The 12 and under Garlic City Ghosts travel baseball team generated a first-place performance at the inaugural USSSA Super Patriot Tournament hosted at Twin Creeks Sports Park last weekend.
The Ghosts’ opening round game ended in a 2-2 tie, but concluded Day 1 with a solid defensive outing by Garret Santos and Ben Zanger, as well diving catches in the outfield by Travis Romero and Jacob Longworth, in a 4-0 win. JC Casteneda and Diego Hsu pitched.
The Ghosts returned to the Diamond the following day and picked up an 8-4 victory to send themselves into the championship games against the Sunnyvale Storm.
In that championship tilt against the Storm, Andrew Kachel got the Ghosts on the board in the first as the two teams exited the opening frame knotted at 1-1.
Kachel shut down the Storm in the second inning and the Ghosts came to bat in the top of the third, where their bats came alive. Garlic City scored four runs, those credited to Jacob Longworth, Brendon LeBlanc, Anthony Burns and Marshall Silva. Burns’ run came via his home run, while Stevie Lemberger and Silva had triples and LeBlanc a double.
The Storm was able to push across one run in the bottom half of the third to leave matters at 5-2.
Hsu lead off a rousing fourth inning, as each player had an at-bat and the Ghosts score six more run – Kachel, LeBlanc, Silva, Lemberger, Hsu, Romero – to blow the game open, 11-2.
The Storm was set down in order in the bottom of the fourth and the Mercy Rule was implemented.
The Ghosts are managed by Bob Santos and coached by Mike Kachel, Marshall Silva and Dave Burns.
