Sejong Inter Middle Baseball Team (headed by Lim Dong-jin) won the 4th Hwaseong-gun Soubae National Youth Baseball Tournament at Hwaseong Baseball Theme Park in Hwaseong-gun, Gangwon-do, with a 9-6 come-from-behind victory over Seoul Club Jungung (headed by Manak-gil) in the finals.
The tournament, organized by the Korea Youth Baseball Federation, was held over four days from June 6 to 9 at five fields in Hwaksung Baseball Theme Park with a total of 60 teams and more than 2,000 participants, including players and parents.
The tournament was held in the form of a preliminary group stage and a final tournament, with a total of seven divisions, including the Sprout League (U-9), Dreamer League (U-11), Youth League (U-13), and Junior League (U-16), competing for the championship. The tournament was sponsored by Hwaseong County, Hwaseong County Sports Association, Africa TV, and baseball equipment company Storm Baseball.
The Sejong Inter Middle Baseball Team won the Junior Cheongnyong (U-15) League, which is primarily for middle school baseball teams, after qualifying for the finals with a 3-2-1 record in the preliminary round of the group stage, and then defeated local rival Sejong Public SC (coached by Kim Seung-kwon) 6-3 in the quarterfinals to advance to the highly anticipated final.
Their opponent in the final was Seoul Club Jungung (coached by Ma Nak-gil), a team that has seen a surge in strength after adding ace Park Sang-pil (Sansaek Middle School 3), Yoo Yi-chan (Sansaek Middle School 2), and Kim Tae-yoon (Sansaek Middle School 2).
In the first inning, the Sejong Intermediate Baseball Team gave up the first two runs of the game to Seoul Club Jung, as Kim Se-hoon (Deunggye Won Middle School 3) singled, Park Sang-pil walked, and Kim Tae-yoon singled to load the bases. However, they quickly tied the game in the bottom of the first inning after a wild pitch and an infield single by Kim Ji-won (Bugang Middle School 3) put runners on first and third.
In the top of the second inning, Seoul Club gave up a double to Kim Se-hoon (Seoul Club) with the bases loaded, and in the top of the third inning, they scored three runs on a double, a walk, a bases-loaded walk, and a sacrifice fly by Lee Joon (Stargaram Middle School 3) to make it 2-6.
However, the Sejong Intermediate Baseball Team scored three runs in the bottom of the third inning on a leadoff double by Kim Chan-woo (Na Sung-joong 3), a wild pitch, and an RBI single by Kwon Soon-hoo (Aeunjung 2) to cut the deficit to 5-6.
After getting out of a jam with runners on first and second in the top of the fourth inning, Sejong Intermediate Baseball came back with four runs in the 카지노사이트 추천 bottom of the inning against a different pitcher. After a leadoff single by Ahn Ji-yong (Choi Won-joong, 2) and a double by Kim Chan-woo put runners on second and third with no outs, Hwang Jae-yoon (Da Jung-joong, 3) hit a triple to bring both runners home to make it 7-6.
The Sejong Intermediate Baseball Team then scored two more runs on a double by Choi Young-woo (Moon Jung-joong 3) and a single by Kim Ji-won (Kim Ji-won) before Choi Young-woo, who started the top of the fourth inning, pitched the rest of the inning to secure a thrilling 9-6 victory.
Hwang Jae-yoon (Da Jung Jung 3, Sejong Intermediate Baseball Team), who led the team to the title with his outstanding performance in the tournament, including the game-winning hit in the final game, was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP), while Park Sang-pil (Seoul Club Middle School, Sansaek Middle School 3) and Choi Young-woo (Sejong Intermediate Baseball Team, Munjeong Middle School 3) were honored as the Best Players.
Hwang Jae-yoon (Sejong Intermediate Baseball Team, Da Jung-joong 3), who was honored as the Most Valuable Player (MVP), said, “I’m so happy to win my first championship this year. I’m proud to have won three consecutive tournaments in the Hwaseong County Bounty Tournament, which the seniors have continued, and I think I won MVP because I pitched four innings in the Sejong Derby in the semifinals. I hope to help Cheongju Seadogs win the championship as I am planning to go to college with a confident swing like my role model, Kang Baek-ho.”
Lim Dong-jin, manager of the Sejong Intermediate Baseball Team, who won the tournament’s manager’s award, said, “First of all, it’s the third consecutive year of winning the Hwaseong County Junior Cheongnyong League. I think we have come this far with the full support of Chairman Choi Won-seok and Executive Director Nam Jae-woo of the Sejong Special Self-Governing City Baseball and Softball Association.” “The motto of the Sejong Intermediate Baseball Team is stepping stone baseball so that many players can join and play in the pros, not just win the championship. There is a Korean Youth League that can play from the first grade, so I think the first professional player will come out as early as this year. We will continue to coach humbly and build a team that will not become a nobody to the federation and teammates.”
“We are very grateful to the young players and their parents who showed their pure passion for baseball in the irregular weather, and we will always do our best to provide a better environment for them to play baseball,” said Lee Sang-geun, president of the Korea Youth Baseball Federation. “We are also very grateful to Kim Myung-ki and Hwaseong-gun officials for their complete support for youth baseball and local development.
