Fri–Sun Nov 6–8, 2026 · NVTBL Fall World Series · Select pool + Sunday bracket · SEASON FINALE
Fall WS Recap · 1–2 (season finale)
Patriot Park North · Fairfax, VA · 2 pool games + 1 bracket crossover · Season ends 6–16 · NVTBL 1–8 on the season · Season done
✓ 1 · ✗ 2 · G2 mercy win over Ignite Cadets · G1 and G3 rough
The honest frame
One real win and two games where the glove let the arm down. Saturday afternoon against Ignite Cadets was the best three innings of baseball we played all fall —
16–1, 9 hits (incl. a Schupp HR), 1 team error, two pitchers with 0 ER. Friday night and Sunday morning were the mirror image:
9 errors each, big innings on the arm, and runs leaking out faster than we could answer. The box scores tell the same story pool play and bracket both —
when the defense holds, we score plenty; when it doesn't, no arm survives.
▸ Final weekend by the numbers
19Team Errors (G1: 9, G2: 1, G3: 9)
G1 · P3 · Fri Nov 6 · 7:15 PM · PPN#3
Select pool G1 · vs MVP Mustangs 11U Black · away
L 8–17 (3 inn)
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | R | H | E |
|---|
| MVP Mustangs 11U Black | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 1 |
| Stars Desai 11U | 1 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 9 |
Stars Desai · batting
| Player | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO |
|---|
| A Andreas (SS) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| G Madison (C) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Y Desai (3B) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| R Schupp (LF) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| G Guevara (P) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| C Kadak (1B) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| E Hundley (CF) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| M Moss (2B) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| J Gallagher (CF) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| B Singleton (RF) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 10 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
Stars Desai · pitching
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P |
|---|
| G Guevara | 2.0 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 60 |
| M Moss | 1.0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 29 |
| Totals | 3.0 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 89 |
G Guevara hit the 60-pitch tournament lock — out for the rest of the weekend. ER 5 vs R 17 → 12 unearned runs (9 team errors).
G1 observations
- 9 team errors on 3 defensive innings — the single biggest driver of the 17-run output. Only 5 earned on the mound, meaning 12 of MVP's 17 runs were gifts.
- Bats actually showed up for a middle inning: 7-run 2nd with M Moss doubling home two and 7 walks drawn across the game. Problem was we had 3 innings to find it and they had three to pile on.
- G Guevara ran into the 60-pitch tournament lock in his 2nd inning (60 pitches / 34 strikes). Removed him from the pitching pool for the rest of the weekend — a real cost going into Saturday and Sunday.
G2 · P14 · Sat Nov 7 · 3:00 PM · PPN#4
Select pool G2 · vs Ignite Cadets 11U · away · MERCY WIN
W 16–1 (3 inn)
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | R | H | E |
|---|
| Ignite Cadets 11U | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Stars Desai 11U | 11 | 5 | X | 16 | 9 | 1 |
Stars Desai · batting
| Player | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO |
|---|
| A Andreas (CF) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| G Madison (LF) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| J Abiamiri (CF) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Y Desai (3B) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| E Hundley (P) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| M Moss (2B) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| G Guevara (RF) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| R Schupp (LF) · HR | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| C Kadak (1B) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J Gallagher (SS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B Singleton (C) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 17 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 2 |
Eight different RBI contributors. R Schupp HR + 2 SB. SB party: Y Desai 3, C Kadak 2, M Moss 2, Schupp 2, Andreas, Madison.
Stars Desai · pitching
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P |
|---|
| E Hundley | 2.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 31 |
| J Abiamiri | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| Totals | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 47 |
Combined 0 ER, 1 hit allowed, 5 K in 3 innings. One unearned run the only blemish. Textbook.
G2 observations — the game we're going to show at the first spring practice
- Every lane worked. 9 hits spread across 8 contributors, 11 RBI, 4 walks drawn, Schupp HR, and 11 SB as a team. Top of the lineup got on, middle drove them in, bottom kept the line moving.
- Defense held — 1 team error in 3 innings. That's what pitching with 0 ER looks like: Hundley and Abiamiri threw strikes and let the defense work.
