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2nd RBI Baseball COTUT

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Quick Summary

Players, Dates, Fees, & Prizes
The Second RBI Baseball COTUT was a 32 man, double elimination series tournament that occurred over a three day period from Friday December 27th to Sunday December 29th, 2002. The entry fee was $10.00 per person. The prize money was as follows:

Final Place	Prize Money
1st Place	$128.00
2nd Place	$64.00
3rd Place	$44.00
4th Place	$32.00
5th Place	$26.00
5th Place	$26.00

Lottery
A lottery was held on Wednesday November 27th, 2002. Names were randomly drawn from a box. Each player's series start time, session number, and opponent for the first series were determined by the lottery.

Location
The Second RBI Baseball Championship of the Universe Tournament was held in Brookfield, IL.

Players & Seeds

Seed	Player	Seed	Player
1	Mike O'Connor (Illinois)	17	Jason Kazmierczak (Illinois)
2	Mike Callan (Illinois)	18	Pat McGuire (Arizona)
3	Mike Beales (Illinois)	19	Jerry Reid (Illinois)
4	Will Davies (Illinois)	20	Jake Davies (Illinois)⁴
5	Jim Nachtman (Illinois)	21	Ray Sevier (Washington)
6	Joe O'Connor (Illinois)	22	Josh Yee (Illinois)
7	Jason Gough (Illinois)	23	Joey Freedman (Texas)
8	John O'Connor (Illinois)	24	Colin Foster (Illinois)
9	Mark DiPasquale (Illinois)	25	Jim Vesecky (Illinois)
10	Robb Liekis (Illinois)	26	Dragan Lukic (Illinois)
11	Brian Lipinski (Illinois)	27	Tim McDonald (Illinois)
12	Steve Thin (Illinois)³	28	Mike Shepski (Illinois)¹
13	Jeff Bandur (Illinois)	29	Gantry Zettler (Illinois)
14	Dave Raila (Illinois)	30	Marty Stroka (Illinois)
15	Justin Crowell (Indiana)²	31	Pat Johnson (Illinois)
16	Jim Callan (Illinois)	32	John Drissen (Illinois)

Reserve List

Seed	Player	Seed	Player
R₁	Dave Shields (Illinois)	R₄	Ryan Strassburger (Illinois)²
R₂	Joe Stachyra (Illinois)	R₅	Brendan Clarke (Massachusetts)³
R₃	Matt Hindman (Illinois)¹	R₆	Rolando Ortiz (Illinois)⁴

¹ Matt Hindman (Seed 28), due to work conflicts, was replaced on Dec.15th with Mike Shepski (R).
² Ryan Strassburger (Seed 15), due to a broken thumb, was replaced on Dec. 26th with Justin Crowell (R).
³ Brendan Clarke (Seed 12), due to his grandmother's passing, was replaced on Dec. 26th with Steve Thin (R).
⁴ Rolando Ortiz (Seed 20), due to work conflicts, was replaced on Dec. 26th with Jake Davies (R).

Brackets

The 2nd RBI Baseball COTUT Brackets (.pdf - 36.9 KB)

The 2nd RBI Baseball COTUT Completed Brackets (.pdf - 55.4 KB)

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Scorecard

The 2nd RBI Baseball COTUT Scorecard (.doc - 965.0 KB)

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Results

Place	Player	Place	Player
1st	Colin Foster (IL)	17th	Jake Davies (IL)
2nd	Mike Beales (IL)	17th	Will Davies (IL)
3rd	Joey Freedman (TX)	17th	Jason Gough (IL)
4th	Jim Callan (IL)	17th	Brian Lipinski (IL)
5th	John Drissen (IL)	17th	Dave Raila (IL)
5th	John O'Connor (IL)	17th	Ray Sevier (WA)
7th	Jeff Bandur (IL)	17th	Mike Shepski (IL)
7th	Tim McDonald (IL)	17th	Gantry Zettler (IL)
9th	Mark DiPasquale (IL)	25th	Mike Callan (IL)
9th	Jason Kazmierczak (IL)	25th	Justin Crowell (IN)
9th	Joe O'Connor (IL)	25th	Pat Johnson (IL)
9th	Marty Stroka (IL)	25th	Dragan Lukic (IL)
13th	Robb Liekis (IL)	25th	Jim Nachtman (IL)
13th	Pat McGuire (AZ)	25th	Jerry Reid (IL)
13th	Mike O'Connor (IL)	25th	Steve Thin (IL)
13th	Jim Vesecky (IL)	25th	Josh Yee (IL)