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Here is the 2008 North Central Region Championship (Battle Creek, MI) game detail:

Longshots 7 (visitors), Sparks Black 6 in 9 innings.  We had 13 hits, they had 7.
WP: Sean Flanagan LP: Kevin Johnson

Steve Sabatino started & went 4&2/3 - 3 runs, 2 ER, 3 K's,  3 hits.
Deetjen got Zych to pop out in the 5th to end the inning with two runners on.
Flanagan threw the final 4 innings - 3 runs, hits. Came in from CF.

Roberts threw 6&1/3 - 4 runs, 9 hits, 8K's
Johnson threw 1&2/3 - 3 runs, 4 hits, 2k's
Nick Brown went the final three outs, 1 K.

Inning 1: Rooney singled to right. Culver walks. Rooney steals and scores on an infield hit by Phil Kaiser. (1-0)

Inning 3: Rooney hits lead-off triple and Flanagan singles. (2-0).
Bottom: Rowan bunts and goes to 2nd on a throwing error. Ruettinger singles Rowan (former Renegade, going to NU) in (2-1).

Inning 5 Bottom: Wakefield (Wisc/Georgia kid, former Blazer, going to NIU) walks and Rowan triples. (2-2). Brandon House (07grad, former South Cook, currently @ NIU) singles him in (2-3). Zeise (Wisconsin kid, former Blazer, going to Iowa) walks. Deetjen comes and throws one pitch to Zych (going to Louisville) & gets pop up.

Inning 6 Bottom: McQuillan (going to Iowa) HR's deep to right (2-4).

Inning 7: Rooney reaches on an error. Flanagan triples (3-4). Johnson (09, going to Illinois) relieves Roberts (going to Illinois). Culver sacrifice flys to the RF warning track (4-4).

Inning 9: Alex Staehely reaches on a two-base error. Rooney reaches on a drag bunt single. Rooney steals second. Flanagan reaches on an infield single vs a drawn in infield (bases loaded). Johnson is called for a balk, Staehely scores (5-4). Culver singles up the middle to score 2 runs. Brown (going to Iowa) comes in and gets three outs.
Bottom: Rowan gets an infield single. House doubles (7-5). Zych singles (7-6). Debernardis (former Blazer, going to Penn State) pops up to end game.

Note: Longshots turned 3 DP's.

Rooney: 3-5, 4 runs scored
Flanagan: 3-5 2 RBI's
Kaiser 2-4, RBI
Culver 1-3, 4 RBI's

Rowan, 3-4, RBI, 3 runs scored

Tournament Stats:
Casey Webber 2 wins
Tyler Deetjen 2 wins
Fulton throws a complete game 3-hit shutout

Rooney .483 (14-29)
Culver .440 (11-25)
Joe Turek .400 (8-20), HR
Kaiser .353 (6-17)

Longshots 9, Mich Red Sox 6
Longshots 12, Illinois Sparks Red 4
Kalamazoo Maroons 5, Longshots 4
Longshots 3, Saginaw Means 0
Longshots 5, Sparks Red 2
Longshots 9, Kalamazoo Maroons 6
Longshots 7, Sparks Black 6

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