Panama Oeste is the new youth baseball champion

Western Panama defeated by a career bump coclé with the result (12-4) in the fifth game of the final series 2023 National Youth Baseball Championship Last night at Rod Carew Stadium. National Championship

With victory, “cowboys” They won the final series against “Little Red Wood” for 4-1.

During the entire championship, Western Panama and Coclé they met in seven games, two in the regular season and five in the final series.

“cowboys” they succeeded six times and lost only once.

With the title won, Western Panama manages to win its third championship in its history in youth baseball, the first was in 1986, the second was obtained in 1996 and was re-crowned last night in the colossus of Cerro Patacón.

This Friday night at the Rod Carew Stadium, Coclesans scored a run in the same first inning at the feet of Tomás Sarmiento.
But the joy of the Cocles residents did not last long, with the closing of that same entrance to the boys from Western Panama they trotted twice to take the lead and not lose command throughout the game.

Those directed by the former initiator Major League Baseball, Carlos Cesar Maldonado, they scored five times in the third inning, extending the lead with four more runs to 11-1.

Western Panama continued to expand the score with a career Carlos Bethancourt in the fifth inning and leave the game 12-1.

Coclé closed the gap with three runs in the sixth inning, two of which came on Enrique Agrazal’s home run to make it 12-4.

The last two races Western Panama happened in the eighth inning, to end the game 14-4 and lift the title 2023 National Youth Baseball Championship in honor of Magaly Medina.

Maldonado did not expect a knockout against Coclé
P’s pilotPanama West, Carlos César Maldonado, He admitted that he did not expect to win the fifth game because of the progress of his career.
The former major league pitcher was also pleased to win the title for Western Panama that he was 27 years old and did not lift.

for his part, Rodrigo Meronpilot of coclé congratulated Western Panama by title, because it was the most consistent team in the youth championship.
Meron admitted that coclé in the final series against Panama Oeste did not play well defensively, which could partly cost him the title.