For the 2017 Iron City Classic there was one
mounds field used as well as a Hyperball
and woodsball fields. This was a bring-your-
own paint event (or buy at the field) and the
variety of markers used was amazing! The
mounds field was similar to what it looked
like when it was last used in the NPPL but
with much more green growth covering it.
The first year these fields were used (1996)
the mounds were straight dirt. Over the
next four years they became more and
more green. Now imagine 17 years later.
You get the picture.
From the get-go Bad Company, Fox 4
Darkside, Saberwolves and Team Image
‘95 looked strong, each winning their first
four games (six for Fox 4 Darkside and
Saberwolves). The stacked Philly Americans
(Adam Gardner, Todd Hugo, Chad Bouchez
, Samuel Monville , etc.) got off to a rough
start losing their first two games, both on
the mounds fields. They came back to win
their next six games, looking particularly
strong on the Hyperball and woods fields.
The All Americans (Frank Connell, Spesh
Robinson, Mark Biletnikoff, etc.) were
the only team to win seven of their eight
preliminary round games.
Moving onto the round robin old school
style semifinals were Bad Company, Philly
Americans, All Americans and Washington
Winstons in the first bracket and Team
Image ’95, Fox 4 Darkside, Image and
Saberwolves in the second bracket. In the
semis each team would play their whole
bracket and the top two scores would move
on to the four team round robin finals.
In the first bracket Bad Company and
Philly Americans would each win two of
three games and move onto the final.
Bracket two saw Team Image ’95 and Fox 4
Darkside each win two and advance. In the
finals Team Image ’95 would be the only
team to win two of three games, but those
wins were low scoring body count wins (21
and 41 points each). The Philly Americans
were able to max one game (94) points and
that one win was enough to take home the
first place trophy.
Tim Montressor (former Philly American and
current member of Tampa Bay Damage),
the game’s promoter did an amazing job
putting this event together and plans for
next year’s event are already underway.
Stay tuned here for more details.
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