Brazos Valley Renegades Baseball Club

The BVR 17U team won a pair of games Thursday to capture the programs 3rd National Championship, claiming the AAU Underclassmen title.
In the semifinals the Renegades defeated the Orlando Assult 11-6. Logan Stoelke was the winning pitcher tossing a complete game while striking out 13. The Renegades trailed 3-2 after 4 innings but erupted for 7 runs in the 5th inning highlighted by RBI basehits by Carson Skala,Tanner Luna,Willy Amador,Blaine Suehs,and Brandon Kveton to retake the lead and never trailed again. Stoelke struck out the side in the 6th and retired 3 of the 4 he faced in the 7th including a game ending strikeout to send the Renegades to the finals.
The Renegades defeated the Ontario Bluejays 7-2 in the finals at Jet Blue Stadium. Ontario entered the championship game with an 8-0 record in the tournament including a 4-0 win over the Renegades. The Renegades jumped out to a 2-0 lead on a 2 RBI basehit by Tanner Luna in the 3rd inning. Ontario cut the lead to 2-1 but once again the Renegades used a big 5th inning to seize control of the game, this time plating 5 runs in the 5th on RBI basehits by Jacob Moseley, Tanner Luna, and Willy Amador.  Willy Amador pitched 5 solid innings for the win allowing only 2 runs on 3 basehits while striking out 7. Ryan Hendershot recored the save throwing the final 2 innings allowing no runs and striking out 3.  Kylen Harrell, Tanner Luna, Carson Skala, Willy Amador and Ryan Hendershot were selected to the All Tournament Team.
The BV Renegades 18 Maroon team was in the AAU upperclassmen National Finals for the 4th consecutive year and looking for back to back National Championships.  Tuscaloosa Baseball, riding the momentum of winning back to back elimination games after being knocked to the losers bracket by the Renegades a day earlier , defeated the Renegades 4-1 in the championship game. Tuscaloosa scored a pair of runs in the top of the 1st, Cullen Jozwiak came on in relief and retired 21 of the 26 batters he faced the rest of the way.  The Renegades out hit Tuscaloosa 8-4 but time and time were turned away as Tuscaloosa claimed their 1st AAU National Title. Travis Gibson, Justin Holder, Garrett Luna and Cameron Salvaggio were selected to the All Tournament Team