Top Tier 18u advances to the Championship game. We had quite the day today! We came into today having to beat Maroons Baseball from Michigan two times. They had players going to Univeristy of Michigan, Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Kentucky, Michigan State, and some other D-2, D-3, and JUCO programs. They beat us the other day in a game that went down to the wire. We lost 11-9 and ended the game with runners on second and third and Casey McMurray flying out to right for the last out. Today was a totally different story. Nick Chmielewski started game one and went 6 innings allowing zero runs on 2 hits, and struck out 14. Derek Graham came in as a relief and pitched a scoreless 7th. We came up on top 6-0. In the second game, Tom Zelasko took the hill and gave a GUTSY performance. We took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, but fell behind 6-2 in the 5th. In the bottom of the 6th inning, down 6-2, Ian Goldberg ripped a line drive into left field with the bases loaded to plate two and cut the game to 6-4. Next batter- Casey McMurray. Can you say Deja vu? Same situation- different result. C-Mac hit a line shot up the middle to tie the game at 6-6. Zelasko shut them down in the top of the 7th, but we came up empty in the bottom. In the top of the 8th, Zelasko took the mound again. They scored one run to take the lead and make it 7-6. In the bottom of the 8th, we were not ready to give up. We loaded the bases with two outs, and who came up? Casey McMurray. On the first pitch, Casey drove the ball into the left center gap to plate two and win the game with a walk-off single. This was a very exciting win and we hope to defeat another tough team (A. Green Baseball) and advance to New Mexico!