Sportsworld gets comeback

Sportsworld staged a sixth-inning comeback Monday night at Riddle

Field in defeating Team Hobie, 4-3, in Laguna Beach Little League

Majors Division action.

Spencer Freidenrich scored on a hit by Alex Bekken in the third

inning to give Team Hobie a 1-0 lead. Sportsworld countered with a

run in the fourth inning when Stevie Contursi hit a home run.

Alex Iannotti also sent a long ball to the fence in the inning,

but Team Hobie left-fielder Cody Alter came up with a spectacular

catch.

Sawyer Pierce and Jack Pillsbury both scored in the fifth inning

to give Team Hobie a 3-1 lead.

In the sixth, Sportsworld staged a two-out rally.

Down to one final out, Contursi and Iannotti each reached base on

an error. Taylor Preston then walked, loading the bases for Drew

Wheeler, who smacked a two-run single to right to tie the game.

Wheeler eventually stole third base, and he scored what turned out

to be the winning run when Zack Jaffe singled down the line.

Contursi struck out the final three batters after Team Hobie had

loaded the bases in the bottom of the sixth to end the game.

In other games:

VFW 4, Sportsworld 3

Two days before it rallied to edge Team Hobie by a 4-3 score,

Sportsworld had the tabled turned when VFW posted a sixth inning

rally to win by an identical score.

After Grif Fair had singled, Santi Pierini completed an

outstanding offensive showing by hitting a two-run home run to

complete the comeback.

Pierini’s first home run had tied the game at 2-2 in the fourth

inning.

An RBI single by Matt Neev in the second inning to put VFW up 1-0

before Sportsworld grabbed a 2-1 advantage in the third inning on

Taylor Preston’s two-RBI double.

In the top of the sixth, Sportsworld took its final lead when Alex

Ionnatti single drove home Brian Vail to make its 3-2.