ADRIAN, Michigan \u2014 The Napoleon American Legion Post #300 baseball team completed its regular season, finishing runner-up at the Adrian American Legion Baseball Tournament over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The River Bandits were 4-2 at the tournament, with both losses coming against Blissfield, Michigan.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Napoleon swept a pair of games, defeating Post 568 13-6 and Hudson, Michigan, 8-2.<\/p>\n
In the opener, Elijah Arend (Fairview) and Anthony Singer (Fairview) each were 5 for 5 at the plate to lead the offense. Arend had a double, three runs and two RBI, while Singer had a double and five RBI.<\/p>\n
Kaden Kreinbrink (Liberty Center) was 3 for 5 with a home run and an RBI, while Camden Bukowski (Bryan) and Cade Carlin (Bryan) each had two hits.<\/p>\n
Owen Reynolds (Tinora) was the winning pitcher, going 6 1\/3 innings and allowing six runs (one earned) on eight hits and no walks, while striking out five.<\/p>\n
In the nightcap, Singer was 4 for 4 with a double and an RBI to pace the offense, while Arend was 3 for 4 with two doubles and four RBI.<\/p>\n
Cory Herman (Edgerton) was the winning pitcher, going 4 2\/3 innings and allowing two runs (none earned) on three hits and no walks, while striking out five.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the Bandits started with a 9-1 loss to Blissfield.<\/p>\n
Arend, Carlin, Kreinbrink and Zack Boecker (Holgate) each had a single. Ryan Maag (Atersville) took the loss on the mound.<\/p>\n
Napoleon bounced back with a 5-4 win over Huron, scoring four runs in the sixth inning after trailing 4-1.<\/p>\n
Arend was 2 for 4, while Maddox Baker (Edgerton) was 1 for 3 with two RBI and Kenneth Smeltzer (Montpelier), Malachi Smeltzer (Montpelier) and Kreinbrink each had a double.<\/p>\n
Arend was the winning pitcher, throwing 3 1\/3 innings of relief. He allowed one run on one hit and no walks, while striking out one. Carlin pitched 3 2\/3 innings, allowing three runs (none earned) on five hits and three walks, while striking out four.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the River Bandits again defeated Hudson, 5-2 in 10 innings.<\/p>\n
Kenneth Smeltzer was 2 for 4, while Baker was 1 for 3 with two RBI.<\/p>\n
Kreinbrink was the winning pitcher, throwing a scoreless 10th inning. Boecker went eight innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits and a walk, while striking out five.<\/p>\n
In the title game, Blissfield defeated Napoleon 8-1, holding the Bandits to three hits.<\/p>\n
Kreinbrink was 1 for 2 with a double and an RBI, while Bukowski and Kenneth Smeltzer had the other hits.<\/p>\n
Bukowski took the loss on the mound.<\/p>\n
Napoleon (27-12) faces the winner of West Unity Post #669 and Ottawa Post #63 in the District 1 Tournament tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Pemberville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADRIAN, Michigan \u2014 The Napoleon American Legion Post #300 baseball team completed its regular season, finishing runner-up at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2314,2317,2313,93216,2413,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4901,4,2305,2303,90674,1039],"class_list":["post-751382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-blissfield","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-michigan","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-napoleon","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116917386867727348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}