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Show Out-of-towners dominate men's Softball tournament by Randy Hanskat "It was the most competitive com-petitive tournament we've ever had." That's how Joy Rasmussen of the Recreation Department described the action of the Eleventh Annual Park City Men's Invitational Softball Tournament which was held over the Labor Day weekend. In fact, the competition proved much too tough for the five hometown teams in the tournament. Jan's Mountain Moun-tain Outfitters, the champions cham-pions of the Park City league, made it the farthest of any local team, but could reach only the third round of the loser's bracket before going down to the Turbos of Salt Lake. It was the Bullshooters from Tooele who proved to be the cream of the crop, never losing a game. In their fifth and final game they beat Steve's Auto of Heber 14-9. It was the second time that the Bullshooters had beaten Steve's in the tournament. tour-nament. After their first defeat, Steve's went into the loser's bracket and mopped up on the competition, taking the difficult route into the final game. But in the final, Steve's looked a bit worn out. They played seven games to get into the finals, while the Bullshooters played only four. After the Bullshooters and Steve's "came the BrothersRoberts Bibs from Orem, and SBS from Salt Lake. SBS was a typical home-run-hitting team, relying on a fence to keep fielders from catching their balls. Park City has no such fence, so many shots that would have been gone in other parks were merely long outs here. Still, the SBS hitters smacked out the only over-the-fence home run to be hit at City Park this year. The shot hit about eight feet up the Snow Country condo building in left field. The weather cooperated to make the tourney fun for players and fans alike. After some rain problems Saturday, Satur-day, Sunday and Monday I turned out to be beautiful, bringing out lots of beer soakedsun stroked spectators spec-tators for the Monday action. One interested spectator was Becky Fry, wife of Brent Fry of the Brothers team. Heavily pregnant, Becky counted her contractions contrac-tions while counting her husband's hits, delivering a baby boy after the game. After Af-ter such excitement on Sunday, Sun-day, no one expected her to be back for the final games Monday, but sure enough she was in attendance with the new arrival in her arms. For her valiant spectatorship, Becky received the "Crybaby Award," an award normally reserved for bad sportsmanship. |