WorldWorld SeriesSeries JournalJournal since 1926 American Legion 19aug2013 Brooklawn advances to championship New Jersey beats Gonzales, Louisiana, in rainy undefeated game, 7-2 Carl Hennell WSJ Editor

SHELBY, N.C.—They did it again. The boys from Brooklawn, N.J., beat a team from Louisiana Sunday night in the undefeated game of the American Legion Baseball to earn a berth into the Tuesday night championship game. First baseman Anthony Harrold went 3-for-3 with an RBI, right fielder Fran Kinsey a two- , and pitcher Tyler Mondile allowed two runs over 6 2/3 to help lead New Jersey to a 7-2 victory over Gonzales, N.J. Brooklawn (45-8) will try to eliminate Califor- nia (34-14) Monday night at 8:30 p.m. Louisiana Eldon Lindsay / American Legion SEE BROOKLAWN, Page 4 Brooklawn, N.J., left fielder Jonathan Gonzalez slides into home Napoleon, Ohio 0 before Gonzales, La., catcher Steven Bright can apply a tag Sunday night, Aug. 18, 2013, in the undefeated game of the American Legion 9:30 AM Minnesota 1 Baseball World Series. Burnsville, Minn. 4 Brooklawn, NJ 7, Gonzales, LA 2 5:00 PM New Jersey 7 Gonzales, LA AB R H BI Robert Podorsky 2b 5 2 3 0 Waipahu, Hawaii 4 Collin Delaune lf 5 0 3 1 Austin Millet 3b 3 0 0 0 5:00 PM New Jersey 8 Jacob LeJeune p 1 0 0 0 Andre Liotta p 0 0 0 0 Brooklawn, N.J. 5 Austin Bain p/3b 4 0 2 0 Blaine Schexnayder ss 3 0 0 0 Devin Speligene 1b 4 0 0 0 8:30 PM New Jersey (45-8) Grant McCrory cf 2 0 0 0 Steven Bright c 3 0 1 0 Petaluma, Calif. 5 Madison Nickens rf 4 0 0 0 Totals...... 34 2 9 1 1:00 PM Louisiana 6 Brooklawn, NJ AB R H BI Phil Dickinson ss 5 0 1 1 Gonzales, La. 8 Fran Kinsey rf 4 1 1 2 Sean Breen 2b 5 0 2 0 8:30 PM Louisiana 2 Nick Cieri 3b 4 1 1 0 Jonathan Gonzalez lf 5 1 1 0 Branford, Conn. 0 8:30 PM Tyler Mondile p 3 1 1 0 Mike Mercer p 0 1 0 0 8:30 PM N. Carolina 5 Anthony Harrold 1b 3 1 3 1 Pete Farlow cf 2 1 1 1 Wilmington, N.C. 5 John Theckston c 4 0 0 0 Totals...... 35 7 11 5 Minnesota 1 Gonzales, LA...... 100 000 100 - 2 9 2 Brooklawn, NJ...... 020 110 03X - 7 11 2 E - Bain, A; Speligene, D; Dickinson, P; Cieri, N. DP - NJ 1. LOB - LA California) 6 1:00 PM California (34-14) 9; NJ 10. 2B - Podorsky, R 2; Bain, A 2; Mondile, T. HBP - Cieri, N. SH - McCrory, G; Bright, S. SF - Farlow, P. SB - Podorsky, R. 1:00 PM California 3 Gonzales, LA IP H R ER BB SO 87th annual Austin Bain L 5.0 6 4 3 2 8 Connecticut 3 Jacob LeJeune 2.1 5 3 3 2 1 Andre Liotta 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 Brooklawn, NJ IP H R ER BB SO Tyler Mondile W 6.2 8 2 2 2 4 Ohio 5 Louisiana (48-5) Mike Mercer 2.1 1 0 0 0 1 WP - LeJeune, J; Bain, A 2; Mondile, T. HBP - by Liotta, A (Cieri, N). 9:30 AM Hawaii 12 5:30 PM BK - Bain, A. Umpires - HP: Mark Mayle 1B: Terry Myers 2B: Randy Sutton 3B: Hawaii 9 5:00 PM Hawaii (24-5) Joe Rocha. Start: 8:45 pm Time: 2:51 Attendance: 6976 N. Carolina 3 Page 2 World Series Journal 19Aug2013

