{"id":1283,"date":"2012-08-15T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/festiball.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2019-08-15T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:02:45","slug":"2012-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"2012 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lost Souls take top prize at the Festiball<\/h1>\n
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Thu 30 Aug 2012<\/p>\n

The Lost Souls<\/strong>, a team made up of NSL\/GB players mixed in with players from the Edinburgh league team Souls, held off a late rally by the 2012 Platinum Champions Manchester Greensox<\/strong> to take the top prize \u2013 the Pentlands Cup \u2013 at the 2012 Edinburgh Festiball, played at Pfeffermill Field in Edinburgh on August 25-26.<\/p>\n

Thirty-two teams competed over four levels of play, with eight teams in each level.\u00a0 Several new teams took part, including a newly-formed Kamikazes B team (the KKs) and the Monmouth Rockets, a group of schoolchildren and their teachers who first started playing earlier this year, and who came all the way from Wales.<\/p>\n

After a full round-robin at each level, all teams reached a semi-final in either the Cup or Plate competition at their level, so all 32 teams had the opportunity to win a prize.<\/p>\n

As for the weather, it could easily have been worse.\u00a0 Saturday began with a bit of drizzle followed by afternoon sunshine until the last round of games, which had to endure some heavy rain.\u00a0 Sunday started dry and overcast, but by mid-morning the sun came out and stayed for the rest of the day.\u00a0 No wind at all meant very pleasant softball conditions.<\/p>\n

Results<\/h2>\n

Results for the four competition levels were:
\nPENTLANDS COMPETITION<\/strong>
\nCup Winner:\u00a0<\/strong> Lost Souls (UK)
\nCup Runner-up:<\/strong>\u00a0 Greensox (Manchester)
\nPlate Winner:\u00a0<\/strong> Slammers (UK)
\nPlate Runner-up:\u00a0<\/strong> Rally Caps (Edinburgh)<\/p>\n

MVPs:<\/strong>\u00a0 Danny Gunn and Liz Knight (Greensox)
\nBRAIDS COMPETITION
\nCup Winner:\u00a0 <\/strong>Dodgers (Edinburgh)
\nCup Runner-up:\u00a0 <\/strong>Guerillas (London)
\nPlate Winne<\/strong>r:\u00a0 Chargers (London)
\nPlate Runner-up:\u00a0<\/strong> Outlaws (Manchester)<\/p>\n

MVPs:<\/strong>\u00a0 Lucy Binding and Albert Rodriguez (Dodgers)<\/p>\n

Dodgers Captain Gilberto Martinez was overjoyed at the win: “After eight years of trying we finally win the Festiball!”
\nBLACKFORD COMPETITION<\/strong>
\nCup Winner:<\/strong>\u00a0 Multiple Monkeys (Bristol)
\nCup Runner-up:\u00a0 <\/strong>Spitting Camels (Manchester)
\nPlate Winner:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mutant Ears (Manchester)
\nPlate Runner-up<\/strong>: DohNuts (Edinburgh)<\/p>\n

MVPs:\u00a0 <\/strong>Alex Shelton and Sarah Bennett (Spitting Camels)
\nCALTON COMPETITION
\nCup Winner:\u00a0 <\/strong>Sporting Hangovers (Edinburgh)
\nCup Runner-up<\/strong>:\u00a0 Vandals Edinburgh)
\nPlate Winner<\/strong>:\u00a0 Vultures (Edinburgh)
\nPlate Runner-up<\/strong>:\u00a0 Redbacks (Nottingham)<\/p>\n

MVPs:<\/strong>\u00a0 Geraldine Cavanagh and Richard Smith (Sporting Hangovers)<\/p>\n

Grand Final<\/h2>\n

The Final of the Pentlands Competition<\/strong> between the Manchester Greensox and the Lost Souls was played in front of a large crowd and in glorious sunshine.<\/p>\n

The Souls took an early lead and were 12-4 up after the top of the sixth inning, but the Greensox battled back.\u00a0 Two home runs in the bottom of the sixth cut the lead to 12-7, and a bases-loaded triple by Danny Gunn in the bottom of the seventh helped cut the lead to just a single run at 12-11.\u00a0 But the rally and the game ended with a fly ball out.<\/p>\n

The Greensox also just missed a triple play in the fourth inning when Danny Gunn fielded a hard-hit ground ball at shortstop, tagged the runner who had been on second, stepped on second base to force the runner coming from first and then fired to first base \u2013 but Liz Knight couldn’t hold the throw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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