EUGENE – The 2017 American Legion baseball season came to an end for the Roseburg Dr. Stewart’s on Tuesday in the nightcap of a doubleheader against Willamette Valley.

The Doc’s needed two wins against the Titans to keep their season going with a berth in the Super Regionals. Roseburg got a 12-6 victory in game one behind a masterful pitching performance from Will Shaw and a 4-for-5 day at the plate for Cody Johnson.

Shaw allowed four hits and just one run over the first five innings while the Doc’s offense built a 7-1 advantage. The Titans scored five runs late against Shaw, but Roseburg put five runs on the board in the in the seventh to put plenty of distance between the two teams.

Johnson hit three doubles in the opener and drove in five of the Doc’s 12 runs. Kyler Leischner hit a solo home run to lead off the seventh inning and Zack Mandera added a 3-run homer later in the seventh to cap the Doc’s scoring.

The victory forced a winner-take-all contest in the nightcap, with the victorious side moving on to the post season and the losing side packing it in for the year.

The Doc’s took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but it was all downhill from there. Willamette Valley scored four times in the first and went on to win 12-2 in six innings to advance to a Super Regional series against Alpenrose Dairy from the Portland area.

Willamette Valley notched six runs in four innings against Doc’s starter Zack Mandera. The Titans had four hits in the first to score four times and they put two more runs across in the fourth on three hits and one Doc’s error.

The Titans put the game away with six runs in the sixth inning to claim the mercy rule victory. A double by JJ Sargeant drove in the final two runs of the game. Sargeant finished with three doubles in the nightcap.

Luke Thoreson held the Doc’s to two unearned runs on six hits over six innings of work. He struck out six and walked two in the win.

Terrell Jacks was the lone batter to have much success against Thoreson. Jacks hit two doubles and scored a run.

The Doc’s finished the season 14-23 overall and 9-12 in league play. It’s the second consecutive losing season for the Dr. Stewart’s and its third straight year that the team will not make the state tournament. The previous two seasons the Doc’s lost in the Super Regional round.

There are seven players that will be eligible to return after playing spring baseball with their high school teams next year. Will Shaw, Shawn Rigsby, Wryland McKnight, and Braxton Beerbohm will all be too old to return next year and seven players from the graduating class of 2017 might have the option to return after their freshman year of college.

GAME ONE
Roseburg 301;300;5 – 12;11;3
Willamette Valley 001;002;3 – 6;11;1
Shaw, McKnight (7) and Ter. Jacks. Bates, White (3), Sayles (5), Vidal (7) and Burke. WP – Will Shaw (3-3). LP – Cade Bates.
2B: R – Johnson (3), Harrington. WV – Sargeant, Ramirez, Burke. HR: R – Leischner, Mandera.

GAME TWO
Roseburg 110;000 – 2;6;3
Willamette Valley 400;206 – 12;15;2
Mandera, Beerbohm (5), McKnight (6) and Ter. Jacks. Thoreson and Crist. WP – Luke Thoreson. LP – Zack Mandera (3-3).
2B: R – Ter. Jacks (2). WV – Sargeant (3), Wonham, Elliot (2), Crist.