Get Back on Bellevue

Last year in our final tournament the Bellevue Squad beat us 2-1 in the championship, and they have "gloated" over this for a year. On Friday night we finally got the chance to play them again, and it was a different story with MBC winning 13-5.

It was an impressive display, a close, hard fought back and forth game, and then it appeared Bellevue ran a bit short on pitching. At that point MBC cruised to victory.

Ethan Clements pitched great on three days rest, going three innings yielding four runs and striking out two. He had some trouble in one inning with drizzling rain. Rain seems to follow Ethan to the mound lately. Tino relieved him for and inning and two thirds and was unhittable, yielding just one hit, one run - BUT walking five. In a bases loaded jam in the sixth, Russell Madche came in and threw a magic double play ball and let the air out of the Bellevue squad.

Offensively it was Tino's night. Tino hit an RBI single in the first, and later scored on Ethan's single. Tino doubled home two in the second and hit a solo home run in the fifth and a two run homer in the sixth. That counted as a 4 - 4 night with five RBI and three runs scored.

Of course Tino had help, Ethan stayed hot with a 2-3 night with 2 RBI, Nick Reeves had two hits and Spencer Hogger, Stuart Fairchild, Quinn Burcham, Adam Hinthorne and Nick Salle added hits.