AUGUST 6: Post 7 Tucson Moondogs 6, Fairfield Expos 5
AUGUST 7: Post 7 Tucson Moondogs vs. Hawaii, 7 p.m.
AUGUST 8: Post 7 Tucson Moondogs vs. TBD, 4 or 7 p.m.
American Legion West Region at Fairfield, California: August 6-10
Post 7 Moondogs beat Fairfield, California 6-5 to open up West Region play of the American Legion playoffs taking place in Fairfield. The Moondogs are comprised of players from Tucson High and the team is representing the state of Arizona at the region. Fairfield is the host team. The Moondogs are named after former Badger Chris Moon.
Tucson will play Hawaii Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the second round after Hawaii beat Texas 11-7 earlier in the day. The team from Honolulu scored seven runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to secure the victory over League City.
Tucson took a 6-1 lead to the seventh but Fairfield scored four runs in the bottom half of the inning to cut the lead down to 6-5 with the go ahead run at the plate but Andrew Hendrick picked up a ground ball and back-to-back strikeouts to preserve the victory. Hendrick took the mound with Tucson up 6-3 with no outs but Matthew Hague knocked in two runners before Hendrick could shut the door on the victory.
Tucson took a commanding 4-0 lead in the top of the second after Essar Valenzuela tripled with one out and the bases loaded to score Alan Krimpe, Jordan Lesley and Robby Sirk. Diego Contreras followed with a single to bring in Valenzuela for the fourth run. Krimpe picked up a hit in the top of the third and then Sirk doubled him in with two outs to put Tucson up 5-0.
Fairfield cut the lead down to 5-1 in the bottom half of the third but Marcelo Carpio sacrificed Contreras home in the top of the fourth for the 6-1 lead.
Luis Camacho (4.0), Antonio Trejo (1.1), Lesley (.2) and Hendrick (1.0) took the ball for Tucson and the crew collected a combined 10 strikeouts with Camacho finishing with four.
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