14 YO Titans

The Kyle Chapman 14 year old tournament team continued its stellar play from yesterday, defeating the Belton Red Sox by a score of 8-3 on Sunday morning, to advance to the semi-finals of the 2003 USSSA Texas Fall State Championship tournament in Round Rock, Texas. Jeffrey Rohrbach took the mound for K.C., giving up 2 quick runs in the top of the 1st inning. Belton thought there might be more, but Jeff slammed the door shut, allowing no more runs in his four remaining innings of work to earn the win. K.C. scratched out a run in the bottom of the 2nd inning to cut the Belton lead in half, 2-1, when Jeffrey Rohrbach was hit with a pitch with the bases loaded. K.C. tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the 3rd inning. K.C. took the lead 4-2 in the bottom of the 5th inning, when Kevin McKee worked a 7 pitch walk and Paul Knowlton launched a 3-0 fastball over the Gatti-Land banner on the left field fence. K.C. put the game out of reach in the bottom of the 6th inning, tallying 4 big runs on a Charles Mann single over 3rd base, a walk to Ross Chan, a 2-RBI double to right field by Kevin McKee, a Paul Knowlton RBI single up the middle, and an RBI single through the left side of the infield by Pat Brosch. Belton scratched out a meaningless run in the top of the 7th inning off reliever, Grant Haynes, with a pair of singles and an infield fielder's choice. Grant induced the very next batter to ground out to third base to end the game and propel K.C. into the semi-final game. With the 8-3 victory, K.C. earned the right to face the winner of the 11:45 a.m., contest between the Texas Lonestars and the Cy-Fair Astros. The winner of that game faces off against either the Bryan College Station Stealth or the Pflugerville Flyers in the championship game at 6pm. The winner of that game earns the right to call itself the 2003 USSSA Texas Fall Champion, and earns a paid berth to the USSSA World Series next summer in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This is Scott Rothenberg signing off from Round Rock, saying, GOOOOOOOOOOOO K.C.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By Scott Rothenberg