Lumberjacks win first annual Santa Cruz Classic!

This has been an exciting weekend for the Lumberjacks. In the first tournament our team has ever been involved in, we took first place.

The final game come down to the wire. Javier started the game, despite having thrown a 9-inning complete game the *day* before, and also pitching the 9th inning of the early morning game.

Down 2-0 in the bottom of the 4th, Juan Cervantes got the Lumberjacks on the board with a leadoff home run to left field, Javier had a solid single, and Tom Macari a deep double to eventually get the game tied at 3.

The game would remained tied until the top of the 11th inning, as the Soquel Stars scored on a sac fly to center, making the score 4-3. In the bottom of the inning, Josh Silva grounded out, and Juan Hernandez drew a tough walk, putting the tying run on first with 1 out. Melvin Perdue hit a hard line-drive to right-center but it was caught, putting 2 outs on the board. Juan reached second base on a wild pitch, and Juan Cervantes drew a walk, putting the tying and winning runs on base with 2 outs. Brad Shannon followed with a shallow fly to center which barely evaded the glove of the diving center fielder, and the game was tied with the winning run reaching third base! Javier Gonzalez, who had thrown *all* 11 innings in the game, was up, and hit a sharp grounder to third base. The third baseman fielded it cleanly, threw a one-hopper to first, but the first baseman bobbled the ball, Javier's hustle beat out the throw, and the winning run came in from third!! It was a hard-earned come-from-behind extra-inning victory for the Jacks!

Pictured above are the tournament award winners: Javier Gonzalez received a bat for the tournament MVP, Brad Shannon for the most tournament RBIs, Melvin is representing for first place in the tournament, and not pictured is Jay Almendral for most tournament home runs. Brad Shannon also won the tournament home run derby Saturday evening with 5.