Pool 'A' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
Warner Robins American West |
4 |
0 |
3 |
Columbus Northern |
2 |
2 |
14 |
Coastal |
2 |
2 |
28 |
Murphey Candler American |
2 |
2 |
29 |
West Point |
0 |
4 |
64 |
|
Pool 'B' Standings |
W |
L |
Runs Allowed |
Masters City |
4 |
0 |
12 |
Toccoa |
3 |
1 |
17 |
Athens |
2 |
2 |
37 |
Cartersville |
1 |
3 |
24 |
Midway Heights |
0 |
4 |
42 |
The top two teams in each pool advance to the semifinal round.
Ties are broken based on records in head-to-head competition among tied teams. If a clear winner cannot be determined from head-to-head results, the tie is broken by calculating the ratio of runs allowed to defensive innings played for all teams involved in the tie. The team with the lowest runs-per-defensive-inning ratio advances.
In the event of a tie involving three or more teams, once the initial tie is broken, the remaining tied teams are again compared on head-to-head record to determine if a clear winner can be identified. If no clear winner can be identified from head-to-head results among the remaining tied teams, the runs-per-defensive-inning ratio is again used. This process is repeated until all ties have been broken.
Semifinal Round (Thursday, July 26)
Warner Robins American West 11, Toccoa 0 (5 innings)
Columbus Northern 3, Masters City 2
Georgia State Championship Game (Friday, July 27)
Warner Robins American West 10, Columbus Northern 4 (TITLE)
Summary:
Warner Robins American West Little League broke open a scoreless game with six runs in the third inning, and went on to defeat Columbus Northern Little League, 10-4, to claim the Georgia state championship at Murphey Candler Park in Dunwoody.
The win gave Warner Robins American West a bookend to the state championship won by Warner Robins American East Little League in 2011, and gave the league its fifth state championship in a six year span.
Warner Robins had knocked on the door early in the title game, loading the bases in the first when a trio of singles opened the game, but failed to score in the inning. A potential second inning rally was then cut short by an inning ending double play.
Warner Robins then broke through in the third, scoring all of its runs with two outs. Cameron Jones opened the frame with a walk, and Chase Padgett moved him to second with a single. After Northern recorded a pair of outs, Bryce Morgan's single loaded the bases, and Jones later scored on a throw. Connor Bookout then bounced an infield single that scored Padgett with the inning's second run.
Northern appeared to be out of the inning when Tee Adams hit a ground ball to the left side of the infield, but he reached on an error that plated a run and extended the inning, and Reggie Ling followed with a three-run homer to right that doubled Warner Robins' advantage to 6-0.
Northern scored once in the third, but Padgett cancelled out the run with a solo home run to center field in the fourth. The Columbus team crept back to within 7-4 with two runs in the fourth and one in the fifth, but Adams launched a three-run homer in the sixth that scored Jackson Will and Bookout and provided the final margin of victory.
Padgett paced the Warner Robins offense with four hits in as many at-bats, two runs scored and an RBI. Pinckney, whose offense had helped carry Warner Robins into the championship game, earned the victory by allowing three runs and just one hit over 3-2/3 innings before exhausting his pitch count. Adams closed out the win, allowing one hit and striking out three over the final two innings.
"It was a hard-fought win," said Warner Robins American West manager Martin Pinckney, whose team won all six of its games at the state tournament.
"They played their hearts out and left everything on the field," said Northern manager James Pearson of his team. "They have nothing to hang their heads about. I'm real proud to coach these boys."
The meeting marked the fourteenth consecutive year in which at least one of Georgia's championship game qualifiers hailed from Columbus or Warner Robins, and the fourth time in seven years that leagues from the two cities met for the title. Both leagues have also won Little League World Series championships within the past seven years.
Warner Robins American West reached the state championship game by rolling past Toccoa Little League, 11-0 in five innings, in one semifinal round game, while Columbus Northern edged Masters City Little League from Augusta, 3-2.
Warner Robins pitcher Kody Winner struck out six and surrendered just three hits in his team's win, and opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the first inning that scored Padgett. The Americans then put the game away in the third. Pinckney and Winner were hit by pitches, and Ling brought both baserunners home with a three-run homer. Adams added a two-run shot that stretched the lead to 6-0, and Padgett's single and Pinckney's double helped to add two more before the inning was over.
For Pinckney, the double was his eighth hit of the tournament in ten at-bats, but the first hit that was not a home run. Pinckney was regularly walked or pitched around in the tournament, and finished 10-for-14 in state tournament play, with seven home runs, 13 runs scored, 15 runs batted in, and ten bases on balls.
Northern, meanwhile, grabbed a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning and made it last in its win over Masters City in the other semifinal round encounter. Sam Dismuke and Kaleb Podget drove in runs with base hits in the first inning, and Jalen Williams drew a bases loaded walk in hte fourth that added to Northern's advantage. Masters City sliced the Columbus lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the sixth and loaded the bases before Jarret Carter registered a game-ending strikeout to lift his team into the championship game.
