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THE WILDCARDS
OF CAL STATE LONG BEACH
LONG BEACH
ALUMNI TEAM - NIT 2002
Started
like a an ordinary and inexperienced co-ed softball team back
in the early 1990's. It was not too long ago that they started
picking up a few experienced players and started slowly moving
up in the Sportsfest rankings. During the mid 1990's, they
have become one of the most dominant teams along with CSUN
FASA Alumni, Oxnard College and Cal Poly Pomona. However they
would always seem to come up 1 or 2 games short of a championship
title against those big 3 teams of the mid 1990's. Not even
a coin toss would help them out. It wasn't until 1999 they
won their first Sportsfest title against El Camino College.
Since then, they took the LMU Battle of the Imports softball
title and in 2002, LB Alumni won their first NIT title.
Their
most exciting championship title moment run was at NIT which
I was on that team. This is where we lost all our round robin
games (3). We even got beat really bad by the weaker teams.
Basically it was the most embarassing losses I ever experienced.
Fortunately, all the tourney teams qualified for the playoffs
and we were fortunate that we made it with an 0-3 record.
By qualifying for the playoffs with our bad record, it not
only gave us a 2nd chance, but there was no pressure on us
because none of the teams thought it would be possible. Most
of the teams didn't we can beat them. Well it turned out they
we upsetted every team in the tourney and wound up beating
the 2002 Sportsfest Champs from Southwestern Pagka Alumni.
Wildcards: Don't know who are the Wildcards??? Well
this the team that began as an Asian American co-ed softball
team from Cal State Long Beach.
Been playing for a long time in the Sportsfest and NIT tourneys
as a co-ed team.
Now have
form a men's E team mostly from LA, Orange County, San Diego
and Oxnard last October (2002). With a somewhat newly formed
team. We are pretty unpredictable. Sometimes we win, sometimes
we lose. But we give it a lot of effort and fly by the seat
of our pants. Hence Wildcards. We are ready for the big challenge
that comes our way!!
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