Published: July 16, 2008 11:03 pm            

Metro Roundup: Riley takes 11-year-old championship

Newburgh — Riley rolled past Newburgh 13-1 in the “if necessary” championship game to claim the Cal Ripken 11-year-old Southwest State Tournament on Tuesday.

After winning its first three games in the double-elimination tournament, Riley failed to hold a late 5-3 lead, losing to Newburgh 6-5 in the first championship game on Tuesday.

But Riley recovered quickly, lighting up Newburgh with seven runs in the first inning, then adding six tallies in the fourth inning of the nightcap — shortened to four innings by the 10-run rule — to win the tournament.

Spence Tofaute led the Riley offensive attack with four singles and a double on Tuesday, while pitcher Nathan Will notched his third victory in the tournament. Eleven different Riley players scored at least one run in the championship game.

Riley will oppose Floyd’s Knobs in the best-of-three Cal Ripken Southern Indiana Championship on Saturday. The first game is set for 1 p.m., with the second game to follow. If a third game is necessary, it would be played Sunday at a time to be announced.



Cal Ripken 11s Southwest State Tournament

At Newburgh

Friday — Riley 9, Ellettsville 8

Saturday — Riley 5, Avon 4

Sunday — Riley 5, Newburgh 3

Tuesday — Newburgh 6, Riley 5; Riley 13, Newburgh 1, Riley wins championship.



Auto racing

• Sprint Week resumes — Special races are slated at various tracks in Indiana this week.

Indiana Sprint Week action resumes tonight at Kamp Speedway at Boswell followed by the final two events at Bloomington Speeday and Tri-State Speedway at Haubstadt.

Dave Darland won the Sprint Week title last year and is the leader in the four-race totals. Levi Jones has the lead in the U.S. Auto Club sprint totals.

The Mike Johnson Memorial for sprint cars is Saturday at Paragon Speedway. Chase Stockon won the race last year and currently is the leader in the track sprint totals.

Racing resumes at Action City Dragway USA with Fun Night runs Friday and regular racing Saturday. Regular racing is scheduled at Lincoln Park Speedway.



USAC sprint leaders — Levi Jones 761, Cole Whitt 724, Jerry Coons Jr. 718, Tracy Hines 686, Brady Bacon 655

Sprint Week leaders — Dave Darland 232, Jones 206, Whitt 201, Shane Cottle 200, Darren Hagen 197

Golf

• Ace by Alumbaugh — Don Alumbaugh made his fifth career hole-in-one Wednesday on No. 13 at Hulman Links.

Witnessing the shot were Abe Nasser Jr., Terry Harden and Dave Nasser.

• Lingenfelter wins — At Kokomo, Kaelyn Lingenfelter of Rochester fired a 78 to win the girls 15-16 division in the Mountain Dew Tournament at Kokomo Country Club on Wednesday.

She is the daughter of former Terre Haute South golfer Lyle Lingenfelter.

Basketball

• Odum to play in All-Star game — At New Castle, former Terre Haute South standout Zach Odum will compete Saturday in the annual East-West All-Star game at 2 p.m.

The game will be played in Chrysler Fieldhouse, the world’s largest high school fieldhouse.

For Odum’s West squad, Braves coach Mike Saylor will be an assistant coach to Class 4A defending state champion coach Josh Kendrick of Brownsburg.

        

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