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Quoting from Fred Hanker's Black Sox website: "The nightmare continued early sunday morning for the sox as they fell to raymar 10-2.  Long beach scored their only 2 runs in the 4th on singles by Fred Hanker, Dale Lopes and Brett Semans.  Randy clay had a rbi groundout and Derrick Harley had a sac fly. long beach finished the tourney 0-4 and missed 6 starters due to injury and unavailability. on a positive note manager fred hanker was encouraged by the play of his young first time players Derrick Harley and Emir Saffir. hanker stated," both of these guys can really help us in the future. they are still learning the game and it situations like these where we are short they are getting a lot of experience." hanker has also been pleased with the play of shortstop Dan Fleming as he says of Fleming," he has really been the glue to hold this team together. he is not the prototypical leadoff hitter but he has excelled in that spot and i am going to keep him there."

*Hanker 2-2, run
*Semans 2-2

This one got a little ugly.  A 2-1 game until the 4th, the Amigos added two runs to make it 4-1. Then in the 6th?, the Amigos blew it open with 6 runs to make it 10-1, adding seven more in the next frame.  Not clear from the report why it was not called early as a mercy rule game. 

The Fear jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning, leaving two men on as the inning ended.  The Rounders came right back with three runs in the bottom of the first, as Eric Geierman, Mike Hemperly and Gerald Pyle reached on walks, all coming home to score, two on a single by Jimmy Crotzer, and one more on a single by Steve Tollington.  The Rounders added another in the 2nd when Eric Geierman walked again, then tagged up from second base and scored on a long sac fly by catcher Mike Hemperly.  The Fear made a pitching change in the 4th, bringing Cecilio Smalling into the game, but the Rounders added four more, one on an RBI single by Mark Villalobos and three more on a home run by Donald Jewett.

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In the top of the 8th, Damian Guerrero hit a 3-run home run to give Raymar what appeared to be a commanding 6-3 lead.  But San Diego would not go quietly.   With brother Joe starting the inning at second base, Johnny Nuanez led off with an RBI single to cut the lead to 6-4.  Mike York then singled, advancing Johnny Nuanez to second.  Jay Crawley then singled home another run, and sending Mike York to third, representing the tying run -- and still no outs.   Brian Webb flew out to right field.  The throw from right was wide, and Mike York came across the plate with what appeared to be the tying run.  But Raymar appealed the play, and York was called out for leaving early.  So instead of a tie game, San Diego was down to their final out with a runner at second.  The next batter grounded out to first to end the game and Raymar advanced to the Final Four.

Like the Raymar-San Diego game, this one took a tie breaker to decide.  The Amigos outhit the Rounders 11-6, but the Rounders managed to turn several walks into runs as well, and gain the win.  The Rounders struck first on a long 3 run home run by centerfielder Steve Tollington, though the Amigos climbed back in on some timely hitting, and miscues by the Rounders. Just when it looked like the Rounders had put away the win in regulation, a two-out error followed by a  key hit by pinch hitter Julian Martinez  tied the game for the Amigos.  In the tie breaker, the Rounders scored two in the top of the inning, with Donald Jewett hitting a long triple to bring home the tying run, then scored on a ground out by John Simmers for the win.  In the bottom of the 8th, the Amigos scored one run on Steve Patino's third hit of the day, driving in David Saucedo, who reached on an infield single before Mitch Mendenhall slammed the door shut, retiring the last two batters.

Raymar put this one away in the first inning, scoring 6 runs on 9 consecutive hits for 6 runs. Ken Shaw led off with a bunt single. Roy Saucedo followed with a bunt single.  Both scored on a triple by Jason ("J-Rod)_Obregon.  JRod scored on an RBI single by Damian Guerrero, who then scored on a single up the middle by Doug Shaw.  Shaw scored on a single to through the right side by Yogi Saucedo. Matt Shaw doubled home Yogi for the 6th run of the inning.  A couple of innings later, Raymar's catcher, Phillip Palomino blooped an RBI single over Darryl Goree's head for a 7-0 lead.   Palm Springs got on the board with two runs in the third inning, but Raymar added two more of their own in the fourth and one more in the 5th for the final 10-2 margin of victory. Jason Obregon and Damian Guerrero went 3-4, Yogi was 2-3 and Ken Shaw 2-4. 

In the title game, the Rounders scored one in the first and two in the second, to take a 3-0 lead.  Raymar then tallied 4 runs in the 3rd inning, to take a 4-3 lead.  The key blow in the inning was a game tying, two-run triple by Doug Shaw that split the left center field gap. With two out, Yogi Saucedo hit an infield fly that started at first base and blew all the way back hear home plate and out of reach. On the next pitch, Yogi hit a hard bouncer to third for a single, to drive in Shaw and give Raymar the lead.  But the Rounders rallied for four of their own in the 5th on hits by Jimmy Crotzer, Steve Tollington, Andy Lawry and Danny Roberts for the final 7-4 margin of victory.