49th Annual Smoky Mountain Classic!
7/9/2017
1st Place – Smash It Sports/TDB/Miken/Worth
As we always say after the Smoky: "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday!"
The 49th Annual Smoky Mountain Classic featured some upsets, a bunch of home runs, and a record shattering Sunday of softball. Smash It Sports/TDB/Miken/Worth the #1 Major team in the Nationwide Conference USSSA won their 7th tournament of the year and came from a 25-10 deficit early and a 7 run deficit in the top of the 7th inning to score 29 runs in the final inning and win the championship game by an all time Smoky record score of 86-72 over Resmondo/O.A. Apparel/HAuto/SPTank/Easton. SIS/Thunder/Miken/Worth/Louisville was 3rd and surprise 'AA' team Nightmare/Miken was 4th.
I will have a full tournament report, pictures, video clips, and archive games posted Monday and Tuesday here on SoftballCenter.com
2017 Smoky Bracket and info Link
You can watch some of the main field games on the USSSA-Slowpitch Softball page on Facebook page under Videos
One of the Sunday videos received over 46,000 views so far.
Smash It Sports Ryan Harvey was tournament MVP.
33-37 .891 23 HR 39 RBI
Harvey also tied the all time record with 7 HR in one game.
Bryson Baker led the tournament in homers with 29 (I will verify that number this week)
He had a record tying 7 HR in the final game and was in the hole when the last out was made.
3rd Place – SIS/Thunder/Miken/Worth/Louisville
4th Place – Nightmare/Miken
Nightmare takes on SIS/Thunder in the fog Sunday morning
The record setting game. The championship game.
Smash It Sports 86 and Resmondo 72
Smash It had 35 homers and Resmondo 38