Ladera 2, Malibu 3
The Ladera Allstars came up on the short end of a 6 inning thriller against the Malibu Allstars on Saturday evening. Malibu was led by pitcher, Skylar Radcliff, who held Ladera to 2 runs in 5 innings of work on the mound. Ladera sent fireballer, Elijah Hodge to the mound for his first allstar start. Elijah was strong with 3 innings of work, striking out 2 and allowing 2 runs.
The game was scoreless through 2 1/2 innings as both team's flexed their defensive muscle. Grant Craddolph executed an exciting double play for Ladera in the second inning when he snagged a line drive and threw to Kaelin Woodard at third to double up a runner.
Malibu scratched out 3 runs in the bottom of the third as they capitalized on a Ladera error, a hit batter, and a couple of base hits.
Ladera battled back in the top of the fourth inning. Clean up hitter, Lawrence Gilliam, doubled to left field with one out to get the rally started and reached third on a wild pitch. Jibri Walden drew a walk and aggressively taunted the catcher as he sprinted around first to draw a throw to second. The Malibu catcher fired the ball to the third baseman to nail Lawrence who was slow to get back to the bag. A costly base running mistake as Elijah Hodge stepped to the plate and delivered an RBI single to left field to score Jibri. The shot should have scored 2 runs which would have proven to be the equalizing run in the game.
Jordan Crisp took the mound in the bottom of the fourth and delivered 2 scoreless innings on the mound; allowing one hit and striking out 3.
Needing 2 runs to tie in their last at bat, Lawrence initiated a rally for Ladera with a lead off single up the middle in the top of the sixth inning. Jibri followed with a single to left field to move Lawrence to second base. Elijah drew a walk to load the bases and bring up third baseman, Kaelin Woodard. Kaelin drew a 6 pitch walk to force in Lawrence and narrow the margin to one run. Robert Togia stepped to the plate with the bases loaded. Jibri sprinted home on a wild pitch and was called out on a controversial call by the plate umpire for out number 1. Robert drew a walk to load the bases again but Ladera was not able to bring the tying run in and fell 3-2.
Darrien Geyen, Robert and Grant also had hits for Ladera.
With the loss, Ladera falls to the Loser's Bracket and must win 5 straight games (in 5 nights) to claim the title.
You can find the play by play recap for this game here.
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All Star Tournament Bracket (with results) - Schedule
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