Eldon Lindsay / American Legion Waipahu, Hawaii, center fielder Tanner Tokunaga steals second base as Wilmington, N.C., shortstop Steven Linkous takes the throw from catcher Chance Shepard Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, at the American Legion Baseball World Series in Shelby, N.C. North Carolina pitcher Tyree Johnson looks on. Hawaii beat North Carolina, 12-3, in loser- action to advance to the semifinals. Hawaii nearly 10 runs Carolina Carl Hennell he shut people down with his . out-hit North Carolina, 13-5. WSJ Editor His helped out a lot today because it caught batters off guard. I used his SHELBY, N.C.—It was nearly over by the a lot today, especially once we got the lead Waipahu, HI 12, Wilmington, NC 3 Waipahu, HI AB R H BI 10-run rule in seven innings. and they were aggressive I just wanted him Tokunaga, T cf 4 1 2 5 Tyler Uchiyama ph/cf 1 0 0 0 Waipahu, Hawaii, catcher Austyn Naga- to paint the outside and let them chase it. He Sakurai, B 3b 5 0 0 1 mine had three hits and three RBIs, shortstop was locating the ball really well, and when Nagamine, A c 6 0 3 3 Inabata, A rf 3 1 0 0 Reid Akau had three hits and scored five he did put it down the middle of the plate Jaraad Salas 1b 1 0 0 0 Drake Yoshioka 2b 4 1 0 0 runs, center fielder Tanner Tokunaga col- they were rolling over on it because it was a Monis, E 2b 0 0 0 0 lected five RBIs, and pitcher Kamalu Neal slower fastball. Whenever I called the chan- Bryson Yasui lf 4 1 2 0 Justin Padilla lf 0 0 0 0 earned a complete-game victory to help lead geup they just hammered it. So we rarely Enos, T dh 3 1 0 0 Jarinn Afaga-Abreu ph/dh 1 0 0 0 the Hawaiians in eliminating Wilmington, used it.” Reid Akau ss 5 5 3 2 N.C., 12-3, Sunday evening at the American Akau, Hawaii’s No. 8 hitter, went 3-for- Sugimoto, D 1b/rf 3 2 2 0 Rustin Ho ph/rf 1 0 1 0 Legion Baseball World Series. 5 with two RBIs to go with his five runs. He Neal, K p 0 0 0 0 Totals...... 41 12 13 11 Hawaii scored four runs in the top of the highlighted the four-run second with a Wilmington, NC AB R H BI two-run bloop single into left field. Christian Wolfe cf 4 1 1 0 second inning and never looked back. It led Steven Linkous ss 3 0 1 0 11-1 before North Carolina scored twice in “I had two strikes… It was a Chance Shepard c 4 0 1 0 Shane Shepard 3b/1b 3 1 1 1 the bottom of the seventh inning to extend and I stuck out my bat,” Akau said. “It just Collin Thacker rf 4 0 0 0 Jack Faircloth 2b 4 1 1 1 the game to a full nine innings. so happened to drop over the third baseman. Kenny Lanier lf/p 2 0 0 1 Waipahu (25-5) will play Gonzales, La. The big hit … It’s new to me.” Greg Trotta p 0 0 0 0 Josh Rogers p 0 0 0 0 (48-5), Monday evening at 5 p.m. in a loser- Nagamine highlighted Hawaii’s three- Ward Coleman dh 2 0 0 0 Trey Croom 3b 1 0 0 0 out semifinal. North Carolina’s season ended run fourth inning with a two-run bloop single Colin Dolan 1b/lf 2 0 0 0 with a 35-4 record. into left field. Tyler Kosh ph/lf 1 0 0 0 Matt Davis p 0 0 0 0 Neal used a well-located low 80-mph “I took two strikes and I was just sitting Tyree Johnson p 0 0 0 0 Totals...... 