If two teams keep winning, they could meet up in Saturday’s
championship
Hollister
Both Hollister 11- and 12-year-old All-Star teams are among the final four teams remaining in the District 9 All-Star Tournament being held at Veterans Memorial Park this week.
The Hollister National team continued its march through the elimination bracket, beating King City and Hartnell on consecutive days. Hollister American followed up its opening round 9-5 win over its National League counterparts with an 11-0 shutout of Ferrasci and a 12-0 blanking of Hartnell.
Hollister National followed up Tuesday’s 25-0 pasting of North County with a 10-5 victory over King City on Tuesday.
In that game, Hollister hit four home runs, including two by Cody Freitas and one each by Tyler Fhurong and Greg Steinbeck, and threw six pitchers one inning each to earn the victory.
On Wednesday, the power surge continued as Hollister’s Nathan Alvarez hit two homers and Steinbeck hit another to support pitchers Fhurong and Andrew Breen in a 12-2 victory over Hartnell.
Hollister played Atlantic of Salinas Wednesday night, with the winner advancing to a 7 p.m. Friday night contest against the loser of Thursday’s Hollister American-Soledad winners bracket match-up.
A win Thursday would send the American Leaguers to the championship game at 10 a.m. on Saturday against the winner of Friday’s elimination bracket final.
