Out of Steam, Out of Pitching, Out of Time Magnolia Goes Out of the Tournament.

It was a loser out, winner stay in game, but as hard as MBC tried the verdict was out.

MBC scored four in the first. A rare walk to Ben Thomson , a single by Spencer Hogger (2-3) another walk to Tino Peleti was followed by a two RBI single by Stuart Fairchild (2-3) and a sac fly by Campbell Queen. Mitchell Smith’s two-out RBI single showed the Tigers that the MBC bunch was not done bringing the fourth run of the inning.

The Tiger’s matched that total and added five more in the second.

With time running out MBC responded in the fourth with four runs. Jimmy Sheldrup led the inning off with a hit and scored on Peter Rakita’s single. After a walk to AK, Ryan (a/k/a Limping Boy) Doerfler stroked an RBI single to center. After a Tiger error hits by Spencer Hogger and Tino Peleti put MBC within three runs.

But the comeback was over and MBC went down 1 – 2 -3 in the sixth to loose the time shortened game.

All in all it was a fun and exciting tournament. The experience was good for our boys. It was good to see the hard work in practice start to pay dividends for some guys that had been struggling at the plate and it was great to see Ryan Doerfler come back and start contributing.

Some hitting highlights from the tourney:

.571 Chris Luttenin
.556 Mitchell Smith
.556 Spencer Hogger
.500 Sam Deane
.500 Ryan Doefler
.462 Ben Thomson
.417 Tino Peleti
.417 Jimmy Sheldrup
.385 Nick Reeves
.333 Peter Rakita
.300 Campbell Queen