Vandalia Vandals 11u baseball wrapped their season with a 2nd place finish at the GMB Father’s Day Tournament at Plummer Park in Edwardsville June 14-16. The Vandals began pool play Friday night against the Mineral Area Nationals falling 12-2. On Saturday, The Vandals defeated the Edwardsville Hogs 15-3 putting them at 1-1 in pool play, and the 4 seed for Sunday’s bracket tournament. The Vandals opened Sunday morning with a 6-3 victory over the O’Fallon Athletics. After a long day of waiting around, the Vandals took down the #1 seed Mineral Area Nationals 8-6, avenging their loss from Friday night, sending them to the championship game. After leading most of the game, the Vandals fell in the title game 9-8 to Oak Creek Zone out of Wisconsin.
For the season, despite several rainouts, the vandals competed in 7 tournaments bringing home 2 second place finishes and never finishing worse than 3rd place. Team members are Jase Blankenship, Brooks Bost, Haven Burnam, Drew Buscher, Knox Fickes, Colten Garrison, Mason Hartlieb, Jaxson Sampson, Kanon Schaal, Kaden ‘Chuck’ Tompkins, Knox Wehrle.
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