Baseball: Lakewood getting closer to season’s biggest stunner

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It looks as if the Lakewood Lancers should -- or very well could -- win the Moore League crown (though I don’t want to jinx them). That would be one of the season’s biggest stunners. Maybe the biggest.

The Lancers began the season unranked, then bumbled to a 6-9 start. Very few would have predicted that Lakewood would win the league at that point. Especially the Moore League, which is one of the toughest around and features the defending mythical national champion, Long Beach Wilson.

No. 22-ranked Lakewood (18-10, 9-0) holds a 1 1/2-game lead on No. 23 Wilson (22-5-1, 8-2-0). The Bruins have two games left and the Lancers have three. The teams play each other on the final day of the regular season next Wednesday.

-- Anthony Stitt