Pearl City pounded in Legion opener
Advertiser Staff
Designated hitter Calan Reichstein hit two home runs and drove in seven runs to lead Louisville, Colo., to a 25-15 victory over Pearl City yesterday in an American Legion Baseball Western Regional opener at Kearns, Utah.
Pearl City, the Hawai'i American Legion (19-younger) champion, faces Magna Utah, today in an elimination game.
Louisville scored seven runs in the first inning, two runs in the second inning and four in the third for a 13-0 lead.
Reichstein hit a two-run homer in the second and a three-run shot in the third. He also had a two-run single in the first inning. He finished 4 for 4.
Catcher Mike Raudenbush went 5 for 5, including four runs scored and five RBIs.
Tyler Sisson added a three-run homer in the first inning, while Derek DiCarlo hit a two-run homer in a three-run seventh.
Pearl City starter Jason Tamanaha lasted 2 2/3 innings, giving up 10 hits and 12 runs, six earned. The Hawai'i champions committed six errors.
Louisville's Cameron Tallman pitched 4 2/3 innings for the victory, giving up four runs, seven hits, while striking out five and walking five.
Pearl City closed to 16-11 with a seven-run sixth inning off reliever Carlos Ceballos.
Herbert Chung, Travis Jones, Dustin Kim-Seu had RBI singles and Pearl City got two runs off walks by Derek Grace and Kurt Tanabe and scored on a hit-batsman (Blayne Kamahiai) and a sacrifice fly by Bryan Katakura.
But Louisville scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to take a 19-11 lead.
Pearl City scored three runs in the top of the eighth, including RBI singles by Katakura, Chung and Jones.
Louisville, which had 26 hits, ended the game with a sixth-run eighth. The tournament has a 10-run differential mercy rule after seven innings.
Chung went 4 for 6 with three runs scored and two RBIs. Kamahiai had two hits and three RBIs and was hit by pitches twice to score runs for Pearl City.