NHBA Bronco baseball: Yankees top Dodgers

NEWPORT BEACH - No overtime was needed this time, as the Yankees

defeated the Dodgers for the first time all season, 7-5, to win the

Newport Harbor Baseball Association Bronco Division championship Sunday.

The teams met Saturday in a classic nine-inning battle won by the

Dodgers, 3-1, to force Sunday’s deciding game, since both teams had one

loss in the double-elimination tournament.

Sunday, the Yankees scored three runs in the third and two in the

fourth that proved to be enough.

Yankee Cameron Chase (1 for 2) made a running catch in center field in

the top of the seventh with two outs to clinch the win, after the Dodgers

had the tying runs on base.

Kyle Lawrence (1 for 4), who pitched only one inning in the playoffs,

came in to pitch three innings, allowing one run.

Yankee players gave the game ball to Joseph Hone (1 for 3, two RBIs)

for his play in right field and his base hit in the third that drove in

two runs.

Both catchers, Brandon Davis for the Dodgers and Jackson Massingill (2

for 4, single, double, RBI) for the Yankees, caught all 16 innings in the

two games, both allowing no runs to score on wild pitches or passed

balls.

Jake Dawson caught a fly ball in center in the fourth for the Yankees.

Starter Jerry Whitney pitched two innings with two strikeouts, and

Dusty Campbell (1 for 2) pitched two innings in relief with two

strikeouts for the Yankees.

Zack Gagnon went 1 for 2 with one RBI, and Charley O’Desky finished 1

for 4 with one RBI for the Yankees.