GAME 7: AROMA PARK 0, BROWNSVILLE, TX 10
Brownsville, Texas opened day 3 of the Colt World Series with a 10-0 win over Aroma Park, IL in five innings Sunday afternoon at Rent One Park to improve to 2-2 in the tournament.
Brownsville used four run bursts in the first and fourth innings to help put away Aroma Park, who fell to 0-3 in the tournament.
Aroma Park threatened to score in the fifth when Josiah Mason walked and then advanced to third on a wild pitch and a fielder’s choice with just one out. Andrew Shepherd flew out to right field and Mason tagged to score but was doubled up at home by Roel Gonzalez’s throw to catcher Maximo Moreno, Jr to end the game.
Alek Guzman went the distance on the hill for Brownsville to record the win.
GAME 8: GREENSBORO 10, MARION, IL 8
Late rally lifts Greensboro past Marion at CWS
MARION — Greensboro rallied late to hand host Marion its first loss of the 2021 Colt World Series Sunday afternoon at Rent One Park in Marion.
Greensboro trailed 4-0 early and 7-5 heading into the seventh before rallying. Jackson Jones drew a walk with the bases loaded to bring in Ian McMillan to pull Greensboro within 7-6. Then, Cade Hill’s RBI triple cleared the bases as Nickell Hall, Jonathan Sendziak and Jackson Jones all scored to give Greensboro a 9-7 lead in the top of the seventh. They added an insurance run a sacrifice bunt to make it 10-7.
Marion tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh. Parker Price beat out an infield single to score Jakob Koehn with two outs to pull within 10-8 but they couldn’t get any closer.
Greensboro (2-1) held on to win, 10-8, and will play Covina at 5 p.m. It was host Marion’s first loss of the tournament. They are now 2-1 and will return to night to play Aroma Park at 8 p.m.
Marion took an early 1-0 lead after 1 inning of play on an Aidan Dodson sacrifice fly that brought in Peyton Bittle.
In the bottom of the third, Peyton Bittle’s RBI double brought in Cruz Harlan to give Marion a 2-0 lead. Dodson drove in Bittle with an RBI triple to stretch Marion’s lead to 3-0 in the bottom of the third.
Trey Cole followed with an RBI hit to bring in Jakob Koehn and suddenly, Marion led 4-0 in the bottom of the fourth.
But Greensboro rallied back. Ian McMillan’s RBI hit up the middle drove in Conner Matin. Then, Ethan George and McMillan scored on Nickell Hall’s hit to RF to pull Greensboro within 4-3 in the top of the 5th.
Marion got a run back when Bittle drove in Harlan and then raced home after a misplay in left to put Marion ahead 6-3.
Marion appeared to be in control after Parker Price’s scorcher down the first base line brought in Jakob Koehl to give Marion a 7-3 lead.
Greensboro hung around, though. Kelton Fuquay bunted in Jackson Jones and beat it out at first to pull Greensboro within 7-4 in the top of the sixth.
Ethan George’s sacrifice fly scores Jackson Hill to make it 7-5 Marion before Greensboro’s big seventh-inning rally.
GAME 9: COVINA, CA 7, GREENSBORO 11
Greensboro defeats Covina, 17-7
MARION — Greensboro improved to 3-1 with a 17-7 win over Covina in Game 9 of the Colt World Series Sunday evening at Rent One Park in Marion.
Ethan George scored to put Greensboro on the board, 1-0, in the bottom of the first.
Jason Brooks Jr. drove in a pair of runs to put Greensboro ahead, 3-0, in the bottom of the second.
Covina answered back in the top of the third. Efren Miranda’s bases-clearing hit brought in Aiden Trejo, Adrian Morales and Isaac Nava and then he raced home on an errant throw to put Covina up 4-3 in the top of the third. Mike Bang then drove in Diego Estrada to make it 5-3 Covina.
Greensboro tied it on Isaiah Brown’s two-RIBI hit in the bottom of the third.
They then took the lead for good when Ethan George drove in a run to make it 6-5 and then added to it when Brooks Jr. brought in Brown to stretch the lead to 8-5 and went on to win 17-7.
GAME 10: MARION, IL 13, AROMA PARK 1
Marion downs Aroma Park, 13-1
MARION — Marion put up 11 runs in the top of the fifth on its way to a 13-1 five-inning win over Aroma Park in Sunday’s night cap at the Colt World Series.
Marion took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Peyton Bittle came around to score. Marion added another run in the top of the third when Trey Cole scored to make it 2-0.
It stayed that way until the top of the fifth when Marion blew the game open with an 11-run outburst. Highlights included runs from Bittle, Aidan Dodson, Owen Cornett, Jakob Koehn, Parker Price, Charles Hunter and Griffin Day as Marion blew it open to 13-0 after five innings.
Aroma Park scored once in the bottom half of the fifth when Carson Statler scored on a hit by Clay Gadbois but it wasn’t enough as Marion held on and put the 10-run mercy rule into effect.
Marion improved to 3-1 and bounced back from its earlier loss to Greensboro this afternoon with the win. Aroma Park fell to 0-4 with the loss.
Both teams will start bracket play Monday with hopes of advancing to Tuesday’s championship game.
Marion will play Covina at 8 p.m. with the winner advancing to Tuesday’s championship game. Aroma Park and Brownsville play at 2 p.m. with the winner advancing to play Greensboro at 5 p.m.