Service and Chugiak emerged undefeated after four days of pool play to advance to Sunday's late championship game of the 15th annual BP Exploration American Legion baseball tournament at Mulcahy Stadium. Stephen Ferntheil's two-out walkoff single lifted Service to a 4-3 victory over South and gave the Cougars a 3-0 record in pool play, while Chugiak's first four batters scored against Fairbanks to power the Mustangs to an easy 10-3 win and a 2-0-1 record in pool-play.

Tim McCollum's two-run triple highlighted a five-run first inning for Chugiak.

In Service's close win, South led 3-2 after four innings but Service came back with a run in the sixth and one in the seventh. Ferntheil's RBI single in the seventh scored Jack Cronin, who also singled.

In other pool-play games Sunday:

• Danial Pohl drove in four runs to lead East part Bartlett 15-5 in a game in which the teams combined for 23 hits, including three by Bartlett's Cade Scott and four by East's Austin Cassaday.

• Eagle River scored three runs on three hits and a pair of walks in the first inning and made them hold up in a 3-1 win over West. Paul Grotelueschen limited West to two hits and needed 43 pitches -- 33 of them strikes -- to get through seven innings.

Dimond sweeps Kenai

Colton Lauwers drove in four runs and struck out eight batters in a do-it-all performance for Dimond in the second game of an Sunday doubleheader sweep of Kenai.

Lauwers keyed Dimond's 11-1 romp in the second game, while his brother Dylan supplied a triple to the team's 16-hit attack that led the Lynx to a 10-7 game in the opener.

First game

Dimond 020 020 042 -- 10 16 1

Kenai 000 130 120 -- 7 10 2

Olson, Osborne (8) and Eastlick; Marcuson, Griffen and Elson. WP -- Olson. LP -- Griffen.

2B -- Kenai, Gilbert. 3B -- Dimond, D. Lauwers.

Second game

Dimond 130 200 5 -- 11 12 2

Kenai 001 000 0 -- 1 6 2

C. Lauwers and Olson; Kohler and Myles. WP -- Lauwers. LP -- Kohler.

2B -- Dimond, C. Lauwers; Kenai, Kohler. 3B -- Dimond, DeMoss.

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