Bessey Motors’ Blake Slicer slides safely into third base in front of Rogers Post’s Gavin Bates during their Zone 2 semifinal in Paris on Wednesday. PARIS — If defense wins championships in baseball, Bessey Motors has a title to look forward to on Thursday. The top-seeded team in the Zone 2 American Legion baseball tournament […]
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American Legion baseball: Top-seeded Bessey Motors comes from behind to beat Gardiner
Bessey Motors pitcher Blake Slicer celebrates after the final out of a 9-7 victory over Gardiner in Paris on Tuesday. Bessey Motors catcher Wyatt Williamson heads out to meet Slicer, while Gardiner’s Kolton Brochu turns toward his dugout. PARIS — All summer long, the teams in Zone 2 playing American Legion baseball in the state […]
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American Legion baseball: Local squads at the top of Zone 2 heading into postseason
AUBURN — The Zone 2 playoffs begin Tuesday, one day after Bessey Motors clinched the number-one seed and the automatic state playoff berth. Bessey Motors (14-4) beat Franklin, 3-2, on Monday in the completion of their suspended game Saturday to overtake Pastime (14-4) will determine the first seed in Zone 2. Bessey owned the tiebreaker […]
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American Legion baseball: Luksza, Bessey Motors shut down Pastime, 5-0
AUBURN — Just like that, Janek Luksza’s no-hitter was broken up. With one out remaining in the late-season contest between two zone leaders, Pastime and Bessey Motors, Luksza threw a 0-1 pitch to second baseman Evan Cox. The swing sent the ball to the shortstop’s right, forcing him to slide and make a tough throw […]
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Rogers sweeps Bessey Motors in American Legion Baseball doubleheader
AUBURN — Runs were plenty in both games of the Rogers Post and Bessey Motors doubleheader at Austin Field Tuesday night, and Rogers Post made the most of it. Tyler Libby ripped a single in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 2 to lift Post 153 to a 7-6 win and a sweep […]
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American Legion baseball: Johnson, Bessey Motors shut down Gardiner
GARDINER — Troy Johnson struck out six batters in six innings as Bessey Motors defeated Gardiner 6-2 in American Legion baseball action Thursday. Johnson helped his own cause in the top of the first with an RBI single. Hunter Labossiere, Janek Lukska and Ashton Kennison also had RBIs in the first inning, a six-hit frame […]
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American Legion baseball: Carson, Bessey Motors shut down Pastime
Bessey Motors’ Colton Carlson fires the ball over the plate at a game with Pasttime’s baseball team at Gouin Athletic Complex in South Paris on Wednesday afternoon. PARIS — Colton Carson started Wednesday’s American Legion baseball game mad, but finished it quite happy. The Pastime batters, meanwhile, were left scratching their heads. Carson tossed a […]
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American Legion baseball: Luksza, Bessey Motors shut down River Valley
PARIS — Janek Luksza held River Valley to three hits in Bessey Motors’ 12-2 American Legion baseball win in five innings Monday. Luksza struck out four batters and didn’t offer up any walks in his five innings on the mound. Bessey opened with an eight-run first inning, and then wrapped the game up early with […]
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American Legion baseball: Bessey Motors swipes sweep of Locke Mills
Bessey Motors catcher Wyatt Williamson tags out Locke Mills’ Josh Eliot while Zachary Hill looks on during the second game of an American Legion baseball doubleheader in Paris on Saturday. PARIS — Bessey Motors had to wait three hours to start its American Legion baseball doubleheader against Jackson Silver Post of Locke Mills due to […]
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American Legion baseball: Rogers roughs up Bessey
Rogers Post plated 11 runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to beat Bessey Motors 13-1 in the American Legion semifinals at Auburn Suburban on Tuesday. With the victory, Rogers advances to the Zone 2 championship and clinches a state tournament berth. Defense ruled the first five-and-a-half innings of Tuesday’s game as second-seeded Rogers held […]