Dimond forces tiebreaker against Alaska Road Warriors; Title will be decided Saturday in Anchorage

ANCHORAGE – The Dimond Lynx are still alive in the Alaska American Legion state baseball championships.

Dimond made sure it would take a pair of games to decide the champion of the double elimination tournament with a 9-2 win over the Wasilla-based Alaska Road Warriors on Friday at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage.

The teams will meet again Saturday at 5 p.m. at Mulcahy in the tiebreaker with the title on the line.

The Dimond post scored six runs in the fifth and spoiled the Road Warriors’ chance to win their first legion state title outright since 1990. The fifth-seeded Road Warriors upset the top two seeds in the tourney, and opened the event with three straight wins. Second-seeded Dimond, which suffered a loss to the Wasilla team in the semifinals, beat Chugiak during the final game of the loser’s bracket to work back into the championship of the double elimination tourney.

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