Bluejays take fourth at World Series

The South County Bluejays travel baseball team finished the recent

2000 Continental Amateur Baseball Association’s World Series

(10-and-Under Division) with a 6-3 record, and captured fourth place

overall in competition held in Aurilla, Iowa.

The team, which has two Huntington Beach athletes on its roster,

finished pool play as the No. 1 seeded team in its first World Series

appearance.

The highlight of their pool play was a 10-9 victory over the Puerto

Rico National Team, the eventual tournament champion.

Local players James Miller and MJ Forsberg were key elements to South

County’s success. Miller hit .280 for the tournament and played key

defense in center field, and Forsberg hit .522 with one home run, and

also pitched a team-high nine innings, earning two victories.

Freddie Freeman, who had a tournament-best five home runs, and Jose

Bran, who hit .547, represented the Bluejays on the all-tournament team.

The South County Bluejays were coming off a ninth-place finish at the

Cooperstown NIT in June.