Cal Orioles

The Manhattan beach Junior All Stars captured the District 36 title on Wednesday night with a convincing 9-1 victory over Central Redondo Little League. The Manhattan Juniors travel to North Venice for the Sectional tournament (directions below). Game time is 2pm. Junior Tournament hosted by Hermosa Beach started with a bang by our boys beating Hermosa 20-2 Friday night. Bret Collins pitched a complete game giving up 3 hits, and a couple of unearned runs. Great hitting from top to bottom, the boys pounded out 8 extra base hits. The next morning the kids had to face a tough Redondo Beach team but prevailed 14-4. Great pitching by Sean Issacs left the Redondo players in a daze, and left the game for Chase Madden to close it out. Once again, the hitting was well balanced from top to bottom in the lineup. Manhattan finally got a rest until Wednesday night when they took on Redondo for the Championship. Chase Madden started and pitched 5 strong innings and turned the ball over to Steven Kuckowitz in the 6th inning with bases loaded and he got out of the inning by giving up a sac fly, and striking out two. In the top of 7th inning Steven came out firing and the closed the game out with 3 quick outs on 11 pitches. Final score in the Championship game was 9-1. Directions to the North Venice fields can be found at the attached link. www.northvenice.org/nvll/information/directions.html