Lightning batter Trevor Kelly connects with a pitch during the
Championship game of the Rex Marquardt Memorial Tournament.
Six mens fast-pitch softball teams rolled into Petoskey's Ed White Feild over the holiday weekend to participate in the 40th annual Rex Marquardt Memorial Tournament and when the dust had settled on Sunday afternoon it was the Midland/Frankenmuth area Lightning taking home this years championship trophy.
Sundays championship game wound up being a rematch of the previous evenings game between the Lightning and the Marshall areas Tiffany's. Undefeated through the weekend the Staurday matchup was the only game in the tournament where an opponent managed to keep the Lightning from winning by virtue of a mercy rule as the Tiffany's pitching and defense held the 2009 Class 'A' National Champion Lightning to just three runs.
Tiffany's first baseman Brett Szagesh looks to the umpire for a call
after scooping a throw from the dirt during the Championship game
of the Rex Marquardt Memorial Tournament.
The Tiffany's team was unable to contain the Lighning in Sunday's championship contest though as the reigning national champs managed to close out the game in five innings with a 7-0 shutout, mercy rule win. Lightning pitchers Sean and Tyler Kelly struck put 5 while giving up only one hit to the Tiffany's offense while Lightning batters Adam Saylor and Tyler Kelly led the offense with one home runs each.
Lightning pitcher Sean Kelly pitches during a Saturday
night game at the Rex Marquardt Memorial Tournament.
The Lightning's Sean Kelly also captured the tournaments top pitcher kudo's with 3 wins getting credit for 14 shutout innings giving up only three hits and registering 26 strikeouts. Bill Kunkel, also of the Lightning came away with the tournaments top batting honors hitting .444 for the weekend.
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