South Lake Tahoe Babe Ruth All Star team wins state, heads to regionals in Utah

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The South Lake Tahoe Babe Ruth All-Stars 13-year-old team took one big step closer to the World Series after winning the Nevada State title over the weekend.

They are now fundraising to help cover expenses as they head to Pacific Southwest Regionals in Price, Utah July 24-30. The World Series will be held in Virginia from August 10-12.

On Saturday, the South Lake Tahoe team played Sparks after having a bye on Friday. The South Tahoe team won their first game 13-1 behind the pitching of Colton Brown. He surrendered one run, and one hit, striking out six in five innings.

Brown, Conner Hennessee, and Dylan Castellanos all had multiple hits for South Tahoe 13. Brown led South Tahoe with three hits in three at-bats.

On Sunday in the championship round they played South Reno. The South Tahoe bats continued to be hot, winning their game 26-8. Four hits from Danny Aguila helped lead the team to a win. He singled in the first, singled in the third, singled in the third, and doubled in the fourth. The All-Stars scored 17 runs in the third inning when they had singles by Aguila, Chen, Devon Montank, Aidan Melendez, and Aguila, walks by Conner Hennessee and Chen, an error on a ball put in play by PJ Erdody and Colton Brown, and a double by Nash Bigley.

Montank started the game and allowed one hit and four runs, the Aguila came in, earning the win for South Tahoe, where he allowed four hits and four runs over three innings, striking out seven. South Tahoe racked up 20 hits in the game.

Aguila, Dylan Castellanos, Bigley, Montauk, Brown, Melendez, and Chen each collected multiple hits. Aguila went 4-for-4 at the plate to lead the team in hits. The team also tore up the base paths, as three players stole at least two bases. Bigley led the way with three steals.

The team is coached by Casey Cull, Dan Brown, Brian Bigley, and Bruce Hernandez.

The team roster:

Danny Aguila
Jonah Benavidez
Nash Bigley
Colton Brown
Cobin Brown
Dylan Castellanos
Spencer Chen
Conner Hennessee
Dylan Castellanos
PJ Erdody
Aiden Melendez
Devon Montank
Torsten Taflin

To help the team in their efforts to Utah, people can either send in donations to Babe Ruth, PO Box 14103, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151 (make sure to note 13uAllStars in the memo line). Or, through Go Fund Me at
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-slt-all-stars-on-road-to-br-world-series?member=20566229&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

Donations are tax deductible as the team is a nonprofit.