30 3 5 3 fastball with a slider to spread five hits and on the fastball because after two strikes he Waipahu, HI...... 040 320 201 - 12 13 1 two walks over nine innings, striking out couldn’t control his curveball,” he said. “He Wilmington, NC...... 000 100 200 - 3 5 5 E - Tokunaga, T; Wolfe,C; Linkous,S; Shepard,C; Shepard,S; only two, while inducing 18 ground outs. threw a fastball and it was low and outside Croom,T. DP - HI 1; NC 1.LOB - HI 10; NC 3. 2B - Tokunaga, T; Sugimoto, D. HBP - Inabata, A; Yasui, B. SH - His defense committed just one ; North and I dinked it over the third baseman. I Tokunaga, T. SF - Sakurai, B; Shepard,S. SB - Tokunaga, T. just got lucky. I just clicked my wrists and it Waipahu, HI IP H R ER BB SO Carolina committed five. Neal, K W 9.0 5 3 2 2 2 “He throws an effective fastball,” Na- went over. If the third baseman was taller he Wilmington, NC IP H R ER BB SO Matt Davis L 3.1 4 7 3 3 2 gamine said. “It’s a flat fastball; it doesn’t would have caught it. It was super close.” Tyree Johnson 1.2 3 2 2 1 2 Kenny Lanier 2.0 2 2 1 0 3 move or anything. But the batters today were Tokunaga hit a two-run single up the Greg Trotta 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 really aggressive and chasing everything. So middle in the fifth to give Hawaii a 9-1 lead Josh Rogers 1.0 3 1 1 0 2 HBP - by Davis,M (Yasui, B); by Johnson,T (Inabata, A). he was pitching to contact and our defense and then added a two-run in the sev- BK - Neal, K. Umpires - HP: Craig Mills 1B: Jay Desantis 2B: Terry Myers was making the plays. His curveball wasn’t enth to put the game at 11-1. 3B: Dave Brown really working today. It usually does and Bryson Yasui and Dylan Sugimoto each Start: 5:00 pm Time: 2:24 Attendance: 6905 Johnson,T faced 2 batters in the 6th. it’s really sharp. At the regional in Oregon had two hits in the winning effort as Hawaii 19Aug2013 World Series Journal Page 3 Busse’s HR lifts Cali, eliminates Minnesota Petaluma, Calif., advances to California third baseman Robert ALWS semifinal against N.J. Busse swings for his third-inning Carl Hennell Sunday, WSJ Editor Aug. 18, 2013, at the American Le- SHELBY, N.C.—A mistake two-strike gion Baseball World turned into a two-run dinger early in the Series in Shelby, game and it stood up for the win Sunday N.C. afternoon at the American Legion Baseball World Series. California Robert Busse pulled a two-out, 1-2 fastball over the big Eldon Lindsay / American Legion Lowe’s sign behind the left-center field wall of Keeter Stadium in the third inning for a two-run home run to give Petaluma, Calif., a 3-0 lead, and two pitchers combined to allow sliders—then mixed up his changeup in there starting pitcher Cooper Mass also went six just one run the rest of the way, as California instead of his curve because he wasn’t able innings, allowing five hits and three walks eliminated Burnsville, Minn., 3-1 to advance to locate it. He kept the hitters off balance. with four —the exact same stat line to the semifinals. They couldn’t up with his fastball