ROYALS MOVE ON TO THE PLAYOFF ROUND AT THE SANDLOT WORLD SERIES IN NASHVILLE

The Oakville Royals 18U team finished their group round at the 2011 Sandlot World Series in Nashville with a 2 and 1 record and will move on to the playoff round starting on Friday.
After the ten inning 1-0 victory last night the Royals returned to the John Overton High School baseball field this morning to face two top rated teams, Hit by Hit from Tennessee and Team Cincinnati 18.
In the 9AM game the Royals faced the Hit By Hit team, one of the top rated teams in the tournament and fell behind 3-0 after one inning as the Americans hit a double, a single and walked twice to score the three runs against Royal starter J.D. Bryce. Alex Mann replaced Bryce in the second inning and pitched well the rest of the game keeping his team in the game. Over his five innings pitched, Mann allowed 3 runs on 5 hits, 3 walks and 2 Ks.
After the Hit By Hit team made it 4-0 in the 3rd by hitting a home run, the Royals finally got back in the game in the fourth when Jeff Slasor lead off the inning with a double and was driven in by Daniel Campos's single. Daryl Taube followed Campos with a single of his own to drive in Campos to make the score 4-2. In the bottom of the sixth the team from Tennessee scored two more runs to make the score 6-2. In the top of the seventh Dolan Dunigan continued to swing a hot stick and started the inning with a triple and scored on Logan Karse's sacrifice fly to center field but that would be all for the Royals in this game.
Thirty minutes after their first game the Royals faced Team Cincinnati 18 and got off to a great start scoring four runs in the top of the first inning. Unfortunately, the lead was short lived as Royal starter, Dolan Dunigan, had troubles finding the strike zone and was charged with 5 runs in a third of an inning before being relieved by Brendan Ellingham. Brendan pitched 2 2/3  innings allowing  one unearned run on 3 hits, 1 walk and 1 K.
In the third inning the Royals scored four more runs to take a 8-6 lead and added another in the 4th to take a 9-6 lead going into what would be the last inning, and what inning it would be. In the top of the fifth the Royals scored 6 runs to take a 15-6 lead as they sent 12 players to the plate highlighted by a home run by Andrew Forester.
Joe Browne, who had replaced Ellingham in the 4th and had kept the Americans off the score board, started the fifth inning but could not get any of the 5 hitters he faced out and was replaced by Kyle Flemington. The first hitter Flemington faced hit a home run and with two outs, runners on second and third and the score 15-14 for the Royals, Joshua Lee-Him relieved Flemington and with one pitch got a ground ball to second and the final out of the game.
The Royals got singles from Slasor, Campos, Taube, McCue, Leff and Shaver. Bolton chipped in with 2 singles, Lee-Him had a single and a double and Del Pozo added two doubles.
The afternoon was very hot and as a result one of the umpires had to leave the game and Royals player Daryl Taube needed medical assistance. The local Fox News reporter filmed the end of the game and after the game spoke to Dolan Dunigan about playing in the heat.
The Royals will now play in the playoff round starting on Friday.