CHAFFEE IN JR. LEGION TITLE GAME

Chaffee's Junior American Legion baseball team scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to rally past Kirkwood Saturday, helping the local squad to both stay undefeated and reach today's championship game of the SEMO Bank Junior Legion Tournament.

Chaffee defeated Kirkwood 5-3 and later topped Imperial 6-2 to improve to 3-0 in tournament round-robin play. Chaffee, now 21-0 overall, will face Christian Brothers from Memphis in today's 3:30 p.m. championship game at Cape Central High School.

Also today, host Cape SEMO Bank will face Imperial for third place at 1 p.m. at Cape Central while Paducah will take on West Plains for seventh place at 1 p.m. at Notre Dame.

Jackson automatically finishes fifth because Kirkwood returned to St. Louis, thus forfeiting today's scheduled fifth-place contest.

Chaffee scored two runs in the bottom of the second, but saw Kirkwood counter with two runs in the sixth and one in the seventh.

In the bottom of the seventh, Chaffee's Tory Meyr reached base on a catcher's interference call, stole second and scored the tying run on Lance Amick's RBI single. With one out, John Wipfler homered to end the game.

Jason Glastetter and Dusty Leggett both finished with two hits for Chaffee, which had six hits overall.

Brian Obermann pitched one inning of relief and pocketed the win. Keith Hamm pitched the first six innings, allowing just two hits.

Glastetter picked up the win against Imperial.

Wipfler and Glastetter each had two of Chaffee's seven hits. Glastetter's hits included a solo home run in a four-run second inning that staked Chaffee to a 5-0 lead.

Cape SEMO Bank (5-11) beat West Plains 7-4 and lost to Christian Brothers 10-8 in action Saturday.

Tommy Wencewicz pitched all seven innings against West Plains to get the win while Mark Fisher had three of Cape's nine hits.

SEMO Bank had 15 hits against Christian Brothers, led by Richard Harrison, who had three hits, including a three-run homer. Steve Sachse 3-5 and Mike Sullivan also each had three hits while Wencewicz, and Ryan Fenwick added two each.

Dustin Sitzes started but was knocked out after 2 1/3 innings to take the loss.