The Fedde Sports Complex was busy Monday, April 13, as a couple of Hawaiian Gardens Little League teams took over the place with soccer going on at an adjacent field. It was a night of softball and baseball for the evening as squads from the Greater Bellflower Little League and Long Beach Plaza Little League invaded the Hawaiian Gardens turf for a couple of hours of missed swings, stolen bases and clutch running from the youth teams.
On one field, the Hawaiian Gardens Red Hots softball team battled with the Lady Trojans of the Greater Bellflower Little League. The Red Hots dominated early and seemed to be in control of the game throughout the contest, leading all the way up to the bottom half of the last inning of play, holding a 6-4 lead.
Up until the last inning, the Red Hots managed to stay ahead of the Lady Trojans, a team they had lost to earlier in the season, with some great defensive plays and solid hitting. Then the bottom fell out for the Red Hots as the Lady Trojans’ bats came alive at the right time. The Lady Trojans scored three runs in the last part of the final inning to come away victorious with a 7-6 win.
On the opposite diamond, the Orioles did their best against a much bigger, more physical Long Beach Plaza Bulldogs team.