The Quad Cities Baseball Association 12-and-under Black baseball team has qualified for the South Central Youth Baseball League state tournament.
The locals earned the berth by virtue of their first-place 6-2-1 league record through July 3. QCBA also had another 12-and-under team, the Red squad, which finished 4-3-1 in league play.
The 12-and-under state tournament is July 26-28 at Owatonna.
All local SCYB teams will finish the regular season before the end-of-year league tournaments, set for July 19-21 at the following sites: 11U, Mapleton; 12U, New Richland; 13U, Lake Crystal; 14U, Lake Crystal; 15-15U, Mankato.Here are the league standings through July 3, which determined the state tournament berths:
11-and-under
Maple River Blue 8-1
Wells 5-3
Quad Cities 4-5
Maple River Green 4-5
St. Clair Black 4-5
Albert Lea 4-4
JWP 3-6
St. Clair Red 3-6
12-and-under
Quad Cities Black 6-2-1
Maple River Green 6-3
Wells 5-2
Maple River Blue 5-3
Quad Cities Red 4-3-1
Albert Lea 4-5
St. Clair 3-6
Owatonna 0-9
13-and-under
St. Clair 7-1
Maple River 6-1
LCWM 5-2
Albert Lea 4-3
Quad Cities 3-4
Nicollet 3-4
Owatonna 1-6
JWP 0-8
14-and-under
Maple River Green 6-0
JWP 4-0
WEM 4-1
Maple River Blue 3-1
LCWM 2-1
Quad Cities 3-2
Owatonna 2-3
USC 1-4
Blooming Prairie 1-4
Mankato Evenson 1-5
Mankato Scheel’s 0-6
15/16-and-under
Nicollet 7-0
WEM 4-1
Quad Cities 3-4
Eagle Lake 2-3
Mankato 0-8