Cubs clinch Boys’ 7-8 coach-pitch title
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With the victory, the Cubs improved to 9-1, with one more game to play before the league’s tournament begins.
Quality Mold got on the board in the top of the first, when Tyler Judge drove home Wesley Parkhurst. The Cubs answered with two runs in the bottom of the frame, however, thanks to RBIs from Collin Smedley and Griff Jones.
A two-run inside-the-park homer from Dusty Ledbetter put Quality Mold back on top by a 3-2 score in the top of the second, but Brock Watson and Daniel McGee drove in a run each in the Cub half of the inning to keep their team on top.
Aaron Justice’s two-out, two-run double in the third gave Quality a 5-4 lead, but the Cubs blew the game open with an eight-run fourth inning.
Dylan Bond, Austin Spurling and Ryan Diamond started the inning with three straight hits, with Diamond’s single to left plating two runners. McGee, Malik King and Kade Burnett came through with hits to make it a 7-5 Cub lead, and Dillon Tubb came through with a homer to put his team up 10-5.
After Brock Majors beat out an infield hit, Smedley drove the ball through the Quality Mold defense, coming all the way around to score to put the Cubs on top 12-5.
Quality Mold went down in order in the fifth, but scored three runs in the sixth on RBIs from Chayse Frye, Judge and Cameron Shelton.
The Cubs plated four more in the bottom of the sixth, with a two-run hit to left from King highlighting the frame, and although Quality Mold put one final run on the board in the top of the seventh on a Braydon Lewis hit, Lewis was thrown out trying to stretch his double into a triple, ending the game.
The Cubs-Quality Mold game was part of a busy Saturday in the coach-pitch league, as 10 games were scheduled. Details from the rest of Saturday’s games will be printed in an upcoming edition of the Southern Standard.