PacWest's stay at the Intermediate Little League baseball all-star Western Regionals in Irvine, Calif. ended with a 9-0 loss to Northern California on Wednesday.
The Intermediate class is for age 13 players and is being offered for the first time ever this year. It features mounds 50 feet from home plate with 70 foot basepaths
It comes between the 46 foot mounds and 60-foot basepaths the 11 and 12-year-old Little League Majors use and the 60 feet, 6 inch mounds and 90 feet the age 13-14 Juniors and older players use.
The Western Regional champion advances to the Intermediate World Series coming up in Livermore, Calif., but PacWest missed out with its 2-2 record at the double-elimination tournament.
PacWest -- the Washington state tournament champions -- started out well in the regional tournament played at the Quail Hill complex in Irvine, defeating the Montana state champion team from Butte by a 6-2 score on Friday.
PacWest turned around to lose, 11-1, to Southern California on Saturday before recovering to defeat Nevada, 15-3, in its first loser's bracket game Sunday.
The schedule then gave PacWest a two-day break before facing Northern California on Wednesday and then losing.
PacWest was plagued by six errors in the game, but was only outhit, 10-6.
Tyler Terlouw threw 3.1 innings for PacWest, striking out two and racking up 10 first pitch strikes.
The PacWest team that calls Burien and SeaTac home included Bryson Beltran, Casey Hillyard, Ryan Moormeier, Tyler Terlouw, David Perkins, Nicholas Hovland, Ricky Castillo, Chris Coyle, Alex Ponce and Hayden Wood.