- Mercy-ruled after 2.5 innings. Fastest finish of the fall.
- J Abiamiri's first clean appearance of the fall on the mound — 1 IP, 0 ER, 2 K, 16 pitches. One to remember heading into spring.
G3 · Bracket · Sun Nov 8 · PPN · SEASON FINALE
Sunday bracket crossover · vs Shenandoah Sluggers - Geaneas 11U (Premier pool) · away
L 2–15 (4 inn)
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | R | H | E |
|---|
| Shenandoah Sluggers - Geaneas 11U | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 0 |
| Stars Desai 11U | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
Stars Desai · batting
| Player | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO |
|---|
| A Andreas (1B) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G Madison (C) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J Abiamiri (CF) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Y Desai (3B) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| E Hundley (LF) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| M Moss (2B) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| G Guevara (3B) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| R Schupp (P) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C Kadak (RF) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J Gallagher (SS) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| B Singleton (RF) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 15 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Stars Desai · pitching
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P |
|---|
| R Schupp | 1.0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 40 |
| A Andreas | 3.0 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 62 |
| Totals | 4.0 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 102 |
ER 3 vs R 15 → 12 unearned runs again. A Andreas crossed 60 → locked for any further weekend play (but season was over). Guevara unavailable from G1 lock.
G3 observations — Sunday bracket
- Same disease as Friday: 9 team errors gift-wrapping 12 unearned runs. 3 ER on the mound means the pitching did its job; the glove did not.
- G Guevara locked from G1, so A Andreas took the long outing — 3.0 IP, 62 pitches, hit the 60-pitch lock himself but season ended anyway. One more inning would have burned him out of early spring too.
- Only 2 hits from the lineup after two games of consistent contact — small sample (15 AB on the day), and Sluggers' Jayden C piled up 4 K in 3 IP. We did draw 3 walks and ran 5 bases.
- 6 SO on 15 AB (40%) — the only game of Fall WS where strikeouts outpaced contact.
▸ Fall WS weekend wrap
What the numbers say about the 3 games
• Pitching was better than the scoreboard: 24 unearned runs in the two losses alone. The arms were competitive. The defense wasn't.
• Defense split hard by game: 9 / 1 / 9. The Saturday game shows what the defense IS capable of — one clean game out of three isn't a profile, it's a proof-of-concept.
• Bats were there when the defense was. G2 = 9 H, 16 R, 11 RBI, Schupp HR. G1 and G3 combined = 5 H, 10 R — meaningfully worse, but still 10 runs from our bats across 18 defensive innings of chaos.
• Individual bright spots: A Andreas 4-for-6 at Fall WS (.667) with 2 RBI across the three games. M Moss 3-for-4 with 4 RBI. R Schupp with the HR and 2 RBI in G2. E Hundley + J Abiamiri's combined 0 ER against Ignite. B Singleton behind the plate for the one clean defensive game.
▸ Season closes at 6–16 · NVTBL 1–8
What stays from this weekend heading into Rip City winter + spring 2027
• The Saturday blueprint: Hundley/Abiamiri + strike-throwing + Schupp/Moss/Andreas at the top of the order + 1 error on defense = 15-run blowout. We know what this team can do when the components line up. Spring job is to make that profile the median, not the ceiling.
• Defense is the fall-to-spring project. Across the Fall WS we averaged 6.3 errors per game. For reference, G2 was 1 (season average pre-Fall-WS was ~3). The 6-to-4-to-3B lanes and the catcher throw-down game are the two specific places the error pile concentrated. Drill those in Rip City.
• J Abiamiri as a pitcher: 16 pitches, 0 ER, 2 K. Add him to the spring rotation discussion.
• Pitch economy matters. G Guevara maxed on 60 in G1 and was unavailable all weekend. A Andreas maxed on 62 in G3. A tournament-weekend staff needs 5 arms that can hit 50-pitch outings, not 2 that hit 60.
• Season complete. Fall 2026 ends 6–16 overall, 1–8 in NVTBL. Hard season but the Saturday G2 win happened, and that's the game we'll open spring with on the whiteboard.