Columbus 7u, 8u All-Star seasons end

The Columbus 7u and 8u All-Star baseball team’s season came to an end recently after being eliminated in the district tournament.

Both teams played hard and gave it everything they had but unfortunately came up short, so let’s take a look at their season and see what happened.

7u

Starting with the youngest of the bunch, this group consisted of kids that were seven or six years old. As typical with kids at that age, they were full of energy to start the season.

They faced Bellville first and came away with an 11-1 loss, which they quickly put in the rear view mirror. They then matched up with La Grange, and Columbus’ offense woke up in this game, scoring seven runs.

Unfortunately, they were unable to stop La Grange on defense, and Columbus ended up losing this game 13-7. But in game three of their season, they came in with some more confidence in their defense and they turned in a stellar performance.

They face Grimes County in game three and jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Grimes County scored their first of two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. Columbus scored four more runs across the fifth and sixth inning while Grimes County scored once more to arrive at the final score of 8-2.

Columbus then faced Sealy for their final game of their season, which ended in a 10-3 loss. Despite the loss, all of the kids on team still had a blast being able to play this summer and gave them extra motivation to come back stronger next season.

8u

Moving on to the 8u team for Columbus, they posted a 2-3 record. In their first game of the season, they faced Sealy and were handed their first loss of the season with a score of 10-4.

In game two Columbus bounced back with a 16-6 win over Smithville for their first win of the season. Columbus was leading 2-1 in the bottom of the second inning, and Columbus’ offense came to life scoring five runs to give themselves a 7-1 lead.

Smithville responded with two runs in the top of the third inning, then three runs in the top of the fourth inning. In the third and fourth inning Columbus scored a total of nine runs to arrive at the final score of 16-6.

Offensively, Columbus was led by Grant Langhamer who hit a double and triple for Columbus on their way to a victory. In game three Columbus faced Flatonia where they were handed their second loss of the season with a score of 9-7.

Against Hempstead for game four, Columbus found themselves trailing 10-9 in the bottom of the sixth inning. With their backs against the wall, Columbus’ offense came up big scoring three runs to win the game.

It started out with back-to-back singles from Cross Kulhanek and Oliver Wegenhoft. Then Hank Melnar hit a triple to drive in two runs to tie the game at 11-11. Colton Horton then hit a single to drive in the final run of the game and gave Columbus a 1211 win.

In their final game Columbus came up just short against La Grange with a final score of 11-9 to end their season.

Both of these teams played great this season, and all though their season ended early, they will be back next season hungry for more All-Star baseball action.