[Beautiful Santa Barbara, CA]-16th Annual Best of the West tournament underway, with final scores just in on the 9am games:
Saturday July 29
9:00 AM Field #1 Team Rainey Vs FSR Hi-Desert Dawgs
9:00 AM Field #2 Panteras Vs Taylor Farms
Game 1:
Team Rainey, CA – 3
FSR Hi-Desert Dawgs, UT – 2
WP-Sebastian Gervasutti, in relief of Bricklen Anderson
LP-Dave Ratliff
A come-from-behind win for Team Rainey, with Stan Grebeck’s RBI single tying the game and Jesse Duncan coming home to score the winning run on a sacrific fly.
Game 2:
Panteras, CA – 4
Taylor Farms, CA – 3
WP-Ron Rupp
LP-Ron Mizener
Also a come-from-behind win in this one, in dramatic fashion, as the Panteras’ Johnny “Pee Wee” Rodriguez hit a 2 run walk-off homer to win this one. The Panteras Tony Beeson led off the 7th, reaching on an infield error, and scored on the walk-off homer. Keith Barker also homered for the Panteras. Chris Bunch homered for Taylor Farms, and Shawn Mandolesi had an RBI hit for Taylor.
The second set of games now underway:
10:45 AM Field #1 FSR Hi-Desert Dawgs Vs United Sports Academy
10:45 AM Field #2 Panteras Vs Young Bucks