Warner Robins and Columbus Northern were placed in the same pool for preliminary round competition. Warner Robins outscored four opponents by a 55-3 margin, with the last of their four victories being an 8-0 decision over Columbus Northern when both were already confident in their chances of advancing to the semifinal round. Warner Robins opened the tournament with a 12-3 victory over Murphey Candler American Little League, then won no-hit, mercy rule victories over West Point Little League (20-0) and Coastal Little League (15-0). Four pitchers combined on the no-hitter against West Point, and Pinckney paced the offense with three home runs and eight runs batted in. Morgan added a two-run homer in the second, and Lawson Trawick belted a three-run shot later in that same inning.
The next day, Pinckney and Winner combined on the no-hitter, and four different Warner Robins players homered in the rout over Coastal. Adams' three-run homer in the first gave Warner Robins a 4-0 lead, and then Pinckney, Jones, and Padgett all homered as part of a six-run second.
After a day off, Warner Robins American West then used six pitchers while concluding pool competition with an 8-0 victory over Northern. Warner Robins led just 2-0 entering the fifth inning, when Northern pitchers issued six walks and surrendered six runs to the District 5 champions. Padgett's grand slam home run was the big blow in the inning.
Northern had opened the tournament with an 11-0 victory over Coastal, but then dropped a 6-4 decision to Murphey Candler American. Northern then used four home runs to overpower West Point, 16-0, in their third pool contest. Brian Trepanier homered in the third and fifth innings for the winners, while Carter and Sam Dismuke each cleared the fences in the fifth.
Northern's loss to Warner Robins the next day meant the Columbus team would need help to advance to the semifinal round, but Coastal defeated West Point in the pool's final contest to create a three-way tie for second place that favored Northern.
Warner Robins American West advanced to the Southeastern Region tournament following its victory at the state tournament. The Georgia champions -- who attracted large partisan crowds to the tournament, which is held in Warner Robins, won two of their three pool contests and advanced to the championship game with a 5-1 victory over Great Falls (Virginia) Little League. Warner Robins then fell, 1-0, to eventual U.S. champion Goodlettsville Baseball (Tennessee) Little League in the region championship game.
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Linescores:
Pool Play Game 1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
R |
H |
E |
Warner Robins American West |
2 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
5 |
0 |
|
12 |
14 |
1 |
Murphey Candler American |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
|
3 |
5 |
2 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 2 |
Midway Heights |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
4 |
Masters City |
4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
x |
|
8 |
7 |
0 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 3 |
Toccoa |
9 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
|
18 |
15 |
2 |
Athens |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
3 |
2 |
4 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 4 |
Columbus Northern |
1 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
7 |
|
|
16 |
15 |
0 |
West Point |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 5 |
Midway Heights |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
0 |
2 |
3 |
Cartersville |
1 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
10 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 6 |
Murphey Candler American |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
7 |
0 |
Coastal |
7 |
4 |
0 |
x |
|
|
|
11 |
9 |
0 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 7 |
Warner Robins American West |
2 |
9 |
2 |
7 |
|
|
|
20 |
13 |
0 |
West Point |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 8 |
Masters City |
0 |
10 |
3 |
0 |
|
|
|
13 |
12 |
0 |
Athens |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
1 |
7 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 9 |
Murphey Candler American |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
6 |
6 |
3 |
Columbus Northern |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
4 |
4 |
2 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 10 |
Midway Heights |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
2 |
Toccoa |
0 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
11 |
11 |
0 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 11 |
Masters City |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
4 |
|
10 |
10 |
1 |
Cartersville |
4 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
5 |
5 |
1 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 12 |
Warner Robins American West |
4 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
15 |
11 |
1 |
Coastal |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 13 |
Toccoa |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
5 |
|
8 |
14 |
0 |
Cartersville |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
4 |
7 |
0 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 14 |
Columbus Northern |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
|
11 |
11 |
0 |
Coastal |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 15 |
Murphey Candler American |
2 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
12 |
9 |
0 |
West Point |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
|
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 16 |
Athens |
1 |
2 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
2 |
|
13 |
12 |
2 |
Midway Heights |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
6 |
10 |
2 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 17 |
Columbus Northern |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
2 |
Warner Robins American West |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
x |
|
8 |
6 |
3 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 18 |
Master City |
5 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
9 |
10 |
4 |
Toccoa |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
|
7 |
8 |
5 |
|
|
Pool Play Game 19 |
Athens |
4 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
5 |
0 |
Cartersville |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
1 |
(Note - Cartersville is left with eight players following an injury and is forced to forfeit the game.) |
|
|
Pool Play Game 20 |
Coastal |
1 |
2 |
2 |
11 |
|
|
|
16 |
13 |
1 |
West Point |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
|
2 |
1 |
5 |
|
|
Semifinal Round |
Warner Robins American West |
1 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
11 |
11 |
1 |
Toccoa |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
0 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
Semifinal Round |
Columbus Northern |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
3 |
6 |
5 |
Masters City |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
2 |
5 |
4 |
|
|
Championship Game |
Warner Robins American West |
0 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
10 |
12 |
1 |
Columbus Northern |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
|
4 |
3 |
1 |
|
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