Men's tournament Most Valuable Player Sean Harrington lived up to that billing for the LDE Electric/Little Wood Builders team in Sunday's championship game of the Hailey Coed Softball League city tournament at Lion's Park.
Harrington (.578 in six games) doubled home the winning run as top-seeded LDE/Little Wood completed an outstanding 19-1 slow-pitch season with a come-from-behind 13-12 victory over No. 2-seeded Wicked Spud/Bradley Construction.
Action took place in the decisive second championship game of the two-day, eight-team double elimination tournament. Wicked Spud (13-6 overall) forced LDE/Little Wood to win three straight games for its tourney title after Spud handed LDE its first loss of the season 10-4 in the winner-bracket final.
Women's MVP was Anna Edwards of LDE/Little Wood. Third place went to Hailey Hotel (12-7 season). The top three tournament teams were the same as the top three teams during the league's season.
The championship game was all it was cracked up to be.
It went down to the final batter, Little Wood rallying from a 12-10 deficit in the home half of the seventh on the walk-off double by MVP Harrington.
The epic back-and-forth duel featured a little bit of everything. A two-run home run by Josh Jacobson put Spud ahead 2-1 in the second, but T.J. Peterson led off with a solo home run and Little Wood used a three-run second to pull ahead 4-2.
Wicked Spud surged ahead 6-4 with a four-run third, and Jeff Burrell's two-run home run gave Spud an 8-5 lead in the visitor fifth. Singles by Jamie Ulrich, Hoss Schmidt, Bobbi Edwards and Lisa Vadalma enabled LDE/Little Wood to cut the lead to 8-7 in the home fifth.
Then another Jacobson home run put Spud ahead 9-7 in the sixth. For Little Wood, T.J. Peterson's RBI triple sparked a three-run sixth, giving the eventual winners a slim 10-9 lead.
Spud answered with three runs of their own in the visitor seventh. Anthony Rooney led off a single, then Morgan Uhrig (2 hits, 2 runs) and Jamie Stone drilled one-out doubles and Dani Stone added a single.
Down to its final three outs, Little Wood capitalized on two walks, an error, a single by Greg Edwards (2 runs) and Harrington's walk-off double to nail down the championship and put a punctuation mark on the league's 21st campaign.
Check for a complete, game-by-game city tournament wrap-up on today's Web site.
Red All-Stars prevail 11-9
Before last weekend's city tournament, the Hailey All-Star game took place with the home Red Team scoring twice in the home eighth to nip White All-Stars 11-9 Friday at Lion's Park.
With the score tied 9-9, Red's Morgan Uhrig (2 hits, 2 runs) ripped a one-out double to spark the game-winning two-run rally. Lacey Peterson (3 hits, 2 runs) and Jeff Burrell singled, then Tom Anderson (4 hits, 2 HR, 2 doubles) belted his fourth hit of the game.
Other players on the winning Red Team were Shanell Nelson (2 hits, 2 runs), Hoss Schmidt (2 hits), Mike Beall (2 hits), Dani Stone, Kellen Chatterton, Kim Meyers, Jimberly Rooney, Bobbi Edwards, Tracy Peterson and Katrina Kolman.
Leading the White All-Stars were Greg Edwards (2 hits, double, 2 runs), T.J. Peterson (triple, double), Ryan Stavros (2 hits, double), Sean Harrington (3 hits, double, 2 runs) and Kenny Nelson (3 hits).
