1920 Negro League Tournament Semifinals #2

Cheo Hernández (CSW) v Tom Williams (Chi)
Cuban Stars West         100 000 110 - 3 
Chicago American Giants  000 100 100 - 2 

The Cuban Stars take the first game on the strength of an excellent game from Hernández.


Dave Brown (Chi) v José Leblanc (CSW)
Chicago American Giants  012 000 000 1 - 4 
Cuban Stars West         011 001 000 0 - 3 

The American Giants strike back with the extra innings win.


Tom Johnson (Chi) v Faustino Valdés (CSW)
Cuban Stars West         000 110 110 - 4 
Chicago American Giants  010 021 31x - 8 

After two close games, the American Giants punch their ticket to the tournament finals going away in the later innings.

1951 Baseball Tour of America: Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League - Pittsburg at Iola

From Iola, Kansas.

Pittsburg Browns 110 111 001 - 6 
Iola Indians     110 101 100 - 5   


Pittsburg Browns 102 011 402 - 11 
Iola Indians     001 011 000 -  3 


Pittsburg Browns 101 010 000 1 - 4 
Iola Indians     101 010 000 0 - 3 


Yikes, what a rough series for the hometown Indians.

1920 Negro National League Tournament - Semifinals

Reuben Curry (KC) v Bill Holland (Det)
Kansas City Monarchs  100 010 110 - 4
Detroit Stars         402 110 01x - 9

The Motor City hitmen sure enjoyed what Reuben Curry was dealing.



Bill Gatewood (Det) v Sam Crawford (KC)
Detroit Stars         200 110 010 -  5
Kansas City Monarchs  411 101 41x - 13

The Monarchs turn the tables and even the series with an offensive outburst against Bill Gatewood.



Joe Rogan (KC) v Bill Holland (Det)
Kansas City Monarchs  100 000 010 - 2
Detroit Stars         111 011 00x - 5

Monarchs float like butterflies but get stung by Holland. Stars will take on the winner of the Chicago American Giants/Cuban Stars West series.

1951 Baseball Tour - Interstate League - Allentown at Hagerstown

Next up - Hagerstown, Maryland

Allentown  Cardinals 101 111 003 -  8 
Hagerstown Braves    111 005 21x - 11 

The Braves win the opening game in this clash of the league's two best teams.


Allentown Cardinals 301 111 401 - 12 
Hagerstown Braves   101 021 000 -  5 

The Cards strike back in another high scoring bash. The two teams are abusing the pitchers. 



Allentown Cardinals 001 011 011 - 5  
Hagerstown Braves   101 100 010 - 4  

The Cards take the rubber game with a ninth inning run. This was practically a pitchers' duel compared to the first two games.

And that's it for the Interstate League.

1951 Baseball Tour - Interstate League - Harrisburg at Salisbury

Off to Salisbury, Maryland.


Harrisburg Senators 100 100 110 - 4 
Salisbury A's       010 001 001 - 3 

Senators invoke cloture on A's ninth inning filibuster.


Harrisburg Senators  001 010 110 1 - 5 
Salisbury A's        100 000 111 0 - 4 

A's rally in later innings only to see the Senators win
in ten.


Harrisburg Senators  000 110 000 - 2 
Salisbury A's        011 010 00x - 3 

The A's avoid the sweep with the win in this well-pitched game. Each team managed only five hits.

1951 Baseball Tour - Interstate League - Sunbury at Wilmington

From Pennsylvania, it's off to Delaware.

Sunbury Giants        001 011 000 - 3 
Wilmington Blue Rocks 001 000 21x - 4 

Blue Rocks needed to rally in the late innings despite banging out 15 hits.


Sunbury Giants        114 010 100 - 8 
Wilmington Blue Rocks 212 031 00x - 9 

Rough day to be a pitcher! Blue Rocks now poised for the home sweep.


Sunbury Giants        100 010 001 - 3 
Wilmington Blue Rocks 210 000 31x - 7 

Blue Rocks complete the sweep with an easy win.

1920 Negro National League Tournament Round 1 - Chi. Am. Giants v Chi. Giants

Chicago Giants vs Chicago American Giants

John Taylor (CG) v. Tom Williams (CAG)
Giants            010 000 000 - 1 
American Giants   101 011 10X - 5 


Dave Brown (CAG) v Luther Farrell (CG)
American Giants   101 110 100 - 5 
Giants            010 001 011 - 4 


Have to give the Giants credit for putting up a good fight in the late innings of game two. The American Giants were the best team in the league in the regular season while the Giants were by far the worst. The Giants could have folded easily with such a discrepancy in talent.

1920 Negro National League Tournament Round 1 - Detroit Stars v Dayton Marcos

George Britt (Day) v Bill Holland (Det)
Dayton  000 010 001 - 2 
Detroit 101 021 11x - 7 

Dominating performance by Holland who received plenty of run support.


Bill Gatewood (Det) v Charley Wilson (Day)
Detroit 010 011 011 - 5 
Dayton  001 010 101 - 4 

The Marcos don't go down without a fight, but go down they do as a ninth rally fizzles with the tying run in scoring position.

