KENNEWICK — The temperature and the bats heated up for the Twin Cities 14s in the Babe Ruth State Tournament here on Tuesday. The Lewis County boys collected 11 hits as a team, downing Camas-Washougal 14-4 in pool play despite triple digit numbers in the thermometer.
"The kids overcame the heat and played well despite it getting up to 113 degrees," Twin Cities' coach Travis Gonia said. "They played intense baseball from first to last pitch and all of our outs were productive outs. The warm weather tends to be the ticket for our bats. The ball flies pretty well."
Twin Cities jumped out to a 11-3 lead in the first three innings and cruised from there behind the pitching of Broc Selstrom and Kevin Clevenger. The two combined to allow just two hits, and Clevenger didn't allow one over the final two innings.
Meanwhile, 11 different Twin City players reached base, as Dakota Hawkins was 3 for 3 with a sac fly, Clevenger had a walkoff triple that ended the game because of the ten-run rule and Josh Dixon had a double.
Twin City will play their next pool play game against Grays Harbor today at 3 p.m.
"We feel they're a very good opponent out of our district and there's a lot of history between our two programs," Gonia said.
