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First it was Tyler Wilson to walk on to the baseball team at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. Then along came Tyler’s younger brother, Lee, who joined the Bisons program a year later as a walk-on.
Together, the two formed a formidable 1-2 punch atop the Lipscomb lineup and a strong backbone on defense in the outfield this past season.
Their journey to NCAA Division I baseball wasn’t the easiest. Click here to view an interview with the Wilson brothers explaining their path to success at the Division I level.
The following is the USA Baseball news release on Thursday’s USA Baseball 14U national team’s victory over Honduras, at the COPABE Pan Am ‘A’ 14U Championships:
MANAGUA, Nicaragua – The USA Baseball 14U National Team posted 18 hits, including five home runs, in a 23-0 three-inning defeat of Honduras in Thursday’s COPABE Pan Am ‘A’ 14U Championships game at Dennis Martinez Stadium.
The 18 hits is one shy of the team single-game record of 19 set in 2007 against El Salvador. The five home runs is tied for the second-most in a single game, and the 23 runs is seven shy of the team record of 30 set against Mexico in 2008.
Belmont’s Luke Alexander was 2-for-2 with a run driven in, two runs scored and a stolen base.
The 23 runs are second-most behind only that game against Mexico.
Sixteen of Team USA’s 17 players saw action in the win, and all but three finished with at least one official at bat. Those 13 players each tallied at least one hit, with Brady Aiken and Isaiah Deutsch leading the way with three hits apiece.
Additionally, Kiko Garcia and Adam Haseley combined to throw a three-inning no hitter, with only Kevin Reyes able to reach base when leading off Honduras’ half of the first with a walk. Garcia struck out five of the six batters he faced while Haseley struck out all three he faced in the third.
Garcia picked up the win to improve to 1-0.
Team USA scored 11 runs in the first, which saw the squad post eight hits while sending 14 batters to the plate. Blake Wiggins led off the game with a home run, his third of the COPABE Pan Am ‘A’ 14U Championships.
Deutsch, Matt Collins, Ryan Johnson and Joe DeMers each hit home runs in the win, which improved Team USA’s record to 3-1. Honduras, meanwhile, dropped to 1-3.
Aiken had two doubles and he drove in two. Johnson, on the strength of his home run, drove in three.
Other multiple-RBI efforts came from Collins, whose two-run shot came in Team USA’s three-run second. DeMers drove in three with a three-run home run in the third, while Troy Stokes, Garcia and Deutsch each drove in two.
Team USA left just two runners on, in the third, while Honduras left on just one in a game that lasted one hour, 25 minutes.
Honduras starter Juan Saravia lasted just an out before being pulled. He allowed six hits and eight runs while walking one.
He was replaced by Carlos Cordero, one of five pitchers on the day for Honduras. Cordero struck out three in 1 1/3 innings and he allowed five hits and six runs.
The game marked the final contest of pool play for both teams. Team USA will play Venezuela in the second of two semifinal games on Friday at Dennis Martinez Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET (2 p.m. in Managua).
The winners of Mexico-Brazil (Friday’s first semifinal) and USA-Venezuela will play in the championship game Saturday at 2 p.m. Managua time. The losers will play in a consolation game Saturday morning at 10 a.m.
Friday’s game is scheduled to be streamed live on multinoticiastv.com although no live stats are available. Note there is also a web site, beisbolnica.com, with information on the tournament, including stats, rosters and standings.
“Never.” That was the response Corinth American Legion Baseball coach Dale Bain gave when asked if he had ever been a part of a tournament that had 213 runs scored in nine games.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said the Corinth coach, who watched his team win 19-18 and 21-17 in two state-tournament games.
Not even in USSSA youth baseball.
“You don’t expect this at this level,” said Bain, a former USSSA coach, whose Legion team had seven players with two or more hits against Hub City on Monday afternoon, "but everybody is so low on their pitching.
“We were actually probably sitting in better shape than Hattiesburg (Hub City) for this game, and then it kind of just got out of hand.”
Said Hub City coach Anthony James, “We kind of ran out of our starting pitchers, so we were scrambling. These tournaments are tough when you play that many games back to back. You run out of pitchers.”
Hub City and Corinth – which was shut out 16-0 in the winners’ bracket final earlier on Monday – combined for 38 runs and 42 hits in Monday’s losers’ bracket final.
James said the second and sixth innings of Monday’s game – when his Bombers surrendered seven and eight runs, respectively – killed his team.
“They battled,” Bain said of his team’s hitting performance. “They stayed in there after it and kept hitting the ball. That’s the key to it.”
James had to credit Corinth for regaining the lead after blowing a 10-1 advantage through three innings.
“I would have never thought they would have gotten back up when we came back and got the lead,” James said. "Hats off to these guys. They kept pounding the ball and pounding the ball. They’re a good fastball hitting team it seems like. They hit some of our pitchers’ fastballs pretty good.
“There was nothing you could do with some of the hits they got. They hit a lot of home runs (five) this game.”
Even though the extremely warm conditions have taken a toll on the players, watch us be in store for a no-hitter during Tuesday’s championship round. Perhaps this tournament is due for one – after all, just about anything else you can imagine to happen has happened.
Aside from tossing a no-hitter, Pontotoc should have a well-rested pitching staff for Tuesday’s championship round.
“We have a couple of guys we haven’t even thrown yet,” said Pontotoc coach Nickey Browning, who wasn’t sure on Monday who was going to start Tuesday’s 4:30 p.m. championship game. “We’ve got some other guys that we will throw if we need them.”
The 2010 American Legion Baseball State Tournament resumed Monday morning at Pontotoc High School with Pontotoc defeating Corinth 16-0 in seven innings.
Corinth then turned around and defeated the Hub City (Hattiesburg) Bombers 21-17 in the losers’ bracket final on Monday afternoon.
Corinth and Pontotoc will play in the championship round beginning at 4:30 on Tuesday at the Pontotoc High field.
Pontotoc, which hasn’t lost yet in the double-elimination tournament, only needs to win once on Tuesday to become state champions. Corinth, with one loss, needs to beat Pontotoc twice to win the state tournament.
The if-necessary game is to immediately follow Tuesday’s 4:30 p.m. contest.
