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By Ray Wilde
Sports correspondent
Branson, MO -- The Mifflin County Babe Ruth 15-16-year-old All-Stars are going into uncharted
waters.
On Tuesday, Mifflin County beat Columbia (the country), 12-1, in
five innings. The game was stopped after five innings due to
the 10-run rule.
Mifflin County is now 4-0 and will get a day off today. It will start
single elimination play on Thursday. The local All-Stars won
their pool to get a day off.
This will be the first time that a Babe Ruth team from Mifflin County will finish in the top six of
international play. Babe Ruth baseball went to the international
field three years ago.
On Tuesday, the Mifflin County bats finally came alive. Mifflin County had 11 hits, the most since
the second game in the Mid-Atlantic Regional last month.
"We finally hit the ball today," said Denny Yetter, the Mifflin
County manager. "We worked with some of the players before the
game. Max (Trawitz) had a good start for us pitching. We also got Liam (Shaffer) and Jett (Powell)
some time on the mound.”
Mifflin County got off to a slow
start as it didn't score a run in the
first inning.
But, in the second Mifflin County scored twice as Powell
came home on a wild pitch and Jude Zook had an RBI single.
In the third, Mifflin County sent 10 men to the plate and scored six runs.
The two big hits in the inning came from Luke Shawver, a two
run single and Trawitz smashed a bases loaded triple. A key hit in
the inning came from Kooper Walters, who laid down a perfect
bunt to load the bases.
Mifflin County picked up two more runs in the fourth. Haven
Bridge scored on a wild pitch and Shawver scored a run on a fielder's choice.
Mifflin County wrapped up its scoring in the fifth. Landen Pecht
had an RBI base hit and Zook scored on an error.
The Zook run was historic. It was the league’s 9,000. His father, Travis, who is an assistant coach on the team, scored the league's 3,000 run on July 9, 1995, on a wild pitch in Gettysburg. Travis was a 15-year-old.
On Tuesday, Mifflin County got great production from the bottom of its lineup. The local All-Stars got eight hits from six through 10.
Zook and Bridge each had two hits, while Trawitz, Pecht, Caden
McClure and Maverick Smith each had one. Walters had two hits from his leadoff spot.
Trawitz went three innings to get the win. He gave up one run, three hits, struck out one and
walked no one. Shaffer gave up one hit and struck out two. Powell walked one and also struck out
two.
NOTES-Mifflin County committed one error, the first one
in the last three games... Shawver's single in the third was the league's 9,500th hit... On July 24, 1995, Travis Zook had hit number 2,999 as a
15-year-old in Phoenixville.