The Santa Barbara Foresters won the National Baseball Congress World Series championship for a record seventh time Saturday night, and they did it in style, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning.
After the National Junior College All-America team scored three runs in the top of the ninth to erase a 5-2 Santa Barbara lead, the Foresters snapped right back, loading the bases and then walking off with the 6-5 victory when Patrick Mathis drew a base on balls. Logan Allen, who led off the rally with a single, scored the decisive run.
Mathis, a former Texas outfielder who was among the permissible additions to the Santa Barbara roster in Wichita, was named MVP of the tournament. He whacked a two-run homer in the first inning.