LEFF'S HOME RUN LIFTS ROYALS TO VICTORY OVER OHIO SENATORS

The Royals came back from a 9-2 deficit to beat the Ohio Senators 13-10 in the final game of the day after dropping the first game of the day 10-2 to Moundsville, WV to end the first round of the Beast of the East 4-2.
In the first game the Royals scored a run in the first inning when Matthew McCue singled in Daniel Campos to take a 1-0 lead but they would only manage one more hit the rest of the game. Dolan Dunigan started for the Royals and pitched well keeping his team in the game until the sixth inning when a three run home run gave the West Virginia team a 5-1 lead. Arsene Pinguelo took over for Dunigan with one out in the sixth and with two men on the bases. After getting a double play ball to short that resulted in an out at second and an error allowing another run to score, Arsene had trouble throwing strikes and was replaced by Kyle Flemington who pitched the final 1 1/3 scoreless innings.
Twenty minutes after finishing the first game the Royals faced the Ohio Senators and after falling behind 9-2 in the first 4 innings the bats finally came to life and the Royals scored 5 runs in the fifth and another six in the sixth to win by a score of 13-10.
The hero of the day for the Royals was Kaleb Mariano Leff whose three run home run to left field gave the Royals the lead. Leff also had 2 singles and five rbi and scored 2 runs. Also having a great day at the plate was Jeff Slasor who got on base all five times that he came to the plate with 3 singles, a walk and a hit batter. He also scored 3 runs and chipped in with an rbi. Daniel Campos also managed to get on base five times with 2 singles, a walk and on two errors by the Senators second baseman. Adam Shaver chipped in with a double. Dunigan, Bolton, Del Pozo, Karse and McCue all hit singles.
Brendan Ellingham started the game for the Royals and went 3 inings and was relieved by Alex Mann who wet 2/3 of an inning. Joe Browne replaced Mann and held the Ohio team scoreless for the next 1 1/3 innings to allow the Royals to come storming back to take the lead. Mike Vanderlaan came in to pitch the final inning and allowed only one run to secure the victory for the Oakville team.