The Field Diamond Boys baseball team includes:
Back row left to right: Grayson Border, Chase Berthold, Evan Jackson, Dillon Benshoff, Mason Fulst, Adam Fanger
Front row left to Right: Christian Fisher, Tristan Zeman, Kamren Brastine, Ricky Baggott. 
Special to Portage Sports

By Tom Nader

Publisher and Editor

The Field Diamond Boys 12U baseball team won its second tournament championship of the spring this weekend.

The team captured title in the Tallmadge Early Bird Tournament, championship-game triumph over the Boys of Summer 12U Blue team.

To get to the title game, the Diamond Boys defeated Norton 9-3 in the first pool-play game, collecting nine hits and committing zero errors.

In the second pool-play game, the Diamond Boys dominated Millcreek Riptide Blue with a 10-0 victory (13 hits and zero errors).

The two wins placed Field as the No. 1 seed in the tournament.

In bracket play, the Diamond Boys opened against Millcreek again and won again (10-0).

In the semifinals, Field trailed the Twinsburg Tigers 11U team 6-5, but tied the game 6-6 in the bottom of the sixth inning to force extra innings, then win in thrilling fashion with a run in the bottom of the seventh.

In the championship game, the Diamond Boys fell behind 2-0 in the first inning, then it was 3-0 in the second inning. Field found its offense with four runs in the bottom of the second inning to take a 4-3 lead, then boosted the lead to 6-3 in the sixth inning.

The Boys of Summer scored a run late, but Field held on for the 6-4 title win.

The Field Diamond Boys team includes Grayson Border, Chase Berthold, Evan Jackson, Dillon Benshoff, Mason Fulst, Adam Fanger, Christian Fisher, Tristan Zeman, Kamren Brastine and Ricky Baggott.