The Stars meanwhile advance to the semifinals where they will tangle with the Kansas City Monarchs.

2006 NCAA Women's Hockey Frozen Four and Championship

Frozen Four
Harvard           0
Minnesota         2

Minnesota-Duluth  1
Wisconsin         3


Championship
Minnesota         1
Wisconsin         2

2006 NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament Quarterfinals

New Hampshire     3
Harvard           4

Minnesota         3
Princeton         2

St. Lawrence      0
Minnesota-Duluth  1

Wisconsin         2
Mercyhurst        1 OT

1920 Negro National League Tournament - Round 1 - Indianapolis ABCs v Cubans West Stars

Now the second series.

Dizzy Dismukes (Ind) v Cheo Hernández (Cub)
Cubans        001 101 010 - 4 
Indianapolis  015 000 110 - 8 

ABCs rough up Hernández with a big third inning.



Dicta Johnson (Ind) v. José Leblanc (Cub)
Indianapolis  001 000 100 - 2 
Cubans        100 111 00x - 4 

ABCs get 10 hits off of Leblanc, but he strands all but two. Series tied 1-1.


Faustino Valdés (Cub) v Jim Jeffries (Ind).
Cubans        100 110 010 11 - 6 
Indianapolis  100 011 100 10 - 5 

What a game! It was a shame that anyone had to lose it. The Cubans took the early lead,but the ABCs fight back to tie. Then the teams trade runs until the Cubans win it in eleven.

1956 Summer Olympics Women's 4x100 Relay

Although this race held true to real life form, there were a number of twists along the way.

The heavily favored Australians were steady but unspectacular in the first 150 meters while the Americans managed to match them them stride for stride at the end of the second leg. However, a disastrous beginning of the third leg dropped the Americans to third while the Brits and Aussies were running stride for stride.

With the world's best sprinter Elizabeth Cuthbert anchoring the last 100 meters, the Aussies had to like their chances. Enigmatically though, Cuthbert started her leg off terribly slow allowing Britain to take the lead. Just as it was looking as if the Brits may steal the gold from the Aussies, in Melbourne no less, Cuthbert showed her true talent with a blazing finish to claim the gold.

1. Australia       45.17
2. Great Britain   45.25
3. USA             45.34

4. Germany         45.52
5. Italy           45.61
6. USSR            45.66 

1956 Summer Olympics Men's 4 x 100 metre relay

1. USA            39.54
2. USSR           39.67
3. Germany        40.34

4. Italy          40.42
5. Poland         41.23
6. Great Britain  41.39


USSR actually led the second and third legs of the relay, but Bobby Morrow's outstanding anchor leg brought home the gold for the US. The US team was Ira Murchison, Bobby Morrow, Leamon King, and Thane Baker.

1920 Negro National League Tournament Round 1 - StL v KC

I don't have enough patience to do long replays, so how about a tournament instead? This is the 1920 Negro National League using Spring Coming Baseball. The format is best of three.

This link has great info about the league.
http://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/year.php?yearID=1920&lgID=NNL

First series - Kansas City Monarchs versus St. Louis Giants. I took creative license and added starting pitchers to the narrative.

Game 1
Bill Drake (StL) vs Reuben Curry (KC)
Giants 3  - Monarchs 4
The Monarchs carried a 3-1 lead into the top of the 8th when the Giants scored a single run to make it a 3-2 game. The Giants added another run in the top of the ninth to tie the game only to see the Monarchs win it walk off style in the bottom of the ninth.

Game 2
Sam Crawford (KC) v Wayne Curry (StL)
Monarchs 1 - Giants 3
Crawford was good, but Curry was even better tossing six shutout innings before the Monarchs managed a single run in the seventh.

Game 3
John Finner (StL) v Bullet Joe Rogan (KC)
Giants 1  -  Monarchs 2
Single runs in the first and second gave the Hall of Famer Rogan all the run support he would need as he wins the series for the Monarchs by out-dueling Finner.

Monarchs advance to the semifinals.

2006 Men's NCAA Hockey Tournament Frozen Four and Championship

Frozen Four
Maine             3
Wisconsin         4 OT

Boston University 4 
North Dakota      3 2OT


Championship
Wisconsin         3
Boston University 2

2006 NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament Quarterfinals

Maine              3
Michigan State     1

Wisconsin          3
Cornell            1

Boston University  4
Boston College     3

Holy Cross         2
North Dakota       4

2006 NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament First Round

Michigan State     2
New Hampshire      1

Harvard            1
Maine              5

Wisconsin          3
Bemidji State      1

Cornell            2
Colorado College   1

Boston University  7
Nebraska-Omaha     3

Miami              1
Boston College     4

Minnesota          4
Holy Cross         5 OT

North Dakota       7
Michigan           2

1951 Baseball Tour - Interstate League - Lancaster at York

We stay in Pennsylvania, but switch leagues.

Lancaster 010 110 011 - 5 
York      001 100 101 - 4 

Lancaster 110 112 101 - 8 
York      001 000 110 - 3 

Lancaster 011 100 000 1 - 4 
York      000 010 101 0 - 3 

The Red Roses sweep the White Roses in this royal rumble.