SELAH — After four hours and 11 innings in 104-degree heat Tuesday, the Burlington Sox American Legion AA baseball team gets the privilege of doing it again today.

The Sox kept their season alive with a 6-5 victory in 11 innings over Central Valley of Spokane at the state tournament, scoring the winning run when the opposing shortstop threw to the wrong base.

That capped a game in which the Sox were down a run in the sixth and tied it, and were down to their final strike in the eighth and tied it.

“It was a war, a dogfight,” Sox coach John Thurmond said. “It was just back and forth. It was a loser-out game and neither team wanted to go home.”

Burlington will face Richland at 5 p.m. today.Read The Full Story