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Fight till the final swing!!

Posted in Baseball, Little League, tagged , , , , on June 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Jack Porter exits the season sporting a rather impressive shiner. (Jeff Porter photo)

Peyton Caveness is just hanging around. (Stephanie Pulliam photos)

Jon Roberts, master of sunscreen.

Pressure, what pressure? You’re looking at the most laid-back dugout in the biz.

Alex Smith is not sure about the whole “taking my picture” thing.

Landon Roberts gets limbered up.

“I throw strikes, son. It’s kind of my thing.”

They ran into the big boys.

Central Whidbey Little League soared through the Minors baseball season in style, winning tournaments and racking up win after win.

All-Star play turned out to be a bit different, however, as Coupeville’s diamond men went two and out at the district tourney.

Facing big city squads from Burlington and Anacortes, Central Whidbey got roughed up a bit, losing 27-1 Friday and 18-5 Sunday.

CWLL put up a fight in its finale, though, rapping out 10 hits.

Landon Roberts led the way with three singles and two RBI, while Peyton Caveness and Johnny Porter added a pair of base-knocks apiece.

Chase Anderson, Seth Woollet and Jordan Bradford rounded out the hit parade, each collecting a single.

Caveness was also a force on defense against Anacortes, making a spectacular diving catch while on the run in center.

In the opening game of the double-elimination tourney, Central Whidbey had a tougher time scraping out hits, finishing with three, one each from Caveness, Roberts and Anderson.

Levi Pulliam, Mike Robinett, Alex Smith, Jack Porter, Gabe Reed and Aiden O’Neill rounded out the All-Star roster.

While the season ended prematurely, Central coach Jon Roberts sees a bright future ahead for the program.

“Coaching, we made some mistakes that we will learn from and will return next year with most of the team intact, as we were a very young 9-10-11 team.”

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One swing for the win!!

Posted in Baseball, Little League, tagged , , , , on June 4, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Undefeated and it feels so good. (Stephanie Pulliam photos)

Mike Robinett (left) and Landon Roberts are ready to take on the world.

Their play has been as red-hot as their uniforms.

   Levi Pulliam is thrilled to find out, you hit a game-winning home run, you just may get a cake out of the deal.

You can call Levi Pulliam “The Cardiac Kid.”

Sitting on a full count, he hammered a game-winning, bottom-of-the-sixth, walk-off home-run Sunday, keeping the miracle run going for his team.

Now sitting at a pristine 14-0 after upending host South Whidbey 3-2, the Central Whidbey Little League Minors baseball squad is also a flawless 2-0 in the Henry Pope Memorial Tournament.

The Coupeville nine, who shredded Oak Harbor Saturday, return to the South End of the Island Tuesday for their next tourney tilt.

The double-elimination event runs June 3-12.

Sunday both teams played a tight game, with South Whidbey twice taking a one-run lead, only to see Central come right back in the bottom of each inning.

The two squads exchanged runs in the first and fourth, mixed in a bunch of zeroes the rest of the way, then stepped back to let Pulliam be the hero.

Bashing a shot down the right field line, he took off as his coach, Jon Roberts, lost his mind.

“It runs hard to DEEP right field. I think I blacked out as he rounded first, screaming ‘run!’,” said a still-giddy hardball guru. “The throw into second takes a while and the throw to the plate is too late. Game over!!

“Best game we played all year!”

Central Whidbey was on top of its game in every way.

Pitchers Chase Anderson, Pulliam and Jordan Bradford combined to whiff 11 of the 21 hitters they faced.

At the plate, Central Whidbey got base-knocks from six different hitters.

Pulliam’s dinger was the big hit, but he got help from Peyton Caveness, Anderson, Bradford and brothers Jack and Johnny Porter, who all collected singles.

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