9U Blue Wins Summer World Series, 5-4!

In a much closer game the second time around, West Raleigh got 2 and 2/3 shutout innings from Adam Bloebaum to edge the Tidewater Drillers for the Top Gun Summer World Series championship.  Bloebaum allowed only 2 hits and walked none while striking out 5.

9U Blue led early, scoring in each of the first 3 innings and cruising to a 4-0 lead behind hits from Bloebaum, Penn Sealey, Ty Peters, Christian Schmidt and Alec Birling.  But the Drillers used a big 4 run fourth inning to tie things up.

In the bottom of the fifth Peters reached on a walk before Jake DeFranco launched a clutch double down the LF line to bring Peters around to 3rd.  With only one out, Garrett McCraw drove home the winning run with a sac fly to RF that scored Peters and gave the 9U Blue the Championship!

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