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You can’t ask for anything more,” Howard said.

He’s bustin’ his butt, always in the right spot. Tonight, was the first night we started him at second base. We knew he was solid in a few different places. “Coming into the tournament, we weren’t sure where Brandt fit into it. “I just get ready to get in my position and if it’s hit to me go and get it and make a good throw,” Smith said. He did make an error later in the fifth, but his mistake was left stranded on second base and another runner was left stranded on third. In the fifth, he smothered a McGee sizzler and threw to first. He ended the second inning with a web gem, lunging to his left to snag a Bornscheuer liner. The defensive hero in that stretch was second baseman Brandt Smith. The streak started in the second inning and ended with two outs in the fifth. That’s when Vernau applied the brakes to his struggles, retiring 10 straight batters. 636 batting average for the team’s last three games, scored two of the runs, while Ryan Hughes and Caleb Bornscheuer tallied first-inning RBIs. Jacob McGee, who finished with a sizzling. Yes, Vernau endured some rough seas early when League City scored two in the first and three in the second. I have a sidearm pitch that I throw a lot and I throw a slider,” Vernau said.

Eventually, I stopped getting mad about anything that happened. “I didn’t do very well the first two innings, gave up some hits, but then I started working on the curveball and I finished the game with that. For coming through the loser’s bracket, pitching is still in pretty good shape,” NASA 12s manager Mike Howard said. I felt going into it, our pitching was in really good shape. I was hoping we could save him for later in the tournament but he was on fire, man. “George is the type of kid that’s going to pound the zone every night. Since being thrown in the loser’s bracket on Wednesday, the NASA all-stars have never trailed. But by the close of the second inning, NASA had scored eight of their nine runs and never trailed the entire contest. League City, which exits the tournament with a 2-2 record, paraded three pitchers to the hill before the second inning was complete. NASA’s youngster on the mound worked, League City’s didn’t. Speaking of Monday night, both NASA and League City were trying to get by without their aces for a possible Monday appearance. The title contest is slated for Monday night at 7. That number will get whittled down to two Sunday night when NASA opposes the Island all-stars back at the League City Sportsplex for another elimination game.Īlso at the complex Saturday night, undefeated Santa Fe secured the first berth to the championship game with an easy 15-1 romp over Island. Now just three Little League organizations remain in the week-old District 14 tournament. Noah Saucedo picked up the save in notching the last two outs, while going 4-for-4 in the clean-up slot with a pair of RBIs. George Vernau III came within two outs of a complete game en route to scattering five basehits as the righthander led the NASA all-stars to a big 9-7 District 14 elimination round win over League City Little League at John Paul Field Saturday night.