Three teams still unbeaten

Three Pee Wee League teams enter Monday’s season finales undefeated and won’t meet unless it’s in the Spokane Valley Baseball tournament which begins Tuesday and Wednesday and concludes July 30.

Sterling Self Storage (McDonald), Tom’s Barber Shop (Broadway) and Evergreen Dentistry (Ponderosa) have perfect records.

Midget tournament begins Thursday and also concludes with its title game July 30. Liberty Lake (7-1) leads what appears to be a wide-open classification.

Here are some individual highlights throughout the summer.

Midgets: William Bailey has had numerous extra base hits for River City Pizza/Pasta this season including a home run and triple during one victory. He homered again this week. This past week teammate Jason Gillingham was 5-for-5.

Inland Cable’s Chance Halstead went 6-for-6 in one game and was 3-for-3. Teammates Adam Bruno and Ryan Leifer combined for 12 strikeouts pitching and 7-for-7 batting. Leifer homered and tripled in one game and tripled in another and last week had three more hits in a game, including a single, triple and home run.

Grocery Outlet’s Shawn Perkins went 4-4 and Derek Sanborn tripled and doubled during their team’s recent victorious stretch. Last week Sanborn was 4-for-5, one of three Ness players – Ryan Hayes and Taylor Payne the others – to do so in a game.

Autocraft’s Nick Durand struck out all nine he faced during a three-inning pitching stint.

PEE WEE: Like the major leagues this has been Pee Wee’s year of the pitcher with several pitchers fanning nine in three-inning appearances.

Liberty Lake I’s Skyler Townsend has been a season-long factor on the mound and had a 5-for-8 hitting stretch in which he drove eight runs, including a grand slam. He most recently was 3-for-4 with a home run and double.

Teammate Bryden Dodson hit a double that sent the game into extra innings against Grocery Outlet and Ryan Johnson won it with a bases-loaded hit. Johnson was 4-for-4 driving in four runs most recently. And this past week Logan Coddington went 5-for-5 with a triple, two doubles and six RBIs.

Pitcher Kyle Van Liew has been a strikeout machine, with games of nine and eight twice, the latter as part of a no-hit effort.

Sterling Self Storage pitcher Ethan Kuntz drove in eight runs with three hits, with a grand slam, in one victory. Teammate Devin Pulliam was 4-for-4, doubling twice, scoring three times and driving in six runs in another. He also had nine strikeouts in relief.

George Velis DDS pitcher Cole Cunnington fanned nine batters in a row.