Falls rallies past

PLYMOUTH – Sheboygan Falls scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat Plymouth Black, 5-4, in a thrilling eighth-grade Cadet championship game of the Lakeshore Baseball League playoffs here last month.

All three runs came in on a long fly ball that dropped into left-center field, including the batter who avoided the catcher’s tag at home plate. Plymouth tallied two runs in the top of the eighth to go ahead 4-2.

Falls rallied for two runs in the last of the seventh to tie the game, 2-2, and force extra innings.

The Sheboygan Bandits won the seventh-grade title with an 8-2 victory over Plymouth Black. The Bandits took command early as they seized a 4-0 lead in the top of the first and built a 6-0 advantage in the third.

Dillon Oostdyke struck out seven batters in only three innings of relief for Sheboygan. Tyler Willeford ripped a triple for Plymouth.

The Sheboygan Breakers defeated Falls in the fifth-grade title game, 12-6. The victory climaxed the Breakers’ inaugural season. Falls had won three of the four regular-season meetings with Sheboygan coming into the finals.