Big League District 1 Baseball (16-18 year olds) - The 2007 State Tournament was held at District 2 (Virgil Stacey Memorial Complex, Olalla, WA) this past weekend (July 13th thru July 15th.

We lost our first game against District 4 from Vancouver. To get to the championship series on Sunday we had to defeat District 8 and then District 7 on Saturday.

We did just that! First up was beating District 8  5-3 behind the strong pitching performance (spread 7 hits with 2 earned runs, had 8 K's and only 2 BB's) of Kyle Eisen, who had to leave the game trailing only 3-2 after the maximum 105 pitches. Dan Delay relieved and got the win when we scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 6th. The big hit was a 2 run double by substitute right fielder DJ Rimbaugh, followed by a RBI single by Prystan (P) Viluan (10 for 14 for the tourney with 7 RBI), who was 3 for 4 in the game. Our first 2 runs came via a 2 run HR by Dan Delay, his 2nd of 2 for the tournament.

Then we won a slugfest against District 7  22-17 on 18 hits led by P's 3 for 5, 6 RBI and Jordan Bartel's 2 for 5, 4 RBI including a monster 2 run shot in the 3rd inning!  Kyle Eisen was 3 for 3 (plus 3 BB's) with 4 runs and 2 RBI. Taylor Perkins was 3 for 3 and Dan Delay had 3 more RBI. We used 4 pitchers to spread the pitch count. District 7 had 11 hits for their 17 runs, but drew 6 BB's.

That got us into championship day on Sunday, July 15th.  Oh boy, we hit the fielding skids! We fell 16-4! District 4 got 9 runs in the 2nd inning on only 4 hits, aided by 3 errors and other un-made plays. We had chances to pick off runners or nail them at home, but couldn't execute a run-down or make the play at the plate, etc., etc. We only had 6 hits and left runners at 2nd and 3rd twice (once bases loaded). It seems our boys played their hearts and bodies out on Saturday and had little left to give on Sunday.

In summary, the guys gave it a good battle after 2 weeks of hard work at practice and ended up 2nd in State. Over the last 3 years, District1 came in 2nd, 1st and 2nd!