Cypress Bay Wins Prospect Select Spring Break Tournament

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The Cypress Bay Lightning rolled into the Prospect Select Spring Break Tournament this week on a winning streak, and they kept that strong play going all the way through the bracket. Now the Lightning return home to Weston with a championship trophy and a winning streak that has stretched to eight straight games, with a 10-5 win over the Coral Reef Barracudas in Wednesday’s title game at the USSSA Space Coast Sports Complex in Viera.

Cypress Bay (13-6) stormed out of the opening chute by scoring five runs in the top of the first inning, taking a lead it never surrendered. An inning later the Lightning added on the run that proved to be the difference, as Diego Baron’s RBI single drove in Santiago Sanchez to make it a 6-3 advantage.

Baron ignited the offense by plating Spencer Kuipers with the first run of the contest, on an RBI single to center in the first. Kuipers and John Escobar connected for back-to-back singles with one out to put some ducks on the pond, and Escobar also came around to score thanks to an RBI double to left from Michael Ramos. David Granger and Lian Geronimo then kept it going with RBI singles that pushed it to a 5-0 lead.

The Barracudas answered back with three runs in the bottom of the first, and another in the third that pulled them to a 6-4 deficit.

But a four-run fifth inning helped cement the victory. Ramos led off with a base hit to left, and he advanced to third on an error. Granger then did his job with a fly ball to center for a sac-fly RBI. Geronimo and Marshall Persteins followed with consecutive singles, and Sanchez was next with a two-RBI double to left. Pinch-runner Shane Lester then came home after Escobar reached base on an error.

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