Tropics 18u defeat Northwest Bakersfield for berth in Babe Ruth World Series championship

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Saturday, August 13, 2022

Southeast Tropics 18u pitcher Bladen Perry, right, threw a complete game in the Tropics' 2-1 win over the Northwest Bakersfield Waves to advance to the Babe Ruth World Series championship game on Saturday in Ephrata, Wash.

Cole Lee ~ clee@semoball.com, file

EPHRATA, Wash. — The Southeast Tropics 18u squad has a chance at redemption on Saturday afternoon.

This time, it's for all the marbles.

The Tropics brought down the National Division's No. 1 seed in the Northwest Bakersfield Waves 2-1 on Friday night to punch their ticket to the Babe Ruth World Series championship game on Saturday against the Alabama Rawdogs — which gave Southeast its lone defeat in the tournament.

Southeast's defense was pivotal in the Tropics' win, led by a strong performance on the mound by Bladen Perry. Perry pitched a complete game, allowing five hits and striking out four while his defense helped with the rest.

The Tropics benefitted from two Bakersfield errors, while they played a clean game.

Both teams scored their runs in the first inning, but the Tropics two-run outing was enough to put the Waves away.

Following a pair of singles from Nate Rhew and Trey Fikes, Brandon Palmer batted in the first run of the game on the first pitch of the at-bat.

Luke Barnes immediately stepped up and singled on a 2-2 count to plate the Tropics' second and final run of the game.

Bakersfield scored in the bottom of the frame on a sacrifice fly, but a double play two batters later would end the inning.

Fikes and Ayden Morgan led the Tropics at the plate, going 2-for-4 and 2-for-3 with a pair of singles, respectively.

The Tropics improve to 33-7 on the season, and will face the Rawdogs at 1 p.m. Saturday for the World Series championship.

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Maybe tell us something about the Tropics. Maybe I missed it, but I have no idea where they play at “home”, who sponsors, where the players live, etc. The Kennett paper has stat articles as does Sikeston. Everybody knows about the Squirrels. BTW, do the Capahas still have a team? Ten times as much column space was spent on the Tropics vs Capahas. And nobody knows anything about Tropics. Sad, guys.

-- Posted by JungleJim on Tue, Aug 16, 2022, at 8:23 PM
I recall an article saying they have players from Farmington to Cooter, their home field is Harmon field in Chaffee, by virtue of a rental agreement. Other than a few Kelly boys, not many from our immediate area!

-- Posted by Outfield on Wed, Aug 17, 2022, at 10:48 AM
Maybe tell us something about the Tropics. Maybe I missed it, but I have no idea where they play at “home”, who sponsors, where the players live, etc. The Kennett paper has stat articles as does Sikeston. Everybody knows about the Squirrels. BTW, do the Capahas still have a team? Ten times as much column space was spent on the Tropics vs Capahas. And nobody knows anything about Tropics. Sad, guys.

-- Posted by JungleJim on Wed, Aug 17, 2022, at 1:53 PM

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