. Lakeview lost by enough!! Now SSBC's success was sitting on their own shoulders; they had to win. They did 7-4. South Shore made the final eight of the consolation round. In order for them to make it to the final four, they had to beat Charlotte, NC. South Shore had the win all the way, until the bottom of the sixth. The Charlotte Lightning scored 9 runs that inning and tied it up. The game had to go into extra innings. The game went into nine innings. Both teams had played their hearts out, but only one could win. It was the Lightning. They won 10-9. The SSBC guys had played their best during the entire 10 days. They couldn't be disapointed with themselves, they had played their best. The team is now trying to make it to the 12 year old Nationals in Minnesota. All wasn't lost at those Florida games. The guys had learned to play their best. And now they were a team. Stay tuned to see what happens at the Virginia Blasters' tournament in April. Please E-mail me if you have any questions or would like to know further details about the at spaces2000@webtv.net

South Shore Baseball 12u Team 1998