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2004 Play Offs
July 29th, 2004 @ 23:39:44 | MichiganTech, Sports
Semi-Finals, against MSE : Lots of people, players and supporters alike, showed up at the ball-park and my throwing arm felt lot better. After a brief warm-up session, the much awaited semi-finals started off, with Metallurgy scoring 4 in the first innings. We replied equally well, scoring 8, with 7 coming after we were two-down! The innings came to a halt as a result of a poor shot selection from me. It was great to see each of our player getting into top gear at the same time. We just kept scoring more and more every innings while holding them just for a run or two every innings from then on. The game finally ended at the top of seventh innings and we won 23 – 11. Same Semi-Finals lineup and same result 
Finals, against IT : I was, from the match against the same team last week, under the impression that EE would be a our opponent in this game. But as things had turned out on Field #2, IT had beaten EE with home-team advantage . The poster was about half ready and I guess being home-team gave us some advantage. After holding IT for zero, we scored 8 in the first and again, 7 of these came after we were two down and the innings came to a halt as a result of my poor shot. This IT was not the same which had beaten us 18 – 31 in the first game. If batting was at it’s brutal best and base running lightning fast, defence was at its greatest. Hardly anything that went up in air reached ground and IT running was no match for our solid defence. We made plenty of plays at the first and second bases and effected a double play too, to make it spicy. Home runs flowed and with everybody (Patrick, Mary, Tilvi, Haiying, Marg, Daniel and many more) cheering us all along, we beat IT 20 – 5 (yes, twenty to five) by the bottom of sixth (call this the sweetest revenge!) and celebrations began soon – on the field and carried over to the Downtowner for rest of the evening… All the hard work we had put in under scorching Sun on Sundays had paid off.
