BROOKINGS – The Bombers Black won their remaining pool-play games – 6-3 over the Sioux Falls Cyclones Red and 7-6 over the Marshall Tigers – to advance to Sunday’s 14U championship game of the Cubby’s Sports Bar and Grill Wood Bat Tournament.

In the title game, Watertown rallied with a pair of runs to send the game into extra innings and then scored once in the eighth for an 8-7 win over Black to claim the championship.

The Bombers, 15-9 on the season, travel to Renner on Tuesday for a 1 p.m. doubleheader.

Sunday’s Championship

• Watertown 8, Brookings 7

(8 Inn.)

After Watertown tallied two runs in the first, Black took control with a four-run second inning, and then tacked on single runs to go up 6-2 through five.

But the visitors scored three in sixth and two in the seventh as Brookings managed a lone run in the sixth as the score was tied at 7-7 at the end of regulation.

In the eighth, Watertown took advantage of its leadoff batter getting hit by a pitch before he stole second and scored on a two-out single.

Black notched 11 hits, but committed five errors in the loss, as Max Kjelden and Jamison Honkomp accounted for three hits apiece as Kjelden drove in two runs.

Cole Mahlum singled and doubled while picking up a pair of RBIs and Max Struck had an RBI single. Jackson Krogman and Mason Bebensee had the other two hits.

Mahlum suffered the loss in relief as he gave up one run on one hit and two walks with two strikeouts in an inning of work.

Honkomp started and went five innings with all five runs scored against him unearned as he gave up five hits and two walks while striking out two.

Kjelden tossed the seventh and allowed two earned runs on three hits and a walk with one strikeout.

WATERTOWN 8, BROOKINGS 7 (8 Inn.)

Watertown                  200 003 21 – 8   9 2

Brookings                    040 111 00 – 7 11 5

Watertown battery unavailable; Jamison Honkomp, Max Kjelden (7), Cole Mahlum (8) and Cole Mahlum, Wes Koenig (8). L – Mahlum. 2B: B, Cole Mahlum.

Saturday’s Games

• Brookings 6, S.F. Cyclones 3

Black score a run in the bottom of the first after Struck hit a one-out double; moved to third on Kjelden’s base hit; and then scored on Honkomp’s sacrifice fly.

Brookings tacked on three more runs in the second when Henry Hammrich drew a walk and then stole second and third. Noah Bayer walked and advanced to second without drawing a throw. Mahlum laid down a perfect suicide-squeeze bunt to score Hammrich and Bayer came around to score as well as the Cyclones threw the ball past the first baseman, allowing Mahlum to reach third. He then scored on Krogman’s ground out as Black led 4-0 through two complete.

The Cyclones scored twice in the third and once in the fifth to get within 4-3, but Brookings added a pair of insurance runs in the sixth for the final margin.

Bayer took one for the team; moved to second on Bebensee’s sac bunt; advanced to third on a base hit by Mahlum; and then scored on a wild pitch. Meanwhile, Mahlum went to second without a throw and then to third on the wild pitch. Honkomp again put the ball in play with a groundout that allowed Mahlum to score.

Krogman earned the win as he gave up two runs – one earned – over the first four innings on four hits and three walks with one strikeout. Bebensee finished to pick up the save as he allowed one earned run on three hits with one walk and three strikeouts.

BROOKINGS 6, S.F. CYCLONES 3

Sioux Falls                   002 010 0 – 3 7 3

Brookings                    130 002 x – 6 5 1

S.F. battery unavailable; Jackson Krogman, Mason Bebensee (5) and Cole Mahlum. W – Krogman. Sv – Bebensee. 2B: B, Max Struck. 3B: B, Kyle Bauer.

• Brookings 7, Marshall 6

Marshall got on the scoreboard first with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first and led 5-1 before Black tallied five runs in the fifth to go up 6-5.

A pitch hit Mahlum to lead off the third and he moved up on a stolen base and a passed ball before scoring on Struck’s one-out ground out.

Brookings batted around in the fifth as Kjelden, Joey McMacken and Henry Hammrich drove in runs.

After Mashall tied the game with a run in the sixth, Honkomp took advantage of a leadoff error before stealing second and advancing to third on Struck’s sac bunt.

Kjelden picked up his second RBI of the game with a single that plated Honkomp and then tossed the seventh to earn the save.

Koenig started and gave up five runs on six hits and five walks with one strikeout over four innings.

Mahlum allowed a run on one hit and two walks with two Ks in two frames of relief.

BROOKINGS 7, MARSHALL 6

Brookings                    001 051 0 – 7 6 2

Marshall                      201 201 0 – 6 8 3

Wes Koenig, Cole Mahlum (5), Max Kjelden (7) and Cole Mahlum, Wes Koenig (5); Marshall battery unavailable. W – Mahlum.