The American Legion Post 20 Twins and Madisonville (Kentucky) Post 6 will play for the Lance Coz Wood Bat Tournament title Sunday at 1 p.m. at Coral Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai.
Auke Bay Post 25 and South Post 4 will play for third place at 10 a.m.
The tournament is named for Coz, the former Twins manager and head coach who was the rock of the program from 1975 until his death in 2020.
Coz did not get his named attached to the tournament until 2022, but the event has been around since 2004.
The Twins have won the tournament just once, when it was a round robin in 2009. Post 20 has been to the championship game six times and come up empty each time, though once was due to rainout.
Both the Twins and the Rangers enter the title game with 2-1 tourney records. South and Auke Bay are both 1-2.
Saturday, Madisonville defeated South 3-1, Post 20 defeated Madisonville 4-2 and Auke Bay defeated the Twins 9-3.
Rangers 3, Wolverines 1
Madisonville was able to take a 2-0 lead in the third inning and that would be enough.
Hayden Hudson, Evan Lear and Nash Lee combined to hold South to a run on seven hits.
At the plate, Layden Bozarth was 3 for 4, while Easton Mefford and Jayden Taylor were 2 for 3.
South’s Braun Precosky was on the wrong end of the pitchers’ duel, going six innings and giving up two runs on six hits. Will Preston gave up an unearned run in an inning of relief.
Precosky was 2 for 3, while Jack Zuspan was 2 for 4.
Twins 4, Rangers 2
Five errors by Madisonville led to three unearned runs, and that was the difference in the game.
Matthew Schilling and Jayden Stuyvesant combined to stifle the Rangers on the mound.
Schilling went the first three innings and gave up two runs on four hits, while Stuyvesant gave up a hit in four shutout innings. Jackson Koetitz was 2 for 4 to lead the Twins at the plate.
Jaelin Groves started with three shutout innings for Madisonville, then Jayden Taylor gave up three runs — one earned — on five hits in three innings.
Micah Austin finished by allowing an unearned run on a hit in an inning.
Taylor went 2 for 3 for the Rangers.
Midnight Suns 9, Twins 3
A five-run bottom of the second inning put Auke Bay in control of the game.
Hunter Carte started by allowing two runs — one earned — on three hits in four innings.
Keaton Belcourt, Micah Nelson and Noah Lewis then each pitched an inning and combined to give up just a run on two hits.
Kasen Ludeman was 2 for 4, while Drew Cadigan-McAdoo was 2 for 3 with two runs and Jacob Katasse added two RBIs.
For the Twins, Jacob Joanis gave up two run in an inning thanks to three walks. Gavin Peterson gave up three runs — one earned — on two hits in an inning, while Malakai BeDunnah went four innings and gave up four runs on eight hits.
Clyde Clemens led the offense by scoring twice.
