Freeport Tournament Information

A note from Jeff Sands, Head Coach at Freeport High School:

We are excited and looking forward to having each of your teams join us for the 2011 Lady Pretzel Invite. It looks like the tournament field will boast another top caliber group of teams. We look forward to having you all here for our tournament and want it to be a fun and competitive experience for your teams.

What a way to begin the 2011 season by playing against some of the top teams in the state! We return (7) teams from last years powerful field and invite one more to join us. Please meet the 2011 tournament teams:
- For the second year in a row we will have the 3A State Champions in our tournament field. Congratulations to Coach Deric Linder and Metamora High School on capturing the 2010 (3A) State Title.
- Congratulations are also in order for Morrison High School, who returns to the tournament field after a 3rd place finish at the 2010 (2A) State Tournament.
- Oak Forest High School will return to defend their 2010 Lady Pretzel Invite title and were the 2009 (3A) State Champions. They advanced to the Super Sectionals in 2010 where they lost to State Champ Metamora.
- Marengo High School will return to the field after finishing 2nd in the 2010 Lady Pretzel Invite to Oak Forest in a great championship game that went extra innings.
- Milledgeville , Freeport and Lena will all return from the 2010 field as well. Milledgeville beat Freeport in the Consolation Championship game in 2010.
- We have added one new team to the 2011 tournament field and would like to welcome University High School (Normal) to the 2011 Invite. U-High advanced to Sectional championship in 2010 where they fell to the 3A State Champions - Metamora.

All games will be played on the NW and SW diamonds at Read Park in Freeport, located at the corner of S. McKinley Ave and W. Empire St. The tournament will begin on Friday afternoon April 1st at 1:00pm with pool play:
- Teams in Pool A play their games on Friday at 1:00 and 4:00. Opponents in the 1:00 games are Milledgeville vs Oak Forest and Freeport vs U-High.
- Teams in Pool B play their games on Friday at 2:30 and 5:30. Opponents for the 2:30 game are Metamora vs Lena and Morrison vs Marengo.