Hot Bats Not Enough, Royal Knights Succumb to 8U Fajardo, 19-14

[Note: The headline above and recap below are auto-generated by my scorekeeping app, and I thought it was kind of fun.  I modified it a little and scrubbed out the last names.  "8U Fajardo" is the official name of the team we played, much like ours is "8U Roush".  I don't know what their nickname is.]

Recap

	1	2	3	4	5	-	R	H
KNIGHTS	3	5	3	0	3	-	14	19
HOME	5	5	4	5	X	-	19	23

Round Rock — The Royal Knights lost a battle of the bats on Saturday at Field 10, falling short in a 19-14 ballgame against 8U Fajardo.

Tristan boosted his batting average thanks to a perfect 3-3 day at the plate to pace the Knights. He singled in the first and second innings and tripled in the fifth inning.

8U Fajardo answered with nine hitters combining for 20 hits, 16 RBIs and 16 runs scored.

The Knights jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the top of the first. Tristan got things going with a single. A single by Connor then moved Tristan from first to second. Adam singled, scoring Tristan. The Knights pushed more runs across when Connor and Adam scored on a two-run single by Elijah.

8U Fajardo answered with five runs of its own in the first, and again in the second.

The Knights brought home three runs in the third inning, and matched that run total in the fifth. In the third, the Knights scored on a two-run single by Elijah, plating Adam and Lucas.

8U Fajardo went up for good in the third, scoring four runs on a two-run home run and two singles.  8U Fajardo built upon its lead with five runs in the fourth.

After pushing across three runs in the top of the fifth, The Knights faced just a 19-14 deficit. An RBI single by Connor and a two-run single by Michael sparked a late rally, but it came up short.

Box Score

NO	NAME	AB	H	R	RBI	AVG
4	Tristan	3	3	3	2	.765
32	Connor	3	3	1	2	.800
99	Adam	3	2	2	1	.933
15	Lucas	3	2	2	0	.733
1	Elijah	3	3	2	4	.933
6	Carlos	3	0	0	1	.286
00	Michael	3	1	0	2	.583
17	Josiah	3	1	1	0	.417
10	Shay	2	1	1	1	.667
7	CJ	2	1	1	0	.818
5	Graham	2	2	1	1	.600
88	Bradyn	2	0	0	0	.000

3B: Tristan
TB: Tristan 5, Connor 3, Elijah 3, Adam 2, Lucas 2, Graham 2, Michael, Josiah, Shay, CJ
RBI: Tristan 2, Connor 2, Adam, Elijah 4, Carlos, Michal 2, Shay, Graham
FC: Carlos