Fall 2008 Tarsi Cup

The first annual Tarsi Cup was a tournament of many firsts. For the first time ever, we welcomed a team from outside our league, The O'Brien's Machine from our kickball Motherland, Milwaukee WI.

I, for the first time ever, watched a game go to 13th inning, ending in a ridiculous game of 5 on 5 after the wind gusted 3 straight innings of foul-outs.

This was also the first time ever, Tarsi, for whom our tournament is now named, lost on their home soil (in supposedly, their last game ever).

First Round

#09 Jiminy Kick-Its handily defeated #08 Dollz N' Ballz, 11-1.

#04 O'Brien's Machine blanks #13 The B-Squad, 15-0.

#05 The Unmentionables m'unts 12 times (yes, I kept count) in 6 innings to victory over #12 The Sasshole Sports Empire, 4-3.

#07 A.R.T.D. defeats sub-ridden short handed #10 Shockers, 6-0.

#14 The Dipsomaniacs upset #03 Gimme Your Lunch Money II, 3-2 in 9 innings.

#11 Playground Bullies knock out #06 Red Rubber Showdown, 4-0.

Second Round

#01 Can't Quite Score Enough defeated #09 Jiminy Kick-Its, 9-2.

#04 The O'Brien's Machine knocked out the #05 Unmentionables, 9-4.

#02 Tarsi squeaked out a 13th inning win over #07 A.R.T.D., 5-4.

#14 The Dipsomaniacs continued their Cinderella run, defeating #11 Playground Bullies, 6-5 in 8 innings.

Final Four

#04 The O'Brien's Machine destroyed #01 Can't Quite Score Enough, 24-9.

#02 Tarsi ended #14 The Dipsomaniacs run, 16-4.

Tarsi Cup Final

#04 The O'Brien's Machine, takes home the Tarsi Cup defeating #02 Tarsi, 5-4, scoring the go ahead run in 8th inning after a back forth match-up.

Until next Season!...

2008 Spring EOS Tournament

For the sixth time in a row, Tarsi took home the MUSA MN Championship trophy by beating out Can't Quite Score Enough, 4-0. Tarsi reached the championship game by first beating the Shockers, 12-1 then Balls Deep II, 11-0.

A Balls Deep II team, that in their first ever season in MUSA, went 7-0 in the regular season to reach the EOS tournament before beating the Sasshole Sports Empire in a tightly contested match-up, 5-4. They next took care of the Tricky Richardsons, 6-5 in an epic extra-inning, 3 run scoring, walk-off double.

On the other side of the bracket, the Can't Quite Score Enough squad first faced off against the St. Paul Gnarly Balls, winning 5-0 before facing Nagma Inc in the final four. That game went into a 1-1 tie into the next to last inning before Nagma gave up 3 runs on right field blooper that probably could have easily been caught had the ball not seemed to be sailing well out of bounds before the wind pushed it, just barely back into play.

All in all, a fantastic, beautiful sunny day that Sassholes were just happy to be apart of.

• Dean- 1 for 3, 1 Double
• Kelley- 2 for 3