The Vicksburg 13s played for exactly 90 minutes Saturday against Renegade Baseball.

It was just one of those games that seemed to last forever.

Jonathan Wallace went 2-for-3 with two doubles and three RBIs, Tyler Buffington homered and drove in four runs, and Renegade routed the Vicksburg squad 12-0 in the 13-year-olds’ Governor’s Cup at Halls Ferry Park. The game was stopped right at the 90-minute time limit. Renegade — a team based in North Central Louisiana that boasts one of the top USSSA rankings in the country — was batting for more than 60 minutes of game time.

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Vicksburg also lost its second game of the day, 12-0 against the Sliders.

“Monroe hit the ball and pitched the ball well. We didn’t hit,” Vicksburg coach Robert Simrall said.

Vicksburg did hit the ball some. It just didn’t get hits. Vicksburg’s only base hit came on Connor Hughey’s one-out single in the second inning. Mason Jarabica lined what looked like another hit to right field in the fourth inning, but Wallace charged the ball in the short outfield and threw Jarabica out at first by three steps.

Vicksburg sent 13 batters to the plate in the 3 1/2 inning game — just two more than Renegade sent up in the bottom of the first. A two-run double by Wallace and a pair of Vicksburg errors staked Renegade to a 6-0 lead during an at-bat that lasted 30 minutes.

Buffington belted a two-run homer in the second inning to make it 8-0, then added a two-run single in the third.

“It was probably just a little bit of a mismatch,” Renegade coach Chris Antley said. “We figured we were going to struggle because of the slow pitching, but they did all right.”

The only tense moments in the game came on plays at home and third.

With runners at first and third in the second inning, Renegade attempted a double steal. Vicksburg catcher Jeremy Jones threw one runner out at second, then caught a strong throw back to the plate. Renegade’s Austin Haman did not slide at the plate, and the collision between he and Jones left Jones with a bloody lip. Jones hung on to the ball to complete an unusual inning-ending double play.

Simrall argued that Haman should have been ejected, but USSSA rules don’t require an automatic ejection for not sliding.

“They said the runner did not make malicious contact,” Simrall said.

An inning later, Renegade’s Jordan Antley was thrown out at third when a short pop fly fell into center field. He, too, did not slide. He was tagged for the second out of the inning and given a lecture by the home plate umpire, but not ejected.

“Some of them are going to slide and some aren’t,” Chris Antley said. “If the ball is there before they get there, they’re not going to slide. There’s nothing you can do about that.”

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Contact Ernest Bowker at ebowker@vicksburgpost.com