BREMERTON — The Olympic Crosscutters American Legion baseball team went 4-0 over the weekend at the 17U Bankers Invite Tournament at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds.
“Our tournament format was interrupted due to a complete rain out on Thursday,” Cutters coach John Qualls said.
“The tournament was then just turned into a round robin with no championship game.”
The Cutters opened play with a 9-5 win against North Kitsap on Thursday.
They followed up by beating Elma 14-6 and Burlington-Edison 6-3 on Saturday and knocked off Olympic 5-1 Sunday night.
Tied at 1-1 entering the top of the sixth inning against Olympic, Logan Shaw reached base on a walk.
A Gavin Velarde single moved Shaw to second and a double steal put runners at second and third.
Shaw then scooted home with the eventual winning run on a passed ball on a 3-2 count to Lane Dotson.
Velarde later scored on an error for a 3-1 Cutters’ lead.
Matt Bainbridge added an insurance run in the sixth when he singled to right field, advanced on Dane Bradow’s single to center and Joel Wood’s walk and came home on a bases-loaded walk of Cole Dotson.
Dotson allowed one run on three hits in five innings of work but left the game with a no-decision.
Jake Sparks and Shaw pitched a scoreless inning apiece to lock down the win.
Dane Bradow went six innings on the mound against Burlington-Edison, scattering six hits and allowing three runs, two earned, while striking out five and walking two to pick up the win.
A bases-loaded infield single by Matt Bainbridge followed by a two-run double to right field by Justin Porter and an RBI single by Dane Bradow put the Cutters up 4-1 in the bottom of the third inning.
Velarde added an RBI single and later stole home in the bottom of the fifth to pad the Cutters’ lead.
The Cutters used 11 steals, three by Anthony Bitegeko, and two apiece by Shaw, Rwehabura Munyagi Jr, and Velarde, to run away from Elma.
Munyagi and Bitegeko each stole home during the Cutters’ 6-run third inning.
Porter went 2 for 3 with three RBIs, Velarde was 1-3 with a double, a walk, three runs and two RBIs and Ben Bruner drove in a pair of runs to lead the Cutters offensively.
The Cutters (11-0) will visit Central Kitsap for a doubleheader on Wednesday.
Cutters 5, Olympic 1
Cutters 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 — 5 7 0
Olympic 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 — 1 3 6
WP- Sparks; LP- Dower
Pitching Statistics
Cutters: C. Dotson 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 6 K; Sparks IP, 0 H, 0 R; Shaw IP, 0 H, 0 R, K.
Olympic: Dower 7 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 10 BB, 3 K.
Hitting Statistics
Cutters: Velarde 2-4, 2 BB, 3B, SB, 2 R; L. Dotson 2-2, 2 BB; D. Bradow 1-2, BB, R; Bitegeko 1-3.
Olympic: Dower 1-3, Fernandez 1-2, R; Turnwist 0-1, SAC, RBI.
Cutters 6, Burlington-Edison 3
Burlington-Ed. 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 — 3 6 1
Cutters 0 0 4 0 2 0 x — 6 9 0
WP- D. Bradow; LP- Stewart; SV- Shaw
Pitching Statistics
Burlington-Edison: Stewart 4 IP, 8 H, 5 R, BB, K; Ross 2 IP, H, R, 3 K.
Olympic: D. Bradow 6 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 5 K; Shaw IP, 0 H, 0 R, K.
Hitting Statistics
Burlington-Edison: Hansen 3-3, 2B, R, RBI; Wright 1-3, 2B, R, RBI.
Olympic: Porter 2-3, 2B, R, 2 RBI; Velarde 2-2, SB, 2 R, RBI; Bainbridge 1-3, R, RBI; D. Bradow 1-3, RBI; Bitegeko 1-2, R; Shaw 1-1, R.
Cutters 14, Elma 6, 5 innings
Cutters 1 4 6 1 2 — 14 12 0
Elma 1 1 0 2 2 — 6 7 1
WP- Velarde; LP- Coonse (X-X)
Pitching Statistics
Olympic: Velarde 3 1/3 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 6 K; B. Bradow 2/3 IP, 2 H, R, BB, K; Williams IP, 2 H, 2 R, 3 BB.
Elma: Coonse 3 IP, 9 H, 11 R, 5 BB, K; Burbidge 2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 4 BB.
Hitting Statistics
Olympic: Porter 2-3, R, SB, 3 RBI; Munyagi 3-3, 3 R, 2 SB; Velarde 1-1, BB, 2B, 2 SB, 3 R, 2 RBI; Bruner 1-2, 2 R, 2 RBI; D. Bradow 2-3, BB, 2B, 2 R; Bainbridge 1-3, R, RBI; Bitegeko 1-2, BB, 3 SB, R, RBI.
Elma: Robinette 2-3, R, 2 RBI; French 2-3, 2 R.
