LL BASEBALL: A’s ride late game run to championship
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - Athletics #11 Gracin Tiley slides into second as Yankees #2 Robert Selgrade awaits the ball.
ASHLAND – Wednesday’s Ashland Little League title game appeared to be up in the air for much of the duration, before a late game charge determined the victor.
The game pitted the 12-1 regular season champion Athletics against the 10-3 runner-up Yankees.
To reach the title game, the Yankees downed the Pirates and the A’s defeated the Orioles in semi-final action Monday evening.
The two squads squared off under the lights at Toewe-Rebuck Field at Ashland’s Eureka Park.
Neither team demonstrated a clear advantage after the first two innings, with the score knotted at 1 apiece, both scored in the first inning.
After the third, the A’s took the first inning-end lead of the game, leading 4-2.
The Yankees, though, wouldn’t let the A’s run away, scoring two in the top of the fourth to tie it up at 4 apiece. Two runs from the A’s in the bottom of the fourth led to a 6-4 score.
The fifth inning saw the Yankees rally back, scoring four in the top half, leading 8-6. That lead, though, was short-lived, as the A’s had a rally of their own.
After five, the A’s had a 12-8 advantage. A three-and-out top half of the inning, bookended by a fly ball caught by #42 Cooper Carl, secured the title, their first league title since 2016.
Prior to the game, the Ashland Little League recognized their 14 graduating players. They are:
A’s
– Cooper Carl
– Cole Hahn
Dodgers
– Cody Osenbach
Orioles
– Andrew Keller
– Aiden Oliveri
– William Wysoski
Phillies
– Cameron Hutnick
– Lyza Holmes
– Kate Urbanowicz
Pirates
– Max Gallagher
– Bethany Loftus
Yankees
– Casey Rader
– Michael Rader
– Saige Sematavage
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