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Sunday's game got off to an unexpected start when Coach Sean mistakenly won the coin toss, giving Blue a chance to play defense first. Both teams played solid defense through the first two innings, with only one runner for either side advancing as far as third base. But after neither team could push a run across, the West Raleigh bats woke up in the third, and they would eventually plate a game-winning dozen runs in the frame.
How potent was the 7U offense this weekend? They had 10 offensive innings, and scored at least four runs in seven of them. Sunday's win included RBI from nine different players, continuing the theme of production up and down the order. The team hit a combined .602 for the weekend.
7U has had a tremendous run over the last two weekends when playing against fellow seven-year-olds. In the five games WR 7U has played against other 7U teams, West Raleigh has never trailed and the combined score is 81-5. That's an incredible stat in support of the hard work put in by the players and the occasional help of the coaches. Meanwhile, Coach Sean was heard to wonder why 7U had allowed those five runs. Just kidding, hold your angry calls and emails. Coach Sean actually told the team two things: "I'm proud of how hard you played, and I'm proud of how hard you played with class."
The district championship made Coach Ken so happy that he proclaimed he was going to wear some Carolina shorts...wait, hold on a second. Coach Ken is on the phone...Whoops, sorry. What he actually said was that he was going to burn some Carolina shorts. Close enough.
Game 3 West Raleigh 7U scoring plays
Third inning
Ben led off with a single and then, well...you know. Timmy followed Ben with another single, and then Elias laid down a picture-perfect bunt and hustled it out to load the bases. This brought up 7U's most
With two outs, they tacked on eight more runs. That began with Chace's mammoth double to right-center that scored a pair. He motored around to score on Jake's single, and then Bryce slapped a single through the left side. Joey picked up his second hit of the day, this one an RBI single, and Mason's grounder scored Joey, and then Mason got on his horse and scored all the way from first on Ben's triple--his second hit of the inning. Ben then scored his second run of the inning, coming home on Timmy's single (also his second hit of the inning).
Score after three innings: WR 7U 12, North Wake 0
Game 3 Web Gems
- In the first couple innings, when the North Wake defense was making lots of plays, the West Raleigh defense was equally good. Gavin made a jumping catch of a line drive at shortstop leading off the second.
- With a runner on first in the third and North Wake threatening to score first, Bryce ranged far to his left at second base, speared a hard grounder, and made the long throw to Gavin covering second for the force.
- Timmy and Gavin hooked up on a great left field-to-shortstop relay in the fourth that prevented North Wake from trying to score from third base. This turned out to be important, because...
- On the very next hitter, the ball was deadened right in front of the plate. Alex stepped out to field it, then made a good two-handed tag on the runner coming from third to preserve the shutout.
| Game 3 line score | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | R | H |
| North Wake | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 0 | 4 |
| West Raleigh 7U | 0 | 0 | 12 | X | X | X | 12 | 14 |
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