12U NYBC Champions - Chet Lemon's Juice from Orlando, Florida

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12U NYBC Champions - Chet Lemon's Juice from Orlando, Florida

By Alden Gonzalez

August 24, 2008: MEMPHIS, Tennessee – All throughout the National Youth Baseball Championships, Chet Lemon’s teams had to battle for every win they got.

But in the championship game, against Southeastern Lexington Kentucky, on Sunday night - things were a little more relaxing. And maybe they needed that since they had just finished a tough game against the Stingrays of Norwalk, California that went 3 extra innings.

The Orlando, Fla., Juice 12s got the bats going early and dominated throughout, beating their Kentucky opponent, 12-1, in four innings. The win avenged a Friday loss to Southeastern Lexington for the Juice 12s.

“I was so happy that we didn’t have to go through another nail-biter,” Lemon said. “We’ve been watching [Southeastern Lexington] play. They’re a lot like we are – they never give up, they never quit, and I told our kids, ‘Look, we can’t score enough runs against these guys.’

“We just kept getting after them, and the kids did a nice job.”

The Juice 12s (4-1) got three quick runs in the top of the first and another five in the second inning to build a comfortable lead. Then, in the bottom of the third, Hunter Lee blasted a three-run homer over the 20-foot right-field wall at Mark Neel Field, marked 245 feet down the line, to make it an 11-0 game and pretty much seal the deal.

On the mound, 13-year-old lefty Michael Ray pitched a perfect game through three innings while striking out five to earn the win.

Jordan Parnell, who knocked in three runs in the clincher with a couple of doubles and retired the last batter of the game with the bases loaded, took home tournament MVP honors.

The first-ever NYBC, held at Gameday Baseball’s First Tennessee Fields, brought together eight teams from eight different youth baseball organizations and separated them into two age groups – 10-and-under and 12-and-under. The Juice 12s represented the Amateur Athletic Union, and Southeastern Lexington (3-2) represented the Babe Ruth League.

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