The Santa Barbara Coasters 10U and 11U baseball teams each earned Santa Barbara Labor Day Tournament championships this weekend.
Both teams went undefeated on the weekend and pulled out dramatic wins in the title games.
The 10U squad went 2-0 in pool play on Saturday with a 15-2 win over the Central Coast Venom and an 18-3 victory over the Oxnard Threshers.
Across those two games, Jake Wallman led the offense with four hits and four RBI while Henry Miller tossed three hitless innings and collected seven strikeouts.
In the championship, the Coasters and Venom faced off in a rematch that was much closer than the pool play matchup.
The Coasters’ Brayden Montgomery tossed a gem, striking out 11 and allowing one hit in five innings of work to lead his team to a 2-0 championship win.
As for the 11U team, they also went 2-0 on Saturday with victories over the Santa Barbara Condors, 6-3, and Santa Maria Elevate, 13-1.
In pool play, Ollie Shiffman drove in three runs while Charlie Soderborg and Levi Ward each tallied two RBIs. RJ Hollowell struck out three in three innings of work on Saturday.
Once again the Coasters and Condors met in the championship game that came down to the wire with the Coasters trailing heading into the bottom of the sixth.
In that frame, Tommy Wiser roped an RBI single to bring home the game-tying run before Hollowell knocked in the winning run for the walk-off 9-8 victory.
Hollowell also threw four innings in the championship while Brennan Zant closed it out with two no-hit innings.
The 10U Coasters roster includes Cameron Pierre, Ashton Miller, Kaz Gonzalez, Brayden Montgomery, Jake Wallman, Henry Miller, Isaiah Fennell, Cristian Perez, Makani Gillis, Andrew O’Brien, and Boden Thompson.
The team is managed by Christoph Pierre with assistant coaches Mike Wallman, Simon O’Brien, and Heath Montgomery.
The 11U Coasters roster includes RJ Hollowell, Rafael Berumen, Charlie Soderborg, Levi Ward, Ollie Shiffman, Jace Hooper, Brennan Zant, Hunter Bryant, Tommy Wiser, Fletcher Nunn, Ryder Davis, Jack Helson and Dylan Corlett.
The team is managed by Rich Hollowell with assistant coaches Bryan Corlett and Jim Davis.