The Richmond Mariners made the most of their opportunities to capture gold at the Fleetwood Invitational.
After rolling off five consecutive victories, the Midget boys fastball team squared off with Fleetwood in the championship game. The hosts outhit Richmond 6-3 but stranded 12 baserunners. The end result was the Mariners coming through with a 4-1 win.
Fleetwood opened the scoring in the top of the first inning on a sacrifice fly. The Mariners wasted little time in answering, striking for a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning on a passed ball and a sacrifice fly by Ryan Shields. A single by Jake Doyle, who got on board twice during the game, was also a key part of the inning.
Winning pitcher Ankush Thapar worked his way out of a jam in the fourth and would go on to pitch a complete game, surrendering just the one unearned run.
The Richmond roster also includes: Colyn Maricle, Dylan Knight, Jeffrey Shih, Joey Rybicky, Jordan Mezaros, Matthew Zimmerman, Sandy Doyle, Sunil Johal, Troy Wong and Tyler Makaoff.
