By Brad Greer

Holding true to form, the top two seeds came away victorious Wednesday night in the American Legion post-season tournament.

In the opening game, the regular season champion Royals blanked No. 4 seed Yankees 7-0 as the pitching trio of Jacob Fennell, Carter Avan and Ethan Calvert combined to throw a no-hitter.
The Royals advanced to last night’s championship game where they took on the No. 2 seed A’s who downed the Red Sox 12-4 in four innings.

Royals vs. Yankees

Kyle Weaver singled and doubled and scored two runs while Luke Daniels added a two-run double in the fifth to lead the Royals offensively.

 Fennell, who struck out four and walked one batter in two innings on the mound, singled and drove in a run in the second inning to give the Royals a 4-0 lead.

Dalton Barefoot, Kyle Campbell and Avan each scored one run as the Royals collected four hits in the game. Calvert struck out five of the six batters he faced while Avan fanned three and walked one in two innings of middle relief.

Noah Willis drew leadoff walks in the first and fourth inning to account for the only Yankee base runner of the game.

A’s vs. Red Sox

The A’s scored four runs each in the first, third and fourth inning to ease past the Red Sox as Zac Hopper and Turner Rotenberry led the way with two hits each.

The Red Sox took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first as Lance Lusk led off the game with an infield single and later  scored on Gage Aldison’s groundout

The lead was short lived however as the A’s plated four runs in the bottom half of the inning as Rotenberry’s two-out triple scored Hopper from first. Ryan McCurdy and Justin Bolton followed with RBI singles to increase the margin to 4-1 after one inning.

The A’s then scored four runs after two outs in the third inning to take an 8-1 lead as a single by Cole Rotenberry and a double by Turner Rotenberry highlighted the inning.

Jack Evans drove in a run with a bases loaded walk for the Red Sox in the fourth before Levi Gazaway added a two-run single to cut the A’s lead in half at 8-4.

The A’s ended the game in the bottom half of the inning by scoring four runs on one hit.