ROYALS WIN 5 OUT OF 8 AT BEAST OF THE EAST TOURNAMENT

The Royals played their final two games at the Beast of the East Baseball Tournament on Sunday. The day started with a 10:30 AM game vs the Baltimore Blue Jays and the Royals came out swinging scoring runs in every inning except the third in their way to a 10-2 victory.
The senior Royals got a complete game from starter Mike Vanderlaan who allowed only 2 runs on 4 hits, 5 walks and 2 Ks for the victory. The Royals continued to swing hot bats totalling 13 hits and 10 runs. Jonathan Del Pozo had a double, single and 3 rbi; Matthew McCue had three hits, all singles; Daniel Campos hit a 2 rbi double and walked twice; Daryl Taube chipped in with 3 singles; Logan Karse had a single and two rbi and Kaleb Leff contributed a single and one rbi.
The Royals scored 2 in the first, two in the second, 3 in the fourth and 3 in the fifth and the total could have been higher if not for another terrible call by the local umpire. With the bases loaded and one out in the third inning Jeff Slasor hit a ball that went off his foot that everybody saw except the umpires and as a result the Baltimore team turned a 1-2-3 double play to end the inning.
After a short break for a quick lunch the Royals faced the Georgia Eagles, a community college team. This was their 8th game in four days and the Royals understandably looked tired and as a result were never in the game losing 11-1. The bats went silent managing only 4 hits. Slasor, Taube and Karse had singles and Campos had a rbi double. The pitching was handled by Phil Hinton, John Bryce, Brendan Ellingham, Alex Mann and Graeme Mccarrel.
The Royals will travel to Fort Wayne, Indiana on Monday morning and will play a double header at the University of Saint Francis against a local travelling team on Tuesday at 2PM before moving to Toledo, Ohio for a tournament at Bowling Green University and Toledo University.