Box Score

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Runs came easy at Sliwa Stadium on Saturday afternoon as the South All-Stars downed the North All-Stars, 14-10 in Daytona Beach. The South won their third straight in the series, scoring 14 runs on 13 hits in 10.5 innings in front of numerous major league scouts and fans. The North managed to outhit the South, 19-13, but saw its comeback fall short in the late innings.

Five Embry-Riddle Eagles saw action in the game, including pitchers Corey Tufts and Stetson Nelson along with position players Joshua Garcia, Enderson Jose Velasquez and Tobias Moreno.

The South started things off in the first inning when Eric Santamaria (St. Thomas) drove in Lance Mansfield (Florida Memorial) from second with an RBI single for the first run of the game before Dylan Gross (Warner) earned a bases-loaded walk and an error forced in another South run for a 3-0 cushion.

Patrick Barrington (Northwood) worked around a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the first, getting a double play to end the threat before both Junior Delatorre (USCB) and Andres Hernandez (St. Thomas) worked a scoreless second inning.

The South pushed across another run in the third when Nico Hernandez (St. Thomas) singled in teammate Jerry Downs (St. Thomas) for a 4-0 advantage. The unearned run came off of Tufts who also registered a strikeout in the inning.

The lead was short lived however, as the North roared back with a five-run third, thanks in large part to two crucial errors by the South. Cody Hoffner (Southeastern) scored on a fielding error for the first North run of the day, followed by an infield single by Casey Mannion (Thomas) and an Enderson Velasquez (Embry-Riddle) sacriifce fly to cut the deficit to 4-3. Tobias Moreno (Embry-Riddle) knotted the game with an RBI single to left before Cody Warren (Webber International) doubled down the left field line for the North's first and only lead of the day, scoring Brandon Singer (Thomas) from second.

The South quickly answered back, plating four runs in the fourth to retake the lead for good at 8-5. Carlos Contreras (Northwood) picked up the first of his two RBIs on the day with a single through the right side, scoring Tucker Starkey (Ave Maria). Santamaria registered a sac fly to plate Mansfield before Kevin Berges (Northwood) did the same to score Contreras. Downs accounted for the final run of the inning with a no-doubt home run down the right field line.

Luis Suarez (Florida Memorial) delivered a shutdown inning for the South in the next frame, and his team grew their lead to 10-5 thanks to RBIs from Contreras and Santamaria.

Neither team scored in the sixth, but both teams plated a single run in the seventh, the South on a solo homer from Brandon Crawford (Northwood) and the North on a Velasquez RBI single to right center that scored AJ Arroyo (Webber International). Nelson tossed the seventh for the North, surrending the homer to Crawford while fanning one and facing just four batters.

A couple of wild pitches pushed across two more South runs in the eighth and the North got one back on a wild pitch in their half of the frame.

Monte Reese (Thomas)  faced the minimum in the ninth and the North made things interesting thanks to a trio of runs in the home-half of the inning. Singer doubled in a run before scoring on a Ramon Sanchez (Webber International) sacrifice fly and Stetson McCollin scored on a wild pitch to make the score 13-10 in favor of the South.

Sean Stanislawski (Webber International) duplicated Dylan Heiring's (Warner) pitching performance from the sixth, striking out the side in the 10th, but Ray Messner (Ave Maria) also went three-up, three-down for the South before his team accounted for the last tally of the day in the 11th via a wild pitch.

Santamaria drove in the most runs of the day with three, while both Contreras and Velasquez tallied two RBIs. Santamaria and Contreras each had three hits for the South and seven North players tallied a pair of hits, including McCollin, Hoffner, Ferrante, Martin, Mannion, Morris and Moreno. Garcia finished 1-for-3.

The Eagles open up the 2015 season at home with a series agaisnt Reinhardt from Feb. 6-8 at Sliwa Stadium