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CONGRATULATIONS DIXIE INDIANS ON WINNING 2ND PLACE IN THE MARCH MADNESS 2009 TOURNAMENT 13U!!!
The Dixie Indians finished the March Madness 2009 Tournament on Saturday, March 21st by beating the Taylorsville Warriors, and then the Utah Raiders in order to advance to the Championship game against the Utah Horns.
It was a long day, and after 3 back-to-back games, the Indians can certainly keep their heads high knowing that out of 40 teams, they were one of the final top 2 teams. Way to go boys!

The March Madness tournament is underway and the Dixie Indians have taken their opponents by storm. The Indians have again gone 4 and 0 in pool play with an impressive defensive front by allowing only 7 runs in 4 games. They've also been a scoring machine in offense with a total of 46 runs. With such impressive stats, the Indians are seeded #3 for Saturday's championship bracket against Taylorsville, the #6 seed.

The tournament started off on Thursday in Mesquite against the Lone Peak Nights. The Indians were on the scoreboard first with 2 runs. Evan was the starting pitcher and pitched the first 3 innings, and backed by strong defense, the Knights were unable to score. Braxton relieved Evan and although throwing hard, the Knights found their bats and battled back with some solid grounders down the third base line. Soon the score was tied at 2. In their final at bat, the Knights drove in another run to go up by 1 run.

The Indians had one more chance to tie or win the game. Evan was the first batter and started the rally by hitting a double. Evan advanced to 3rd on a wild pitch. With a single from Clay, he earned a RBI by hitting Evan in to tie up the game. Justice then had a single, as did Dylan with also a RBI to hit Clay in. The Indians were now up by 1 but continued with their scoring momentum with Braxton walking, a single from Tyler, a single from Gavin (and 2 RBI's), and KJ with another single (and RBI). After adding 6 runs to the scoreboard in the final inning, the game was called due as the game-time expired. The final score was 8 to 3.

The Dixie Indians then had a break between their next game against the Cache Sox. The game got a late start and we started at almost 10:00 at night, Utah time. (Sorry, no pics, it's too hard once it gets dark). The Indians were visitors. We started out the first inning and scored 1 on an RBI from Braxton. Everyone was hitting solid. Then it was the Sox's turn but with Gavin at the mound, the Sox were no match for the Indians. Gavin struck out the first 2 batters, walked the next one, and then Chance got the 3rd out by catching a hard hit fly ball in right field.

The second inning was a pitchers-dual between the pitchers. Gavin struck out the Sox's first 2 batters and then must have felt sorry for the 3rd batter as he hit him with a pitch so they could have a runner on base. Clay couldn't sympathize though and fielded the next batters hit, and threw him out at first base.

The third inning was pretty much batting practice for the Indians who scored 5 runs with Clay, Justice, Dylan, Braxton, and Tyler all hitting singles, and Gavin hitting a hard-double (HD). Not only were the Indians hitting, they were running too. Danny was sending most of the Indians from 2nd base into home each time a single was hit. The Sox then had their "ups"...which then became "downs" with Gavin striking out 2 batters, and KJ throwing one out from 2nd base.

In the fourth inning, the score was still 6 to 0. Clay came in to pitch and did a great job with one strike out. Jordan also made a great catch during the inning by chasing down and leaping for a fly ball in left-field, robbing the Sox of a great hit.


In the last inning, the Indians went to work again with their bats and scored 3 more runs with hits from Justice, Dylan, Braxton, Tyler, and Gavin. The Indians then held the Sox scoreless, winning the game 9 to 0.


Springtime Fans Were Out on Friday
to Support our Favorite Boys of Summer

Friday's game started off against the Tuff Country Predators and the Dixie Indians were ready to play ball. KJ was the starting pitcher and had 3 great innings.

Dylan pitched the last 2 innings and also pitched great, throwing hard with several "K's". He also went against his dad's predication that he'd hit the 1st batter, and didn't hit anyone :)

Other game highlights came with a full-circle (whoops) catch from Jordan in left field, some great fielding and catching from Tyler who almost threw out a couple of base runners at 1st base (from his knees), and great hitting from everyone.


Since I was also keeping score and busily shading in the 15 runs by the Indians, there wasn't much time to write more stats down other than all the boys were playing awesome and the Predators need to find someone other than Indians to feast on. Final score was 15 to 2.

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