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Youth sports: San Ramon Slammers U14 Baseball Team Takes Tournament Championship

Team comes home from Modesto as champions

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Game 1 — San Ramon Slammers vs Red Hawk Baseball Club of Citrus Heights.

In a very close game, the Slammers won in the top of the sixth.  Game called due to time.

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Slammers 7, Red Hawks 5. Cash credited for the win and Farooq the save.

Game 2 – San Ramon Slammers vs Kali Baseball of San Jose. 

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Another outstanding game played by the Slammers who shut out the Kali Team with a score of 9-0! Adams the win with relief from Hamm.

Game 3 — San Ramon Slammers (6 seed) vs Diehard Baseball Club of Brentwood (3 seed). 

Slammers took the win 10-2. Armen push bunt helped extend the inning that lead to runs by Pineda, Bilse,  Pitching (Cash, Barradas) and a great first inning where the Slammers batted the entire order with hits from each of the 10 Slammers.

Game 4 — San Ramon Slammers vs Santa Cruz Xpos (2 seed). 

Again, a very close game with the Slammers winning 4 – Xpos 1 behind great hitting from all including Cash's HR and Cardoza's lead off single started the 2-run fifth inning and pitching (Adams, Fischer).

Championship Game — San Ramon Slammers vs Team Mizuno from Manteca (1 seed). 

The game went to the international tiebreaker in  extra innings with the score tied 14-14. After a 2-run double (Huettenhain) coming all the way back from being down 6 runs (8-14) in the 7th.  Slammerspulled ahead with a game-winning home run (Barradas) and two on base (Murdock and Niles).  Score was now Slammers 17 – Minuzo 14. The Slammers held the final score in the last inning with their pitching skills (Niles) – 2 strike outs and a pop up fly that was caught! Slammers 17, Minuzo 14.


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