12U Update - AAU National Championship

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12U Update - AAU National Championship

" It was interesting couple of days in bracket play."

By George Templeton

The rampage by Chet Lemon’s Juice continued unabated in Wednesday’s winner bracket in the Division I AAU National Championships at Glen Allen Softball Complex.
The top-seeded Juice drubbed second-seed Blue Springs Classic 12-1 in the winner’s bracket final.
Hunter Lee and Nick Gordon each had three hits and three runs and Drew Sipp had two hits and two runs for the unbeaten Juice (7-0). Jordan Parnell allowed only a run in the third inning.
So far the Juice outscored its opponents 80-8 and will play in the championship round at 2 p.m. Only once, a 2-0 win over RBI Baseball in pool play, have the Juice been pushed in a game, but that doesn’t faze manager Chet Lemon.
“We play so much tough competition in Florida that we’ve already been tested by the fire before we got here,” said Lemon, the former three-time all-star.
Blue Springs Classic drops into the loser’s bracket final Thursday at noon. They will play either the 11th-seeded or Tidewater Drillers the No. 9 seed Florida Phoenix. The Phoenix capped a wild day by coming from 4-0 down in the final two innings to win 6-5 and eliminate the Virginia Shredders.
The most sensational game of the tournament came in a losers bracket battle between 5-Tool Nationals and the Tidewater Drillers. Down 7-3 entering the bottom of the fifth, the Drillers scored nine times to win 12-7. Ryan Tew highlighted the inning with a three-run inside-the-park homer that tied the game at 7 and a wild pitch brought home two runs to seal the win for the Drillers.
“Our goal when the season began was to finish in the top five in a national tournament,” said Drillers manager Lee Butler. “And before the game we talked about how this one would determine if we achieved that goal. We’re just a team that never gives up and once we got the momentum in our favor, we knew we were going to win.”
The winners bracket semifinals took place Wednesday morning. Powered by two-run blasts from Tyrone Perry, his fifth of the tournament, Forrest Walls and Sipp, Chet Lemon’s Juice thumped unbeaten fifth-seed Virginia Shredders 10-0 in five innings to reach the winner‘s bracket final. Nicolas Gordon, son of major-league reliever Tom Gordon, held the Shredders to two hits in a complete-game win.
“We’re excited, we’ve played extremely well,” Lemon said. “We’ve had a lot of things go our way. All these teams are talented and extremely competitive.”
Blue Springs Classic maintained their hopes for back-to-back titles by playing small ball to beat the Tidewater Drillers 4-1. Two of Classic’s runs came via RBI groundouts from Derek Ruff and David Stober. Philip Maggio singled one run and an error plated the other. That was enough for Dalton Moats, who continued the Classic’s excellent run of pitching with five shutout innings. The Drillers pushed across a run in the sixth, the first earned run Blue Springs Classic allowed in this tournament.
“We got a lot of speed, we run the bases well, we put pressure on the other team’s defense and pitcher,” Classic manager Tim Pogue said. “We put the ball in play, we only had two strikeouts before today’s game (against the Drillers) and we had three.”
Bracket play began Tuesday and the top teams continued their dominance, while one team sprung a little surprise. Top seed Chet Lemon’s Juice and second-seeded defending champs Blue Springs Classic each won twice to advance to Wednesday winner bracket semifinals. The Juice picked up two more mercy-rule victories over the Southern Maryland Storm (14-3) and RBI Baseball (13-3). Blue Springs Classic shutout the Strongsville Stallions 7-0 and then survived five unearned runs in the sixth to defeat Team Players 8-5.
Pool C winner, the fifth-seeded Virginia Shredders, stopped Hanover Sports’ upset bid 11-8 and then defeated Pool B winner 5-Tool Nationals 7-4. The surprise was the 11th-seeded Tidewater Drillers, runners up in Pool D. The Drillers toppled the Central Virginia Mustangs, winner of Pool F, 8-5, then won a rematch with Pool D victors FLA-CAT 4-0.

Championship bracket results
Winners bracket first round:
No. 1 Chet Lemon’s Juice 14, Southern Maryland Storm 3; No. 8 RBI Baseball 6, No. 9 Florida Phoenix 4; No. 5 Virginia Shredders 11, No. 12 Hanover Sports 8; No. 4 5-Tool National 6, No. 13 Ohio Storm 2; No. 3 FLA-CAT 3, No. 14 South Jersey Young Guns 2; No. 11 Tidewater Drillers 8, No. 6 Central Virginia Mustangs 5; No. 7 Team Players 7, No. 10 South Shore Seadogs 0; No. 2 Blue Springs 7, No. 15 Stallions 0

Winner’s bracket second round:
Chet Lemon’s Juice 13, RBI Baseball 3; Virginia Shredders 7, 5-Tool Nationals 4; Tidewater Drillers 4, FLA-CAT 0; Blue Springs 8, Team Players 5

Losers bracket first round:
Florida Phoenix 9, Southern Maryland Storm 1; Ohio Storm 9, Hanover Sports 3; Central Virginia Mustangs 5, South Jersey Young Guns 1; Strongsville Stallion 8, South Shore Seadogs 2

Winners bracket semifinals:
Chet Lemon’s Juice 10, Virginia Shredders 0; Blue Springs Classic 4, Tidewater Driller 1

Losers bracket second round:
Florida Phoenix 8, Team Players 6 (9); Ohio Storm 7, FLA-CAT 5; 5-Tool National 7, Central Virginia Mustangs 1; Strongsville Stallions 3, RBI Baseball 2

Losers bracket third round:
Florida Phoenix 8, Ohio Storm 2; 5-Tool National 3, Strongsville Stallions 2

Losers bracket fourth round:
Tidewater Drillers 12, 5-Tool Nationals 7; Florida Phoenix 6, Virginia Shredders 5

Winners bracket final:
Chet Lemon’s Juice 12, Blue Springs Classic 1

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