[07/31/02]The Vicksburg Oilers won two games in the losers’ bracket of the 11-year-olds’ Super Series of America Baseball World Series Tuesday, but ran out of steam in their third game of the day.

The Oilers won 12-8 against the Kings Cubs, from Bartlett, Tenn., and 8-7 against Team Texas, from Garland, Texas, before falling to the San Angelo (Texas) Colts 7-2.

The Oilers finished eighth in the 64-team tournament, played in Sherwood, Ark.

Against Bartlett, Tenn., Blake Hynum went 2-for-4 with a double, and also struck out four batters in four innings of work to earn the win.

Jerrod Ettinger backed him with a 3-for-3 performance, and Keaton Sanders, Elliot Green, Zach Conway and Joseph Brown also had two hits apiece. Sanders, Green and Ettinger had an RBI each.

The Oilers then played a rain-delayed afternoon game, beating Team Texas on Ettinger’s RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning. Vicksburg put the Texas team down in order in the sixth to preserve the win.

Hynum and Jonathan Sweet each had two hits and a double for the Oilers, while Brown doubled and Green had an RBI single. Hynum and Brown also drove in runs for Vicksburg.

Against San Angelo, in a game that started at 6 p.m., Hynum went 2-for-3 with an RBI, but it wasn’t enough to keep the Oilers in the tournament.

Sweet added two hits for Vicksburg, and Robert Prentiss had a single.