Tremendous Weekend for Hopewell Youth Baseball Teams in All-Star Tournaments

Hopewell Youth Baseball had four All-Star teams participating in tournaments this past weekend.

All four of them made the championship game unfortunately all coming up just short. But a bunch of teams from other communities got sent home early thanks to Hopewell teams.

It’s a testament to the work that these gets are putting in, their development, from the coaching that they’re receiving but ultimately how our kids respond and compete.

Hopewell 9 Year Old All-Star Team

Our 8-year-olds, defeated Cornell, 11-4 and Central Valley, 7-0 on Saturday, which earned them a No. 2 seed heading into bracket play on Sunday.

In their first game on Sunday, Hopewell beat Monroeville, 12-2. A lot of offense in that game but to Tristyn Trkulja, who hit a home run and for the weekend, Tristyn banged out two over the fence home runs. Center field at South Side is 130 feet.

Celebration After Tristyn’s HR

In Game 2, Hopewell played No. 3 seed Monessen and won an exciting 12-11 game. Congrats to Michael Kurta for hitting the game-winning walk-off double.

In the championship game, Hopewell ran into a talented South Side team and lost 12-7.

HSN also received a report on the Hopewell 10U All-Star team.

Despite coming into bracket play as the lowest seed, which meant they had to play the top seed, Hopewell showed up in a big way. Despite being them the night before, Hopewell beat the top seed 9-4. Then in the semifinals game, they won again, this time by the score of 17-6. However, they fell short in the championship game.

Regardless, that’s an outstanding weekend and first tournament for our 10-year-old team.

Great job to them and all the Hopewell teams that participated.