and as California’s Hibbert. “At first I was just looking for something he was locating it—busting hitters in. The “Those are such crazy similarities that to hit because he got me on that changeup in changeup was shaky in the , but he we probably need to check the computer my first and I struck out,” Busse said. found it and we went with it. He was a little scorebook program for a glitch in the box “So I sat on his changeup and he still ended amped up. His stuff in the beginning was score,” said ALWS’s 20th-year Internet Scor- up getting me on it. It was 1-1 and he threw missing wide, missing up. He just settled ing Specialist Alex Grim. me the changeup and I swung through it. I down and fixed a little mechanics. He just turned around and said that’s the changeup kept his shoulder closed. He was flying open Petaluma, CA 3, Burnsville, MN 1 that I needed to hit. So I got back into the a little and his arm was a little bit behind so Burnsville, MN AB R H BI box and I was sitting changeup because they Peter Nordgren lf 4 0 2 0 his balls were staying up. Once he found that Eric Watters 2b 4 0 1 0 had gotten me twice on it now so I was going down zone, he was solid.” Tyler Hanson ss/3b 4 0 0 0 Bo Hellquist dh 4 1 1 0 to sit on it again. He ended up throwing the Hilbert stuck out just four and then Tyler Hill cf 3 0 1 0 fastball and it was knee high and I ended up Zach Smith rf/p 4 0 0 0 Jimmy Flatt pitched the final three shutout Brandon Dorshak 3b/rf 4 0 1 0 hitting it. I just got my hands going and let innings to earn his second save in two days. Logan Vermeer 1b 4 0 1 1 Camden Traetow c 3 0 1 0 my bat fly. I turned on it and hit it right and With the lack of strikeouts, credit went to Cooper Maas p/ss 0 0 0 0 we got two runs out of it. It felt nice. It felt Totals...... 34 1 8 1 California’s defense—which committed two Petaluma, CA AB R H BI good, but I was just hoping I got enough be- errors. Minnesota stranded 11 runners; Cali- Chase Stafford 2b 4 0 2 0 Ryan Haug c 3 0 1 0 cause a couple of our guys felt like they got fornia stranded eight. Anthony Bender ss 4 1 1 0 good contact the other day but they didn’t Robert Busse 3b 3 1 1 2 “Our defense… Two errors is honestly Weston Bryan 1b 4 0 1 0 get out of here. But that one felt good off the a lot for us,” Busse said. “We are usually a Blake Patrick dh 4 0 0 0 Ryan Walsh rf 3 1 1 0 bat.” really good defense because all you need to Charles Parnow cf 3 0 1 1 The victory puts California (34-14) into Vinnie Albano lf 3 0 0 0 do is catch the ball and throw the ball. That’s Scott Hilbert p 0 0 0 0 a semifinal with New Jersey (45-8) Monday all it is and we understand that. But we had Jimmy Flatt p 0 0 0 0 Totals...... 31 3 8 3 night at about 8:30 p.m. some nice instructive plays off of balls that Burnsville, MN...... 000 100 000 - 1 8 3 California starting pitcher Scott Hilbert Petaluma, CA...... 012 000 00X - 3 8 2 were hit hard at us.” E - Watters, E; Traetow, C; Maas, C; Stafford, C; Albano, V. spread five hits and three walks over six Besides the early home run, the game DP - MN 1; CA 1. LOB - MN 11; CA 8. 