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Tournaments  | Story  | 7/8/2023

Florida Burn Off To Blazing Start at BCS

Riley Sheppard     
Getting off to a 4-0 start can be attributed to several areas, but for Florida Burn 2027 Scout Team, the trust in one another comes first and foremost. 

“We’ve been playing team baseball,” Burn second baseman Hudson Sapp. “We haven’t had any selfish at-bats or anything like that so when you can really come together as a team.”



Following three consecutive wins to its BCS National Championship run, Burn entered its penultimate pool play game against HR14-2027 on Saturday. 

Sapp knocked in the first runs of the game with a sac-fly to drive home Graham Houston after he singled in the top of the first. 

Right-handed pitcher Mason Tjosaas took to the mound for Burn, tossing a complete game shutout and allowing just three hits over 73 pitches. 

“His off-speed was working quite a bit today so he was able to get them off balance,” head coach Wayne Harrell said. “He's not a really hard thrower, but he throws hard enough with his off-speed that it made his fastball look a ton faster.”

Following a couple quiet innings on the scoreboard, Burn got right back in the run column with a two-run single from Cole Vogel in the fourth - driving in Sapp and Jace Moran. 

However, it wouldn't take long to continue extending the lead with Sapp and August Backman contributing to the four-run barrage in the top half of the fifth. 

“I think we might be the best running team,” Harrell said. “We take more third base than I think anybody I've seen. We got a lot of verbal communication out of our guys and things they see visually, they'll even signal me they got the bag and we'll give them the green light to go.”

Burn tacked on one more to extend its lead to 8-1 before Tjosaas retired the side in the bottom of the seventh.

And despite many of his players entering high school this fall, for Harrell it’s almost like having several assistant coaches out there. 

“Getting to know them and trusting them they know what they're talking about. Every one of these players have such a high baseball IQ, they're a coach on the field as well.”

Burn plays its final pool play game on Sunday at 8:00 a.m. against Connecticut Baseball Club. 
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