By Brad Greer

In a contest that took over three hours to complete, the Red Sox advanced to the  Batesville City league 13-15 year old American Legion championship game with a 7-3 win over the Royals in ten innings Wednesday night.

The second game of the night was not nearly as close as the A’s blasted the Yankees 18-4 in  three innings. The Red Sox and A’s will clash at 7:30 tonight, weather permitting, for the league championship while the Yankees and Royals battle for third place at 5:30. In the invent of a rainout, the games will be moved to Monday night starting at the regular time.

Red Sox- 7 Royals- 3

With the score tied 2-2, the Sox plated five runs in the top of the tenth on two hits for the final margin of victory. Josh Elsworth and Spencer Davis led off the inning by getting hit by pitches and later scored on singles from James Kyle Browning and Ryan McCurdy.

Browning led the Red Sox at the plate with a pair of singles while Luke Daniels supplied a double. Tyler Arnold added a single in the victory.

The Royals added a single run in the bottom of the tenth on a sacrifice fly from Kyle Weaver that scored Luke Weldon. Weaver paced the Royals at the plate with two doubles while Justin Gammill, Nathan Massey and Noah Willis provided singles.

The Red Sox broke the scoreless game when Daniels scored on a wild pitch with two outs in the top of the sixth inning. The Royals tied the game in the bottom half of the inning as Weldon laid down a squeeze bunt to score Willis from third.

Both teams exchanged runs in the eighth  to make the score 2-2 before a scoreless ninth. The Royals left 11 runners on base while the Sox stranded 10 on the base paths.

A’s- 18 Yankees-4

The regular season champion A’s broke open a 5-4 lead with 13 runs in the bottom of third to post an easy win.

Gehrig Griffin paced the A’s with a double and two singles and drove in three runs. Cole Rottenberry tripled and scored three runs while Turner Rottenberry, Brandon Henson and Jeremy McGhee singled. Cole Rottenberry  provided a triple and scored three runs in the win.

Dakota Owens accounted for the Yankees only hit with a two-run single in the first