2B - Parnow, C. HR - Busse, R. HBP - Traetow, C. SH - Nordgren, P. SB - innings using a mid-80 mph fastball with a was so close it even had crazy similarities. Stafford, C; Patrick, B. CS - Walsh, R; Parnow, C. Reached hard-cut slider and changeup. The 6-foot, on CI - Busse, R. The teams equaled each other with eight Burnsville, MN IP H R ER BB SO 195-pounder righty’s looping curveball hits. Both leadoff hitters—California second Cooper Maas L 6.0 5 3 3 3 4 Zach Smith 2.0 3 0 0 0 0 wasn’t working too well, said catcher Ryan baseman Chase Stafford and Minnesota Petaluma, CA IP H R ER BB SO Haug. Scott Hilbert W 6.0 5 1 1 3 4 left fielder Peter Nordgren—were the only Jimmy Flatt S 3.0 3 0 0 0 1 “His slider was his No. 2 pitch today players with two hits. Each team’s No. 8 WP - Maas, C. HBP - by Hilbert, S (Traetow, C). PB - Trae- tow, C. CI - Traetow, C. because he was hanging his curveball too hitters—California center fielder Charles Umpires - HP: Phil Schlosser 1B: Joe Rocha 2B: Dave much,” Haug said. “We called it quite a bit Brown 3B: Randy Sutton Parnow and Minnesota first baseman Logan Start: 1:00 pm Time: 2:24 Attendance: 6663 today—maybe a little more than 35 percent Vermeer—each had RBI singles. Burnsville Page 4 World Series Journal 19Aug2013

National Tournament Statistics National Tournament Statistics

TEAM G Avg AB R H 2B 3B HR BB SO SB-ATT HITS Waipahu, HI 9 .370 349 91 129 22 2 1 42 54 19-28 Tanner Tokunaga-HI 17 Petaluma, CA 8 .356 298 78 106 20 3 6 42 48 16-19 Reid Akau-HI 16 Branford, CT 7 .320 247 62 79 14 1 1 33 23 6-7 Brent Sakurai-HI 15 Brooklawn, NJ 8 .315 273 69 86 13 2 0 49 41 19-22 Austyn Nagamine-HI 15 Napoleon, OH 8 .315 286 58 90 13 2 1 46 38 13-14 Chase Stafford-CA 15 Gonzales, LA 8 .288 278 55 80 14 2 3 42 34 21-24 Burnsville, MN 8 .280 275 44 77 12 0 1 26 59 3-5 RUNS SCORED Wilmington, NC 8 .278 255 57 71 11 3 2 45 41 16-20 Tanner Tokunaga-HI 15 Totals 32 .318 2261 514 718 119 15 15 325 338 113-139 Steven Linkous-NC 12 Ryan Walsh-CA 11 TEAM PITCHING G ERA W L Sv IP H R ER BB SO Chase Stafford-CA 11 Wilmington, NC 8 1.93 6 2 1 70.0 52 34 15 43 69 4 tied with 10 run(s) scored Brooklawn, NJ 8 2.22 8 0 2 73.0 54 25 18 33 74 Burnsville, MN 8 3.04 6 2 1 68.0 70 29 23 24 47 RUNS BATTED IN Gonzales, LA 8 3.16 6 2 4 74.0 68 38 26 24 77 Nicholas Perrelli-CT 13 Petaluma, CA 8 3.22 6 2 3 67.0 65 35 24 23 38 Brent Sakurai-HI 11 Napoleon, OH 8 4.11 5 3 2 70.0 73 43 32 45 53 Chase Stafford-CA 11 Waipahu, HI 9 4.16 6 2 1 80.0 88 48 37 22 46 3 tied with 10 RBI(s) Branford, CT 7 6.16 4 3 1 57.0 79 50 39 24 42 Totals 32 3.45 47 16 15 559.0 549 302 214 238 446 DOUBLES Tanner Tokunaga-HI 5 TEAM FIELDING G PO A E Pct DP PB SBA-ATT Jaraad Salas-HI 5 Napoleon, OH 8 210 93 11 .965 4 2 4-6 Chase Stafford-CA 5 Gonzales, LA 8 222 83 12 .962 3 3 12-14 3 tied with 4 double(s) Brooklawn, NJ 8 219 82 15 .953 4 2 12-15 Branford, CT 7 171 69 12 .952 4 1 12-16 TRIPLES Waipahu, HI 9 240 108 18 .951 11 1 4-6 Blake