“The Bainbridge Babe Ruth 14-year-old All-Stars hoped that the old baseball adage Let’s play two held true yesterday.After wins in their first two games, they lost to North Kitsap 4-2 on Monday morning to drop into the loser’s bracket in state tournament play. A 10-6 win later that day over Othello set up Tuesday’s noon rematch against North Kitsap, and a Bainbridge win would force an afternoon final game for the championship and a trip to the regional tournament in Oregon.Charles Peach, who coached the local Babe Ruth league champion CFA Mortgage, has followed the 14-year-olds closely and felt that the team had an advantage in that scenario.We’ve played more than 60 games this season, and this team is more experienced in doubleheaders, he said.The team began tournament play on Friday with what initially appeared to be an easy win against Moses Lake. Though Bainbridge built leads of 6-0 and 7-1, things began to unravel in the last inning.Moses Lake closed to within 7-4 and loaded the bases with two outs.Kevin Roach relieved and the next batter hit a bouncer over his head. But second baseman Matt Frazee scooped up the ball and nipped the batter at first by half a step.Sunday’s game against Othello was a breeze as the team scored six in the first and cruised to a 13-0 win in a game called after five innings due to the 10-run rule.But North Kitsap was a different story.They scored twice in the first inning and we just couldn’t catch them, Peach said. They ran the bases aggressively and that led to an overthrow at third for their final run.The afternoon game Othello the game started in much the same fashion as the one the previous day. Grant Leslie’s bases-loaded double in the first inning scored three runs and we were just coasting, Peach said. But all of a sudden they went wild on us and things got really tense as five runs in the fifth gave Othello a 5-3 edge. We couldn’t believe they were ahead, Peach said. But we came back and put them to sleep in the sixth.Eleven runs not enough for 15sThere is, manager Kevin Magraw says, a first time for everything.I don’t believe I have ever scored 11 runs and lost a game, Magraw said, after the Babe Ruth 15-year-old All-Stars fell 12-11 to Oak Harbor on Friday, eliminating them from the state tournament. At first it looked as if things would go Bainbridge’s way. Ryan Magraw stroked a homer in the top of the second for a 1-0 lead. They added four in the third and another in the fourth to take a 6-1 lead.But Oak Harbor scored seven in their half of the fourth to go ahead 8-6. Bainbridge came back with five in the top of the sixth, climaxed by Scott Rasmussen’s two-run single which gave his team an 11-8 lead.But Oak Harbor tied the game in the bottom of the seventh on a bases-loaded triple, then scored the winning run on a single.It was a hard one to lose, said Magraw. We have played Oak Harbor in the past and beaten them three out of four times. They hit the ball very well and that was the deciding factor in the game. It turned into a slugfest and Oak Harbor came out on top. Given the fact that two of our top pitchers were not available, we did very well. Mike Ersser, Nathan Gottlieb and Ryan Magraw did a great job filling in the gap but it was not enough to last an entire tournament. “