In the Championship game of the 13U age division at the Jay Criscione Super NIT in Columbia, South Carolina, the #3 seed Georgia Roadrunners squared off against the #1 seed Carolina Sox.  The game was highlighted by excellent pitching from both teams with the Sox’s pitcher William Detyens going the distance while throwing a two hitter and striking out 13 batters. The Roadrunner’s countered with pitchers Blake Hamilton and Lucas Herbert. Hamilton and Herbert combined for a no hitter, striking out 13 on their way to lead the Roadrunners to a 1-0 victory.

The game went scoreless through 5 ½ innings when Chase Burks drew a lead-off walk in the bottom of the 6^th inning. This was only the second walk issued by Detyen in the game. A pitch runner, Grayson Byrd, replaced Burks at first. Detyen managed to hold Byrd on first base while also striking out the next two batters. Then with 2 outs, and Byrd still on first, Chris Cullen took a 0-1 pitch deep to the left field fence just over the outstretched glove of the left fielder. Breaking at the “crack” of the bat, Byrd sprinted around 2^nd and 3^rd and just beat the throw to home plate. Detyen struck out the next batter, stranding Cullen at third base.

With the Roadrunners leading 1-0: the Sox’s Noah Hammond lead off the 7^th inning with a walk after working Herbert to a 3-2 count. Jordan Lacavera then pushed Hammond to second with a sacrifice bunt. With the tying run on 2^nd, Herbert struck out the next two batters on 8 pitches to close out the win and conclude what was the most exciting game of the tournament between clearly the best two teams of the age group.