GBSA U8s, U9s win Spring Fling
BY JASON THOMPSON Gulf Breeze News jason@gulfbreezenews.com

Jason Thompson/Gulf Breeze News Champs - again The GBSA 9U All Stars won their age division at last weekend's Spring Fling at Shoreline Park. They are (front, from left): Jace Amberson, Connor Nitterauer, Julian Gordon, Matthew deMahy and Sam Joyce. Middle row (from left):Wade Niles, Corey Nolan, Blake Fournie, Nick Liebig, Zane Gill and Adam Colston. Back (from left): Coaches Terence Joyce, Jeff Gill and Jamie Colston. Most the 9U team took fourth in last year's Dizzy Dean World Series.

The more things change, the more they stay the same as the old saying goes.

The GBSA 9U All Stars, made up of mostly former Wave players that took fourth at last year's World Series, won the fourth annual Spring Fling Sunday at Shoreline Park.

Gulf Breeze won the tournament by beating Navarre 13-7 in the championship game. Zane Gill, Julian Gordon and Jace Amberson all had two hits, while Sam Joyce scored twice and Corey Nolan drove in two.

Gordon's two-run single in the fifth inning scored Wade Niles and Adam Colston for an 8-7 win over Navarre in pool play Saturday.

Gill and Gordon both had two hits, while Colston scored twice.

Jason Thompson/Gulf Breeze News Doing some 'yard' work Stephen Huggins (left) of the Tiger Point 8U All Stars and William Welch (right) of the Gulf Breeze 8U All Stars bothg hit home runs for their respective teams during last weekend's GBSA Spring Fling at Shoreline Park.

Blake Fournie singled for the 9's only hit in an 8-6 win over the Gulf Breeze 10-yearolds. Jacob Kubik had three hits, including a double, and scored once, while William Lambert went 2-for-2 and scored once.

Gulf Breeze opened play with a 14-4 win over Tiger Point. Colston and Jace Amberson both scored twice, while Gordon added a two-run single. Gray Aanestad singled and scored once for Tiger Point, while Blake McDonald hit a two-run triple.

The Gulf Breeze 8U team also won its age group, beating Navarre 11-3 in the championship game.

Parker Baynes led off the game with a solo home run. He went 4-for-4 and scored three times.

Tyler Phelps and Brett Pardonner both went 3-for-4, while William Welch went 2- for-4 and scored twice. Reddon McLaurine went 2- for-3 in the win.

Welch, Cole Sheppard, McLaurine and Tristan Covell all had three hits in a 14-4 win over Bill Bond Sunday in the semifinals.

Phelps and Pardonner both had two hits for Gulf Breeze.

Pardonner went 4-for-4 and scored once in an 11-6 win over the Lynn Haven Longhorns Sunday. Baynes, Welch and COvell all had three hits, while Phelps, Sheppard and Nick Lukkar all had two.

Their win over Bill Bond Sunday avenged a 15-14 loss to Bill Bond on Saturday. Baynes had four hits, as did Welch. One of Welch's hits was a three-run homer. Phelps, Pardonner, Sheppard and Brian Joyner all had two hits for Gulf Breeze.

Baynes, Phelps, Sheppard and Covell all had two hits in an 8-7 win over Myrtle Grove on Friday.

Navarre made it to the title game by beating Tiger Point 9-7. The top-seeded Navarre team needed a four-run fourth to put the Tiger Sharks away.

Nico Ynostrosa went 3-for- 4, while Jack Martin, Stephen Huggins and Nicholas Myers all had two hits. R.J. Philips had a two-run triple.

Huggins hit a solo homer in the Tiger Sharks' 14-5 win over Myrtle Grove Sunday. Dustin Rogers and Myers both went 3-for-3, while Ynostrosa had two hits.

The Tiger Sharks scored seven runs in the fifth, but fell short in a 20-18 loss to the Lynn Haven Hurricanes. Martin had four hits, while Brian Richards, Rogers, Philips, Huggins, Hayden Essary and Colton Prentiss all had three hits. Konner Flynn had two hits in the loss.

Navarre scored 17 unanswered runs in a 17-2 win over the Tiger Sharks. Huggins had a double in the loss, while Rogers and Jesse Parsons scored the runs.

Find out how the rest of the local teams fared in the March 15 issue of the Gulf Breeze News.