Biggs Logging wins 2015 Major League championship

Published 1:39 pm Thursday, May 28, 2015

THOMAS HALL | CONTRIBUTED LEAGUE CHAMPS: Biggs Logging of the Major League Washington Youth Baseball division dropped the first game to Bright Trailer Repair, 7-5, but took home the championship in Game 2 with a 5-3 victory. Pictured is Cam Craig, Braxton Baynor, Jack Biggs, Ryan Woolard, Tyler Modlin, Jacob Whitesail, Tristen Nixon, Nate Jefferson and Wyatt Withrow. Biggs Logging is coached by Mike Craig.

THOMAS HALL | CONTRIBUTED
LEAGUE CHAMPS: Biggs Logging of the Major League Washington Youth Baseball division dropped the first game to Bright Trailer Repair, 7-5, but took home the championship in Game 2 with a 5-3 victory. Pictured is Cam Craig, Braxton Baynor, Jack Biggs, Ryan Woolard, Tyler Modlin, Jacob Whitesail, Tristen Nixon, Nate Jefferson and Wyatt Withrow. Biggs Logging is coached by Mike Craig.

Biggs Logging closed out the 2015 Washington Youth Baseball Major League season Wednesday night at the Susiegray McConnell Complex with a 5-3 win over Bright Trailer Repair in Game 2 of the championship series.

Powered by a balanced lineup and a consistent pitching staff, Biggs Logging entered the title game as the team to beat, carrying with it a perfect 3-0 postseason record, but the underdog Bright Trailer Repair was certainly battle tested, having to fight its way through the consolation bracket of the double-elimination tournament.

Biggs Logging, being undefeated, needed just one win to secure the championship, while Bright Trailer Repair would need to force a second game to have any shot.

And two well-struck homers gave the underdogs a fighting chance.

In Game 1, Biggs Logging holding a slim lead, a handful of costly errors put runners on base and the heart of the Bright Trailer order capitalized. In the fourth inning, clutch homers by No. 3 batter Doug Dixon and cleanup man Matthew Adams gave their team the lead and, ultimately, the first game, as a 7-5 win forced a rubber match.

Jacob Whitesail got the call for Biggs Logging in the second game and would pitch masterfully, holding the opposition to just one base runner through the first three innings.

Biggs Logging came out of the gate swinging in the first with hits by Cam Craig, Jack Biggs and Whitesail, which resulted in an early two-run lead. The team threatened in the second and third innings as well, advancing multiple runners into scoring position, but produced just one run, despite hits from Braxton Baynor, Biggs, Wyatt Withrow and Whitesail.

After three dominant frames, Whitesail succumbed to a two-out rally in the fourth, ignited by Game 1 heroes Dixon and Adams. Whitesail capped the inning with the strikeout and limited the opposing lineup to one run.

Biggs Logging tacked on the winning runs in the bottom of the fourth with hits by Biggs, Woolard, Modlin and Whitesail, his third of the evening.

Bright Trailer again threatened in the fifth, as Craig replaced Whitesail after allowing a walk and a pair of hits. Craig came in and stopped the bleeding, as Bright Trailer would score just one run and leave the bases loaded.

Up 5-2, Craig closed out the sixth inning and while he gave up one run, again Bright Trailer left the bases loaded.

Whitesail walked away with the win and Biggs Logging was awarded the championship trophy in a postgame ceremony.