Welcome to the Final Four of the 2017 Uniform Of The Year Bracket. This round of voting will remain open through midnight Friday, March 31.
Click here for the full bracket, here for the original introductory post explaining the bracket, here for a recap of the Round of 64, here for a recap of the Round of 32, and here for a rundown of the Sweet 16.
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An impressive 3,568 more votes were cast in the four Elite Eight matchups, with 1,015 votes cast in the Monett Softball vs. Willow Springs Softball matchup alone. Over 900 votes were cast in each of Plato Baseball vs. Mountain Grove Baseball and Norwood Baseball vs. Parkview Boys Soccer.
We have one double-digit seed still alive in 12-seed Rogersville Baseball, which took down 10-seed Waynesville Softball 481-218. There were no huge seeding upsets in the Elite Eight, but 5-seed Willow Springs Softball eliminated 2-seed Monett Softball, which had been dominating up to that matchup, 529-486. Also in the Final Four is 1-seed Norwood Baseball and 2-seed Plato Baseball.
We’ve had four rounds and 21,686 votes. Which is awesome! Your Final Four matchups are below.
Final Four, Stirrups Champion vs. High Tops Champion
(1) Norwood Baseball vs. (12) Rogersville Baseball
Norwood is a classic through and through. This starts at the stirrups (which made their way onto a pretty popular uni Twitter account last week), the royal blue pops against the white pants and the red/white/blue horizontal stripes are fantastic. The “NORWOOD” lettering has a classic feel across the chest and the red hat with an original Pirates logo is a great touch. Add the red sleeves and white uni outline and this was an easy top seed. These Rogersville baseball uniforms are one-of-a-kind. Start with the oversized olde-time “R” in the middle of the chest, then look at the the thick maroon stripe bookended by a pair of grey horizontal stripes (also on the sleeves).
Final Four, Pinstripes Champion vs. Short Shorts Champion
One of our favorites is Plato baseball. A great traditional uniform good enough for college ball, Plato’s old-school enlarged “P” above the heart shares the front of this uniform only with the uniform number on the bottom-right (an odd but cool spot for a number). Then there’s the hats. Again, the “P” looks great, but what makes these A+ are the colored seams surrounding the cap. There’s nothing like it around, and that’s a shame because it’s so so good. Willow Springs softball looks great with these maroon unis and white helmets. The bear mascot takes center stage on both and we loved the choice to go with an oversized logo on the uniform itself. Plus, white pants and a dark-colored high sock pairing is always good.
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