Two teams quite familiar with each other met for the Governor’s Cup 12-year-olds’ title Sunday evening.

This time, it was the Mississippi Sting out of Byram that got hot at the right time and blasted the Vicksburg Angels 16-3.

&#8220We just got hot with the bats. It’s been that way the whole tournament,” said Sting coach Cliff Woodruff. &#8220We averaged something like 14 runs a game this weekend.

&#8220We felt like this would be a tough game because this was the fourth time we’ve played the Angels in a championship game and this makes us 2-2 for the summer,” Woodruff added.

&#8220Our hitting was off and they were on. Some breaks went against us, but that’s how baseball is,” said Angels coach Dave Waddell.

Both teams had played over 60 games by the time they reached the final tournament game of the summer season. For three innings, the score resembled the evenness of the two clubs.

Lamar Anthony’s well-executed squeeze bunt tied the game at 3-all in the bottom of the third. Waddell then went to his ace reliever, Cameron Cooksey, who had previously nailed down a semifinal win the game before.

This time, things unraveled. An infield tap squirted through Cooksey’s legs to lead off the innning and that started a bad roll for the Angels.

A single by tournament MVP Terrell Hodges was followed by a two-run double by Gary Foster that snapped the 3-3 tie. Three more batters reached before Cooksey finally got an out. The next batter, Adam McPhail, then ripped the second of three extra base hits in the game, getting a double to score two for an 8-3 lead.

Clyde Kendrick came in and got the Angels out of the inning down 9-3. He got two outs in the fourth before a hit batter and a walk set up Hodges’ second home run of the game, a three-run shot to straight-away center that effectively sealed the contest at 12-3.

&#8220This has been a special group of kids and I look forward to having them again next year at 13,” Waddell said. For the summer, the Angels finished 48-12-1.

Will Stegall had two hits to lead the offense against Sting pitcher Gary Foster who went the distance. Matthew Mims had an RBI squeeze bunt and Cody Waddell who pitched the first three innings and left with a no decision, knocked in the first Angel run off a fly ball.

Hodges padded his MVP weekend with two home runs and four RBIs. McPhail knocked in five runs off a double, home run and a single. The Sting (48-16) finished with 14 hits.