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Legion baseball tournament schedules

Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 6:14 PM

There are a couple Legion baseball tournaments taking place in Cape Girardeau this weekend.

The first is the Senior Legion District 14 Tournament, which features just three teams this year. Sikeston has dropped out after not having the required 12 players to compete. The tournament is being playing at the Notre Dame High School field.

Thursday

Game 1: Cape vs. Pemiscot County, 4 p.m.

Game 2: Winner Game 1 vs. Jackson, 7 p.m.

Friday

Game 3: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 4 p.m.

Game 4: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3, 7 p.m.

Saturday

Game 5: Winner Game 4 vs. Loser Game 4 (if necessary), 7 p.m.

The three-team Junior Legion district tournament was held last week with Jackson emerging victorious. Jackson will host the zone tournament this weekend at Legion Field in the city park. Cape lost to Jackson in the district title game but gets to participate in the zone tournament because of Legion baseball's hosting rules, which guaranteed Jackson a spot in the field along with another team from its district.

Thursday

Game 1: Cape vs. Eureka, 3 p.m.

Game 2: Ste. Genevieve vs. Ballwin, 5:30 p.m.

Game 3: Winner Game 1 vs. Jackson, 8 p.m.

Friday

Game 4: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 5 p.m.

Game 5: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

Game 6: Winner Game 4 vs. Loser Game 3, 1 p.m.

Game 7: Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 5, 3:30 p.m.

Sunday

Game 8: Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 7, 1 p.m.

Game 9: Winner Game 8 vs. Loser Game 8 (if necessary), 3:30 p.m.

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Jackson freshman legion won it's opening round game vs Springfield Glendale 1-0 in Washington mo.

-- Posted by Attaboy on Wed, Jul 16, 2014, at 6:35 PM
I sure am looking forward to the American Legion baseball tournament. Too bad there aren't more teams competing.

-- Posted by Dustin Ward on Wed, Jul 16, 2014, at 11:02 PM

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