The Winslow Bulldogs won five games of six played and finished second to the Safford Bulldogs in the Joe Padilla Baseball Tournament at Florence last weekend.
The Bulldogs began play in the Joe Padilla Baseball Tournament at Florence on Thursday with a 2-0 victory over the Thatcher Eagles and followed that with a 10-0 blanking of the Globe Tigers. The Bulldogs had a perfect 5-0 record after their 1-0 victory over the San Tan Foothills Sabercats on Friday. On Saturday the Bulldogs defeated the Hayden Lobos 12-1.
The Bulldogs got superb pitching in the first day of the tournament as Alex Vargas allowed only three hits in four innings of the 2-0 shutout of Thatcher. Dylan Vargas worked a fifth and final inning. Winslow scored twice in the bottom of the first inning with Al Huerta and Aiden Fallaha scoring. The Bulldogs had eight hits led by Aiden Ortiz’s two for two and Sonny Wilbanks’s two for three. Fallaha and Solomon Setalla were each one for two and Huerta and Jace Lyons were one for three.
In the 10-0 win over Globe, Chris Arellano gave up only one hit in the four-inning game in which the Bulldogs scored four runs in the bottom of the first, five in the second and one in the third inning on just eight hits. Huerta and J. Montgomery were two for two and Zane Corum and Arellano were one for one. Wilbanks was one for two.
In the 1-0 victory over San Tan Foothills, Winslow scored in the top of the third inning and Jacob Guerrero pitched a one-hit shutout.
Fallaha was one for one and scored on Wilbanks’s hit. Fallaha was one for one. Montgomery, Wilbanks, Setalla and Ortiz were all one for two.
In the Championship Bracket, the Bulldogs defeated the Hayden Lobos 12-1, the Tombstone Yellow Jackets 6-0 but lost to the Safford Bulldogs 11-10 in a game where both teams had used up their most effective pitchers.
Coach Griffith said he was pleased with the results and the play of the team. The Bulldogs were to play a good Chinle Wildcat at Winslow on Monday.
