A hot weekend in Mechanicsburg for the U8 Gahanna Rec All Stars final tournament of the summer. 6 of the families decided to make a weekend of it at the Holiday Inn Express in London, Ohio. The tournament director was nice enough to schedule our two pool games back to back but with a later start, so we were able to sleep at home Friday night.
Our first pool game was against Enon. Some base running mistakes cost the Lions 4 or 5 runs and that turned out to be the difference as Enon edged the Lions 9-7.
The Lions got the bats going a little more in our second pool game against London. Pulling away in the 5th inning to win 12-7. With the 1-1 record in pool play, the Lions were given a #2 seed.
Then it was back to the hotel where the boys (and some parents) had a blast in the indoor pool.
Sunday morning a storm rolled through around 8:00 and our 10:00 start time was pushed back to 1:30. Since there was nothing to do at the hotel, some of the boys went swimming for an hour, and as the first elimination game against Mechanicsburg got started, I wondered if the pool was such a good idea. The Lions seemed to be asleep on their feet, falling behind 9-1 after two innings. But then the bats began to heat up and the Lions slapped some leather and came all the way back to win 15-10.
Next up was #1 seed Fairbanks. Again, Gahanna found themselves down big, 6-0 after 1 inning. But before you knew it, it was through 4 innings and the Lions had pulled even 12-12. From that point on, the Lions took over, cruising to a 20-13 win and a spot in the championship game for a rematch against Enon.
The hits were few and the runs were hard to get. The Lions plated a run to go ahead 1-0 in the 3rd. Enon scored two in the top of the 4th and took a 2-1 lead. The Lions found themselves down for the third straight game on Sunday. Gahanna busted out in the bottom of the 4th and with some timely hitting and some aggressive base running, blowing the game open with 7 runs (max allowed in an inning per tourney rules), and took an 8-2 lead into the top of the 5th. After setting Enon down with only one hit, they came to the bottom of the 5th only needing 2 runs for the run rule, and that is exactly what they did. 3 straight hits to start the inning, the last one to score two runs ended it. The Lions win the Mechanicsburg tournament 10-2 and finish the tournament 4-1. They finished the tournament season 9-5 and won awards in 2 of the 3 tourneys they played in (3rd in the Gahanna tournament and 1st in the Mechanicsburg tournament). GREAT JOB LIONS!!
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