Tiburon’s 12U Little League All-Stars are still rolling in district playoffs

Tiburon Peninsula Little League's 12-and-under All-Stars are unbeaten through two rounds of the District 3 tournament's bracket play, shutting out San Rafael 7-0 on July 2 and edging Novato South 2-1 on July 5. Tiburon plays Mill Valley at 5:30 p.m. July 8.

The No. 2 seed sent Tiburon into the bracket with a first-round bye after a 3-1 pool-play finish. Ari Dodds, Luke Isaacson and William Dollard combined on the shutout of San Rafael. Benjamin Casey went 3-for-3 with an RBI double in the first inning, and Cole Peters added a two-run home run in the third. Against Novato South, Diego Sayle's RBI single gave Tiburon a second-inning lead. Novato South tied it in the fourth, but Calum Van Pelt's go-ahead double won it in the bottom of the same inning. Dodds and Isaacson combined to strike out 12.

Tiburon's 10U team beat Mill Valley 6-1 on July 7 at Boyle Park, its third straight bracket win. Tiburon hosts San Francisco National at Strawberry Field at 5 p.m. July 8, a rematch of the 7-2 loss that sent Tiburon into the loser's bracket July 3.

Mill Valley scored first on a run-scoring single in the second, but Ryan Lambert tied it with an RBI single in the fourth. Tiburon broke it open with five runs on three hits in the seventh, punctuated by a three-run double from Mac Cabeal. Thomas Osher started and allowed one unearned run over four innings; Rex Davenport pitched three scoreless innings in relief. Cabeal went 2-for-3 with three RBIs, and Lambert added two hits.

Before that, Tiburon needed a 6-5 win over Ross Valley on July 6 to stay alive in the loser's bracket, scoring the go-ahead run in the top of the fifth after the teams were tied 5-5. That win had followed a 2-7 loss to San Francisco National on July 3 and a 13-2 elimination-game win over San Francisco American on July 4, in which Tiburon scored eight runs in the second inning.

Tiburon's 11U team, seeded No. 11 after an 0-4 pool-play finish, saw its season end at 0-6 overall. Tiburon lost its bracket opener 3-2 to Novato South on July 1 — Becket Boznanski struck out six over 3⅔ innings, and Calder Bowse's RBI single had tied the game in the fourth before Novato South scored the go-ahead run in the fifth. That sent Tiburon into an elimination game against Gallinas Valley on July 4, which it lost 7-2 despite two hits apiece from Camden Rosoff, Jeffrey Dobkins, Andrew Winokur and William Diemer; Gallinas Valley built an early lead on a wild pitch and a Tiburon error and never gave it back.