Patrick-CA 2 Burnsville, MN 8 204 84 15 .950 7 1 7-11 Steven Linkous-NC 2 Petaluma, CA 8 201 83 19 .937 6 0 9-11 11 tied with 1 (s) Wilmington, NC 8 210 84 23 .927 11 3 7-10 Totals 32 1677 686 125 .950 50 13 67-89 HOME RUNS Charles Parnow-CA 2 INDIVIDUAL BATTING 13 tied with 1 home run(s) Min 21 plate appearances G Avg AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB Anthony Harrold-NJ 8 .500 28 6 14 9 2 0 0 5 TOTAL BASES Nick Cieri-NJ 8 .483 29 8 14 4 3 0 0 8 Chase Stafford-CA 23 Bryson Yasui-HI 8 .467 30 9 14 7 0 0 0 2 Tanner Tokunaga-HI 22 Collin Delaune-LA 7 .455 22 6 10 6 2 0 0 5 Charles Parnow-CA 20 Weston Bryan-CA 8 .448 29 9 13 6 2 1 0 8 Steven Linkous-NC 20 Steven Linkous-NC 8 .448 29 12 13 5 3 2 0 8 6 tied with 18 total base(s) Bo Hellquist-MN 8 .448 29 8 13 6 3 0 0 6 Reid Akau-HI 9 .444 36 10 16 7 2 0 0 1 STOLEN BASES SB-ATT Tyler Forgione-CT 7 .444 27 7 12 9 3 0 0 4 Steven Linkous-NC 10-12 Chase Stafford-CA 8 .417 36 11 15 11 5 0 1 5 Tanner Tokunaga-HI 7-8 Pete Farlow-NJ 8 .400 25 8 10 5 1 0 0 6 Fran Kinsey-NJ 6-6 Tyler Criscuolo-CT 7 .400 25 10 10 4 2 1 0 9 Robert Podorsky-LA 6-7 Austyn Nagamine-HI 9 .395 38 6 15 8 1 0 0 3 3 tied with 4 (s) Tyler Torrez-OH 8 .394 33 7 13 5 2 0 0 3 Brent Sakurai-HI 9 .385 39 9 15 11 1 0 0 4 STRIKEOUTS IP SO Alexander Pantani-CT 7 .385 26 5 10 3 2 0 0 2 Bryan Sammons-NC 22.1 25 Josh Cales-OH 8 .382 34 10 13 3 1 0 0 6 Mike Shawaryn-NJ 17.0 25 Blaine Schexnayder-LA 8 .379 29 7 11 6 0 0 1 5 Zach Willeman-OH 20.1 18 Ryan Haug-CA 8 .375 32 9 12 6 2 0 1 8 Austin Tanner-LA 17.0 18 Christian Wolfe-NC 8 .371 35 9 13 5 3 1 0 3 2 tied with 17 (s)

INDIVIDUAL PITCHING Minimum 7 IP App ERA W-L Sv IP H R ER BB SO Bryan Sammons-NC 3 0.00 2-1 0 22.1 16 6 0 15 25 Joe O’Donnell-NC 2 0.00 1-0 0 13.0 3 0 0 1 7 Mike Mercer-NJ 4 0.00 1-0 1 8.1 4 0 0 2 8 Jimmy Flatt-CA 4 0.75 2-0 2 12.0 10 2 1 2 4 Zach Smith-MN 2 0.82 1-0 0 11.0 12 3 1 1 6 Brooklawn Continued from Page 1 Austin Hancock-OH 4 0.87 2-0 1 10.1 7 4 1 3 9 Mike Shawaryn-NJ 3 1.06 1-0 1 17.0 9 4 2 2 25 Cole Stapler-LA 1 1.29 1-0 0 7.0 2 1 1 3 9 Tyler Hanson-MN 3 1.62 3-0 0 16.2 15 3 3 6 12 (48-5) will play Hawaii (24-5) in a loser- John Murphy-NJ 2 1.72 2-0 0 15.2 12 4 3 3 16 out semifinal Monday evening at 5:30 p.m. Zach Willeman-OH 3 1.77 1-1 0 20.1 20 10 4 11 18 Kamalu Neal-HI 2 2.00 1-0 0 18.0 13 7 4 3 7 Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the Greg Trotta-NC 3 2.00 1-0 0 9.0 5 4 2 4 3 Brandon Hagerla-CA 3 2.37 2-0 0 19.0 22 9 5 3 11 second inning, Harrold hit an RBI single Tanner Tokunaga-HI 1 2.57 0-0 0 7.0 8 5 2 1 6 to tie the game, then Pete Farlow added a to give New Jersey a lead it would never relinquish. It added a single run in both the fourth and fifth innings to put New Jersey up 4-0. Louisiana scored in the top of the seventh to put the game at 4-2, then Mon- dile was relieved by Mike Mercer to shut down the rally attempt. Mondile allowed eight hits and two walks while striking out four. Brooklawn added three more runs in the eighth to put the game out of reach.