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Tournaments  | Story | 7/12/2021

2 champs better than 1 at BCS 16u

Photo: Ostingers Baseball Academy 2023 (Perfect Game)

FORT MYERS, Fla. – A week that offered equal parts of excitement and exhilaration on the field with some weather-related frustration off of it came to a close Sunday night with co-champions being crowned at the Perfect Game BCS 16u National Championship.

The Eagles Baseball Scout Team out of West Palm Beach, Fla., skunked the Sarasota-based Burn 2023, 8-0 in four innings, in one of the semifinals to complete a 9-0-0 run and gain a share of the title.



Ostingers Baseball Academy 2023 from Lithia, Fla., stunned seemingly invincible FTB/Philadelphia Phillies Scout Team 16u out of Kissimmee, the playoffs’ No. 1 seed, 10-8 in four innings in the other semifinal. Both games were played at the CenturyLink Sports Complex, the MLB Spring Training home of the Minnesota Twins.

PG officials made the decision to crown co-champs largely because the Eagles BST had already played all or parts of four five-inning games on Sunday – it had to finish a pool-play game at 8 a.m. that had been postponed Saturday night – so a championship game would have been a fifth in about 12 hours; no one disputed the decision.

The situation became even more frustrating when a brief but heavy mid-afternoon thunderstorm with plenty of lightning caused about a 3-hour delay just when the semifinals were set to get underway. But the games were finally played and co-champions were crowned.

The Eagles Baseball Scout Team is a unique squad in that eight of the players on its roster attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which this spring won a Florida Class 7A state championship. It then was anointed the PG High School National Championship in the final PGHS Top 50 National Rankings.

They hit, pitched and fielded with the best of them here all week, and that carried over into Sunday’s play when they won their four games by a combined score of 32-0.

“We hold ourselves to pretty high standards,” No. 22-ranked 2023 outfielder Christian Rodriguez told PG earlier in the week. “Obviously, we have a lot of fun and we win and we don’t [expect] anything less than that; that’s our goal, really...

“Each and every one of us wants to win,” he added. “We help each other to win, our coaches put us in positions to win and we can’t really ask for any more than that.”

Rodriguez helped lead a 10-hit Eagles attack against the Burn 2023 with a triple, an RBI and a run scored. Javier Gorostola doubled and drove in a run while Edian Espinal, Andrew Ildefonso and Robbie Demetree each singled and had an RBI; Dillon Moquin singled twice and scored both times he reached.

Meanwhile, 2023 left-hander Frank Menendez, a Miami commit ranked No. 39 nationally, threw four, three-hit shutout innings, striking out two without a walk to pick-up the win.

Ostingers Baseball Academy 2023’s path to the semifinals was a little more rocky than that of the Eagles Baseball ST or even the FTB/Phillies  ST 16u for that matter. The Stingers lost their second game in the second-set of pool-play by a 13-5 count to MVP Beast 2023 Florida and entered the 16-team playoffs as the No. 12 seed.

Once in, however, they took care of business nicely, topping No. 5 Power Baseball 2023 Platinum, 6-1, in Sunday’s first round before blasting the No. 4 Burn Atlantic 2023 Navy, 11-0, in the quarters; they finished the tournament with a 7-2-0 record.

The semifinal against the powerful FTB/Phillies Scout Team was a somewhat raucous affair with the Stingers pushing across a run in the top of the first only to see the FTB/Phillies plate three of their own in the bottom half.

Ostingers went back up for good with a four-run second followed by a one-run third and four-run fourth for a 10-3 lead after 3½. Never one to go down quietly, FTB pushed five across in the bottom of the fourth but could get no closer in the 10-8 loss.

Arjun Nimmala, the Stingers leadoff hitter who is a Florida State commit ranked No. 23 nationally in the class of 2023, literally led the way by stroking a pair of doubles, driving in two runs and scoring three others; Adrian Rolon singled, doubled and drove in two himself.

The guys hitting 2-3-4 in the order behind Nimmala also did some damage. Jayden Vazquez, Dylan Lapointe and Phillip Falcon all singled and drove in a run, as did Aiden Welsh, who hit a little further down in the order.

The Stingers’ 2023 top-500 catcher/corner-infielder Dylan Lapointe was named the MV Player and rightly so. All he did was go 15-for-23 (.652) with three doubles, a triple, a home run, 11 RBI and 12 runs scored over the length of the event.

The Eagles’ Jacob Gomberg and the FTB/Phillies ST’s Luke Richardson were named co-MV Pitchers. Gomberg, a 2023 left-hander and Florida commit ranked No. 276 totaled eight shutout innings over three appearances and allowed just three hits while striking out 14 and walking six. Richardson, a 2023 righty, was nearly perfect in two appearances, throwing nine shutout, hitless innings with 10 strikeouts and nary a walk.

The summer season is nearing end for these two talented ballclubs but it’s certainly not finished yet. Both teams will be at the PG WWBA 16u National Championship in Marietta, Ga., July 15-20 followed by appearances at the PG 16u World Series in Sanford, Fla., July 24-28.

“Staying with the same group, staying with our boys, keeping that chemistry and keeping our bond tight” is very beneficial,” the Eagles Rodriguez said. “And rolling into next year [after] this great summer together, it’s a lot of fun.”



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