AUBURN — Top-seeded Auburn Firefirghters put away Pepsi, 6-2, to win the Auburn Suburban Little Legaue major division baseball championship.

Pepsi’s Gavin Bates led off the top of the first inning with a line drive headed for the outfield, but AFF’s Patrick Ivers jumped up and snagged it with a great catch at second base.

In the bottom of the first, speedy pinch runner Christian Beliveau scored the game’s first run on a triple by Tyler Blanchard. Blanchard then raced home on a passed ball to put the Firemen up 2-0.

C.J. Jipson led off the second with a powerful come-backer that AFF’s Austin Cox nabbed on the mound with a quick glove. Pepsi threatened no more in the second inning and then blanked the Firemen in the bottom of the frame.

Cox struck out the side in the top of the third inning. AFF added two more runs in its half of the inning on a timely hit by Tyler Libby, who drove in Noah Yarnevich and Kyle Herald.

Bates led off the fourth with another smash, this time a triple to deep right field. Ryan Kappelmann drove him in with a grounder. Jarod Norcross-Plourde then tripled and was driven in on a double by Jipson, but Jipson was thrown out by Noah Yarnevich from behind the plate on an attempt to steal third base.

Cox struck out the side again in the top of the fifth inning, and the Firemen responded by extending their lead with two more runs. Blanchard whacked a single and scored when Cox smashed a double. Cox then took third and home on passed balls, putting the Firemen up 6-2.

Pepsi threatened in the top of the sixth when Kappelmann hit a looping single that was nearly snow-coned by Blanchard at shortstop. But the next batter lofted a high pop-up to shallow left field that Blanchard reined in for the game’s final out.

On the mound for the Firemen, Cox pitched a complete game, striking out 10 and walking none. Behind the plate, Yarnevich allowed no passed balls and threw out the only attempt to steal. Pitching for Pepsi, Norcross-Plourde and Jipson combined for 12 strikeouts.

Other contributors for the champion Firemen included Shammond Thomas, Caleb Yarnevich, Noah Moreshead, Robbie Marcotte and Zach Purcell. AFF is coached by Paul Yarnevich, Derrick Blanchard and Leo Beliveau.