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| Ryan Morris, Todd Burgos, Travis Earby |
and great baseball instincts guaranteeing them a spot in Saturday’s
elimination round. Game 1 was won in dramatic fashion in the bottom of
the seventh inning with runners at first and third, one out and the
score tied 1-1.
Team Elite’s Travis Earby was on third base with Ryan Morris at the plate facing his high school teammate from Dublin behind the count. After a first pitch fastball called for a strike and a brief meeting on the mound between the pitcher and his coach, Morris took the 0-1 fastball to left field for a base hit driving in Earby for the game winning run.
The key play in the victory happened just before Morris’s hit when centerfielder Todd Burgos, who went 2-3 in the game, beat out a ground ball to shortstop in which the base runner, Travis Earby, went from first to third due to heads up base running when Earby noticed that there was no fielder covering third base.
On the mound for Golden Era was Johnny Punla who pitched a complete game giving up just five hits, walking only two batters, and striking out four Crawdad batters. After Punla gave up one unearned run in the first inning he threw six innings of shutout ball retiring six straight batters at one point.
Game two was dominated by the pitching performances of Clayton Nodal, Tucker Pulliam, and Conner Cabral. The trio combined for seven innings of shutout baseball giving up three hits, walking only one batter, and not allowing a runner past second base. Nodal, from Clayton Valley High School, pitched three innings and struck out 8 of the first 9 North Bay Baseball batters he faced. Nodal ended the game fanning eight batters, three of them looking at strike three, and giving up just one hit.
Golden Era Team Elite got two runs in the second inning after two outs led by Travis Earby who drew a walk after going down in the count 0-2. The following batter for GE was first basemen Tim Curry who took a ball the opposite way after a first pitch strike that moved the speedy Earby to third base.
Bases then got loaded when catcher Mitchell Petures got walked after battling a seven pitch at bat bringing up third basemen Joey Lyle who got hit by a pitch on a 1-1 count bringing in Travis Earby for the first run of the game. Later in the inning a failed pick off attempt to first base got away from North Bay’s fielder and Tim Curry scores from third making it 2-0.
Golden Era got their third and final run in the sixth inning when Ryan Morris led the inning off with a single and then went from first base to third base on a throwing error from third and was later driven in by Connor Cabral’s hit to left field.
Team Elite’s Travis Earby was on third base with Ryan Morris at the plate facing his high school teammate from Dublin behind the count. After a first pitch fastball called for a strike and a brief meeting on the mound between the pitcher and his coach, Morris took the 0-1 fastball to left field for a base hit driving in Earby for the game winning run.
The key play in the victory happened just before Morris’s hit when centerfielder Todd Burgos, who went 2-3 in the game, beat out a ground ball to shortstop in which the base runner, Travis Earby, went from first to third due to heads up base running when Earby noticed that there was no fielder covering third base.
On the mound for Golden Era was Johnny Punla who pitched a complete game giving up just five hits, walking only two batters, and striking out four Crawdad batters. After Punla gave up one unearned run in the first inning he threw six innings of shutout ball retiring six straight batters at one point.
Game two was dominated by the pitching performances of Clayton Nodal, Tucker Pulliam, and Conner Cabral. The trio combined for seven innings of shutout baseball giving up three hits, walking only one batter, and not allowing a runner past second base. Nodal, from Clayton Valley High School, pitched three innings and struck out 8 of the first 9 North Bay Baseball batters he faced. Nodal ended the game fanning eight batters, three of them looking at strike three, and giving up just one hit.
Golden Era Team Elite got two runs in the second inning after two outs led by Travis Earby who drew a walk after going down in the count 0-2. The following batter for GE was first basemen Tim Curry who took a ball the opposite way after a first pitch strike that moved the speedy Earby to third base.
Bases then got loaded when catcher Mitchell Petures got walked after battling a seven pitch at bat bringing up third basemen Joey Lyle who got hit by a pitch on a 1-1 count bringing in Travis Earby for the first run of the game. Later in the inning a failed pick off attempt to first base got away from North Bay’s fielder and Tim Curry scores from third making it 2-0.
Golden Era got their third and final run in the sixth inning when Ryan Morris led the inning off with a single and then went from first base to third base on a throwing error from third and was later driven in by Connor Cabral’s hit to left field.
