Breakers take tournament title

The HB Breakers won all three games they played at the four-team

Moreno Valley Invitational to emerge with the tournament

championship.

The Breakers, a 12-and-under Club baseball team, needed nine

innings to turn back host Moreno Valley, 4-3, in the tournament

final.

The host Yankees jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top-half of the

first inning, but the Breakers battled back to close the gap to 3-2

in the fourth inning.

A key hit during the rally came from J.B. Bryant, who delivered an

RBI double.

The Breakers tied the game in the bottom of the sixth on a walk to

Kyle Ball, a single by Bryant and an RBI single by Sean Vogel,

sending the game into extra innings.

Three innings later, the Breakers got the win when Bryant walked,

Vogel singled and Josh Lesinski delivered the game-winning RBI.

Cody Morad, Bryant and Vogel -- the latter throwing four shutout

innings -- pitched for the Breakers.

Morad singled twice, Brandon Adams doubled and Tony Giovinetti

singled.

In their tournament opener, the Breakers defeated the Yard Dogs,

8-5.

Bryant had a two-run double, one of the team’s two players named

Kyle Ball (No. 8) had an RBI single, Lesinski an RBI double and Adams

and the other Kyle Ball (No. 5) also drove in runs.

In their second game, the Breakers beat the Lancers, 9-5.

The Breakers trailed, 3-2, but broke open the game by scoring

seven runs in the top of the fourth inning.

Giovinetti doubled home two runs, Vogel, Chris Lien, Kyle Ball

(No. 5) and Aaron Ochoa each had an RBI single and Sean Guite had an

RBI ground out in producing the seven-run inning.

In three tournament games, the Breakers had a .362 team batting

average and a .457 team on-base average.