The Nighthawks 13AA sponsered by Granite & Marble Interiors of Fremont played their 1st tournament of the year in Columbus, NE on May 5th & 6th. Game one was against the host team, Columbus Mariners and we were off to a slow start with a few defensive errors to allow the Mariners 5 runs in the top of the 1st and took Bergan off the mound early. The Nighthawks answered back though with 4 runs in the bottom off base hits by Tyler, Nick and Sam and a double by Gage. Addison and Drew both walked and accounted for 2 of the runs with Bergan and Gage crossing for the other 2. The Mariners didn't let up though scoring 3 more runs in the 2nd and 5 in the 4th inning. The Nighthawks made a charge in the 5th with 4 more runs but fell short losing 13-9.
Game 2 was against the Millard Lightning and the Nighthawks were ready for this game. Bergan was back on the mound, this time with some good defense behind him. The bats were working good in this game too, Riley, Gage and Addison all going 2 for 3 with 2 RBI's each. Just about everyone on the team hit the ball this game. Bergan and the defense held the Lightning to just 1 run 4 innings, but gave up 4 in the 5th and 3 in the 7th inning to make the game close, but held on to win 9-8.
The 3rd game was against the West O Mustangs who had been hitting well all day long and didn't let up agaist us. The Nighthawks looked pretty tired though and just couldn't get anything going offensively. The Mustangs were hitting good base hits everywhere that we wern't and gave us our 2nd lose of pool play that dropped us to the consolation bracket.
Game 1 on Sunday was against a very good Columbus Mariners 12AAA team. It was looking like a defensive struggle with neither team getting a hit until the 5th inning when Tyler and Gage both got base hits and then Brant with a RBI double started the scoring. Sam pitched a great game and Drew came in and closed it out in the 6th only giving up 1 run the whole game. The Nighthawks won another close one 3-1.
Game 2 Sunday the Nighthawks faced Millard Lightning for the 2nd time in the tournament. The game started off like it was going to be another defensive battle, Drew had our only hit through 3 innings and no runs. Tyler was pitching and held the Lightning to only 2 runs through 4 1/3 innings, but that was 2 more runs than what we had after the 3rd. Tyler led off the 4th inning with a base hit, followed by a double from Gage and a single from Addison and another double from Riley to score 3 big runs in the 3rd to put the Nighthawks on top. Drew stepped on the mound in the 4th and held the Lightning to only 1 more run. Brant started the 5th inning with a walk and Tyler followed with an RBI double. Then in the 6th Riley drew the walk and Nick drove him in to give the Nighthawks the win.
Riley played really good at shortstop the last game, and Nick may have found a new home in left making some nice catches and turning one of them into a double play.
It was the 1st tournament of the year for the Nighthawks and all in all they didn't play too bad, just a few mistakes in a couple of innings makes a big difference in the outcome of the game. There wasn't a team there that the Nighthawks couldn't beat.
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